Candice W. Jones - High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020948353

In High Five Discipline, mom and pediatrician Dr Candice Jones coaches parents and caregivers on how to motivate, shape, and encourage their kids into appropriately behaving. Her must-read positive parenting guide offers tips and tricks for each stage of a childs development to help every family move beyond tantrums and squabbles to high fives and hugs!

Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP, founder of Calabasas Pediatrics, editor in chief of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child

Personally, I think discipline is the hardest part of parenting. As parents, we imagine we need to make our kids behave, win battles of will, and enforce our rules. In fact, good discipline involves teaching, positive reinforcement, and, as Dr Candice Jones points out in her new book, High Five Discipline, loving our children in the most active sense of the word. Rather than speaking as an expert from on high, Dr Jones shares her own struggles as a parent, including the story of how she came to discipline her own children differently than she was disciplined as a child. She lays out in clear, easy-to-follow steps how parents can reframe discipline from an exhausting constant fight for control into a loving collaboration between parent and child that leads children to grow into their best selves. I can just hear Dr Jones voice as I read this book, and it just makes me smile. Once you start reading, you will too!

David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, coauthor of Co-parenting Through Separation and Divorce

Dr Candice applies PEACE to share her heart, expertise, and practical wisdom on positive parenting for children. Drawing from her own powerful story, she warmly guides parents through an often fraught, but critical, element of raising healthy, well-adjusted children in a way that sets everyone up for long-term success, including ensuring that parents are mindful of their own triggers and need to breathe!

Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, Mayo Clinic Childrens Center, chair of Diversity and Inclusion of the Mayo Clinic Health System, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media

As a licensed mental health therapist who specializes in play therapy, I am pleased to share that this book by far will be one of my greatest resources to use with the families that I serve. Dr Jones gives examples that help you to recognize your own parenting style and that also help you to apply some of the strategies and techniques shared in this much-needed book. Whether you are a parent or work with youth, you will find the practical strategies in this book insightful.

Shanta Barton-Stubbs, LMHC, ThD, founder of New Image Youth Center, author of There Is Good in My Hood

Im so proud of Dr Candice Jones (MSM class of 2006) achievement in developing the definitive guide on parenting discipline. Endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr Jones book teaches us that physical punishment should never be part of discipline for parents; there are better, evidence-based methods.