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Bedtime Routine - A Key To Your Child's Good Mood And Behavior
by eNotAlone.com
Following a consistent bedtime routine helps improve children's sleep habits, as well as their bedtime behaviors and mood, in general, say the psychologists from the United States. The scientists said that sleep problems are one of the most common concern

Can A Child's Behavior Ruin A Marriage?
by eNotAlone.com
For many years, scientists have investigated how parental conflicts and relationship problems, in general, can influence a child's well-being. Much less attention has been paid to the opposite question

Raising Children
by eNotAlone.com
Raising a child is one of the hardest, most responsible and at the same time very pleasant and satisfying tasks a parent can experience. It is also a full-time job for which people receive the least formal training.

Becoming the Cool Parent Your Kids Really Need
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
by Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT
You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It's about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids' behavior

The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
We run into many snags when we undertake to discipline the nervous baby. The first is that it will sometimes cry so hard that it will get black in the face and may even have a convulsion; occasionally a small blood vessel may be ruptured

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
by Jacob Abbott
It being thus distinctly understood that the gentle measures in the training of children herein recommended are not to be resorted to as a substitute for parental authority, but as the easiest and most effectual means of establishing and maintaining

The Positive Approach
Positive Discipline
by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.
For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition.

A Flexible Style Can Prevent Children's Obesity
by Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT
Many of you may have read the recent study that came out in the journal Pediatrics regarding parenting style and obesity. Let's take a few minutes to look at it more closely to see how it affects us.

Effective Fathering : Nurturing and Disciplining Children
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
With infants, fathers should be responsive to their babies' cries, hold and hug them often, and participate in their basic care (e.g., feeding, changing diapers). Throughout the rest of early childhood, fathers should praise their children

The First Rule for Parents Is To Be Clear with Kids
by SAMHSA
Think about a rule that you have a hard time getting your child to follow. Consider how you've talked to him about it. The next time your child breaks a rule, try applying these four steps from Setting Limits With Your Strong-Willed Child

Children: Choices and Consequences
by SAMHSA
You and your child each have two choices. Although this may seem like a pretty harmless situation, let's take a look at the two choices for parent and child and the consequences of each choice.

What Is Child Discipline?
by SAMHSA
Your 8-year-old refuses to put away her toys. Your 11-year-old isn't turning in his homework on time. Your 14-year-old has come home late for the third time in a row. How would you handle these situations?

Arthur, Ken, and Emma
Back in Control
by Gregory Bodenhamer
Back in Control is based on a highly successful program that has helped thousands of parents regain control over their children. Without compromising your values away or kicking the kids out of the house, it offers you the simplest, most effective method

What Kind Of Parent Are You?
Drawing the Line: Ten Steps to Constructive Discipline-And Achieving a Great Relationship with Your Kids
by Michael J. Weiss, Sheldon Wagner, Susan Goldberg
The four parent types: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. Larry had high expectations for his son. He didn't want Liam to wreck the stereo, but, more important, he wanted Liam-at two years old-to learn how to inhibit himself from

What Do You Want for Your Kids?
Drawing the Line: Ten Steps to Constructive Discipline-And Achieving a Great Relationship with Your Kids
by Michael J. Weiss, Sheldon Wagner, Susan Goldberg
Whether it's playtime, mealtime, or bedtime when your kids act up, this book will show you solutions based on the experiences of parents just like you, and a method of creating controlled conflict-which eventually leads to no conflict at all.

Whining
The Pocket Parent
by Gail Reichlin, Caroline Winkler
It's instant relief for when your 2-year-old is on the floor of the toy store, pitching a fit. Or when brother and sister discover that they can't stand each other. Or when your son can't say no to video games.

Are You Concerned About Your Child?
Normal Children Have Problems, Too: How Parents Can Understand and Help
by Stanley Turecki, M.D., Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.
Eight-year-old Joshua looks unhappy most of the time. He is easily disappointed and reduced to tears. Playmates don't call as much, and Joshua says sadly that no one likes him. He has become whiny, and he shadows his mother around the apartment.

Becoming the Encourager
The Encouraging Parent: How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids and Start Teaching Them Confidence, Self-Discipline, and Joy
by Rod Wallace Kennedy, Ph.D.
Welcome to The Encouraging Parent-a book designed to encourage parents in every kind of family. I want to help you become better parents. And I'm in a position to help because my five children have reached the state of blessedness-they're grown and gone.

Why All Kids Need It
Parenting Guide to Positive Discipline
by Paula Spencer, Parenting Magazine Editors
What happens when you think about the word discipline? Do you feel your muscles tighten at the memory of last night's power struggle with your preschooler? Let loose an involuntary, exhausted sigh? Worry that you're too soft or too tough?

Why Children Misbehave and What You Can Do About It
Eating, Sleeping, and Getting Up: How to Stop the Daily Battles with Your Child
by Carolyn Crowder
Understanding why your children misbehave is not as difficult and daunting as it may first seem. Perhaps because we are living in a complicated world we are constantly looking for complicated answers, especially when it comes to examining human behavior.

Advice & Discussions
aghh my family drive me mad! why?!
My family irritate me sooo much its like talking to a wall with them all the time. My mum was moaning one day about all her allergies and how expensive anntihistamines are and how they don't work. (Turns out she literally waits for a massive allergic reaction and then pops a piriton!!) I talked to her about how you need a steady state in you blood to ward off allergic reactions and how you can buy antihistamine in its basic form in a plain unbranded box directly from the chemist for a third of the price for twice as much.
Sorting It All Out
Greetings to all who have posted on this thread. I am new to the forum and am hoping to find some support here. I come from a lineage of kids being disowned for one reason or another. My mother was disowned because she told my grandmother to only visit for two week time periods instead of a whole month each year.
How do I help my daughter who's been excluded by her friends
My daughter is II and has always been part of the same group of 7 friends. She is going to a different school from them and this has been really hard for her but she has looked forward to their end of year camp out and group photo. Last week the rest of her friends got together and told her there was no room for her in their tent and that she couldn't be part of the photo.
My mom never punishes my sister because of my past mistakes.
I made quite a few mistakes in my past. I: shoplifted, smoked weed, caught picked up by cops for getting drunk in public, got arrested for breaking into a house (It was being sold, no one lived there...My friend needed a place to stay and my mom wouldnt let her stay with me) arrested for shoplifting, grew weed, stole, lied, etc.

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