Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child

Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. · Cheryl Erwin, M.A. · Roslyn Ann Duffy

Mar 2007 · Sold by Harmony

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I've been searching for a practical guide to positive discipline for very young children, and this seemed promising. Sadly, there is very little practical advice. This mostly explains the types of attitudes you might want to have as a positive disciplinarian, and gives some general thoughts on how to approach different aspects of parenting a baby/toddler. It also offered questionable advice regarding weaning from nursing around 10-12 months, and letting babies cry it out to sleep. As an attachment parent, and somebody who has studied child development, I believe that breastfeeding for as long as possible, usually at least the first year, is best for baby as long as it's working for the family. Using cry it out methods of sleep training is also thought by many experts to be harmful and stressful to the baby, and damaging to the parent-child attachment. I'm disappointed that such advice would be in a "positive parenting" book. Either way, this book was not helpful at all for me.

I would consider a lot of this common sense and a good refresher with a solid advice. I see a lot a parents out there especially fathers would could use this book.

It answers all of the queries that might come up during the first there years.. I love the discipline methodology.. It gives a new way of thinking

About the author

Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., coauthor of the bestselling Positive Discipline series, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. Her books have sold over a million copies. She lives in Salt Lake City.

Cheryl Erwin, M.A., is a marriage and family therapist and the coauthor of numerous books in Prima's Positive Discipline series on raising great children. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

Roslyn Duffy, also a coauthor of several Positive Discipline books, is a child care director with over seventeen years of experience, a counselor in private practice, parent and education specialist, and public speaker.