How often have we heard complaints like these? ?Why don?t my kids do what I say?? ?Who made the mess in here?? ?When will my teen make better choices?? These are the kinds of questions that parents ask that lead not only to complaining, but to victim thinking, procrastination, and blaming. The solution: Learn to parent the QBQʼ way - and bring personal accountability to life within our families. Based on the same concepts that have made John Miller?s...

Bringing up children is one of the most difficult tasks in the world - and potentially one of the most rewarding. Loving and conveying love may seem to be instinctive skills, but they can also be worked on and improved, and it is now established that parenting is not necessarily an inherent talent, but is something that can be learned.

In this practical guide the author shares her positive methods to help you parent with confidence and raise happy, motivated and well-behaved kids.

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The toddler stage can be a rude awakening for parents, when a sweet infant morphs overnight into a mini-tyrant determined to make even a simple trip to the supermarket into a hellish and humiliating experience for all concerned. Just trying to convince your toddler to put on a shoe can feel like going to war. Now The Honest Toddler's wickedly funny guide to parenting will provide the answers every parent seeks, and the solutions every toddler craves....

Sarah Ockwell-Smith, founder of BabyCalm and ToddlerCalm, is passionate about 'gentle' parenting. Her mission is to let parents know that there are other ways to cope with a toddler apart from putting him or her on the naughty step or resorting to controlled crying. This book will fill a gap in the market, helping parents enjoy their toddlers, understand the limitations of current popular toddler parenting methods such as sticker charts and time out,...

Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother?s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie?s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ?forever mummy? in Rosie. Rosie grows incredibly attached to Megan and applies to adopt her, but the system refuses her in favour of a young couple and Rosie is devastated. Against all her instincts, Rosie...

Pamela Druckerman offers a practical handbook of helpful and fun short tips to bring up your child a la francaise, with advice about feeding (including meal plans and recipes from French creches), sleeping, dealing with tantrums and other bad behaviour, and more.

So, you're losing your sh*t with your kids. You scream, you shout, you snap at them. You're cranky and irritable more often than you'd like to admit. You know how you want to parent; you want to be a calmer, more rational and intentional parent, but no matter how hard you try, you can't help it. You keep losing your sh*t. This book is as honest and compassionate as it is pragmatic about helping you work through your sh*t to be a more present and positive...

Provocative, funny, indispensable, inimitable, and a triumph of commonsense over hysteria, 'The Mumsnet Rules' is the book parents everywhere have been crying out for.