Child Discipline

How Angry Is Too Angry? Identifying an Angry Child
The Angry Child: Regaining Control When Your Child Is Out of Control
by Timothy Murphy, Ph.D.
We've all seen them. The temperamental toddler whose seemingly unprovoked tantrums leave her desperate parents scrambling to appease her; the bossy preschooler who never learns to share toys or interact socially with other children or strangers

Introduction
The Angry Child: Regaining Control When Your Child Is Out of Control
by Timothy Murphy, Ph.D.
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment the change occurs. One day your otherwise sunny child is merely prone to the occasional nasty outburst, and the next a permanent storm cloud seems to have taken up residence over her head.

What Is Provocative Communication?
Mom, I Hate You! Children's Provocative Communication: What It Means and What to Do About It
by Don Fleming, Ph.D., Mark Ritts
Your seven-year-old, hands on hips, declares defiantly, "You can't make me!" Your four-year-old tugs insistently on your sleeve, loudly whining "Mooooommmmm!" while you're trying to chat with the important client you just bumped into

The Importance of NO
How to Say No to Your Toddler: Creating a Safe, Rational, and Effective Discipline Program for Your 9-Month to 3-Year Old
by William G. Wilkoff, M.D.
We arrive at the threshold of parenting with our own unique collection of strengths and vulnerabilities. All children are not cut from the same cloth, and each of us must adopt a parenting style that is appropriate for our child's age and personality.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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