Where can I read more about Positive Discipline ?

My personal favorites are:

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish. It’s the best how to book I was able to find so far. Read our book review and even summary to print out and hang on the fridge for quick reference.
• I also absolutely adore their (Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish) Siblings without Rivalry – in similar easy to read format, with summaries and cartoons, and helpful not only to resolve issues with our kids, but with my own family as well!
• Kids Are Worth It! : Giving Your Child The Gift Of Inner Discipline by Barbara Coloroso. It’s just remarkable. I hope to post some summaries for it in the future. I keep notes from in on my fridge at all times.
• Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen. A kind, loving and playful (!) approach to issues with kids, helping to learn them better, get them to cooperate easier and resolve issues together in the most appropriate for kids way – through play.
• What Babies Say Before They Can Talk : The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings by Paul Holinger, Kalia Doner. I love this book so much, that I usually give it as a gift at every baby shower where I’m invited. Don’t be mislead by the title: the first book is not purely for infants – the principles described there helped me with my husband, with my friends, and, of course, with my almost 2 year old.

Please find more recommendations below.

• Lawrence Cohen website: http://www.playfulparenting.com/. There is an occasional email e-newsletter that you can sign up for; click on e-newsletter on the left.
• #1 book rec: Kids are Worth It! by Barbara Coloroso. This is one of the mostly recommended book. It is by all means one of the most useful for parents of kids any ages. It has lots of examples for toddlers, school age kids and fantastic suggestions for teenagers.
• #2: Kids, Parents and Power Struggles by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka.
• Jane Nelsen's book Positive Discipline . This book was recommended for parents with coming from a punitive mindset, as one of the members of PositiveDisciplineParenting group put it: “especially if you're afraid your kids will be brats if you don't punish them.”
• Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation (Paperback), by Becky A. Bailey.
• Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn and
• Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
  Please note: Alfie Kohn is extremely criticized by many for suggestions on withholding praise, since it might actually harm kids self-esteem. At the same time many PositiveDiscipline parents are highly-highly praising his approach! Take a look for yourself and please share your opinions or other resources.
• “Grace-based Parenting” by Tim Kimmel. This is a Christian book. Someone commented that it’s not a how-to book, but it really confronts a lot of the parenting principles usually associated with so called “biblical” parenting. From the book description posted at amazon.com:
  

  Rejecting rigid rules and checklists that don’t work, Dr. Kimmel recommends a parenting style that mirrors God’s love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for behavior. As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it-creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children.

• Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy by Naomi, Ph.D. Aldort.
• Kid Cooperation by Elizabeth Pantley. I really like other books by Elizabeth Pantley, such as ” The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night”, but someone commented that in this book the author actually has recommendations on using time outs – a practice that is is based punitive discipline, rather then positive discipline mindset.
• Dr. Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training

Happy reading!