The Good Behaviour Book: How to have a better-behaved child from birth to age te电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

A Word About Discipline from Dr Bill and Martha

I: Promoting Desirable Behaviour

Chapter 1: Our Approach to Discipline

Styles of Discipline

Discipline’s Top Ten – An Overview of This Book

Chapter 2: Birth to One Year: Getting Connected

Martha and Matthew – How They Got Connected

Attachment Parenting – The Key to Early Discipline

How Attachment Parenting Makes Discipline Easier

Chapter 3: Understanding Ones, Twos, and Threes

How Toddlers Act – And Why

Talking with Toddlers: What They Can Understand, What They Can’t

Channelling Toddler Behaviours

Providing Structure

Going from Oneness to Separateness: Behaviours to Expect

Helping a Toddler Ease into Independence

From Two to Three

Discipline Gets Easier

Chapter 4: Saying no Positively

The Importance of Saying No

Creative Alternatives to “No”

Respectfully, No!

Making Danger Discipline Stick

Chapter 5: Taming Temper Tantrums

Why Tantrums?

Preventing Tantrums

What to Do When the Volcano Erupts

Handling and Preventing Tantrums in Older Children

Chapter 6: Fathers as Disciplinarians

Becoming a Dad: Bill’s Story

Eight Tips to Help Fathers Become Disciplinarians

Chapter 7: Self-esteem: The Foundation of Good Behaviour

Ten Ways to Help Children Build Self-Confidence

Chapter 8: Helping Your Child Express Feelings

Feelings: Expressing or Bottling Up?

How to Raise an Expressive Child

Chapter 9: Making Anger Work for You

Why Kids Get Angry

How Adult Anger Affects Parenting – And Discipline

Getting a Handle on Anger

Peace for Parents

Chapter 10: Feeding Good Behaviour

Foods That Bother Behaviour

Tracking Down Feel-Bad Foods

Chapter 11: Sleep Discipline

What Every Parent Should Know About Babies’ Nighttime Needs

Principles of Nighttime Discipline

Handling Common Nighttime Discipline Problems

II: Correcting Undesirable Behaviour

Chapter 12: Smacking – No? Yes? Sometimes?

Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Child

How to Avoid Smacking

Chapter 13: Discipline by Shaping Behaviour: Alternatives to Smacking

Praise

Selective Ignoring

Time-out

Help Your Child Learn That Choices Have Consequences

Motivators

Reminders

The Art of Negotiating

Withdrawing Privileges

Chapter 14: Breaking Annoying Habits

Steps to Breaking Habits

Thumb-Sucking

Chapter 15: Disciplining Bothersome Behaviours

Biting, Hitting, Pushing, Kicking

Dressing Discipline

Supermarket Discipline

Teaching Toothbrushing

Facilitating a Facewash

Whining

Clearing Up Dirty Words

Soiling Pants

Name-calling

Grumbling

Answering Back

Exciting the Unmotivated Child

Chapter 16: Sibling Rivalry

Introducing a New Baby

Promoting Sibling Harmony

Discouraging Sibling Disharmony

III: Discipline for Life

Chapter 17: Morals and Manners

Raising a Moral Child

Why Kids Lie – What to Do

Raising a Truthful Child

Encouraging Honesty

Stealing

Cheating

Teaching Your Child to Apologize

When Your Child Interrupts

Teaching Manners

Sharing

Chapter 18: Building Healthy Sexuality

Fostering Healthy Gender Identity

Modelling Healthy Gender Roles

Curious Little Bodies

Masturbation

Chapter 19: Discipline for Special Times and Special Children

Disciplining the Hyperactive Child

Disciplining the Temperamentally Difficult Child (Aka the High-Need Child)

Disciplining the Special Needs Child

Parenting the Shy Child

Disciplining the Fearful Child

Discipline Following Divorce

Caregivers as Disciplinarians

Closing comments: Putting it all Together – A Sample Discipline Plan

Index

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