The No-Cry Discipline Solution

Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8

In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems:

• Tantrums
• Sleep issues
• Backtalk
• Hitting, Kicking and Hair Pulling
• Sibling fights
• Swearing
• Dawdling
• Public misbehavior
• Whining ... and more!

"Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios--from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming--as guides for readers to fashion their own responses.
Pantley is a loving realist who has managed, mirabile dictu, to give disciplinarianism a good, warm name."
--Kirkus

"While many books on discipline theory are interesting and enlightening, parents often struggle finding a way to apply the theories. Pantley’s advice is practical and specific. If ever trapped on a desert island with a bunch of kids, this is among the most useful books you could bring along."
--Tera Schreiber, Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine

Biographical note

Elizabeth Pantley
is the creator of McGraw-Hill’s
now-classic No-Cry series of
parenting books: The No-Cry Sleep
Solution, The No-Cry Sleep Solution
for Toddlers and Preschoolers, and
The No-Cry Potty Training Solution.
She is the president of Better
Beginnings, a parent education
company, and her school newsletter,
Parent Tips, is distributed nationwide.

Back cover copy

Another breakthrough title in the No-Cry series--for parents of children ages 2 through 8
“The No-Cry Discipline Solution is a definite must-have for all parents and caregivers of young children. If you are looking for understandable, effective, and nurturing tools to raise good human beings, let this book be your guide.”
--from the foreword by Tim Seldin, president of the Montessori
Foundation and chair of the International Montessori Council


The No-Cry Discipline Solution is based on one important fact: parents know their children best. This book turns discipline into a positive, affirming experience by offering a collection of proven techniques that you can custom-tailor to your child's unique personality. This groundbreaking approach allows you to:

Achieve the big Cs of parental discipline: cooperation, communication, and consistency
Defuse or prevent tantrums and eliminate whining
Manage your own anger
Uncover and solve the real problem fueling your child's misbehavior