the good behaviour book How to have a better-behaved child from birth to age ten Dr William Sears and Martha Sears, R.N. Edited by Caroline Deacon Thorsons An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF HarperThorsons are trademarks of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. First published by Little, Brown and Company 1995 This revised and updated edition published in 2005 by Thorsons Copyright © William Sears and Martha Sears 1995, 2005 William Sears and Martha Sears assert the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780007198245 Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780007374304 Version: 2019-01-15 contents
A Word About Discipline from Dr Bill and Martha
I: Promoting Desirable Behaviour
Chapter 1: Our Approach to Discipline
Discipline’s Top Ten – An Overview of This Book
Chapter 2: Birth to One Year: Getting Connected
Martha and Matthew – How They Got Connected
Attachment Parenting – The Key to Early Discipline
How Attachment Parenting Makes Discipline Easier
Chapter 3: Understanding Ones, Twos, and Threes
Talking with Toddlers: What They Can Understand, What They Can’t
Channelling Toddler Behaviours
Going from Oneness to Separateness: Behaviours to Expect
Helping a Toddler Ease into Independence
Chapter 4: Saying no Positively
Making Danger Discipline Stick
Chapter 5: Taming Temper Tantrums
What to Do When the Volcano Erupts
