Stratford Resources – Behaviour and Discipline

365 Wacky, Wonderful Ways to Get Your Children to Do What You Want - E.Crary   

This book is loaded with hundreds of positive (and sometimes zany) ideas for solving common problems with young children. Parents can learn to cope with behaviours that are calculated to drive them crazy by using these delightful ready-to-use ideas.

501 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem – 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 child’s self-esteem.

(The) Angry Child - Tim Murphy

Anger can be a normal and understandable response to frustration or disappointment, but for some children, anger is an ingrained behaviour that frequently hurts themselves and those around them.  Fortunately, there is hope! Dr Murphy shows parents how to help their children develop new ways to understand their feelings and interact with others.

Calm Down & Play! – Activities to Help Impulsive Children – Loretta Oleck Berger

This book is filled with fun and effective activities that will help children calm down and control their impulses.  It will help them to learn to focus, concentrate, and organize their thoughts. 

Dealing with Disappointment – Elizabeth Crary

This practical guide assists parents and caregivers in helping kids cope when things don’t go their way.

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 Tantrums – Joni Levine, M.Ed.

The one book you need to prevent outbursts, avoid public scenes, and help your child stay calm.

(The) Explosive Child - Ross Greene

An explosive child is one who frequently exhibits  severe non-compliance, temper outburst, and verbal or physical aggression.  If this sounds like your child, this book offers help.  It lays out a sensitive, practical approach to helping your child at home and at school.

Getting Your Child from No to Yes – by Jerry Wyckoff, PhD

This book helps parents focus on answers and solutions rather than problems and power struggles. It helps children see the power in yes and helps parents avoid nagging, bribing and/or threatening.

Help! The Kids are At It Again – Stephen Nowicki & Marshall P. Duke –

This book shows parents how to teach their children many different social skills.

Helping Your Anxious Child – Ronald Rapee

In this book parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears and anxieties.  The strategies described are well-established ones, backed considerable scientific support.  Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read and full and important ideas about how best to help their children. 

How To Behave So Your Children Will Too! - Sal Severe

Working on the assumption that children act like their parents, this book attempts to educate parents about the benefits of positive reinforcement with regards to their children’s upbringing.  Dr. Sal Severe enlightens parents as to what they can do right, by focusing on the positive. Examples include reinforcing  good behaviour instead of criticizing the child, being consistent, not giving in to misbehaviour just to placate the child, being more patient and understanding that children operate on a different time schedule. Based on stories, ideas, and solutions from the thousands of parents who have attended Dr. Severe's workshops, this text will entertain, reassure and make parenting simpler and more enjoyable.

How to Behave So Your Preschooler Will Too! – Sal Severe

This book deals with the philosophy that children’s behaviour is often a reflection of parents’ behaviour.  It teaches parents of preschoolers how to adjust their behaviour to better handle a host of issues.  These issues include fussing at bedtime, setting limits, tantrums, crying scenes, sibling rivalry, preparing to start school and toilet training.  Dr. Severe focuses on emphasizing the positive and being both patient and consistent.   

How to Keep Your Kids from Driving You Crazy - Paula S Bender

This program will improve your child's behaviour and help you to regain control of your family.   Clinical psychologist and mother Paula Stone Bender offers this tested program for breaking kids of the kind of irritating, everyday misbehavior that has parents climbing walls. Setting forth a step-by-step action plan that can be put into practice immediately, she shows how to use rewards and positive reinforcement to stimulate children to better behaviour.

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.

I Brake for Meltdowns – Michelle Nicholasen

This book includes “been there” stories from other parents, suggested language to use with your child and “what if “ alternatives.  

(The) Incredible Years – Carolyn Webster-Stratton

This invaluable handbook provides parents with guidelines not only to help prevent behaviour problems from occurring but also with strategies to promote children’s social, emotional and academic competence.

Is My Child OK? - Henry A. Paul

This book explains when behaviour is a problem, when it’s not, and when to seek help. It  is organized by symptom and covers everything from tantrums to learning disorders. It tells parents what is “normal”, what is not, how to help your child  through a rocky period, and when to get an expert’s help.

 Kids Are Worth It! Giving your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline – Barbara Coloroso -2 copies_

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.

Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles – Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

This is an informative book that offers strategies that will help you stay connected with your child.  Read about how to bring down the intensity and understand why your child is misbehaving. 

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 and caregivers through the feelings and moods of your crying child. 

Last Straw Strategies: Jealousy - Michelle Kennedy

This book offers you a full range of ways to deal with your child’s jealous feelings, whether they arise out of sibling rivalry, problems with pets, or another cause.  Packed with last straw tips to cover all of the causes and results of jealousy, the information comes straight from parents who have been in your shoes.

Last Straw Strategies: Letting Go -Michelle Kennedy

This book will help you teach your child to let go safely.  It offers sensible strategies from moms and dads who’ve been there, to  help your child to become independent at his or her own pace.  For parents with more tentative little ones, here are some tips to encourage independence. 

