Books on Discipline & Parenting Tips:

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Brain Rules for Baby
​By: John Medina

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Brain Rules for Baby connects the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Dr. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child’s brain develops and how you can, as the parent, optimize it. You will view your children, and how to raise them in a whole new light.

The Toddler Brain
By: Laura A. Jana, M.D.

In Toddler Brain, Dr. Laura A. Jana draws on research and stories from pediatrics, neuroscience, social science, and childcare, as well as the world of business and innovation models to show you how to equip your children with seven key skills. Dr. Jana explores the importance of play and curiosity, imagination and empathy, and strategically strengthening children's neural connections in their first five years.

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Positive Discipline Parenting Tools
By: Jane Nelsen, Mary Nelsen Tamborski, Brad Ainge

With Positive Discipline, an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness, you don’t have to choose between being too permissive or authoritative. Using these Positive Discipline tools, stemmed from years of real-world research and feedback, you will be able to work with your children instead of against them. The goal is to provide you with the techniques you need to help your children develop the life and social skills you hope for them, such as respect for self and others, problem-solving ability, and self-regulation.

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Parent Effectiveness Training
By: Dr. Thomas Gordon

This book will teach you more effective ways resolve conflicts, communicate, and create loving relationships with your children.

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Listen
By: Patty Wipfler & Tosha Schore, M. A.

Listen introduces 5 tools that will help parents strengthen their connection with their child and help build their child’s intelligence, cooperation, and ability to learn as they grow. The book provides specific information about each tool, and is accompanied by more than one hundred real-life stories from parents who have used this approach to address the root causes of their child’s difficult behaviors.

Between Parent & Child
By: Dr. Haim G. Ginott

Between Parent & Child offers a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing and introduces new communication techniques that changes the way parents speak with, and listened to, their children. Based on Dr. Ginott's theory that parenting is a skill that can be learned, this book will show you how to:
• Discipline without threats, bribes, sarcasm, and punishment
• Criticize without demeaning, praise without judging, and express anger without hurting 
• Acknowledge rather than argue with children’s feelings, perceptions, and opinions
• Respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence

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Raising Cooperative Kids
By: Dr. Marion Forgatch, Dr. Gerald Patterson, & Tim Friend

In Raising Cooperative Kids, research psychologists Marion Forgatch and Gerald Patterson provide parenting techniques that tap deep-rooted, universal, human instincts, and easy to follow no matter where you live or how your family is structured. These skills will empower you to teach your children new behaviors, change unwanted behaviors, and reduce family conflicts. 

 Conscious Discipline Website

Conscious Discipline is as taken from the site: "an array of behavior management strategies and classroom structures that teachers [and parents] can use to turn everyday situations into learning opportunities.”

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