The No-Cry Discipline Solution

Winner of the Disney's iParenting Media Award for Best ProductHave the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems:TantrumsSleep issuesBacktalkHitting, Kicking and Hair PullingSibling fightsSwearingDawdlingPublic misbehaviorWhining ... and more!"Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios—from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming—as guides for readers to fashion their own responses.Pantley is a loving realist who has managed, mirabile dictu, to give disciplinarianism a good, warm name.—Kirkus"While many books on discipline theory are interesting and enlightening, parents often struggle finding a way to apply the theories. Pantley's advice is practical and specific. If ever trapped on a desert island with a bunch of kids, this is among the most useful books you could bring along.—Tera Schreiber, Mom Writer's Literary Magazine

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