The Strong-Willed Child: Birth Through Adolescence

Dr. Dobson's book, The Strong Willed Child, was a life saver when my boys were three and four years old. My husband and I followed Dr. Dobson's advice and the results were just as he said they'd be. Raising two active boys and, later, a less active daughter was a joy. We didn't have Terrible Twos and Try-some Threes, we had youngsters who were a joy to be with.My son, the one who was the busiest of my three children, now has a new born daughter and a two-year-old. The two-year-old has begun exercising his especially strong will. I purchased "The Strong Willed Child" to help my son with parenting.I have no doubt that when he consistently follows Dr. Dobson's instructions, my grandson will have fewer emotional meltdowns, and his parents will enjoy their precious two-year-old and the new baby.Thank you Dr. Dobson for sharing your wisdom with us.Pamela

I was so impressed by this book and this author. He took me to places I have not been in years with his wisom and the connection to spirituality. The book cemented so many things I was taught and what I believe in. He treats children and their upbringing the way it has been for so many centuries, so much of which we have lost. Tho this book was wrote back in the 70's, it is all still true today and our society is so much worse! I plan to read other books by this author, such as Hide and Seek and Dare to Discipline. Put the discipline where it should be, where it always has been, but somehow parents have bowed away from thier duties to thier children. I all children were raised in the setting this book provides we would have a very productive society from one generation to another.

Dr, Dobson's entire life has been devoted to the family. As a single mom I listened to his radio program every single day. I also read this book and his other books. He helped me raise a son and a daughter who grew up to be successful, happy, adults who have solid principles and a strong faith. They also now have families of their own with amazing children who have good self esteem, strong character, morals and deep faith in Jesus Christ. As horrible as divorce was, Dr. Dobson's radio program, his books, his faith helped me raise incredible children. But, it does not matter whether you are divorced or married, this book is for everyone and it changes lives! What a blessing this man and his ministry is to everyone.

Hi - we bought this book because we have a very very strong willed child. The author is outstanding, the content of this book is great, but portion of the book just didn't align with what we were looking for, or what we felt was necessary to help us care and raise our son. I'm certain that this book would be a blessing for many people, but for us we didn't quite finish the book and now its sitting on our bookshelf. I do still recommend it because for most people it will help them, but I do believe there is a smaller size group of people that this will not help.

I knew by the time my son was three months old that he was going to be my challenge. I too was my mother's strong willed child. When I went to her for answers for problems knew she was familiar with, she told me she had read this book when I was young and strongly suggested I read it as well. It is a great book to help both my son and myself. It will help any parent who is struggling with a strong willed child to develop consistency and help relieve the parent's frustration as well as helping the child understand how to behave. Great book. Thanks mom!

I bought this book out of desparation with our 3 year old, who is clearly, as the author describes a 'strong willed child'. However, upon reading the first few chapeters my heart sunk. The book was written a long time ago, and attitudes have moved on. The psychology of child rearing has also. My two biggest gripes with this book were:1. Its overly religious tone, using excerpts from the bible for example, which is used almost on every page, and distracts rather than reinforces, especially for those of us who are not christian believers.2. Rather than equipping the parent with an array of tools to help discipline your strong willed child, the author recommends corporal punishment as the main tool of choice, and goes about defending his rationale at length. I believe that spanking is not the answer, and is the sign of a weak minded parent, and I say that from having a very fiery fiesty red headed little boy! There are other ways!

Instruction for child training, excellent

This is a great book that helped me along while I was raising my children. Now, I purchased it for a loved one since I know longer had a copy to lend out.Whether you believe in spanking or not, James Dobson has great insights and offers many tools to use to understand the minds of children and to help raise ones who will grow into responsible and good adults that will find ways to help solve the problems in our society.

This book was recommended to me and I can see why. It counsels you in how to handle a strong-willed child looking at the traits of the child etc. gives insight to particular behaviours and how best to deal with them.

Great book, very helpful

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It is so sad to see, that children in the USA are still not fully protected from corporal punishment, as it is the case in most of the European countries. Books like this seem to have continued a "culture of violence" that we know, when we see American movies and tv shows. And the US is the only country not ratifying the UN charta on the rights of the child ... ! If you take a look at the wikipedia website child corporal punishment laws you will see that there is a worldwide tendency to fully ban corporal punishment legally.

A long read!