When your kids push your buttons shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the road rage of parenting when parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their childs behavior is telling them the child becomes the teacher to the parent. When your kids push your buttons shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the road rage of parenting when parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their childs behavior is telling them the child becomes the teacher to the parent. When your kids push your buttons shows that it is your own attitudes and you behave in ways you later regret and your child learns to manipulate you rather than focusing on how you can change your childs behaviour this deeply insightful and wonderfully wise book focuses on you the parent. When your kids push your buttons uncovers the hidden messages underneath your reactions and your childs buttons offers you parenting tools and techniques to gain control of your emotions you will see your childrens behavior differently so you can respond calmly and effectively most of all you will defuse those buttons and give your kids the help they are asking for its like helping parents to parent by heart says a mom from seattle