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Parenting Redefined: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Child's Behavior to Help Them Thrive
A trailblazing guide for parents wanting to fully appreciate and support their child's unique behavior and abilities
Today's parents are too-often bombarded with conflicting advice and unrealistic expectations. They are left frustrated and unsure of the best way to parent their child. Kristen Cook, MD, helps parents navigate this difficult landscape with a combination of research-driven expertise and compassionate understanding.
In Parenting A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Child's Behavior to Help Them Thrive, Dr. Cook walks parents through the key concepts of their child's development, how it impacts the way they act, and how that knowledge should inform their parenting style. She shows parents how to determine their child's unique temperament, understand age-appropriate behavior, and recognize what needs correcting. She highlights the importance of modeling, discipline, and emotional regulation, urging parents to adjust their methods as their child grows and develops.
Filled with practical advice, actionable plans, relatable anecdotes, and the latest science, Dr. Cook presents readers with a child-centric approach that emphasizes the need for empathy, patience, and adaptation. Parenting Redefined is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to reduce stress, improve behavior, and foster a loving relationship with their child.
Today's parents are too-often bombarded with conflicting advice and unrealistic expectations. They are left frustrated and unsure of the best way to parent their child. Kristen Cook, MD, helps parents navigate this difficult landscape with a combination of research-driven expertise and compassionate understanding.
In Parenting A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Child's Behavior to Help Them Thrive, Dr. Cook walks parents through the key concepts of their child's development, how it impacts the way they act, and how that knowledge should inform their parenting style. She shows parents how to determine their child's unique temperament, understand age-appropriate behavior, and recognize what needs correcting. She highlights the importance of modeling, discipline, and emotional regulation, urging parents to adjust their methods as their child grows and develops.
Filled with practical advice, actionable plans, relatable anecdotes, and the latest science, Dr. Cook presents readers with a child-centric approach that emphasizes the need for empathy, patience, and adaptation. Parenting Redefined is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to reduce stress, improve behavior, and foster a loving relationship with their child.
246 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2025
About the author
Kristen Cook
6 books3 followersA former award-winning newspaper writer and current mother of three, Kristen Cook lives in Tucson and writes a blog — therealkristencook.com — that focuses on finding the ha-ha in the humdrum. She is the author of This. and That, nonfiction collections of humor essays about life and family and shopping for throw pillows. It's humor with heart.
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October 10, 2025
My favorite quote from the book was “The human brain needs to understand what to do telling it what not to do is ineffective”. I feel like that’s what this book was all about. I was expecting the boom to look at only one stage of parenting, but it looks at all ages: toddlers, preschoolers and school age. The author went into development of humans, but used words that was easily understood. I don’t have a medical background, but was able to understand what Kristen was saying.
I understand having background knowledge of how our brain works more, I was expecting to see more on parenting. Towards the end of the book, Part 5 is where I really started to get into the book, and have the book be useful. The beginning 4 parts could have been condensed into pieces. However, I did like some of the practical activities to do, like having a family meeting.
Overall, it was a good book.
Thank you for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own
#parentingredefined #netgalley
I understand having background knowledge of how our brain works more, I was expecting to see more on parenting. Towards the end of the book, Part 5 is where I really started to get into the book, and have the book be useful. The beginning 4 parts could have been condensed into pieces. However, I did like some of the practical activities to do, like having a family meeting.
Overall, it was a good book.
Thank you for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own
#parentingredefined #netgalley
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