Positive Discipline for Single Parents: Nurturing Cooperation, Respect, and Joy in Your Single-Parent Family

by Cheryl Erwin, Carol Delzer, Jane Nelsen

Book Overview

A Positive, Proven Approach to Single Parenting As a single parent in our complex world, you face the challenge of doing alone a job that was meant for two people. In addition, self-doubt and guilt may dampen the joy you experience raising your child. What do you do? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust Jane Nelsen's classic POSITIVE DISCIPLINE series for its consistant, commonsense approach to child rearing. In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761520112
• ISBN13: 9780761520115
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

great reference book

I keep this book handy because I've gone to it many times when I had no idea what to do. It helped when I first became a single parent, and it's helped many times since then, plus I understand parts more and more as the kids grow.

Great Help for a Struggling Single Mom

I purchased the book to assist my daughter in raising my grandson and to better acclimate us all to our precious new family member. I found the book very enlightening and straight to the point of the tools needed for a single parent and to hopefully adjust to yet a even more fruitful life. It equipped our family with essential info to help raise a strong child but also it helped us in strengthening our daughter and our resolve to make it as workable as possible, especially with the statistics stating otherwise. I know my grandson and our family will be the greatest recipients.

Great book for stressed single moms!

I borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much that I decided I needed to make it a part of my own library at home. So many times as single parents we are stressed beyond belief by the world that we forget that it is just as hard on the children as well as ourselves. This book helps single parents to think through some of the traps of parenting that we fall into. It has had many wonderful effects on my four year old son. It takes some time to get out of the normal sequence, but once you do you will see that it really makes a difference.

mostly for divorced parents

I liked the book, but I was disapointed to find out that it was written mostly for divorced people.It should be mentioned in the title or sub-title.

Torture (For when all else fails)

I found Jane Nelsen's book (POSITIVE DISCIPLINE..) to be very informative, but somewhat lacking in the variety of disciplines put forth. There are many ways to discipline your child all of which are positive if they achieve the said goal. Granted, if you want a spoiled brat that runs all over you, the ideas listed in Nelsen's book probally work very well. On the other hand, if you want a child who loves and respects you because they fear you, I would recommend you disciline your child in other ways.