Happy Children Through Positive Parenting

Description

The essential guide for all parents who wish to encourage self-esteem, self-reliance and self-confidence in their children Happy Children through Positive Parenting is a parenting book with a difference. It does not tell parents how and when to potty train or when to introduce children to solid food. Instead it argues what really matters is helping children to grow up feeling secure and good about themselves, enabling them to gain positive self-esteem. Knowing and liking yourself is so often the key to success in life - affecting personal relationships, general motivation and success in work. Using key words such as 'praise', 'play', 'time', 'touch' and 'talk' Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer speaks to new and experienced parents alike about what helps children to develop and what blocks progress. No matter how difficult parenting may have seemed in the past, this book offers a clear and simple way forward in the most influential relationship of all - that between parent and child.

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer is the author of two parenting skills programmes and four bestselling practical books on parenting; all of which are also published in the USA. She is a freelance journalist and writer in the UK, writing for leading national newspapers such as the London Times (parents page), the Independent (education features), the Observer (comment and focus pieces on social policy) and the Daily Telegraph (education). She has also contributed seminar papers on various aspects of children's mental health and learning to London University's Institute of Education and the Institute for Public Policy Research, a leading UK think tank.

Gives wise, kind and simple advice on trying to do better with children * The Times * thought-provoking...practical, easy-to-read, it offers valuable insights and guides...an interesting read worth dipping into on a regular basis * Irish Independent *