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Shame-Proof Parenting: Find your unique parenting voice, feel empowered, and raise whole, healthy children
AN AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER (in the Fatherhood category)
2017 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST (in the Parenting & Family category)
2018 INDIE READER DISCOVERY AWARD WINNER (in the Nonfiction-Parenting category)
How do you know if you're doing this parenting thing right?
When your preschooler throws a tantrum, when your tween receives a crushing text message from her friend, when your teenager starts to act out in rebellion, what do you do? You worry your reaction is just going to make everything worse and drive a wedge between you and your child. And then your mother will call to say, "I told you so."
Typical parenting advice doesn't help, either. Your child's behavior is still a problem, and you are still sinking in self-doubt. But you are not alone, and there is a way for you to rebuild a healthy relationship with your child.
In this book, you
With judgemental stares, off-hand comments, and outright intervention, our society shames parents, who are simply trying their best to raise children. In bearing that burden, parents pass the shame on to their own children. It's time to stop shaming each other. As you find your own parenting voice in the pages of this book, let's work together to #endparentshaming and to turn to each other for support in this difficult journey of raising beautiful, complicated children.
2017 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST (in the Parenting & Family category)
2018 INDIE READER DISCOVERY AWARD WINNER (in the Nonfiction-Parenting category)
How do you know if you're doing this parenting thing right?
When your preschooler throws a tantrum, when your tween receives a crushing text message from her friend, when your teenager starts to act out in rebellion, what do you do? You worry your reaction is just going to make everything worse and drive a wedge between you and your child. And then your mother will call to say, "I told you so."
Typical parenting advice doesn't help, either. Your child's behavior is still a problem, and you are still sinking in self-doubt. But you are not alone, and there is a way for you to rebuild a healthy relationship with your child.
In this book, you
With judgemental stares, off-hand comments, and outright intervention, our society shames parents, who are simply trying their best to raise children. In bearing that burden, parents pass the shame on to their own children. It's time to stop shaming each other. As you find your own parenting voice in the pages of this book, let's work together to #endparentshaming and to turn to each other for support in this difficult journey of raising beautiful, complicated children.
218 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 17, 2017
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About the author
Mercedes Samudio
2 books14 followersMercedes Samudio, LCSW is a parent coach, bestselling author, and speaker who helps parents and children communicate with each other, manage emotional trauma, navigate social media and technology together, and develop healthy parent-child relationships.
Over the course of her career, she has worked with adoptive families, foster families, teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living with mental illness.
Mercedes started the #EndParentShaming movement as well as coined the term Shame-Proof Parenting – using both to bring awareness to ending parent shame.
Mercedes is a leading parenting expert and has an amazing following on social media that allows her to reach the hearts of thousands of parents who feel heard and seen on their parenting journey.
She has been featured on The Huffington Post, US News and Report, Woman’s Day, LA Parent Magazine, CBS LA, and Kids In The House.
Mercedes seeks to empower parents to believe that they are already great guides for raising healthy and happy children.
Over the course of her career, she has worked with adoptive families, foster families, teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living with mental illness.
Mercedes started the #EndParentShaming movement as well as coined the term Shame-Proof Parenting – using both to bring awareness to ending parent shame.
Mercedes is a leading parenting expert and has an amazing following on social media that allows her to reach the hearts of thousands of parents who feel heard and seen on their parenting journey.
She has been featured on The Huffington Post, US News and Report, Woman’s Day, LA Parent Magazine, CBS LA, and Kids In The House.
Mercedes seeks to empower parents to believe that they are already great guides for raising healthy and happy children.
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March 31, 2022
Not for me. I didn't finish the book (I gave it a good try! made it 45% of the way) because I got tired of reading the words "shame-proof" ever 3rd sentence, it just got to the point where the word 'shame' lost all meaning. Maybe this book is helpful for some, but it didn't have any insights that I found useful.
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