Bringing Up Kids Without Tearing Them Down

Packed with real-life examples, this insightful book gives parents the blueprint to help their children grow up to be confident, capable, and responsible adults. 384 p.

Designed for all parents who would like to be thanked by their children when they finally leave home, this book deals with how to raise children so that they have a good self-image and a sense of positive self-worth that will see them through any crisis or challenge that life presents.

Dr. Leman's warm and supportive prescription for raising kids with terrific self-esteem is now available in a trade paperback edition. Parents learn why self-image is so important, how to give kids "image insurance", the four key causes of misbehavior and how to discipline effectively.

New York Times Bestseller "Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well "For parents who want to foster hearty self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem, How to Raise an Adult is the right book at the right time." -Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive and A Whole New Mind A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success. Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings-and of special value to parents of teens-this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge of their own lives with competence and confidence.

Draws on the author's Positive Parenting Solutions online course to explain how to correct negative behaviors in children, introducing the psychological theories of Alfred Adler on using empowerment to promote healthy child development.

A modern parenting classic—a guide to a new and gentle way of understanding the care and nurture of infants, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids “An absolute go-to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children.”—Wendy Denham, PhD A Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, Janet Lansbury helps parents look at the world through the eyes of their infants and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating opportunities to learn, discover, and connect with our child. A collection of the most-read articles from Janet’s popular and long-running blog, Elevating Child Care focuses on common infant issues, including: • Nourishing our babies’ healthy eating habits • Calming your clingy, fearful child • How to build your child’s focus and attention span • Developing routines that promote restful sleep Eschewing the quick-fix tips and tricks of popular parenting culture, Lansbury’s gentle, insightful guidance lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent-child relationship, and children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.

There are a million parenting books on the market claiming to have the secrets to turning your children into the smartest, happiest, hippest, best nourished, fittest, most attractive, best behaved, and the list goes on. They offer a never-ending litany of often-conflicting advice about everything from breastfeeding to types of discipline to how to get your kid into the Ivy Leagues. It's enough to make any new parent sob with frustration. It's easy-and common-to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of opportunities there are to screw up, and never have these opportunities been more widespread than in twenty-first century America. The fact is, parenting can be hard to navigate, and there are definitely some wrong ways to go about it, but it's also the most fun, exciting, rewarding experience you'll ever have, and, despite the constant worry (we can't do anything to make that go away, unfortunately), you should be enjoying the unique opportunity to be the parent of your children. The purpose of this book entitled The Ultimate Guide To Parenting: How To Raise Children Without Screwing Them Up by author Britney Watkins is to help you see through the myths and the outright lies that a complicated cultural web has tossed at you and to help you make confident decisions about how you raise your children. The information in this book will bring you through each stage of child development-infancy, toddlerhood, preschool, grade school, and adolescence with useful information on how children's brains develop, an overview of the parenting and real life anecdotes that illustrate what the heck we're talking about. Between each of the main chapters, we'll address relevant topics that parents often find themselves in a quandary over: What does self-esteem actually mean? How do I deal with the judgment of my peers? What is the most effective way to listen to my children? Is it selfish of me to take time off from my kids? I chose to have children, so is it okay to ask for help from other people? Why is letting go so hard? This book doesn't aim to teach you how to raise the perfect child-no child is perfect, and you won't be either. The simple aim of this book is to inform you of the things you can do, or not do, to raise them without screwing them up.

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