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Best positive discipline book that you recommend?
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Moms, dads and caregivers-
Could you recommend a positive discipline book? My 4 year old is testing me constantly lately. Suggestions??? |
Anonymous
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Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Manage Child by Georgia DeGangi &
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant CHild with no pills by Alan Kazdin (Yale professor) Both written by psychologists. Don't be scared off by the titles. Excellent resources for children of younger ages. |
Anonymous
| I love Elizabeth Pantley's books...Try the "No Cry Discipline Solution," really shows you how to deal with root cause of the problem. |
Anonymous
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Blessing of a Skinned Knee.
You don't have to be Jewish. I found this a great resource for thinking about my disciplining goals. It offers no instruction "a la 1-2-3 magic." |
Anonymous
| Parents in Charge - what a great book. |
Anonymous
| Parenting with Love and Logic - I highly recommend at least checking it out. The concept is learning to give you kids control through making choices and accepting the consequences of their choices - the theory being that if you teach them these things now when they are young, they will have the tools they need as they get older and are faced with making choices that will have greater consequences. I specifically recommend checking out the "early childhood" version. We are reading it now and it's extremely helpful. |
Anonymous
| ditto Love and Logic for Early Childhood! |
Anonymous
| Reading Love and Logic too-and am finding it very helpful. |
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| Are you looking for a book with a lot of concrete methods, or more like guiding principles? How far along the continuum do you want to explore? (I like Alfie Kohn, Naomi Aldort and Mary Kurcinka, but they don't necessarily intend to give specific tools/methods although you will find interesting examples in there.) There's also a meeting about the various positive discipline ideologies and methods out there this Sunday sponsored by the Takoma Park AP group. |
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How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk, by Adele Farber and Elaine Mazlich is wonderful.
It's the same ideas as Alfie Kohn's book, but with many more concrete examples. It applies to all ages |