Positive Discipline Books in Order
Explore Jane Nelsen's Positive Discipline books in order, with summaries of guides for different ages and parenting needs to help you choose a starting point.
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Positive Discipline books in publication order
5 books
Positive Discipline
by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
1981
Jane Nelsen presents a discipline approach combining kindness with firm boundaries and mutual respect. Addressing parents and teachers, she explains strategies for improving communication, reducing power struggles, encouraging cooperation, and helping children develop responsibility without punitive methods.
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers
by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
1994
This guide applies the Positive Discipline approach to preschool children, combining respect, encouragement, and clear limits. It discusses early development and offers parents and caregivers ways to understand behaviour, handle recurring frustrations, and support growing independence.
Positive Discipline A-Z
by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
2007
Organized as a reference for recurring parenting problems, this book addresses sibling rivalry, bedtime, schoolwork, chores, lying, and other challenges. Its suggested responses apply Positive Discipline principles of encouragement, respectful communication, and attention to solutions rather than punishment.
Positive Discipline: The First Three Years
by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
2007
Focusing on infancy and toddlerhood, this guide explains kind but firm approaches to boundaries, exploration, and independence. Examples address communication, temperament, sleep, eating, and toilet training, helping caregivers adapt Positive Discipline ideas to children's earliest developmental stages.
Positive Discipline Parenting Tools
by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
2016
Jane Nelsen and her coauthors present forty-nine parenting tools grounded in kindness, firmness, and encouragement. Exercises and personal accounts illustrate ways to respond to misbehaviour, keep agreements, encourage problem solving, and support cooperation in everyday family life.
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