The Power of Mindful Parenting: A Guide to More Connection and Less Conflict with Your Teen - Softcover

Burkett, Wynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 173330830X ISBN 13: 9781733308304

Publisher: Mindful Parenting Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Power of Mindful Parenting is an essential guide to help stressed-out parents stay calm and connected while navigating the rocky tween and teen years with confidence.

Are you baffled by the surly tween who has replaced your sweet loving child? Are you wondering how you’re going to guide your teen safely to young adulthood? Are you not sure you’ll survive the teen years—with all the eye rolling, attitude, and arguing? Do you find yourself raising your voice more but being heard less? You’re not alone. Parenting teenagers is hard work.

The Power of Mindful Parenting offers concrete strategies to stay calm in the face of challenging teen behavior. Successful parenting workshop leader Wynn Burkett explores the stages of teen development to explain why they act the way they do. (Spoiler alert: it’s not because you’re a bad parent!) She teaches simple mindfulness skills, meditation exercises, and practical tools to help parents take a more positive approach that reduces conflict and improves communication. This book will help you feel more optimistic about your relationship with your teen and result in more love, compassion, and connection at home.

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Review

"Parenting may be the most important, challenging, and rewarding 'practice' of mindfulness and of being human. The Power of Mindful Parenting is a wise and practical guide, providing encouragement, reflections, and practices along this amazing path."
--Marc Lesser, author of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader

"Wynn Burkett's book is insightful, practical, and totally relatable. Every parent will benefit from reading this book. Mindful parenting of a teen requires taking your practice to a whole new level. Wynn shows you how."--Sura Kim, meditation coach and trainer

"If you're the parent of a tween or teen, you need this book! It offers support around establishing a mindfulness practice that will help you respond skillfully and take the high road in the inevitable tense moments with your teen or tween. The book offers a wealth of information, hands-on exercises, and guided meditations designed to help you be the parent you want to be and to navigate your child's adolescence with more peace, connection, and ease."
--Nina Kaiser, PhD, clinical psychologist

"Being the parent of a teenager can be a humbling and aggravating experience; what used to work reasonably well is suddenly totally ineffective. Wynn Burkett's book helps explain what's happening and offers a host of ways to bring things back to a place that feels less hopelessly out of control. This book is a truly usable guide to improving connection and communication with one's teen. I particularly appreciated the guided mediations that are readily available to listen to online. I wish this guide had been around years ago!."
--S. Vogt, Past President, Parents' Coalition of Bay Area High Schools 

Edition details

• Publisher: Mindful Parenting Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173330830X
• ISBN 13: 9781733308304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172