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Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours by Kevin Leman — WisdomDeck honest review

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Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours

by Kevin Leman

Leman's reality discipline: natural consequences, authority without authoritarianism, the balance of love and limits. Humorous and traditional.

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you want traditional discipline with warmth.

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you dislike faith references.

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Three things you will actually use

Reality discipline.
Love and limits together.
Do not rescue.

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Reality discipline.

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