Gentle Parenting Books We Love

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Discipline is an essential part of raising happy and successful kids, but as more and more parents are discovering, conventional approaches often don’t work, and can even lead to more frustration, resentment, power struggles, and shame.

Gentle Discipline: Using Emotional Connection - Not Punishment - to Raise Confident

Enter Sarah Ockwell-Smith, a popular parenting expert who believes there’s a better way. Citing the latest research in child development, psychology, and neuroscience, Gentle Discipline debunks common myths about punishments, rewards, the “naughty chair,” and more, and presents practical, connection-based techniques that really work — and that bring parents and kids closer together instead of driving then apart. Topics include:

• Setting — and enforcing — boundaries and limits with compassion and respect
• Focusing on connection and positivity instead of negative consequences
• Working with teachers and other caregivers
• Breaking the cycle of shaming and blaming

Filled with ideas to try today, Gentle Discipline helps parents of toddlers, as well as school-age kids, embrace a new, more enlightened way to help kids listen, learn and grow.

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The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline

Written by best-selling parenting and children’s book author and mother of six, L.R. Knost, The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline provides parents with the tools they need to implement the Three Cs of gentle discipline — Connection, Communication, and Cooperation — to create a peaceful home and a healthy parent/child relationship.

Presented in bite-sized chapters perfect for busy parents and written in L.R. Knost’s signature conversational style, The Gentle Parent is packed with practical suggestions and real-life examples to help parents through the normal ups and downs of gentle discipline on the road to raising a generation of world changers.

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Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide

Popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes believes that parenting advice should be about more than just getting kids to behave.

In her struggle to maintain a meaningful connection with her two little ones and frustrated by the lack of emotionally aware books for parents, she began to share her own insights with readers online. Her following has grown into a thriving community–hundreds of thousands strong.

In this eagerly anticipated guide, Eanes shares her hard-won wisdom for overcoming limiting thought patterns and recognizing emotional triggers, as well as advice for connecting with kids at each stage, from infancy to adolescence.

This heartfelt, insightful advice comes not from an “expert,” but from a learning, evolving parent.

Filled with practical, solution-oriented advice, this is an empowering guide for any parent who longs to end the yelling, power struggles, and downward spiral of acting out, punishment, resentment, and shame — and instead foster an emotional connection that helps kids learn self-discipline, feel confident, and create lasting, loving bonds.

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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective.

Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don’t need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe, or even punish.

This remarkable guide will help parents better understand their own emotions — and get them in check — so they can parent with healthy limits, empathy, and clear communication to raise a self-disciplined child.

Step-by-step examples give solutions and kid-tested phrasing for parents of toddlers right through the elementary years.

If you’re tired of power struggles, tantrums, and searching for the right “consequence,” look no further. You’re about to discover the practical tools you need to transform your parenting in a positive, proven way.

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No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers. 

No Bad Kids is a collection of Janet’s most popular and widely read articles pertaining to common toddler behaviors and how respectful parenting practices can be applied to benefit both parents and children.

It covers such common topics as punishment, cooperation, boundaries, testing, tantrums, hitting, and more. 

No Bad Kids provides a practical, indispensable tool for parents who are anticipating or experiencing those critical years when toddlers are developmentally obliged to test the limits of their patience and love.

Armed with knowledge and a clearer sense of the world through our children’s eyes, this period of uncertainty can afford a myriad of opportunities to forge unbreakable bonds of trust and respect.

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How to raise calmer, happier children

Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four children. She has a BS in Psychology and worked for several years in Pharmaceutical Research and Development.

Following the birth of her first child, Sarah re-trained as an Antenatal Teacher and Birth and Postnatal Doula.

She has also undertaken training in Baby Massage, Hypnotherapy, and Psychotherapy. Sarah specializes in gentle parenting methods and writes a parenting blog, which is read by 3 million parents per year.

Sarah is the author of BabyCalm, ToddlerCalm, The Gentle Sleep Book, The Gentle Parenting Book, Why Your Baby’s Sleep Matters, and Gentle Discipline.

She frequently writes for magazines and newspapers and is often called upon as a parenting expert for television and radio.

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