Getting to Calm: the Early Years: Cool-Headed Strategies for Raising Caring, Happy, and Independent 3-7 Year Olds. This item is unavailable.Getting to Calm: the Early Years: Cool-Headed Strategies for Raising Caring, Happy, and Independent 3-7 Year Olds

With such a dizzying array of parenting theories, tactics, and fads out there, how can any parent know which advice to follow? Help is here for parents who want to find a practical path that produces exceptional results: strong family bonds, calmer interactions, and healthy, happy kids who are set up for future success.

The latest in Dr. Kastner’s celebrated parenting series, Getting to Calm, The Early Years is the first book for parents of children ages 3–7 that analyzes popular parenting approaches in light of fifty years of parenting research and current evidence-based treatment models. Offering clear, step-by-step descriptions of proven and effective techniques, this book guides parents as they help their children build competencies while coping with some of the most common and painful problems of the early years, including:

• Sleepless nights
• Clinginess
• Tantrums
• Whining
• Power struggles
• Lying
• Defiance

Through vivid family vignettes, Kastner illustrates the common traps and travails of parenting young kids, showing us what has been proven to work (and what certainly has not), with an emphasis on positive parenting and wise-minded decision making. This accessible, insightful, and ultimately enjoyable book offers tremendous support, powerful skills, and plentiful encouragement for anyone who is parenting a child through the early years.

Dr. Kastner, Ph.D. received her doctorate in Psychology from University of Virginia and completed her postdoctoral internship at University of Washington. Currently a clinical professor in the department of psychology and the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at U.W., Dr. Kastner has also taught in pediatrics, adolescent medicine, and the medical school. The topics of her academic publications include adolescent sexuality, chronic illness, eating disorders, adolescent development, behavioral pediatrics and medical education. Dr. Kastner sees children, adolescents, couples and families in her clinical practice. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and forums on adolescent development and family relationships. She has been interviewed for numerous articles about adolescence in national and local media. She is the co-author of four books entitled The Seven Year Stretch: How the Family Works Together to Grow Through Adolescence (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, l997), The Launching Years: Strategies for parenting from senior year to college life; (Random House’s Three Rivers Press, 2002), “Getting to Calm: Strategies for parenting tweens and teens (ParentMap, 2009) and Wise-Minded Parenting: 7 Essentials for raising tweens + teens (ParentMap, 2013).