PENGUIN No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

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Book helped a lot on my childRead entire book and writing this reviewAll tricks and psychology behind child's behavior has helped me improve to understand my child

It's a brilliant book, not only giving suggestions for how to be a better parent, but also explaining why these strategies are better. During the Introduction I wasn't sure it would be a useful book for me, and then during the first chapter I was frustrated because it seemed to be saying "don't do this, this is bad, this won't help, you should do what we will suggest instead" without actually giving any suggestions for what might be better to do. As it went on, though, they start giving incredibly helpful suggestions and insights, and I think it would be useful for any parent - or, really, any person who is frequently around children - to read. I might suggest reading the conclusion first, though, where they give reassurances about it not being too late to change, about not having damaged your children up to this stage by not using these strategies, etc., because that section, in my opinion, makes a better introduction than the actual introduction. As there is a lot of information in the book, they have also made a very helpful summary at the end of the book with the various strategies so that you can make a note of that elsewhere for quick reminders rather than having to re-read the book every time you can't remember one of their strategies properly.

Great book, explains a lot and gives you many examples. It was pleasure to read it, might do it again when my daughter grows bigger (she's 2yo now).

A really great book for parenting in a way that is respectful to your children, and focuses on discipline as a teaching opportunity rather than as punishment. The book uses some playful, easy to remember language for certain points (don’t poke the lizard, shark music), and was written in a way that a lay person can easily understand. It was slightly repetitive, but from a psychological perspective this probably helps to drive the message home further.Although I feel like we were doing much of these tactics already, there were loads of things in this book I hadn’t even thought about, and lots of new strategies to try. And i love how the authors wrote it in a completely non judgemental way, and help to remind parents that we’re all human, and that even if we’ve made mistakes in our parenting, we can do better! Definitely a book I feel every parent should read, or at least skim.

Very good!