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Raising Happy Children For Dummies

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Raising Happy Children For Dummies by Sue Atkins is a practical guide full of strategies and tips for nurturing a child's happiness and well-being. The book focuses on fostering emotional intelligence, building self-esteem, and creating strong family relationships. It offers advice on effective communication, positive discipline, and nurturing a supportive environment for children to thrive.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you're seeking practical advice and straightforward tips to raise content, confident children. Authored by Sue Atkins, it's an insightful resource for parents looking to nurture family relationships and promote positive parenting techniques.

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Helps you to understand your children - from toddler to teen, boys and girls - and offers practical tips to improve your parenting, your child's happiness and as a result, their behaviour. This book covers both day-to-day parenting and offers advice on how to help your children deal with life's tougher challenges.

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Every parent would like to have a happy, well-behaved child, but every parent also knows this is not often a reality! Raising Happy Children For Dummies helps you better understand your children—from toddler to teen, boys and girls—and is packed with practical tips from an experienced parenting coach to improve your parenting, your child’s happiness and, as a result, their behaviour.

The book helps you explore your own parenting skills, helps you to define what changes you may need to make, and provides advice on how to implement new parenting habits to improve your and your family’s relationships. Covering both day-to-day parenting and offering extra advice on how to help your children deal with life’s tougher challenges, this is a down-to-earth guide from parenting coach and mother of two, Sue Atkins.

Raising Happy Children For Dummies covers:

  • Becoming a Confident Parent
  • Knowing What Kind of Parent You Are—and Want to Become
  • Understanding Your Kids' Needs
  • Beginning with the End in Mind: Establishing Goals for Your Family
  • Communicating Effectively and Connecting with Your Children
  • Approaching Parenting With Common Sense
  • Maintaining Great Relationships
  • Getting Down to Earth and Practical: Disciplining Your Kids
  • Choosing Different Strategies for Different Ages
  • When the Going Gets Tough: Handling Conflict
  • Coping With School
  • Helping Your Child Cope with Individual Problems
  • Helping Your Child Cope with Bigger Issues
  • Raising Children with Unique and Special Needs
  • Raising Twins, Triplets, and Multiple-Birth Children
  • Ten Things to Do Every Single Day as a Parent
  • Ten Techniques to Build a Happy Home
  • Ten Things to Do When it All Goes Pear-Shaped
  • Ten (or so) Top Resources for Parents

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Raising Happy Children For Dummies is lauded as a crucial guide for parents, praised for its user-friendly layout that facilitates quick reference amidst busy schedules. It is recognised for its straightforward logic, offering essential insights into what children need from their parents to thrive.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470059784

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 May 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 699g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Sue Atkins is a parenting coach, former deputy head-teacher, and mother of two. She is a licensed NLP Master Practitioner and the founder of Positive Parents – Confident Kids Coaching.

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