Kids Don't Come With a Manual: The Essential Guide to a Happy Family Life - Couverture souple

Saad, Carole; Saad, Nadim

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ISBN 10 : 0993174361 ISBN 13 : 9780993174360

Editeur : Best of Parenting Publishing, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Kids Don't Come With a Manual is beautifully presented, really easy to read - a compendium of all the best advice from parenting research, based on the authors' own real-life experience. I love the Troubleshooting section at the back. It's the book I would've liked when I was a parent.' -- Sue Palmer (Literacy Specialist, former Head Teacher and author of Toxic Childhood)

'Kids Don't Come With a Manual is very erudite and strong and it is one of the best and most pragmatic books on parenting and family life I have read in a long time. I think that the 'Voice of the Child' and the practical strategies and solutions will be a boon to most parents.' -- Stephen Adams-Langley (Senior Clinical Consultant Place2be.org.uk)

'Offers a fresh perspective that helps parents harmonise their conflicting parenting styles, rather than make them feel guilty for failing to fit into an idealised parenting mould. The practical tools provided allow parents to do away with good cop/bad cop roles and work better as a team.' -- Oliver James (Clinical Psychologist and Author of They F*** You Up)

'A wonderful piece of work. It reads well, it is easy to digest, and it contains useful and practical information for parents.' -- Grendon Haines (School psychologist at Harrow school)

'This is a wonderfully all-round emotionally intelligent book. I loved the format - the voice of the Child vs Strict and All heart parent as it helps parents accept responsibility for how their behaviour plays out in their children. So many relationships are damaging children because couples are fundamentally at odds about their parenting styles. This book helps create a unified approach, which will make for happier families - and ultimately happier children.' -- Tanith Carey (Award-winning journalist and author of of Girls Uninterrupted)

'How I finally stopped my children's fights and tantrums - After veering wildly between 'hippy liberal' and 'Victorian' attitudes to parenting, Julia Llewellyn Smith calls in the experts. Nadim and Carole tackled their differences in parenting styles by studying reams of child-rearing research. The result was Kids Don't Come with a Manual, a guide to parenting techniques that uses mainly soft philosophies (proven to be more successful in the long term), while ensuring our children don't become entitled brats.' -- The Telegraph

'Top tips for a happy family life' -- Sunday Express

'There is no how-to guide for raising a child, so what do you do when you and your partner have very different ideas? Desperate to find a middle ground, Carole and Nadim turned to child psychology, neuroscience and education to find simple tools they could both use, to give a more balanced approach to parenting. Kids Don't Come With a Manual helps parents going through the same struggles.' -- Prima Baby and Pregnancy

'I think this is genuinely one of the best parenting books I've read; it doesn't focus on tactic related to gender or age, it provides clear strategies based on real life scenarios and is not condescending. The format works very well and its easy to quickly dip into and absorb. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes one of those 'classic' parenting manuals for our generation.' --www.beingamummy.co.uk

'It's the first book focusing on children (rather than babies) that I've managed to read from cover to cover. More importantly, it's one that I've been able to apply to my own daily battles with a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, with dare I say it and tempt fate? a degree of success. Kids Don t Come With a Manual has taught me new tricks for managing situations that would have previously resulted in me losing my cool and spiralling into the ugly vortex that is Parental Guilt.' --www.crumbsandpegs.com

'Kids don't come with a manual has been really easy to dip in and out of. It's laid out in a way that makes it easy to find help with the particular situation you are currently dealing with, and I found it a lot less patronising than other parenting manuals. It doesn't say you should do things this way because let's face it, no two children are the same. Instead it is packed with some helpful ideas and ways to understand the behaviours you are facing.' --www.myfamilyfever.co.uk

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Discover the secrets to raising happy and confident children. Through a series of easy-to-apply tools, insights from the perspective of parents and children and real-life examples, Carole and Nadim Saad have helped thousands of parents with their parenting programme that equips parents with tools and techniques to raise happy and confident children and find better alternatives to time-outs, threats, rewards, yelling, giving-in and punishing.

• Help your children to become happy, confident and responsible
• Quickly learn and apply step-by-step solutions to common parenting and family challenges including whining, arguing, homework, tantrums and lack of cooperation
• Build a stronger relationship with your children and maintain it as they grow
• Take the blame out of your relationship if you have conflicting parenting styles
• Tailored to children aged 1 to 18
• Based on the latest research in child psychology and neuroscience

Please note: Kids Don't Come With a Manual is a comprehensive, actionable guide suitable for all parents. However, if you are a busy, working parent and experience the time pressures and guilt that often come with the challenge of balancing the responsibilities of office and home, you may find The Working Parents' Guide to Raising Happy and Confident Children particularly useful. The Working Parents' Guide distils much of the same knowledge and insight as Kids Don't Come With a Manual and tailors its approach and tools specifically for the needs of time-poor parents.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Best of Parenting Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0993174361
• ISBN 13: 9780993174360
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304