There's Got To Be A Better Way: Discipline That Works! [Paperback]

Becky Bailey (Author), Dr. Becky Bailey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994 | ISBN-10: 188960903X | ISBN-13: 978-1889609034 | Edition: 1

This book provides readers with a humorous and enlightening way to uncover damaging beliefs that adults hold about themselves and children. With this new understanding, readers are guided through specific examples, situations and interactive discipline skills. The book is based on love and acceptance instead of fear and control. Step-by-step, readers learn how to teach children to meet their needs in socially acceptable ways without adults being too controlling or permissive. This book is for every parent or teacher who wants to create an environment of problem solving where children "choose" to be participate and cooperate. There is a better way!

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Loving Guidance; 1 edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188960903X
• ISBN-13: 978-1889609034
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D., specializes in early childhood education and developmental psychology. Her lectures reach more than 20,000 people annually, and her awards include a Parents' Choice Foundation commendation for three of her parenting audiotapes. She has appeared on CNN, PBS, and The Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller, among other programs. She lives in Oviedo, Florida.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST FOR ANYONE WHO WORKS WITH OR HAS CHILDREN!`, April 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: There's Got To Be A Better Way: Discipline That Works! (Paperback)

Becky Bailey has written possibly one of the best books on guidance ever. She describes the importance of using appropriate, positive techniques when guiding children as opposed to punitive, negative techniques many of us were raised with. This book is easy to read and truly down to earth--no tricky terms or language. She discusses how important it is for children to be given the opportunity and the right to feel, to be validated for how they feel, to feel absolutely safe within their environment along with so many other key components to providing a trusting, nurturing environment for kids. I agree strongly with Bev Bos' comment on the back of the book, "It also needs to be a part of required material sent home from the hospital with every new parent! Becky writes straight from the heart!" Becoming The Parent You Want To Be by L. Davis and J. Keyser is another book that is so compatible with this one. Get them both, learn how to nurture children through their developmental process AND CELEBRATE TOGETHER!!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What an enlightening experience, September 27, 2002

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Stone (Golden, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: There's Got To Be A Better Way: Discipline That Works! (Paperback)

Dr. Bailey has an image of children and what their lives could be like that is a synthesis of some of the best writing in the field in heart-felt, everyday terms. This book is an invitation to explore your deepest beliefs, your own childhood, your heart, in order to be the type of adult who allows chidlren to flourish, thrive and laugh their way through childhood. I use this book as the bible for my college Guidance for Young Children class and make a gift of it to teachers and parents who are struggling to be the parent or teacher they really want to be. I love this book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I had in mind..., August 2, 2009

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TL "Mommy in FLA" (Mommy in FLA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: There's Gotta Be a Better Way: Discipline That Works! (Paperback)

I purchased this book in the hopes it would provide me with some much needed advice on discipline for my 2 yr old son. While the book is well written, I found it really geared toward teachers. A lot of the advice was about how to teach children to interact in the classroom setting, and how to handle disciplinary issues for older children. In my opinion, it wasn't geared toward young toddlers at all, and didn't offer much of any advice on how to difuse situations or any disciplinary tactics whatsoever.