 Last Straw Strategies: Tantrums - Michelle Kennedy

This book gives parents many helpful hints on ways to manage tantrums.  Tantrums come in all shapes and sizes and the book offers various suggestions and tips to help parents and caregivers to deal with a range of problems associated with  tantrums. 

Love and Limits - Elizabeth Crary

This is a handy book that gives parents lots of tools to help them raise secure, cooperative and capable children.

Mom, Jason’s Breathing On Me: The Solution to Sibling Bickering – Dr. Anthony E. Wolf

Using humour, Dr Wolf offers a whole new strategy for coping.  He explains three essential rules for dealing with sibling arguments.  If parents follow these rules, they will completely remove the root causes of bickering.  From teasing and hitting to rivalries and boundaries, Dr. Wolf addresses a wide range of issues by dealing with real children.

Parent’s Guide: Solutions to Today’s Most Common Behaviour Problems in the Home - Stephen McCarney & Angela M. Bauer

This book provides common sense solutions to behaviour problems exhibited by children today. The authors identify the 102 most common behaviour problems and then provide as many as 50 possible solutions to each particular situation.

Pocket Parent - Gail Reichlin & Caroline Winkler

This book is a lifesaver of tried-and-true advice, common sense, parental wisdom, and sanity. Its philosophy of discipline marries unconditional love with firm limits. Its strategies bring both immediate relief and long-term understanding to children’s behaviour problems.

Positive Discipline – A-Z – 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems – Jane Nelsen

Millions of parents have come to trust the Positive Discipline series which covers practical solutions to such parenting challenges that deal with sibling rivalry, bedtime hassles, anger, school problems, chores, eating problems and many more.   

Positive Discipline for Your Stepfamily:  - Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin & H. Stephen Glenn

Written to address the particular challenges that stepfamilies typically confront, this book helps you understand the process of stepfamily living and empowers you to make the right decisions. Inside, you will find real solutions that can make your new family a cohesive and happy unit. You’ll discover how to resolve responsibility and role issues, blend rules and traditions, build effective communication, handle discipline and finances, and develop respect and affection.

Positive Discipline – The First Three Years – Jane Nelsen

This book offers a commonsense approach to child-rearing and suggests practical solutions and solid advice on topics such as: encouraging independence & exploration, positive behaviour and social skills, sleeping, eating and potty training, and how to avoid power struggles.  

Positive discipline without shaking, shouting or spanking – Volume 3 for preschoolers – injoy videos

This video presents age-appropriate positive discipline techniques for preschoolers that can help any parent be more effective without resorting to shaking, shouting or spanking.  Real-life scenarios feature actual parents handling common challenges with an initial harsh response, and then show the same situation handled with successful positive discipline.

Raising Your Spirited Child: -  Mary Sheedy Kurcinka                                                     

As any parent will tell you, child-rearing can be a richly rewarding experience, but when you've got a spirited child on your hands, it can also be very challenging.   Before throwing your hands in the air in frustration, take heed of the ideas offered by parenting expert Mary S. Kurcinka. In this helpful book the author presents a refreshingly different approach to raising more energetic, intense, sensitive and persistent children that is both positive and practical.

Raising Your Spirited Child Workshop – Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

In this companion workbook, Mary Kurcinka brings readers into her world-famous workshops, where she offers parents and educators insights, emotional support and proven strategies for dealing with spirited children. 

Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child – Robert J. MacKenzie

A highly recommended eye-opener relating to eliminating conflict by establishing clear, firm and respectful boundaries.

Siblings Without Rivalry - Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish – 2 copies of this book

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.

Smart Love – Martha Heineman

Excellent suggestions showing the compassionate alternative to discipline that will make you a better parent and your child a better person.

Stopping Bad Behaviour – Kate Kelly

This book offers answers to help make family life as harmonious as possible. It is a hands on guide that provides advice to correct bad behaviour, create new responses to previously annoying behaviour, and establish an atmosphere that encourages good behaviour. It addresses topics such as how to discipline with care, caution and consistency and the importance of setting a good example.

Supernanny - Jo Frost

Jo Frost works miracles on unruly toddlers with her regime of tough love, clear rules and praise for good behaviour.  Her methods are simple and effective.

Time-In Parenting – Otto Weininger, Ph.D

This book shows how to  teach children emotional self-control, life skills, and problem solving by lending yourself and staying connected.

Unconditional Parenting – Alfie Kohn

A provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom about discipline and issues dealing with moving from rewards and punishments to love and reason. 

What To Do When You Worry Too Much – Dawn Huebner

This book guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety.  Lively metaphors and illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children master new skills related to reducing anxiety. 

Your Defiant Child – Russell Barkley

This book offers the understanding and guidance that is needed to assist the defiant child.  Clearly explained is what causes defiance, when it becomes a problem, and how it can be resolved.

There are more resources for behaviour management listed under videos and children's books.