Books : Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child (Positive Discipline Library)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN num: 9780307341594
ISBN number: 0307341593
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: March 27, 2007
Publishing house: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 32124
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Make a Difference During the Most Important Years of Your Child's Life
The months leading up to the birth of a child are filed with joy, dreams, plans—and a few worries. As a caring parent, you want to start your child out in life on the proper foundation. But where do you go for the answers to such questions as: How do I communicate with an infant who doesn't understand words? How can I effectively teach boundaries to my toddler? Should I ever spank my child?
Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust Jane Nelsen's classic Positive Discipline series. These books offer a commonsense approach to child-rearing that so often is lacking in today's world. In Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, you'll learn how to use kind but firm support to raise a child who is both capable and confident. You'll find practical solutions and solid advice on how to:
·Encourage independence and exploration while providing appropriate boundaries
·Use non-punitive methods to instill valuable social skills and positive behavior inside and outside the home
·Recognize when your child is ready to master the challenges of sleeping, eating, and potty training, and how to avoid the power struggles that often come with those lessons
·Identify your child's temperament
·Understand what the latest research in brain development tells us about raising healthy children
·And much, much more!
Containing real-life examples of challenges other parents and caregivers have faced, Positive Discipline: The First Three Years is the one book that no parent should be without.
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This book offers excellent information on parenting and Child development. It gives real strategies for handling tantrums, etc. in a way that is age appropriate for your child and builds self-confidence, trust, and independence. Every parent needs to read it!!!
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This book is an easy read and you can take it in in small pieces (ideal for busy parents). Examples from life are helpful models of dos and don'ts and I wish the book contained even more of those. Some of the strategies presented seem a little simplistic, but at the very least the book makes you reconsider your parenting style and become more aware of how you interact with your child. It also helps you understand where your child may be coming from and what her needs are at a particular moment.
At the core, it contains some useful strategies on how to deal with a challenging child or challenging situations, but you have to dig to find them. The book is quite repetitive and wordy and the authors keep deferring key points.
I was a little turned off by the authors' assumption that most parents yell at and spank their children and that their book was offering a revolutionary new method of raising your child. Yet, I do appreciate their acknowledgment of our humanity as parents and their emphasis on parental love; they present mistakes as "opportunities to learn" and to improve on ourselves.
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I really believe in most of what this author has to offer. Her methods of discipline are logical and focused on increasing you and your child's problem solving skills. Most of what she has to say is founded on the principle that everyone is basically good and your child is really not usually TRYING to make your life difficult. She advocates not using punishment as a means of disciplining your child, which is contrary to what most people believe. It takes work to master this method and reverse your thinking about discipline, but this book is certainly worth your time. My only criticisms of this book are that she advocates "crying it out" as a way of getting your child to sleep. Also, although she doesn't say it outright, you get a strong sense that she isn't really a supporter of extended breastfeeding. Otherwise, I really did enjoy this book.
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This book was such a pleasure to read! I was engrossed and amazed at the many, many opportunities pointed out where you can take a tanrum or fit and turn it into a lesson learned for the child. This book reminds us that raising kids takes work, patience, and conistency -- I say reminds because we all know those things are true. But to take a typical situation that is unpleasant or even embarrassing to the parent and turn it into an opportunity for the child to learn something -- now that's what raising a confident and independent child is all about! Letting them make decisions early on (criteria being that there are only 2 choices and both are to the parent's approvel) sets them up for a successful outcome while allowing them to learn important decision-making skills. I learned so much from this book, but mostly that you have to look at the situation and see what the opportunity is for the child to LEARN something here. Instead of saying "no whining," allow the child to discover for himself how to fix the situation (example given was child whining about not liking the cup his mom gave him and she helped him learn that he can get his favorite cup from the cupboard and pour the juice into his new glass -- while making a mess, but still learning to make a positive change happen). Many more examples given such as what to do during a tantrum, when child is getting into something he shouldn't, and how to even handle other parents when your child "misbehaves."
Every parent should buy & read this book. If all our kids were allowed to succeed in life (& shown that they can make it happen), where could we be in a few years?
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1. Don't hit your kids.
2. Don't waste your time reading this book.
What IS it with children's books? Millions are sold every year. Yet the vast majority are just the detailed opinions of individuals. Sure, these individuals have fancy degrees. But where is their data? Can they support their claims that parenting by their techniques does more good than harm? Are there longitudinal studies of any kind? Of course not. Don't waste your time and money reading this woman's opinions.
They're sort of silly to boot. For example, she says that picking up a child who can walk is disrespectful because you're denying them the chance to walk. Give me a break.
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