ECE 204: PRINCIPLES OF CHILD GUIDANCE
Book Review
Choose a book directed at teachers or parents which focuses on the positive guidance of
children’s behaviors and address the following.
1. Title, author(s), publisher, date of publication and ISBN number
2. Ages: What age(s) of children is this book most appropriate for?
3. Summary: Write a summary of the contents of the book. Include the main significant points
made by the author(s).
4. Strategies: Describe 4 strategies/techniques offered by the author(s) that are new to you and
not included in this course. For each technique describe a classroom situation in which you
would use it and how you would apply it. (The “situation” is not to be one described in the
book.)
a. Strategy:
Situation:
b. Strategy:
Situation:
c. Strategy:
Situation:
d. Strategy:
Situation:
5. Recommendations: Why or why not would you recommend this book?
Suggested Reading
– How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish.
– The Hurried Child: Growing Up To Fast Too Soon by David Elkind
– Self-Esteem: A Family Affair by Jean Illsley Clarke
– Your Child’s Self-Esteem by Dorthy Briggs
– P.E.T. ** Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon
– P.E.T. In Action by Thomas Gordon
– The Shy Child by Philip Zimbardo
– Raising Cain, Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
– Children the Challenge by Rudolph Dreikurs
– Building Healthy Minds by Stanley Greenspan & Nancy Lewis
– The Essential Partnership by Stanley & Nancy Greenspan
– The Challenging Child by Stanley Greenspan & Jacqueline Salmon
– The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents by Deepak Chopra
– The Optimistic Child by Martin Seligman
– Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen
– Raising Self-Reliant Children In A Self-Indulgent World by H. Stephen Glenn & Jane Nelsen
– The Anxiety Cure for Kids by Elizabeth Spencer, Robert Dupont & Caroline DePont
– Your Anxious Child by John Dacey & Lisa Fiore
– The Explosive Child by Ross Greene
– Raising Resilient Children by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
– Between Parent & Child by Haim Ginott
– The Birth Order Book by Kevin Leman
– Building Self-Esteem in Children by Patricia Berne & Louis Savary
– Know Your Child by Stella Chess & Alexander Thomas
– The Successful Child by William and Martha Sears
– Hidden Messages by Elizabeth Pantley
– Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
– The Skills of Encouragement by Don Dinkmeyer & Lewis Losoncy
– The Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids by Suzette Elgin