Book review: How to Con Your Kid

My parents made a shocking admission to me recently: when I was but a child, they duped me into eating some meat I didn't like the look of by telling me it was 'Sussex ham'. Shocking behaviour, I know, but by all accounts I readily believed this rather lame fib and wolfed it down. Here we have a great example of how telling porkies to your kids can sometimes be a good thing and a self-indulgent introduction by yours truly to this offering by David Borgenicht and James Grace.
 

Every parent knows that children can be testing at times, so anything that helps out with the often thorny subjects of dinner time, getting dressed and going to sleep among others is very welcome as far as I'm concerned!

As its title suggests, this book is a friendly, humorous one; another big plus for me and, I'm sure, to numerous others who have been tempted to quite literally throw the book at their little darlings during some of the more fraught exchanges they sometimes seem to revel in.

Divided into sections for just about everything that can result in a battle of wills with a young child, this pocket-sized, hard-to-damage-by-stroppy-youngsters offering is a mine of useful tips, tricks and negotiating techniques.

So if you have a little treasure who won't take medicine, allow you to cut their hair or let you leave the house without throwing a wobbly among a great many other things, this one may be worth considering.  

You can get hold of your copy of How to Con Your Kid here.