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Top family therapist Diane Levy gives clear parenting guidelines in this bestselling title. This book presents a modern approach to parenting. Diane Levy believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self-discipline. She also believes that it takes about twenty years to raise a child. Within that twenty years, you will have taught - or led your child towards the teaching of all the skills they will need to function in the world away from home. Levy's approach to parenting has two main tenets: Emotional Support and Limit Setting. The first responsibility of parents is to give children emotional support so that they will have the courage to have the experiences and do the learning that they need to become emotionally independent adults. The second responsibility is to set suitable boundaries and expectations so that they can safely tread the path from undisciplined babies to self-disciplined adults. Diane Levy uses her approach to parenting in the context of modern society. In many families both parents work, and many parents work and raise children single-handedly; in order to establish a good family structure clear boundaries must exist between parent and child. She discusses specific issues, such as sibling rivalry, bullying and nasty habits. Readers may dip into the book to find immediate help for problems with sleeping, eating and toilet training. Sex education and strategies for coping with teenagers are also covered; with the last part of the book summing up simple parenting strategies.

Charismatic dog trainer Doggy Dan shares his insights and tips into how working with dogs has helped him bring up his children. Learn how to lead the way in your family without using fear or aggression. Find out how to be clear and calm, firm and yet fair in all your dealings with others. Learn how to be confident and sensitive to those around you, and how to make decisions for the good of everyone. As Dan says, this book is not rocket science, it’s a very practical and straightforward book with clear examples and lots of anecdotes that will change the way you think about your interactions with your children and, in fact, any other people. This book will change your life forever.

Practical and brilliantly helpful advice on how to give your child clear limits so that they can learn how to behave well. Time out is a vital parenting tool, and in this book parenting expert Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages. She believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self-discipline. Her two main parenting tenets - emotional support and limit setting - are crucial to an understanding of time out. The first responsibility of parents is to give children emotional support so that they will have the courage to have the experiences and do the learning that they need to become emotionally independent adults. The second responsibility is to set suitable boundaries and expectations so that they can safely tread the path from undisciplined babies to self-disciplined adults. Diane believes that time out is the ideal way to discipline children.

OH GROW UP is about “parenting with spirit” – strength, guts, soul – whatever “spirit” means to you. The result is a truly remarkable eclectic fusion of ordinary old-school middle-of-the-road methodologies, combined with extraordinary old-age-new-age philosophies … including Parenting’s 21 Golden Insights, 21 Magical Secrets, and 21 Universal Principles.

How to help your child deal wth bullying, with strategies and practical advice from a parenting expert. Dealing with bullying is a difficult but essential part of parenting. It is a serious problem and we need to protect our children from this form of abuse. Some bullying is obvious and some bullying is subtle and hard to prove. Unkindness and bullying are unpleasant and damaging to both the perpetrator and the recipient. As parents we have the opportunity to effect change that is good for all children at home, at school and in their adult lives. Renowned child psychologist Diane Levy provides clear and useful guidelines for dealing with bullying - so that parents can give their children skills to help themselves, plus strategies for parents to follow up with. Diane Levy's approach to parenting has two main aims – to develop emotional independence and to promote self-discipline. She shows you how to raise pleasant children whose company you can enjoy.

How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert. An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves. The books also has excellent advice on bedwetting issues with older children and it Includes frequently asked questions with sensible and helpful advice.

Much-recommended by new mothers, this is the only book you'll need for the best baby advice. Now completely revised and updated. Refreshingly honest, openly frank and candidly blunt, this book has been written by a mother (who is also an experienced midwife) for other mothers. It oozes warm fuzzies, exudes realism in every paragraph and is refreshing in its guiltless honesty. Modern first-time mothers are often alone - devoid of once-traditional motherhood knowledge and practical support. Often previously self-confident women find themselves isolated, fumbling over everyday mothering tasks, enduring sleep deprivation, feeling desperately despondent - and aching and leaking everywhere. This book provides supportive, caring advice - one mum to another - while at the same time serving as an encyclopaedic medical reference regarding the mother and baby. Checked thoroughly by medical professionals, this book is a unique blend, like having access to a kind and gentle GP as well as to all the gems of wisdom of years of mothers' coffee groups. This title clearly and compassionately explains the ups as well as the downs which are perfectly normal aspects of giving birth and mothering in today's society.