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Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm, and Connected
Written by Susan Stiffelman
Narrated by Susan Stiffelman
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Do you ever find yourself asking . . .How can you get your children to do their homework without meltdowns, threats or bribes?How can you have a drama-free morning where the kids actually get out the door in time for school?How can you better manage your kids' screen time without making them want to hide what they're doing from you?Family therapist Susan Stiffelman is here to help. While most parenting programs are designed to coerce kids to change, Parenting Without Power Struggles does something innovative, showing you how to help your children awaken their natural instincts to cooperate, rather than employing threats or bribes, which inevitably fuels their resistance. By staying calm and being the confident "Captain of the ship" your child needs, you will learn how to parent from a place of strong, durable connection, and you'll be better able to help your kids navigate the challenging moments of growing up.Drawing upon her successful practice and packed with real-life stories, Parenting Without Power Struggles is an extraordinary guidebook for transforming the day-to-day lives of busy parents-and the children they love.
Author
Susan Stiffelman
Susan Stiffelman is a licensed psychotherapist and marriage/family therapist in Malibu, California. She holds a BA in developmental psychology and an MA in clinical psychology. Through her presence as AOL’s parenting expert (AdviceMama), her private work with adults, couples, teens and children, her frequent public presentations, her phone coaching, articles, interviews and active website (www.parentingwithoutpowerstruggles.com), Susan has become a source of advice and support for hundreds of thousands of parents longing to raise joyful and resilient kids in a fast-paced world.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the top 10 best parenting books I have read in my whole 12 years of parenting life. Its compassionate approach incorporates basic attachment parenting principles, building on Dr. Gordon Neufeld's 5 roots of attachment theory. It gives parents exercises to understand their children better, and tangible easy to understand steps and dialog to help with children's sadness, disappointment, frustration, tantrums, while staying in charge and not take it all personally. It also makes the parents work on themselves, to deal with their own issues. It is a great book.
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