Learn how to communicate effectively with your children without raising your voice. Author Hal Edward Runkel asks his readers to take away one idea from his book if nothing else:

“Our biggest struggle as parents is with our own emotional reactivity…Instead of anxiously trying to control our kids, let’s concentrate on what we can control—calming our own emotional, knee-jerk reactions.”

Runkel, a licensed marriage and family therapist, explains to his readers that parents cannot be in charge if they are not in control of their anxieties and insecurities. The more parents try to control their kids, he says, the more out of control parents become. So instead of reading about the latest parenting trends and techniques, this book will teach you how to “keep your cool” and stay calm.

Readers rant and rave about the techniques outlined in Runkel’s book. Some say they worked even on their teenagers, while others profess, “How you act, react, or fail to react affects your children, their behavior and your relationship.” However, whether or not Runkel’s revolution will work on every child will be for the reader to decide.

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