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Ilderton Resources - Behaviour & Discipline

1-2-3 Magic - by Thomas Phelan (Video also available)

Parents have many questions about disciplining their children ages 2-12. This book provides suggestions for stopping inappropriate behaviour and increasing positive behaviour. It includes a chapter on building your child’s self-esteem, and one on dealing with manipulation.

501 Ways to Boost Your Child's Self-Esteem - by Robert Ramsey

This book offers ways in which to build your child's confidence, teach your child self-respect and show your child how to face life head-on.  The book offers easy to use, realistic tips to help boost your children's self-esteem.

Bear Hugs: Simple solutions for fostering positive behavior - by Patty Claycomb & Gayle Bittinger

Activities for encouraging positive behaviour and attitudes in preschool-aged children with many self-esteem boosters.  Fun ways to reinforce the rules with gentle discipline ideas that work.

Beyond Sibling Rivalry - Peter Goldenthal

How to raise siblings who are cooperative, assertive and caring, confident in their unique abilities.

Bully proofing your child: A parent’s guide - Carla Garrity et al.

From this guide parents learn ways to provide children with shields that can protect them when other children threaten physical or emotion harm.  It provides ways to help your child with their fear and trauma.   

Comforting Your Crying Baby - Sandy Jones

Few challenges are greater for new parents than dealing with their baby cries.  This warm reassuring book answers questions and helps parents identify the source of their baby's discomfort.  Written with empathy and understanding, this is an essential tool for parents who want to learn how to best comfort and care for a baby. 

Crying and Comforting - Johnson's

There are dozens of ways to comfort and soothe a crying child, especially if you understand what each cry means.  Covering newborn babies through preschoolers, this book includes all the latest information on crying patterns, persistent crying, bonding, comfort objects and how to cope with teething and sleep.

Discipline without Shouting or Spanking – Jerry Wyckoff, Barbara Unell

This book discusses topics such as the nature of violence, playing with pretend weapons, why shouting and spanking don’t work, discipline issues for single parents, the importance of empathy, the differences between boys and girls and the transition to elementary school.   You will also learn the factors that are considered in the clinical diagnosis of hyperactivity.

Easy To Love, Difficult to Discipline - Becky Bailey

This book gives you 7 powers for self-control which lead to 7 basic discipline skills which help your child to develop 7 values. These principles are integrated in a seven-week program that gets families off to a good start, offering plenty of real-life anecdotes that illustrate the methods at work.

(The) Everything Parent’s Guide to Positive Discipline - Carl E. Pickhardt

This book addresses setting priorities, communicating, teaching choice and consequences, age-appropriate discipline, and working as a team.

From Difficult to Delightful in Just 30 days - Jacob Azerrad

If you are the parent of a difficult child, you understand the frustrations of dealing with daily tantrums, tearful tirades, and other troublesome behavior. This book offers simple, commonsense steps to to achieve remarkable turnaround in your child's behavior.  

Helping your child overcome separation anxiety or school refusal - by Andrew Eisen

This book offers effective tools to deal with these issues and you will learn to identify your child's unique safety needs.  Learn simple and effective coping skills and how to monitor progress.

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

This book presents ways of coping with your child’s negative feelings, expressing your anger, engaging your child’s cooperation, and using alternatives to punishment.

It takes two to talk - Ayala Manolson

A great parent's guide to help children communicate!

Kids Are Worth It! Giving your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline – Barbara Coloroso

This book examines the difference between encouragement and rewards, discipline and punishment. Parents will learn how to empower and influence their children instead of controlling them and trying to “make them mind”.  You will learn to teach your children how to think, not just what to think. It examines the approaches and the methods of three typical family types – the brick wall, the jellyfish and the backbone. The book includes two new chapters: one dealing with the triangle of influence and another that talks about  the impact of threats, punishments, bribes, and rewards on the parent-child relationship.

Last Straw Strategies: Crying - Michelle Kennedy

If you have ever found yourself at your wit’s end because of a crying child, this book is for you! It contains many helpful suggestions to guide parents/caregivers through the feelings and moods the crying child goes through. 

Parenting the Strong-Willed Child - Rex Forehand & Nicholas Long

Gives parents a step-by-step guide to improving their child's behaviour as well as their entire family's relationship.  This self-guided program helps to manage disruptive young children. i

Parenting through Crisis: Helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change - by Barbara Coloroso

This book gives practical answers to difficult questions. The messages are illustrated with anecdotes and humour. With chapters on the special challenges of adoption, single parent homes and stepfamilies, as well as extended discussions on handling the consequences of mischief and mayhem, it provides useful approaches to life’s most daunting situations.

Please Don’t Sit on the Kids - Clare Cherry

Addressing alternatives to punitive discipline in the classroom this book is geared towards those working in the classroom context. It focuses on stopping anti-social behaviour, modeling constructive methods to deal with anger and to solve conflicts. The goal is to promote in children the development of social responsibility and respect for self and others.

Positive Discipline A to Z - Jane Nelsen

A newly revised and expanded third edition in this popular series of Positive Discipline, this book provides consistent, commonsense methods to raise responsible, respectful and resourceful children.

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers - Jane Nelsen

Completely updated to report the latest research in child development and learning this book teaches kind and firm methods for raising responsible, respectful and resourceful children.  Avoid power struggles and instill valuable social skills with positive results! 

Positive Time-Out – Jane Nelson

Addressing the debate over time-out, this book helps you to avoid power-struggles in the home or classroom, and use time-out in a positive way to teach self-confidence and problem solving.

 Siblings without Rivalry - Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Siblings without Rivalry challenges the idea that constant, unpleasant conflict among siblings is natural and unavoidable and uses action-oriented, accessible anecdotes and stories to show parents the many ways to teach children to get along.   This book will help your children live together so you can live too.

Taming the Spirited Child - Michael Popkin

This book offers effective strategies that will quiet the difficulties spirited children have at home and school while exposing the unique, special gifts they possess. 

The Happiest Baby on the Block - Harvey Karp

In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries - an automatic off-switch for their baby's crying!

Without Spanking or Spoiling - by Elizabeth Crary

This book addresses disciplining toddlers and preschoolers. It addresses teaching problem solving, active listening and consequences. There are chapters on increasing the behaviour your want, and decreasing the inappropriate behaviour. It has numerous worksheets in it, and many examples. It ends with 150 ideas for dealing with common problems, and some summary sheets.

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