Parenting book review: Liking the Child You Love

June 8, 8:11 PMParenting ExaminerKaren Deerwester

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Buy this book!

Great news, parents!  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein has written Liking the Child You Love, THE parenting book to help you "build a better relationship with your kids - even when they are driving you crazy".  Or better yet, especially when they are driving you crazy. 

Dr. Jeff is a licensed psychologist in the Philadelphia area and the author of several parenting books.  Dr. Jeff knows kids and parents.  In this book, he challenges the myth that parents like their children all the time.  Dr. Jeff knows what drives you crazy and he knows that your kids will test your endurance and your limits.

This book delivers the cure for Parent Frustration Syndrome (PFS).  Here's Dr. Jeff's PFS checklist from page 3 of Liking the Child You Love:

____  You resent how your difficult child has drained you and the rest of the family.

____  You feel desperately overwhelmed trying to keep up with all of life's demands.

____  You feel nothing is going to help your situation.

____  You  can't understand why your child acts better around other adults than with you.

____  You feel exhausted.

____  You can't comprehend why your child acts this way.

____  You feel manipulated.

____  You question why you had children in the first place.

____  You feel sad that your marriage has lost its passion.

____  You are easily angered yet feel guilty for being so frustrated.

____  As a single parent, you feel it is impossible to stay sane.

____  You feel like a horrible failure as a parent.

Sound familiar?  Dr. Jeff's book can help.  I happily read an advance copy of this book and made these comments to the publisher:

Liking the Child You Love is filled with Dr. Jeff's experienced insight into parent-child struggles and gives parents practical strategies to rediscover the calm, mindful parent within...I highly recommend this book for all those parents who want to run away from home or hide in the bathroom until their child outgrows a difficult stage.  This book will help you identify and avoid self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that compromise your relationship with the child you deeply love..

Don't spend another day frustrated and guilty.  Liking the Child You Love gives you a positive way out.