• Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

  • From Infant to Toddler - Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child
  • By: Jane Nelsen EdD, Cheryl Erwin MA, Roslyn Ann Duffy
  • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
  • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (161 ratings)

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Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Jane Nelsen EdD,Cheryl Erwin MA,Roslyn Ann Duffy
Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
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Publisher's summary

The celebrated Positive Discipline brand of parenting books presents the revised and updated third edition of their accessible and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success.

Over the years millions of parents have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to raise happy, well-behaved, and successful children. Research has shown that the first three years in a child's life are a critical moment in their development, and that behavior patterns instilled during that time can have profound implications for the rest of a child's life. Hundreds of thousands of parents have already used the advice in Positive Discipline: The First Three Years to help set effective boundaries, forge strong foundations for healthy communication, and lay the groundwork for happy and respectful relationships with their young children. Now this classic title has been revised and updated to reflect the latest neuroscientific research and developments in positive discipline parenting techniques.

©2015 Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Duffy (P)2018 Tantor

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Positive discipline has no positive advice

Very little in the way of actual, practical advice. The majority of the book is "stop doing this," without "do this instead."

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Can't wait to read it again

Best book I've read about parenthood and raising a child. Full of examples and tips I started to implement right away, that worked. As a first time parent I appreciated the understanding and support the book offered.

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Helpful Parenting Ideas

Very good book for parents trying to find ideas to deal with Parenting from babies to teenagers! Great book! highly recomended as motivational book for parenting!

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excellent

excellent resource
easy to understand
great reading by Vannessa Daniel's
would recommend this to everyone

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The sales pitch

I kept feeling like I was being sold something. Not a whole lot of substance. Tim Seldin and Lorna McGrath’s book is much better.

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Conflicting advice, not backed by science, don’t bother

The way this book was written is confusing, conflicting, and has very little practical advice in it. Also, some of the advice given is just dead wrong, is not very “positive,” and could do psychological damage to your child if followed. I was surprised, because after reading “Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom,” which was great, this book did not follow suit. You would do better to just read Adler and Dreikurs instead (whose studies they claim to base the book on), or even better, Maria Montessori books.

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So useful for first time Mums

Be sure to read it before your little one is born, which I didn’t :) lovely reader.

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Beware the cry-it-out methods in this book

There's some very harmful advice about sleep training the baby, but also some helpful stuff.

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Every parent should read this book

Information came with real life examples and I feel prepared to try to use with with my son. excellent book. will re read again and again.

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Good tips

Mostly common sense but still good to hear. Good to share with other caregivers if they have a different perspective on discipline.

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