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How to Discipline Without Damage by Judy Helm Wright provides logical, practical advice for parents to teach and train their children. Based primarily on the idea that “the word discipline means to teach and lead,” she promotes natural and logical consequences along with behavior modeling as the most effective tools for child discipline.

I genuinely appreciated several things about this book. First, the author writes clearly and concisely, presenting her recommendations logically and with compassion. Her practical recommendations and examples also provide solid and encouraging examples to implement the tools she shares. Finally, she includes suggestions and comments from children, showing that children also appreciate the techniques and recommendations she shares. I found myself frequently highlighting passages and quotes that I want to remember to encourage myself as I discipline my own children. …show more content…

Books such as Children: The Challenge and Parenting with Love and Logic cover the concepts in depth. What makes How to Discipline without Damage special is the way that Wright presents the information so clearly and so quickly. Busy parents usually do not have the time or inclination to read a 300-page book to help resolve their discipline issues. The brevity of this book, a mere 98 pages, is a great way to introduce to these concepts and provide practical, positive examples to emulate. Wright empowers parents to begin implementing small, positive changes in their discipline from the very start of this book with her practical suggestions.

At the end of the book, Wright includes a list of 101 positive encouragement statements to use with children, advice on setting up a family council, and a list of resources for more information on certain topics. She also includes references to several of her other books within the text when they address a specific topic, such as lying, in more

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