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Why Is My Child in Charge?
A Roadmap to End Power Struggles, Increase Cooperation, and Find Joy in Parenting Young Children
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Why Is My Child in Charge? is ideal for parents of toddlers and young children seeking calm, practical solutions to common behavioural challenges. It also benefits caregivers and professionals in early childhood development looking for compassionate, experience-based parenting strategies.
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Through stories of her work with families, the author shows parents how making critical mindshifts--seeing their children's behaviors through a new lens"--empowers them to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Claire Lerner offers a roadmap for implementing practical and proven solutions that are based in science and work in real life.
Tame your toddler with seven key shifts in mindset that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control
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Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control.
In Why Is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviours through a new lens—empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualised process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training.
Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognise the root cause of their child’s behaviour and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family.
Why Is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.
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This book is a straightforward, practical resource for parents navigating young children’s behaviours. Drawing on the author's professional experience, it offers valuable advice for managing tantrums, aggression, sleep issues, potty training, and mealtimes. Highly recommended for new parents and library collections, the guide is compassionate and strategy-rich, focusing on actionable approaches rather than just theory. Parents and professionals alike will appreciate its relatable stories and effective tips for teaching and setting limits.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781538149003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 September 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Illustration: 1 textbox
Contributors:
- Foreword by Tovah P. Klein
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 151.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 422g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Claire Lerner, MSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and child development specialist. She served as the Director of Parenting Resources at ZERO TO THREE for more than 18 years. Claire has also been a practicing clinician for 33 years, partnering with parents to do the detective work of decoding their children’s behavior to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Claire is the author of hundreds of parenting resources and writes a column for PBS Kids. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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