Creative Discipline, Connected Family: Transforming Tears, Tantrums and Troubles While Staying Close to Your Children

by Lou Harvey-Zahra

Many parents struggle with finding effective ways to manage their children's behaviour. Can you discipline without punishing? How do you set limits while maintaining closeness and trust? Lou Harvey-Zahra, an experienced parenting coach and teacher, has developed a method that really creative discipline. Offering new perspectives on children's so-called 'bad behaviour', she helps parents solve immediate problems while fostering positive, lifelong family connections. This book is full of ideas for overcoming everyday issues like fussy eating, bedtime struggles and sibling squabbles. It also offers inspiration for addressing larger concerns, such as lying, anger and bereavement. With numerous examples, real-life stories and commonly asked questions, this is an encouraging, helpful guide for parenting children from toddler to twelve years old from the author of the bestselling Happy Child, Happy Home.

Genres: Parenting

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2015

Reviews

[Lisa]

“Parenting is a continual process… We all make mistakes, we all act unconsciously; the trick is to keep pondering ‘Is there another way…?’”
- pg 14

All parenting books should come with this beautiful disclaimer. Solid advice: “Even though I offer solutions, you need not follow opinions and guidance - mine included - blindly. Every child is unique, and you know your child better than anyone else, so filter all my ideas through your own intuition.”
- pg 15

“We do not need to change innate aspects of our children, indeed we cannot. On the contrary, we need to honour those characteristics that make them unique…”
- pg 15

[Alisha (Lissy) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a wonderful read, and gave some amazing ideas and views to help on my journey as a parent. I will definitely be using this book and referring it to other parents.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has been the most useful resource I've had as a new parent. Now as my daughter turns two I find it more valuable then ever and expect to continue revisiting the techniques for many years to come. Highly recommend this book (especially if you have an interest in parenting without nagging, yelling and constant use of the word "no")