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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Sarah Ockwell-Smith
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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.
©2022 Sarah Ockwell-Smith (P)2022 Hachette Audio UKWhat listeners say about How to Be a Calm Parent
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- Anonymous User
- 05-11-2024
I feel normal
After listening to this book I feel normal. I feel like I am doing the right things and it is going to be okay. Thank you
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-2022
Great!!
A really great book, helped reaffirm why I try to parent like and do and why it can be so hard at times to hold it together. Some wonderful practical advice about how to give yourself grace, understanding and help yourself.
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- Lauren
- 11-03-2022
Love and recommend this!
This is like one great big self-reflection and self-care journey. Sarah's self honesty is admirable. I highly recommend this book!
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- Jacob
- 03-10-2024
Coddling for emotionally weak people
The whole book boils down to "you can't be perfect". Okay... I don't want to be perfect. I want to stop yelling at my kids.
A lot of feel-good, cuddly, infantalizing nonsense for emotionally weak parents who can't handle criticism and need someone to hold their hand.
The author has clearly written this book just for "perfectionists" who fail to live up to their own standards, and ignores everyone else.
No, I will not print out a Failure Award to stick on the fridge, and hold myself a little Failure Award ceremony in my head. No, I will not mentally give my inner child a big hug, or remind myself that it's okay not to be perfect.
This has nothing to do with being a calm parent, controlling outbursts, or treating your children with respect. This has nothing to do with identifying your own failures, recognizing that you're having a negative impact on your children, and taking steps to repair that.
It's all just a bunch of baby talk for adults.
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