Ross W. Greene Books

At its core, the CPS model is built on a single truth: kids do well if they can. This simple reframe shifts everything. When we assume that a child who misbehaves is doing so because they lack motivation, we respond with rewards and punishments—carrots and sticks designed to push them toward the beh...

From Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Traditional approaches to discipline are reactive by nature. We wait for the meltdown, the disobedience, the snarky comment—and then we respond, usually with a consequence or lecture that does little to address the cause. I encourage parents to flip that sequence: identify the predictable problems a...

From Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Many parents and educators come to me after years of trying everything—from timeouts to sticker charts to strict consequences—and finding nothing seems to work. The traditional tools of discipline assume that if a child is misbehaving, they simply need more motivation to behave. But explosive childr...

From The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

The Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model rests on three essential truths: first, that kids do well if they can; second, that challenging behavior is caused by lagging skills, not lack of motivation; and third, that those skills can be built through collaboration. The model replaces control with...

From The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children