Best Selling Books by Thomas Phelan

What''s a parent supposed to do? From the time they are toddlers, children try to "press their parents'' buttons" in order to get their way. Tommy threatens to run away from home. Jenny no longer talks to anybody and declines to eat dinner. Melissa yells out her bedroom window "I can''t breathel I can''t breathe!!" Bobby angrily spray paints the screwdriver display in the local hardware store. In "I Never Get Anything!" clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas W. Phelan identifies and describes the Six Kinds of Testing and Manipulation youngsters use to get their way: Badgering, Temper, Threat, Martyrdom, Butter Up and Physical Tactics. How parents think about and manage these normal testing strategies of frustrated children is a universal and critically important problem. And -- as Dr. Phelan points out -- not an easy job! Some parents become abusive tyrants, while others become spineless pushovers. Neither of these parental extremes is healthy, because kids who don''t master the discipline of frustration tolerance early in life are going to be in trouble later in life. From the author of the best-selling and award winning 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12, "I Never Get Anything!" is a practical, humorous and down-to-earth guide that tells Moms and Dads exactly what to expect from frustrated children, and exactly how to handle it -- gently and firmly. With the help of this book, you can prevent your kids from running your life, enjoy your time with them and contribute toward raising the responsible adults of tomorrow. Book jacket.

From the author of the bestselling parenting book 1-2-3 Magic Your child is running your house, you feel like you''re walking on eggshells all the time, and you dare not do anything to cross your "little monster." The good news is you have plenty of company--parents all over the world feel the same way. This guide explains how to search your soul to determine your readiness to change, how to feel comfortable exercising your authority, and how to manage room wrecking during "rest periods." This Quick Reference Guide is perfect for busy adults who need expert parenting advice--fast!

The only book that gives you an actionable planto reduce the emotional labor and mental load that comes with raising a busy family while trying to live your own life--from a clinical psychologist and bestselling author Are you a mom who does it all? This is the book for you. It''s impossible to deny--most moms continue to do way more household work and childcare than most dads. Working full time, raising kids, cooking dinner, making sure every appointment and activity is lined up and that everyone gets there on time... no wonder you''re tired! But despite all the books and articles lamenting the crushing mental load and emotional labor women bear for their families, no one has come up with a plan to actually make things change. Until now. The Best Moms Don''t Do it Allis the first book that not only acknowledges the fact that moms are burning out, but shows you how to transfer responsibility for daily tasks from yourself to your partner and also (gasp!) your kids. Clinical psychologist and child discipline expert Thomas W. Phelan, PhD explains how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we can get out of it through a calm, systematic approach to teaching our families how to take initiative and contribute in meaningful ways. Dr. Phelan walks you through real-life situations and shows you how to step back from the things that are dragging you down. For example: Your Maternal Identity--the things you tell yourself you have to do in order to be a "good" mom The oppressive trap of chronic supervision Our society''s curious underestimation of children''s capabilities How to eliminate primary childcare with tweens and teens How to manage resistant or traditionalist dads Realistic and simple enough to implement in your home right away, The Best Moms Don''t Do it Allprovides a roadmap for you to take your life back and proves that the happiest families share the work and the fun equally. *Previously published as The Manager Mom Epidemic*

Wastewater treatment is an energy and resource intensive process. The treatment objective is to produce an effluent that meets environmental discharge limits. As the limits become ever more stringent, it is predicted that energy consumption will increase. This research focuses on the development of an energy auditing methodology for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and investigates potential measures for increasing plant energy efficiency. In-depth energy audits and water quality testing were performed simultaneously on four WWTPs in Ireland. Two small plants (400 - 500 P.E.) and two medium sized plants (12,000 P.E.) were chosen for this study. These plants are representative of many WWTPs across Ireland, with 87% of all Irish WWTPs being smaller than 10,000 P.E. Additionally, one large plant (50,000 P.E.) was selected for a preliminary evaluation of energy consumption and distribution. The plant energy audits identified numerous opportunities to improve energy efficiency. Plant layout issues, ineffective control/automation systems and various electrical inefficiencies were discovered. Another important finding of this study showed that influent composition can have a large effect on the interpretation of the energy efficiency results and perceived plant performance. Energy audits alone do not tell the full story and parallel water quality monitoring is required in order to make comparisons from plant to plant.

"Rich realtor, poor realtor" shows realtors in clear, easy to understand language, how to build real estate wealth regardless of whether or not they are succeeding as a residential realtor or even want to remain a realtor.

Jazz education has gone from the streets and clubs where the music was played into the halls of the university. This recent entry into the academy provides a unique opportunity to study the process of institutionalization and its effects on creativity in instruction. What social factors influence how jazz professors develop their curriculum? Has jazz teaching become standardized and uncreative or is it vibrant and inventive? This study consists of six semi-structured interviews with jazz professors in the US which are examined in relation to Peterson and Anand''s (2004) Six Facet Model of cultural production. This model is used to examine six major influences on producers of culture: technology, market, organization structure, industry structure, legal restrictions, and the culture of production. The results indicate that while the field is not highly competitive there is a high level of creativity in the curriculum but little creativity in the structural aspects of jazz programs. I suggest that as disciplines move from a culture of informal instruction into a bureaucratic institution they lose some, but not all creativity.

In this thesis we review and add to the literature extending the so-called ''other'' law of the iterated logarithm of Chung (1948). By adapting the large-time techniques of Rushton (2007) to the small-time setting and employing and slightly extending a characterisation result of Maller and Mason (2008), we derive both one-dimensional and functional Chung laws for a large class of Levy processes lying in the domain of attraction of strictly stable laws at zero. In particular, our results extend the work of Buchmann and Maller (2011) to encompass processes with vanishing Gaussian component lying in the domain of attraction of a normal distribution at zero.