The Loving Parents' Guide to Discipline: How to Teach Your Child to Behave Responsibly--With Kindness, Understanding and Respect

By Marilyn E. Gootman

Book Overview

A professor of early childhood education provides parents with clear and comprehensive methods for disciplining their children with love, explaining how to set rules and limits, encourage good behavior, and use praise to raise healthy, happy children. Reprint.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425174506
• ISBN13: 9780425174500
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

If you're a parent, then this book is a must!

With all the book choices available for parents today, I personally find this one to be the best. It is easy to read and understand, addresses children of all ages (birth to teen), and most importantly, provides a winning process to be able to identify, brainstorm, and come up with ideas that effectively yield positive consequences to misbehavior. Additionally, specific examples are cited throughout the book on how to positively handle common discipline problems such as sibling rivalry, homework, lying, mealtimes, bedtime, tantrums, and you-name-it. Gootman reminds us all that "discipline" is to teach, not to punish, and teaches us parents how to accomplish this with rule setting, encouragement, love, and practice. Dr. Gootman is a top expert in her field, but it also apparent that she is a Mom (mother of 3) and offers empathy and ways to harness our anger. My favorite chapter is "What's Fair to Expect at Each Age" as a barometer for clear, fair limits.The book has helped my parenting tremendously. It's one of those kept out on our coffee table as a constant reference.