A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don’t need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe—or even punish. This remarkable guide will help parents better understand their own emotions—and get them in check—so they can parent with healthy limits, empathy, and clear communication to raise a self-disciplined child. Step-by-step examples give solutions and kid-tested phrasing for parents of toddlers right through the elementary years. If you’re tired of power struggles, tantrums, and searching for the right “consequence,” look no further. You’re about to discover the practical tools you need to transform your parenting in a positive, proven way.
This book shows parents the communication skills they need to teach their children to govern themselves. With the proper family environment and understanding of childhood behaviors homes can become happier.
A roadmap of quick, concrete strategies to help parents use everyday opportunities to create respectful, responsible, and resilient children between the ages of 18 months and 12 years -- without screaming or nagging. You'll learn how to eliminate the behaviors you don't want while fostering the behaviors you do want like pitching in around the house, pleasant table manners, managing money, finishing multiple-step assignments, taking risks, asking for help, and coping with bad news.
Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, author of PEACEFUL PARENTS, HAPPY SIBLINGS, has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world, thanks to her simple, insightful approach that values the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though, it’s challenging for even the most engaged parent to maintain harmony and a strong connection when competition, tempers, and irritation run high. In this highly anticipated guide, Dr. Markham presents simple yet powerful ways to cut through the squabbling and foster a loving, supportive bond between siblings, while giving each child the vital connection that he or she needs. PEACEFUL PARENT, HAPPY SIBLINGS includes hands-on, research-based advice on: • Creating deep connections with each one of your children, so that each truly believes that you couldn’t possibly love anyone else more. • Fostering a loving family culture that encourages laughter and minimizes fighting • Teaching your children healthy emotional self-management and conflict resolution skills—so that they can work things out with each other, get their own needs met and respect the needs of others • Helping your kids forge a close lifelong sibling bond—as well as the relationship skills they will need for a life of healthy friendships, work relationships, and eventually their own family bonds.
For the kid who leaves a wet towel wadded up on the floor or forgets to put a new roll on the toilet-paper thingy, witty parenting writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman has created the ultimate guidebook of essential life skills for kids. Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and advice — all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style — How to Be a Person shows kids just how easy it is to free themselves from parental nagging and become more dependable — and they’ll like themselves better, too! They’ll learn how to do chores like loading the dishwasher and making a bed, brush up on communication skills like making a phone call and apologizing, and master 61 other super-helpful skills including how to stick up for somebody, fold a T-shirt, and turn a 33-cent package of ramen into dinner. Improve work-life balance for the whole family with this kids’ guide to growing up.
401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home is an essential book for busy parents who would like to get their kids to share the housework & chores, and who would like a systematic program to ensure that their kids know all the basic living skills by the time they leave home at age eighteen. Among the topics it covers are: - How (and when) to assign and teach specific jobs - How to give positive feedback, incentives, rewards (or punishment) - How to teach your child to organize his or her bedroom - How to teach time and money and basic household skills; handling personal hygiene and clothing needs, cooking, nutrition, and shopping skills; exploring and planning a career - Plus over 400 specific incentive/reward ideas (like charging a nickel for every sock Mom has to pick up) - It works! Whether your kids are toddlers or teenagers, you'll find immediate help and direction in Bonnie Runyan McCullough and Susan Walker Monson's enthusiastic, supportive advice.
The "project approach" has long been a tremendous tool for educators working with young children. This is not an activity book but a book about doing in-depth investigations about topics that interest your child and you. The project approach stimulates your child's curiosity, shows the advantages of learning academic skills such as reading, writing and math and helps you build a strong relationship with your child as you share the adventure of learning together. In this book, we have adapted the approach to show parents, grandparents and other caregivers how to do meaningful and exciting projects at home. Featuring many photos of children doing project work this book thoroughly explains the benefits to both you and your child of doing projects together. Ideas are given for transforming your home into a place to learn including guidance for collecting and storing materials, making time for projects, and documenting your child's work. Seven complete examples of at-home projects are shared. Chapters also show you how to coach your child to build skills for reading and writing, mathematical development, scientific thinking, and more. Direction is also provided for adapting the project approach for use in family child care centers, home schooling, and gifted education.
Different parents take staying home with kids differently. Some love spending time with little ones, while others may consider it a big tiring responsibility. But the fact is kids and parents' strong bonding makes a happy and successful bonding. If we talk about an occurrence of a pandemic and you have to stay home to keep yourself and kids safe from the novel viral attack, you can have several activities with your kids.As the kids of age group, one to six years are having compassionate minds and get influenced easily by their parents, so its parent's duty to pay attention to them.*Do you find difficulty in training your kids while staying at home?*Are you looking for some fun learning activities for your kids?*Do you need some bits of advice being a staying at home parent?If you have these questions in your mind making you confused, take a deep breath, and read this guide.This guide will provide you knowledge about:*Staying home and keeping social distancing while enjoying with kids*What are the emotional needs of your child?*How can a parent create good bonding with his/her kids?*How staying home will help in the better development of your child?*How to encourage your kids with creative activities?This guide will also provide you knowledge that what homeschooling is, its benefits, and how you can do it successfully. It will tell you how by staying indoor, you can teach your kids gross motor activities, fine motor activities, and sensory-motor activities. These activities may include blocks building, phonic songs, color identification and doing science experiments, etc. For some kids it can be book reading, book writing, cooking together, puppet show, playing shop, rearranging the books or playing some music.Besides the educational perspective, some physical activities are also discussed in this guide to keep your kids fit. These include many tasks, including jumping and push-ups. Being a parent, you do not need to forget about yourself. So this guide also provides some advice to the parents on how they should give some focus to them. Some tips, including dressing up appropriately, scheduling your day, exercising, and remembering your value, can be beneficial for you to stay an active parent while handling kids. Summing up all this, I would say this guide from the start till the end is providing a message to the parents. Therefore, instead of considering staying at home as a tough task, now you can enjoy your life with your partner and family in a comfortable way. Sometimes, you only need to take the initiative for your betterment and your family. Do not you think, while staying home, it is the right choice to use some informative tactics with your kids and make a move towards an even better life than you have. Yes, it is possible to have command over your little one's actions and let them explore new ideas to learn and adopt good habits.So, do not wait and get your copy now!
