How to Be a Calm Parent
Lose the Guilt, Control Your Anger and Tame the Stress - for More Peaceful and Enjoyable Parenting and Calmer, Happier Children Too
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An indispensable guide to more peaceful and enjoyable parenting
'This isn't a parenting advice book; it's a book about you. The words you read in this book, however, will have a far greater impact on your children, than those contained in any parenting book you could read (and I count my own in that too).'
How many times have you asked yourself, 'what's wrong with me? Why can't I stay calm?' So many of us would love to follow a gentler, more positive style of parenting, but we don't think we're cut out for it, because we aren't naturally calm. We feel that there is something wrong with us, that we're not good enough. We believe we are failing our children by not controlling our own emotions adequately.
What we don't realise is that this describes almost every parent there ever was—and ever will be.
In her trademark gentle, supportive and reassuring style, best-selling author Sarah Ockwell-Smith shows that while we all lose it at times, everyone can become a calmer parent. Based on her many years' experience working with parents, Sarah provides research, advice and practical exercises that will set you on the path to calmer parenting that will benefit both you and your child.
Covering everything from the impact of your own upbringing on your parenting style to work and home-life balance and letting go of the quest for perfection to ensuring your own basic needs are met, How to Be a Calm Parent is for any parent who knows that they need to be calmer to raise well-adjusted, happy children, but struggles with their own emotions and stress levels.
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In 21 Days to Resilience, Dr. Zelana Montminy gives you a practical, concrete toolkit to develop your capacity to recover quickly. Each day of her powerful program, Dr. Montmimy introduces a key concept necessary to improve resiliency and enhance well-being - such as courage, focus, positivity, self-care, and social support - then provides three quick skills to accomplish. Throughout the book she teaches you lifelong skills you can continue to practice and return to as needed to keep your resiliency muscles strong.
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Helpful insight
- By Schase on 07-08-18
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Parenting with Presence
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fantastic
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Mental health is a physical process
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Life Changing!
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horrible
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Buddhism for Mothers explores the potential to be with your children in the all-important present moment; to gain the most joy out of being with them. How can this be done calmly and with a minimum of anger, worry and negative thinking? How can mothers negotiate the changed conditions of their relationships with partners, family and even with friends? Using Buddhist practices, Sarah Napthali offers ways of coping with the day-to-day challenges of motherhood.
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Focusing on negative didn't help me...
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Highly recommended.
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for professionals only
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lifesaver!
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If you feel stuck in a relationship, this book is a MUST!
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An essential guide to raising happy children from author Christine Carter, complete with tips, secrets, and strategies that will set the stage for positive emotions into adolescence and beyond.
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One of the best parenting books I have come across
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- Earlene
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relatable for life
this book was very relatable and had a positive impact for me in My current life and how I can manage my emotions.
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- Jenna Allen
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Loved this so much
I listened to this a little at a time and could definitely tell the difference on the days that I did. I feel like this booked helped me a lot as a parent and as a person.
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