8/2/2019 Baby Center Discipline Toolkit

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What's your discipline style?

Positive time-outs

Family meetings

Natural consequences

Working together to find a

solution

Cool-off period

Parental anger

management

Time-outs

Distraction

Redirection

Validation

Humor

Prevention and

diffusion

Exploring choices

together

Cool-down period

Time-outs

Natural consequences

Logical consequences

Identifying feelings

Empathic listening

Self-soothing strategies

Praise

Reward charts

Consequences

Time-outs

Warnings

Child throws toys on floor.

Parent says, "We have a

problem, because the toys

are not in the toy box

where they're supposed to

be. But I think you can

solve this. What do you

think you should do?"

Child throws toys on

floor. Parent picks up a

stuffed animal and kneels

down on eye-level with

child. The stuffed animal

does the talking and

says, "Oh no! My toy

friends are all over the

floor!Won't you help me

pick them up?"

Child throws toys on floor.

Parent calmly says,

"Please pick up your toys."

If child refuses, parent

remains calm and says,

"You can either choose to

pick up those toys, or I will

put them away until

tomorrow."

Child throws toys on floor.

Parent gently removes

toy from child's hand and

says, "You felt upset

when I told you that it was

almost naptime. But we

don't throw toys, even

when we're mad. Instead,

would you like to draw a

picture about how mad

you are?"

Child throws toys on floor.

Parent calmly says,

"Please pick up your toys.

This is your first warning."

If child refuses, parent

says, "This is your

second warning." If child

refuses, parent says,

"Take a five-minute

time-out" and escorts

child to her room.

Encouragement Limits and

consequences

Communication and

recognition of feelings

Negative

and positive

reinforcement

Positive Discipline, by

Jane Nelson, Ed.D.

Kids Are Worth It!, by

Barbara Coloroso

The No-Cry Discipline

Solution, by Elizabeth

Pantley

Setting Limits, by Robert

J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.

No: Why Kids of All

Ages Need to Hear It

and Ways Parents Can

Say It , by David Walsh,

Ph.D.

Kids, Parents, and

Power Struggles, by

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

How to Talk So Kids

Will Listen and Listen

So Kids Will Talk, by

Adele Faber and Elaine

Mazlich

The Happiest Toddler

on the Block, by HarveyKarp, M.D.

1-2-3 Magic, by Thomas

Phelan, Ph.D.

Assertive Discipline for

Parents, by Lee Canter

with Marlene Canter

Positive Discipline Gentle Discipline Boundary-based

Discipline

Emotion-coaching Behavior-

modification

Techniques

include

Primaryemphasis

Style

Example of

how it works

Books