As every parent learns, disagreements with their children are inevitable and can lead to exasperated feelings and harsh, life affecting disputations. For many years parents have been sharing with Dolores Curran responses that worked for them when their kids started arguing with them. In Tired Of Arguing With Your Kids? she shares the best and most effective of these. Arguing with kids may be inevitable, but it doesn't have to be exhausting, emotionally scarring, unproductive, or futile. Curran writes with wit, wisdom and humor, enabling the reader to find the right words, the right attitude, and the right approaches to transforming argumentation into an effective, practical, and successful parenting tool of child management, growth and development.

Wisdom and humor are typical of Curran, but she really outdoes herself this time in "Tired of Arguing". This book gives practical suggestions to parents around issues from chronic whining to monster spray. I underlined most of it and laughed out loud over and over again at her ingenious responses to children's tedius arguments. Curran gives practical help to parents who fall into the "anger trap" and shows how humor is both a great defense and offense in the game of parenting. The "Handy Responses to Kids' Arguments" was my favorite part of the book...straightforward, honest,and effective! Anyone with a child in the argumentative years (ie, age 3-23) should have this book!

(I wrote a review for this book which is a Parents'Choice Award winner about 10 days ago...if you did not get it will you please let me know so I can write another. It is a book that all parents and grandparents of teenagers should read. It is unequaled! Thanks. Margie Langstaff, judgemtl@aol.com

Curran's research is thorough and unique. By studying happy, well-adjusted families, she has given parents hope. By listing traits to develop, she offers families clear priorites to choose from. The book is affirming and insightful. I first read it when it was first published (in the early 80's I think) and I'm proud to say that at 20 and 22 my children are happy.