This book is a fantastic guide to teaching parents how to teach and parent with love and calm instead of reacting with frustration with things go awry. I love that Claire's main premises revolves around the fact that children are strategic, not manipulative and do not have the emotional skills to handle situations that parents may think they should, thus logic is not always the answer. Her parenting tips are firm, but kind, and her "two great choices..." plan is fantastic and works so well! The book format is intuitive and simple and there are gobs of examples for various situations for the reader to get ideas from. I love child development and read all of the new release books on the topic I can get my hands on, but this one was really different, in a good way! I enjoyed it immensely and will definitely be coming back to it! This is a hidden gem that you definitely want to read!