How to Really Love Your Child Paperback – April 1, 2015

How I wish I could thank the author for this excellent book (I understand he is no longer living.). This book explained so much to me-- why I never felt loved by my parents, for one thing! I wish my parents had read this book, I wish that I had read this book before raising my children, The author addresses the very important issue of, how to convey your love to a child. How does a child understand that you love him/her? Without that understanding, there is much misery, many problems. Basically, the teaches how best to communicate to a child on the emotional level. It sounds so simple, like why do you have to read a book to learn this? And if you know the basic principles it IS simple (not always easy, but simple.) But so many don't know how. The book is not long, not filled with psychological jargon. It is written in a straightforward, easy to read style. You don't have to be a genius or an intellectual to read and understand this book.

Our kids were born in the 1970's, and we read a lot of child-rearing books. We found this one the most helpful, overall. Now, we gave this book to our sons for their children. Also give this book to friends with younger children as gifts. Most helpful concepts are filling a child's emotional tank through focused attention, and preparing them for stressful situations when you can't give them the attention that you'd like to, by filling up their emotional "tank" beforehand.

This book is excellent - it's a must read for parents or anyone around kids. The information isn't anything new or mind-blowing but is presented all together in a way that makes sense and is just helpful for seeing and remembering the big picture. I'll be picking up some of the other parenting books by this doctor as well. Highly recommend.

Great Principles! Easy to apply and quite honestly, faster results than I expected! I Highly Recommend and wish I'd read it sooner!

Great book. I don't know about some of the causal links the author drew up between upbringing and future outcomes when kids grow into adults, and also I personally don't like his constant quotes of Scripture. Worth a read though. Very quick.

I read a lot of parenting books and, while many of the principles & suggestions in this work aren't really novel, I must say that I was convicted in a new way. The author did a fabulous job of not talking down to his readers and stated multiple times that he isn't perfect either, which I took comfort in.I just finished reading this book on kindle and now I'm going back through to re-read all the things I highlighted.

A very real book. Practical advice, easy to understand. Very inspiring at the same time. This book will be a very practical guide when me and my wife have kids.

This book changed my life and not just with my children. We are all products of childhood and this helped me to even understand difficult personalities among adults. I was a hairdresser for many years and I wish I would have read this book even before I had children so I could communicate love to my clients more. Take every word seriously, some of the ideas like focused attention and eye contact may seem pointless to uncaring people but they truly mark the character of a person who loves deeply and have an impact to others more than you know. Praise God for this book.

Great book for parents who have children of any age.

If You want to build a relationship of real love with your children You must read and practice what the author shares in this book.Recomendado a todos los padres de familia que deseen mostrar su amor incondicional a sus hijos, creciendo así en una relación de verdadero amor con ellos que perdure durante toda la vida.

This is a must read for any parent. Honestly, if that didn't lead do awkward felling of judge other parents, I'd just offer it to all my friends who have children. The principles of that book are in a way common sense, but not commonly applied (me first!), because that's not the way most of us got raised as a child.On the first day we tried to apply the 3 golden principles of eye contact + physical contact + focused attention, some issues with the lads started to improved drastically!Read it if you have children, and offer it around!

It has very good examples of the author. At some point it was a little repetitive but I guess was the intention to add some emphasis on the point.

Good price