- ISBN13: 9780307341600
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Product Description
Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year-old deliberately lie to me? Why won’t my three-year-old listen to me? Should I ever spank my preschooler when she is disobedient? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust the Positive … More >>
#1 by J. Meegan on April 30th, 2010
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When my first daughter was born in May of 2006, my husband and I agreed we wanted to find a discipline method that fit our style, actually worked, and was easy to understand and put in place. Enter Positive Discipline.
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers was the first PD book I read. I’d just finished reading about the 1-2-3 method and had been giving that a go for a few weeks with no real success and, frankly, a whole lot of mixed feelings about the process. So when I read the back of the PD for Preschoolers book, I was excited and yet a bit dubious….it sounded too good to be true and therefore it probably was. But I bought it anyway. That was several months ago and we haven’t looked back since.
I LOVE the positive discipline method. I am living and breathing proof that it does work. The day after I finished reading the book, we completely stopped all punitive time outs and any other punitive measures we’d been (unsuccessfully) using on our almost three-year old daughter. And we began applying the PD techniques found in the book. Honestly, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of our family and we actually began to enjoy spending time with our daughter again. My daughter’s behaviour literally improved overnight. And my husband and I felt we’d finally found a disciplinary method we could happily stick with for the foreseeable future.
Some folks have mentioned this book doesn’t provide enough explanation about exactly what to do in various situations. I didn’t have that problem but if you do, I highly recommend picking up the PD from A to Z book (which delves into specific solutions to specific discipline problems) and the original Positive Discipline book to get an even deeper understanding of what positive discipline is really all about.
For those of you who are still in doubt, a quick anecdote: My husband is Irish. We went to visit the in-laws in February of this year. We spent a lot of time with my husband’s four brothers and their respective families. Almost all my daughters’ cousins are within the 0-6 age bracket so we had a chance to see a variety of discipline issues and parenting styles. I had a lot of questions from the various in-laws about the discipline method we used with Maia. It apparently made a positive impression because the day after we returned home, I went online to discover three emails from two brother-in-laws and my mother-in-law asking for more info about PD, how it worked, where they could buy the books, etc.
Bottom line, PD works. It’ll make you feel better and more competent in your role as a parent and it’ll go a long way towards ensuring you have a positive, stable relationship with your child.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Preschool Mom on April 30th, 2010
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Very useful guide for preschooler Moms (&Dads). After reading this, I was able to really ‘put myself in my daughter’s shoes’. We had just had a parent/teacher conference, and my daughter was described as needing ‘instant gratification’ frequently from her teacher, as well as needing help with learning self-control and focus. The guidelines presented in this book in chart form, allowed me to look at what thoughts were prompting these actions. I now learn to engage her as my helper, so that she feels she is contributing to whatever we are doing.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Erica Flores on April 30th, 2010
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Jane Nelson is a wonderful author. I have used her philosophy in my classroom and at home. It works well. However, as with anything, you can’t follow it word for word – you hvae to use your best mommy judgement sometimes
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Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Disappointed Shopper on April 30th, 2010
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Just ok. Talked more about what not to do than what to do. Didn’t give enough instruction on exactly what to do.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Trader Joy on April 30th, 2010
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The word ‘discipline’ is so often misunderstood or synonymous with ‘negative’ and ‘punitive.’ This classic book, in all it’s versions (and I do highly recommend reading the various versions) led to a real paradigm-shift in my life. Nelson finds a brilliant but simple way of describing a positive, loving, kind–but firm approach to helping children learn appropriate behavior.
Originally, I’d just purchased the A-Z version of the book but ended up buying each age-appropriate version and they are worth it. Although the principles are identical, the specific age examples really helped me to implement the ideas with greater success because I was more confident that what I was expecting from my child was realistic, given her developmental capacity.
Rating: 5 / 5