Caring Discipline: Practical Tools for Nurturing Happy Families & Classrooms

This thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the Caring Discipline program (formerly entitled Taking Charge) continues to provide a complete tool box for parents and teachers of a step-by-step process for helping kids be joyous and free while, at the same time, teaching them how to behave in respectful and non-indulgent ways. Caring Discipline: Practical Tools for Nurturing Happy Families and Classrooms is based on over forty years of parenting, teaching and counseling experience, and provides a solid, time-tested approach for building improved relationships between adults and children, resulting in happier families and classrooms.


About the Author
JoAnne Nordling, m.s. m.ed., began her career as a classroom teacher and then served as an elementary school counselor for many years. Her extensive experience working with children, parents and educators resulted in a parenting approach that gives adults the tools enabling them to establish loving relationships with their children, and set firm limits without creating power struggles, ensuring that their children will grow up happy, responsible, and confident. She is director of Parent Support Center in Portland, Oregon and is active in organizing parenting and educator classes and workshops for Portland area communities.