Happy Children Through Positive Parenting - Couverture souple

'This is a good, practical book offering useful ideas and reassurance to parents and carers' Nursery World

Happy Children through Positive Parenting is a parenting book with a difference. It does not tell you how to potty-train or when to move your toddler into a bed. Instead, it concentrates on the relationship rather than the mechanics of childrearing; highlighting that what really matters is helping children to grow up feeling secure and good about themselves, enabling them to gain positive self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance.

Children - like adults - perform best when they feel good about themselves. Knowing and liking yourself is so often the key to success in life - affecting personal relationships, general motivation and success in work. Using key words like 'praise', 'play', 'time', 'touch' and 'talk', Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer speaks to new and experienced parents alike about what helps children develop and what blocks progress. No matter how difficult parenting may have seemed in the past, Happy Children through Positive Parenting

offers a clear and simple way forward in the most influential relationship of all - that between parent and child.

ELIZABETH HARTLEY-BREWER has a national profile as a writer, speaker and expert commentator on parenting and child development. She is the author of five successful parenting books, writes widely for

the press, including the Times, the Independent and the Observer and appears regularly on television and radio.

Happy Children through Positive Parenting is a parenting book with a difference. It does not tell parents how and when to potty train or when to introduce children to solid food. Instead it argues what really matters is helping children to grow up feeling secure and good about themselves, enabling them to gain positive self-esteem.

Knowing and liking yourself is so often the key to success in life - affecting personal relationships, general motivation and success in work. Using key words such as 'praise', 'play', 'time', 'touch' and 'talk' Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer speaks to new and experienced parents alike about what helps children to develop and what blocks progress. No matter how difficult parenting may have seemed in the past, this book offers a clear and simple way forward in the most influential relationship of all - that between parent and child.