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.