Authors Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson made it sound so easy with the techniques outlined in No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, but remember, your mileage will vary. Even the authors admitted that there is no silver bullet to parenting and freely confessed their… Read More »
Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry is a very hard and boring read. The writing is atrocious and repetitive, especially with the same few examples of Maria, Eric and Samantha used by the author to illustrate the points. The points raised were also not convincing at… Read More »
I’ve got nothing against money. I’d like to have money myself! I’d like to have a house and a garden and dogs and a car and a chauffeur but, look, I’ve got a flat. I’ve got a swimming pool attached to the flat. I’ve not even got a car but I use taxis. I have… Read More »
If you have read the authors’ earlier works, The Power of Showing Up will appear wholly unnecessary. It’s repetitive, replete with fillers and offers very little new insights. While the authors urged parents not to stress over imperfections in their parenting approaches, many parts of this book seemed hellbent on guilt-tripping parents or making them… Read More »
The Color Q model outlined in this book is similar to the color types mentioned in Surrounded by Idiots (or perhaps it should be the other way around, since Career Match was published much earlier), minus the hyperbole and the unsubstantiated claims made by Thomas Erikson in his much-hyped book. The author essentially gave a… Read More »