Positive Parenting Handbook

<p>Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children <i>The Positive Parenting Handbook </i>is a concise straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas. The clear and easy advice provides parents with skills and tools that support positive parent/child relationships for happy and confident children. It explains common behaviour problems in young children and offers expert advice on:</p><p>-How to build strong bonds and let children know they are important to you</p><p>-How to encourage behaviour we want to see through praise and small rewards</p><p>-Giving instructions that children are more likely to follow</p><p>-How ignoring some unwanted behaviours can be helpful</p><p>-Strategies for managing difficult behaviour </p><p>-Teaching new behaviour to our children</p><p>-Developing children’s language. </p><p>It includes six case studies of how these strategies have helped real families with everyday problems at bedtime and mealtimes during toilet training out shopping and when children experience anxiety. </p><p>Together with suggestions of other useful books and information sources <i>The Positive Parenting Handbook </i>is ideal for all parents including those of children with diagnosed developmental difficulties and the range of professionals who work with them. </p>