Gamechanger. I no longer dread tantrums because I know exactly how to deal with them. Need I say more?

Ok, just to nerd out a bit: One major caveat to the review is that Turgeon's therapeutic parenting style stems directly from an anthropology that leaves no room for "willful disobedience" as an ethical concept i.e. bad behavior is seen as a hurting child in need of healing (or an emotional child in need of calming down), which means the child is never at fault. It's kind of interesting to see this trend developing in self-help and/or parenting books as the concept of original sin begins to dissipate in contemporary western culture. In this view, non-restorative punishment verges on something akin to abusive behavior, modeling an evil which does not itself exists in the child. Of course, I agree with Turgeon that spanking is no longer a defensible position now that empirical evidence has played out the consequences, but this may be the first book I've read that sees time-outs as problematic. I don't know if I'd go that far.