"Positive Discipline: The First Three Years" offers guidelines on how to use kind but firm support to raise a child who is both capable and confident. It is filled with practical solutions and advice on how to identify your child's temperament and implement non-punitive, encouraging, and positive parenting methods. It also shows parents how to help their kids be independent, how to set limits that are right for their age, and how to avoid power struggles. This book is based on scientific research and gives real-life examples of problems that other parents and caregivers have had to deal with.