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# The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Revolutionizing the world through parenting!
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013*

I could not love this book more!Written by best-selling parenting and children’s book author and mother of six, L.R.Knost, ‘The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline’ provides parents with the tools they need to implement the Three C’s of gentle discipline–Connection, Communication, and Cooperation–to create a peaceful home and a healthy parent/child relationship. Presented in bite-sized chapters perfect for busy parents and written in L.R.Knost’s signature conversational style, ‘The Gentle Parent’ is packed with practical suggestions and real-life examples to help parents through the normal ups and downs of gentle discipline on the road to raising a generation of world changers.Table of Contents~IntroductionChapter 1  The Problem with Punishment offers insight on the punishment versus discipline debate.~A Gentle BeginningChapter 2  Foundations: Setting the Stage for Discipline shares how our parenting choices in the first days and weeks and months of our children’s lives affect discipline in later stages.Chapter 3  Castles in the Air: Building on Trust shows how laying a foundation of trust and building on it day by day, night by night, gentle response by gentle response creates the parent/child relationship essential to gentle discipline.Chapter 4  Safe Surroundings shares simple ways to use baby proofing as visual boundaries to begin gentle limit-setting.Chapter 5  Reasonable Expectations offers insight into normal child development and how our expectations affect our parenting.Chapter 6  The Three C’s of Gentle Discipline presents the basic tools of gentle discipline and their components.~Toddler TimeChapter 7  Sandbox Soapbox: Toddler Insights shares parenting insights from a toddler’s perspective.Chapter 8  Toddlers, Tantrums, and Time-In’s, Oh my! gives specific interventions and preventions for coping with and preventing tantrums.Chapter 9  When Things Get Physical: Hitting, Kicking, Throwing, and Biting offers tools for working through the physical stage with toddlers and preschoolers.Chapter 10  Testing the Boundaries shares insights and parenting techniques for guiding children through testing behaviors.Chapter 11  Parenting in Public provides specific parenting tools for coping with behaviors in public places such as parks, shops, and restaurants.Chapter 12  Crying Wolf: Don’t Be an Old Yeller! gives insight into the consequences of yelling at children.Chapter 13  Toxic Parenting: Spanking, Shaming, Threatening, Manipulating contrasts peaceful, connected parenting with punitive, controlling parenting and their outcomes.Chapter 14  All the ‘Right’ Parenting Moves gives insight into the basic truth that we are imperfect humans raising imperfect humans in an imperfect world and therefore no parenting will produce perfection.~A Preschooler with a PlanChapter 15  Hurting Parents, Hurting Children shares ways parents can heal from their emotional baggage instead of passing that baggage along to the next generation.Chapter 16  The Gift of a Strong-Willed Child offers parents with the tools to help children gifted with a rich and vibrant spirit blossom while still providing them with guidance and limits.Chapter 17  You’re Not the Boss of Me redefines defiance to give parents a new perspective and offers insights to help parents work through the more challenging behaviors of childhood.Chapter 18  A Place for Me shares the value of children having a small space of their own to escape from the stresses and sensory overload that can often spark behavioral issues.Chapter 19  When Children Act Out: Reflecting Our Emotions provides insight into the often unexpected outbursts that signal a child’s need for help in coping with family issues.Chapter 20  For Everything There is a Season encourages parents to slow down and recognize the basic truth that children are not small adults and to appreciate the beauty of childhood through the eyes of their children.~Middle Childhood: Becoming Their Own PersonChapter 21  Thoughtful Cooperation vs. Thoughtless Compliance offers tools for equipping children with inner guidance systems rather than external controls.Chapter 22  The Butterfly Effect shares intentional shifts we can make in our parenting choices to change the trajectory of our children’s future.Chapter 23  The Color of Change provides step-by-step changes parents can make to move from a punitive, control-based parenting style to connected, communication-based parenting.Chapter 24  Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Parenting a ‘Problem’ Child offers insight into the world of the sensitive child and offers parents the tools to guide and support their sensory-gifted children gently and successfully.Chapter 25  Raising Problem Solvers shares strategies to help parents provide their children with effective problem-solving tools to take into the future.~Gentle Parenting: Teens and BeyondChapter 26  Children of Violence gives a glimpse into a real-world scenario that children experience every day and offers insight into the root of violence and bullying in our society.Chapter 27  The Discipline of Choice examines the life lessons learned through a teen’s their own choices and the value of unconditional support from a connected parent.Chapter 28  Helping Hurting Teens compares and contrasts the results of punitive, control-based parenting on adolescents and offers parents alternatives to punishments.Chapter 29  Twelve Life Lessons for Daughters and Chapter 30  Twelve Life Lessons for Sons reach out and touch parents’ hearts to reawaken their memories of their own adolescent struggles and esteem issues to help them connect with where their teens are so that they can more empathetically and effectively guide them through the often turbulent adolescent years.Appendix AFive Gentle Tools for Handling Lying shares a practical and gentle approach to lying.Appendix BBacktalk is Communication – LISTEN tackles the startling truth that when children talk back they are actually communicating.Appendix CTwelve Steps to Gentle Parenting: Setting Yourself Up for Success offers a twelve month, step-by-step approach to work toward a more gentle style of parenting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lovely messages and useful tactics for the stressed out parent
  

*by C***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014*

This is a lovely parenting book. It is not a huge tome that glares at you from the shelf, reminding you of another parenting fail. No, this is a slim, encouraging volume with easy-to-dip-into chapters, and positive ideas to reinforce a parenting  style that doesn't rely on shouting, control of conflict. Each section left me inspired to try some of the ideas (which worked! I was gobsmacked - my 4 year old who usually refuses to go to bed practically RAN into the bedroom), and also resolved NOT to do. The chapter on punishment is directed at a USA audience (where hitting kids is still allowed) but the guidelines are still applicable for other forms of punishment. Most useful are the 'stories' which relate real-life scenarios to illustrate the ideas and principles discussed, and the way the author discusses clearly and without ego, when relevant, her own experience. She writes clearly and with humour. My only suggestion for the layout would be perhaps margin summary terms (as the page layout is similar on each page and when reading this late at night I sometimes got lost! But that is a minor point). I bought "2,000 Kisses A Day" and "Parenting Through The Ages And Stages" and these 3 volumes have joined Kaz Cooke's "kid Wrangling" and "Buddhism For Mothers" (and the subsequent "Buddhism For Mothers Of Young Children") as my "Go-To" books for parenting. Highly recommended!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent, practical read on gentle parenting
  

*by C***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016*

This was one of the most helpful, clear, concise and practical books on parenting without the use of punishment to control behavior that I've ever read. I have one child who is 15 months old and very active, spirited and intelligent. I desperately needed insight and guidance on shepherding him, not controlling him, and I found it in this book. As a parent and a child and family therapist, I connected immediately with L.R. Knost's evidenced-based suggestions. This is not a book on how to fix your child or manipulate them into behaving differently, but a loving challenge to parent the way we would all want to be parented...with kindness, patience and respect. May God heal L.R. Knost of cancer quickly so she can continue parenting and helping all of us to be better parents. Every parent of children from birth through high-schoolers needs to read this book!

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