Absolute must read for educators! Also absolute must read for people who interact with kids on the daily. This is my new"classroom management bible!"

Something to occasionally reread, especially the end with the classroom management interventions. So good for parenting, too.

While I found this book interesting and gleaned some useful information from it, I did not find it as useful as I thought I might. (I may have find it more useful if I reread it during the summer when I have more time to study books and techniques. Right now I will admit that I am attempting to read as many books as I can before the end of the year so that I can meet my reading goal.)
I also must acknowledge that the version I read was published a few years before the pictured version. Thus, some of the information was dated; the book has no doubt been updated since initial publication.
I actually thought the book fairly good until one of the authors related a series of stories in which he mentions striking two different children. He uses these as negative examples and things that he learned from. However, these two stories left a bitter taste in my mouth that I could not set aside as I finished the book. In my time teaching (granted, only two and a half years at this point), I have never once even come close to hitting a student, unless I accidentally move my arm unaware that a student had walked behind me. To me, these stories undermined the author's credibility and generated a lot of doubts about the method.
In the end, I think that the "love and logic" method has several good techniques to choose from even amongst some impracticability.

I think I was driving my husband a little nuts talking about this book so much! It really MAKES SENSE and is reassuring without being too obvious. And it was really funny! I've tried out some of the techniques and they actually work!

This was a great book full of strategies for classroom management.\nDefinite must read for first year teachers (and every year for any teacher).\nThere is no need for the consequence to be immediate\nBe consistent\nConsequences with empathy\nGive choices when possible so you've 'earned' dictatorship on important issues. But make sure you can live with both choices.

Loved this. Can't express how helpful this book is. I'm a new teacher and need actual strategies to put into practice. This book provided that, along with some changes in attitude I really need.

This book deals with building relationships with students, teaching them to think and providing consequences in a way that will foster relationships and thinking on the part of the student. It addresses primarily classroom management, but can be applied to other areas as well.