
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 UKThe best book about parenting that I've ever read
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changed my life
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A helpful book
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I’ve been waiting in anticipation for about 6 months for this book. Struggling with being anything but calm and in the week before its release, breaking up with my spouse of 13 years.
I’ve been at breaking point and just the introduction of How to be a calm parent made so much sense, brought me to tears and helped beyond words.
I’m not even half way through, but the practical exercises and sage wisdom I’ve read here have been enough for me to make massive changes in my behaviour and have already improved my relationship with not only my toddler, but with myself.
I urge every parent to read or listen to this book. We aren’t perfect but with this help we can learn to be calmer and more forgiving to ourselves.
Just what I needed!
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My only criticism is the chapter on balancing home life and work. I feel this was very much only focused on career professionals and did not give a more rounded view from some other typical working parents (for example, care workers, supermarket, retailers etc) or indeed the view of parents who decide to stay home, it was disappointing and a tad elitist. But if you skip this chapter there is a lot to take away from the book.
Useful tools to help on the journey to being a calmer parent and a calmer person
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nailed it!
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80/20
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Highly recommend
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a brilliant audible book more should listen to.
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A very helpful guide to calm parenthood
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