The Discipline Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Better-Behaved Child—from Birth to Age Ten
About this audiobook
Everything you need to know about discipline to raise a happy, well-adjusted, well-behaved child-from America’s foremost baby and childcare experts
Disciplining children means equipping them with the tools to succeed in life. In this unique guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, the pediatric specialists whose books on birth, babies, and parenting have become widely praised bestsellers, explain what you can do to shape your child’s behavior so that good conduct comes naturally.
With a focus not just on managing behavior problems but also on preventing them, the Searses offer clear, practical advice on a broad range of disciplinary issues, including the following:
The mother’s role vs. the father’s roleDeveloping the connection with your baby that will make discipline easier in years to comeSaying noTaming temper tantrumsSelf-esteem as the foundation of good behaviorHelping a child to express feelingsThe constructive use of angerGood nutrition for good behaviorSleep and nighttime disciplineSibling rivalrySpanking and alternatives to spankingHow to eliminate bothersome behaviors such as whining and talking backHow to respond when your child lies, cheats, or stealsDiscipline after divorce and in the single-parent householdDrawing on nearly thirty years of the Searses’ experience as childcare professionals and as the parents of eight children, The Discipline Book will make you confident in your ability to correct undesirable behavior, to promote good behavior, and to instill the values that will help your child become morally literate.
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About the author
William Sears, MD, received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital and Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. He has practiced as a pediatrician for more than forty years. He lives in southern California.
Martha Sears, RN, is the mother of eight children, a registered nurse, a former childbirth educator, a La Leche League leader, and a lactation consultant. She is the co-author of over twenty parenting books and is a popular lecturer and media guest drawing on her eighteen years of breastfeeding experience with her eight children. Martha speaks frequently at national parenting conferences and is noted for her advice on how to handle the most common problems facing today’s mothers with their changing lifestyles.
Jim Denison is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and a Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) Voice Arts Award nominee. He has experience as an actor on a variety of television shows and movies, appearing on Netflix, HBO, the National Geographic Channel, Investigation Discovery, and other networks, as well as appearances and voice-overs in regional and national television and radio ads. A Florida native, he has worked and traveled in many locations within the United States and abroad. For five years he hosted religious programs broadcast from several Caribbean radio stations. He changed careers to voice-over and audiobook narration after forty years of working with Christian churches in Florida, Texas, Trinidad and Tobago, Alabama, South Carolina, Maryland, and Kentucky. Jim and his wife of over thirty-five years, Renee, currently reside in southern Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky. They have two grown daughters. He holds two master's degrees and a doctorate.
