The names and identifying characteristics of the parents and children discussed in this book have been changed in order to disguise their identities. Any resulting resemblance to any persons living or dead is coincidental and unintentional.

Copyright © 1981, 1987, 1996, and 2006 by Jane Nelsen

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published by Sunrise Press, Fair Oaks, California, in 1981. Revised editions of this work were published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1987 and 1996.

The chapter “Personality: How Yours Affects Theirs” is adapted from a chapter that first appeared in Positive Discipline for Preschoolers by Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, and Roslyn Duffy. Copyright © 1998 by Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, and Roslyn Duffy. (Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. New York, 1998).

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Nelsen, Jane.
Positive discipline / Jane Nelsen.—Rev. ed.
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“Originally published in a different form by Sunrise Press, Fair Oaks, California,
in 1981. First revised edition published by Ballantine Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., in 1987”—T.p. verso.
eISBN: 978-0-307-79416-1
1. Discipline of children. I. Title.
HQ770.4.N43 2006
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