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Do yourself a favor and buy the dang book- forget the audio book. You’ll want to keep this book at arms length because you are going to refer to it throughout all the stages of parenting. I read this book after teaching preschool for a few years and with about 10 parenting books under my belt already. I thought it would be a quick read of parenting tools I already knew. Nope! This book is filled with no-nonsense parenting mic drops and solutions to stuff your parenting tool box with.
My favorite lesson in Positive Discipline is the slippery slope that praise is. Many of us don’t even realize how often we toss out a generic ‘good job!’ in a given day! Not to say we can never tell our children good job, but too much praise can develop the belief that self-worth depends on the opinion of others. We need to help children learn to self-evaluate and reflect on their actions internally. Then they will develop self-esteem instead of other-esteem.
Where did we ever get the idea that in order to make children do better,
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen
first we have to make them feel worse?
Here’s a couple more mic drops moments in Nelsen’s book: “If adults want children to control their behavior, is it too much to ask that the adults learn to control their own behavior?” And, “Many adults find it easier to request self-control than to do it themselves.”
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