My English professor read a piece from this so-called "book" -- more like a manual on how to ruin your child's life -- to gauge our reactions to it, and the entire class was disgusted. One girl was in tears, as her father employed the kind of brutal and sick tactics detailed in this book all through her childhood.Barnes and Noble have the right idea by removing this book from its shelves, and I should hope that Amazon would follow suit. Anyone who uses this book as some sort of parenting guidebook should have the methods used on them in turn.