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Positive Discipline

Our daughter is quickly appoaching her second birthday, but she seems to have already mastered some of the behaviors normally associated with that age (like tantrums, expert manipulation of her parents, etc.).  To better prepare myself for even greater challenges ahead, I recently started reading a book called “Positive Discipline“.  So far, I feel like this book makes a lot of sense, although I recognize that there are many different parenting philosophies that work successfully.  Ours, like most parents, is probably a hybrid of many, but Positive Discipline seems to offer some great tips for raising a child to be self-confident, caring, and independent — hard to argue with those things.  I’m only a little way into the book and haven’t even really tried any of their techniques yet, so I’ll keep you posted on how these things work in practice. 

I was referred to the book by some friends who had a very ‘active’ two-year old son a year or so ago.  They loved the book and saw improvement in their son’s behavior when they implemented some of these teachings.  If any of you have tips for raising great kids, I’d love to hear about them — this is one area where there is no such thing as too much information!