Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using Mindfulness and Connection to Raise Resilient, Joyful Children and Rediscover Your Love of Parenting

by Laura Markham

"Dr. Laura Markham's book is an extremely useful guide for parents in connecting with their children's emotions. It is highly gratifying to finally see a research-based guide for parents. Every parent will want a copy of this book." - Dr. John Gottman, Author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Experience a happier family life, with a lot less drama and a lot more love!

In her groundbreaking guide Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, Dr. Laura Markham helped millions of parents better understand their children and their own emotions, so they could parent in a more empathetic and emotionally connected way.

Now, parents can take Dr. Markham's simple yet transformative approach even deeper - with this personalized, interactive and practice-filled companion workbook.

Research-based, and parent-tested, the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook will help
- Use games and exercises to increase laughter and play, while decreasing tantrums and fights.
- Teach your brain new skills so you don't get upset so often and can calm down faster.
- Practice discipline strategies that teach kids self-management and emotional intelligence.
- Strengthen your bond with your child so they want to cooperate.
- Discover simple mindfulness and meditation exercises to find peace in a busy home.

Genres: Parenting, Childrens, Nonfiction

248 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2018

Reviews

[Thanna Vickerman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Laura’s work has been transformational for my family and me. In becoming an Aha! Certified Coach and Educator, I found my life’s work and I love it! In between the lines of her first book, I realized that parenting is ultimately a mindfulness practice. I am thrilled this workbook is a deep dive into that subtext. At the same time, I am excited to share this resource with my clients, as it is filled with detailed exercises, games and strategies that really work in daily life, while helping to rewire the brain! I will personally use this workbook to continue healing my heart, increasing connection and strengthening my relationships. This workbook is for any parent who desires to accept the gift of healing that children offer, to deepen connection and to welcome more peace and joy. Thank you Dr. Laura for this practical and profound guide to Choose Love moment by moment.

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[Sharon Saline · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this well-written workbook, Dr. Laura transforms the great information from Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids into easy-to-use exercises and worksheets that will help parents immediately with their children. Starting with how parents can better regulate themselves, she offers games to build family closeness and guidelines for setting and following through on empathic limits. Her 6-step process for emotion coaching is a must-read for any parent-including myself! I will recommend this book again and again to my clients! Dr. Sharon Saline, clinical psychologist

[Lauren Read · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr Laura is my best parenting guru, and it's one part because she is both the most knowledgeable and cross-referencing professional and the other part because her resources are so tangible, useful, and impactful. I started with the website and newsletters, took some webinars, read the book, then took the online course a couple years ago. As a means to continue the never-ending work of working on oneself and one's parenting skills, I have utilized this workbook over the past year-plus so that I have reminders, reflections, and pointers to put into practice every day. It does take work and time, but you always start with yourself, and that's essential whether you have an issue to solve or not. I am grateful for this workbook and may very well join the Success Path for ongoing nourishment.

[Whitney · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of talking at your child and letting them "express their emotions/feelings" no matter how big. I'm not about that. I appreciate the sentiment - being their safe place, but it's not ok to have tantrums and meltdowns over things that don't go our way. She literally says that punishment destroys your relationship with your child. Actions have consequences, and the real world has punishments for misbehaving. I'm not saying every bad behavior needs a punishment but there should be natural consequences that are age appropriate for bad behavior.

[Sarah Rosenberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some great sections, a bit too long

The chapter on connection was great, especially the very detailed list of goofy physical games. My three year old has begged to do the pizza game almost every day since I showed it to him.

The rest of the book has very similar content to “How to talk so little kids will listen.” If you have already read that you won’t get much out of the remaining chapters.

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Laura Markham gives the guidance and encouragement you need to be the parent you always wanted to be. This book is full of practical exercises to help you implement her proven parenting method, Peaceful Parenting. The book is grounded in current research but very practical in its application. The three big focus areas are regulating yourself, connecting with your child, and coaching instead of controlling. I highly recommend for any parent.

[Heather Hoyt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recommend this. Not all of the suggestion were necessarily useful to me, but it was still a really good book.

[Ashley Esau · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little long-winded at times but offers good strategies for gentle parenting and provides examples.

[Beth Price-Almeida]

Basically, we need to realize that, other than our marriages, no other task/job/responsibility/adventure/ is nearly as important as being a present parent. Getting frantic because we can't get our kids to stop dawdling and MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! to get from one point to another and spend all the time in between worrying about the next item on our list of life complications, is backwards. We should be frantic to get back to these little humans to spend time WITH them instead of frantic about the things we do FOR them.