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Defiant Preschooler
Calm scripts and daily routines to end power struggles, meltdowns, and hitting with your strong-willed 3 to 5 year old, without yelling, bribing, or giving inBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 58m
About this audiobook
Your four-year-old just hit you, screamed that you're the worst parent in the world, and refused for the eleventh time to put on a single sock. You read the toddler books. You tried gentle, you tried firm, you tried bribing, you tried yelling, and most nights you end up doing all four and hating yourself for it. Everyone keeps telling you it's just a phase, which is not a plan. Defiant Preschooler is the plan. It is written for the specific gauntlet of the 3-to-5 year stage, the one the baby and toddler books skip: the relentless power struggles, the explosive meltdowns in public, the hitting and the deliberately hurtful words, and the daily standoffs over getting dressed, leaving the park, and the word 'no.' This is not a book about your own anger (that is a different book) and not a bedtime or picky-eating book. It is about the behavior gauntlet itself, with word-for-word scripts and named, reusable tools instead of vague reassurance. Inside, you'll learn: Written for depleted parents, not textbooks, this is the concrete, non-punitive survival guide for the preschool years, the ones almost nobody warned you about.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help
Length2 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Important Notice
2Nobody Warned You About Three
3Chapter 1: Why Three Changed Everything
4Chapter 2: The Power Struggle You Can't Win
5Chapter 3: Two Real Choices
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6Chapter 4: What to Say in the Hard Moment
7Chapter 5: Riding Out the Meltdown
8Chapter 6: Hitting, Throwing, and "I Hate You"
9Chapter 7: Consequences That Teach, Not Punishments That Escalate
10Chapter 8: The Routines That Head Off the Fight
11Chapter 9: Transitions: Stopping, Leaving, and Switching Gears
12Chapter 10: When You're the One Who Snaps
13Chapter 11: Same Child at Grandma's, Daycare, and the Store
14Chapter 12: Is It More Than Defiance?
15The Kid Worth the Fight
16Quick Reference: Scripts, the Flashpoint Flowchart, and What You're Googling at 10pm
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