Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting: A Practical Guide to Building Cooperation and Connecting with Your Child

by Nicole Libin

Guide your children with the power of positive a practical approach to discipline

Discover how simple it is to regain peace in your home and help kids regulate their own behavior. Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting introduces the idea of empowering your children (and yourself), as well as using discipline as an effective teaching tool.

Rooted in mindfulness—the practice of being present and self-regulating—this complete guide to discipline through positive parenting makes things easy by providing straightforward guidance, practice dialogs, simple exercises, and more.

Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting

Set your child up for success with the power of positive parenting.

Genres: Parenting, Audiobook

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

Nicole Libin:
- has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and doesn't recommend it. Really silly thing to do.
- lives in Calgary with her daughter Aria and her husband Cam.
- bakes cookies that she can't eat
- teaches mindfulness to kids, adults, and teens
- trying to help anyone see that it's okay to feel however they feel and it's okay not to be okay
- hates writing biographies.
- has a website! https://followyourbreath.com/

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author has one child, and that child doesn’t sound very old. The author does have a lot of experience with advising other people how to parent and extensive academic knowledge. However, academic knowledge doesn’t really give the real world experience needed for writing a parenting book.

I have always parented my kids very much like outlined in this book so she was mostly just preaching to the choir. I believe strongly that discipline should come from a place of teaching as the root indicates it should (discipulus is Latin for student or disciple). I have ten children ranging in age from 1 to 21, six of whom are adopted from foster care. Positive parenting has worked beautifully for us.

The thing is, I don’t think if I was just coming to positive parenting or was looking for help in how to parent differently that this book would be all that helpful. It was long on “just connect! it’s worked with my one single child!” and short of actual how to. I understood what she was trying to say to do simply because it’s what I do naturally.

More real world examples (it would have been okay if they came from situations where she was not the caregiver) would have been very useful. The few examples given were just her parenting her daughter. As anyone with more than one kid knows some kids are just naturally easier to parent than others so examples from one child don’t indicate at all that this way of parenting will work with all kids (I know it does, but it does take time and effort).

The constant focus on “self-care” was completely unnecessary and took away from the usefulness of the book. It repeatedly mentioned mindfulness (the author is a “mindfulness educator”) but didn’t really explain what she meant and just seemed like a bit of psychobabble and use of a buzzword.

I do not recommend this book to people who are interested in learning how to parent positively. There are many other better books on the subject out there.

[Rosa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent book but lacks when discussing discipline. It focuses on remains cool during tantrums, importance of meditation, and maintaining realistic expectations. Your child isn't purposely trying to annoy you, they literally can't help themselves. When it comes to actual discipline, there's about one full page with how to remedy. The author is big on giving children options as a proactive measure to them acting up.

[Zeki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oksijen maskenizi önce kendinize takın. Nutuk çekmeyin, itaat beklemeyin, soru sorun.
Özel alanlar yaratın.
Meditasyon ve nefes teknikleri ile kendinizi yatıştırın, mola verin.
Sorun yaşamamanın sırrı yok. Sihirli bir formül yok. İçten bir durum paylaşımı.
Temel ve sade bir kitap.

[Beauty in the Binding · Rating 4 out of 5]

Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting by Nicole Libin, Phd., was not quite what I expected, but I did benefit from reading this book.

What I found most helpful (and where I felt the book truly shined) were the chapters on positive parenting. The emphasis on the parent’s own mental state and how we treat our kids – including when disciplining – was enlightening. I love the practical tips and I have already implemented some of them. No, things have not drastically changed in our household, but I am all for creating a positive atmosphere. In fact, as I read, I saw glaring how not “positive” I am sometimes. However, the book did a good job of pointing to a better way without condemning the parent. Also, the book was honest in saying that things just do not always work. There is no guarantee that being totally positive in a situation is going to make it turn out how you desire. However, it is surely better than being negative, insulting, or demeaning a child.

Where I felt the book fell short was in the actual discipline portion. Sometimes it would paint giving consequences as punishment while other times it seemed to advocate for appropriate consequences after connecting relationally with the child. However, there was not a clear line to really separate the two. Things felt a bit murky to me.

In conclusion, I benefited from reading Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting by Nicole Libin. I will keep the book and likely reread it every so often. The positive parenting chapters have some gold nuggets for parents desiring to create a positive, healthy household atmosphere. Four stars!

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this product via the Amazon Vine program. All opinions in this review are my own.

[Rj Yeomans · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a surface level introduction to positive parenting. If I'm being honest, I was hoping for more and I think that any parent that is already trying to be mindful in how they parent their children will find a lot of familiar ideas in here. Still, it's not without it's merit and I was able to pull a few things from the pages that I think I will be able to implement with my children. That said, if you're new to the concept of positive parenting, or parenting mindfully, this is a fairly good introduction.

[Andrea Balfour · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good reminder to be present and mindful when disciplining kids as opposed to punishing them. We want them to do the right thing inherently, not because they're afraid of getting in trouble. Some ideas felt a little ridiculous but I enjoyed this small read in my attempt to understand how to parent my teens better.

[Colleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is short and brand new and mostly about mindfulness--excellent!

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short feel-good overview of most of the other books that I’ve read

[Rolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful but a bit generic--a great jumping-off point for anyone new to the subject, though.