Seeing Dr. David Stein’s Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome on the “New Books” shelf at the library, my first thought was: “Dear God! This sounds awful!” The title might as well have been “How to Force Kids to Comply and Punish Them When They Don’t.” But I checked out the blurb on the back anyway, because, as Lemony Snicket has taught us, warning somebody not to read something is a surefire way to get them to read it. Even–perhaps especially–if the one doing the warning is yourself.
Fortunately, Dr. Stein’s little book is not a manual for forcing kids to do what you want.