Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers: Create a Life that You and Your Child Both Love - Softcover

Collins, Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942493282 ISBN 13: 9781942493280

Publisher: Hohm Press, 2017

Synopsis

Are you committed to positive, respectful parenting, but frustrated when your child acts out?  This book offers practical tools to side-step power struggles and set limits without punishing or yelling.  Research-based and clearly written, you'll learn:

• How to use connection to transform "no" into "yes."
• What to do when you can't get buy-in from children
• To enforce boundaries in ways that strengthen relationships
• Support children's emerging self-regulation skills
• Get your housework done while children help or play happily
• Create more time for yourself

 Whether you are at home with children ages 1-5 or work long hours, this book shares ways to create a healthy home home life that meets the needs of adults and children alike.  Create a life that you and your child BOTH love.

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About the Author

Faith Collins (M.A. in Early Childhood Studies) is a parenting coach, public speaker, and classroom teacher dedicated to supporting relationships with the young children in our lives. Her work is inspired by LifeWays and Waldorf education. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and young daughter, where she runs outdoor parent-child classes in her beautiful Play Garden. Her blog and popular online classes are available at (joyfultoddlers.com).

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Although it seems like we're virtually swimming in a sea of parenting advice today, those who are attracted to positive, relationship-based parenting often find a strange black hole when it comes to practical advice for parenting toddlers. Before our children become toddlers, we can access a wealth of material about establishing secure relationships with them, even in the womb. By the time they reach kindergarten age, we have lots of resources, too. But, while many relationship-based parenting books claim to be for "all ages," the vast majority focus almost exclusively on children ages five and up, with the occasional example featuring a four year old.
When it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, we get all sorts of conflicting instructions: we're told about the importance of staying connected to our children on the one hand, and we're told about the importance of establishing and maintaining boundaries on the other, but we aren't given many tools to do both at the same time. In fact, these two directives often seem to be at odds with one another. At any given moment, do we choose to be connected, or do we choose to set that boundary? And how exactly do we go about setting boundaries with toddlers, if we don't want to use punishments or time-outs? Once we've tried to explain and convince them, and that doesn't work, then what's left?
This book aims to fill that black hole. It looks at why explaining and convincing doesn't tend to get buy-in from children under five, and what we can do instead to get that "yes" in a way that strengthens our relationship, rather than undermining it or getting stuck in power struggles. When we know what makes parent-toddler (or nanny-toddler, teacher-toddler, or grandparent-toddler) relationships strong and healthy, we can develop a new set of tools and set our own internal compasses so we're able to help children be their best selves more and more often, today and every day, not just at some point in the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hohm Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942493282
• ISBN 13: 9781942493280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352