ToddlerCalm: A guide for calmer toddlers and happier parents

Description

This book works.
It shows that that the naughty step, sticker charts and controlled crying are NOT the only solutions.
Many parents struggle with getting their toddlers to sleep, picky eaters; respect; tantrums; discipline; throwing; biting; hitting, communication… All this is normal.
What is important is that you don’t base your whole relationship with your child on rewards and punishment.
ToddlerCalm is about gentle parenting. It will give you a proven and successful alternative approach to creating a calm and happy family.

Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four children. She has a BSc in Psychology and worked for several years in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. Following the birth of her first child, Sarah re-trained as a Paediatric Homeopath, Antenatal Teacher and Birth and Postnatal Doula. She has also undertaken training in Baby Massage, Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. Sarah specialises in gentle parenting methods and is co-founder of the GentleParenting website (www.gentleparenting.co.uk). Sarah writes a parenting blog (www.sarahockwell-smith.com) which is read by 3 million parents per year, and is the author of BabyCalm, ToddlerCalm,The Gentle Sleep Book, The Gentle Parenting Book and The Gentle Discipline Book. She frequently writes for magazines and newspapers, and is often called upon as a parenting expert for national television and radio.

ToddlerCalm offers a gentle approach to parenting that will help you to enjoy your toddler, to understand the limitations of sticker charts and time out, to have the confidence to ignore the experts and to parent your own child with empathy and trust.

Sarah Ockwell-Smith, parenting coach, mum of four and author of the bestselling The Gentle Parenting Book, shares the empowering strategies she shares with the parents who consult with her and deconstructs commonly held beliefs about toddler behaviour. You will learn:

Why toddlers are not mini-adults
The science of toddler sleep
How to cope with a picky eater
Communication – toddler style
The importance of unconditional love
Why you don’t need to be permissive to parent respectfully

This invaluable guide will help you through the challenging toddler years, helping to ensure happier parents and calmer toddlers.

I welcome this book as a sensitive antidote to the alternatives. It is not advocating permissive or authoritarian care, it is a paean to the glorious fun and joy which can result from understanding your toddler, seeing it from their point of view, and then gently nudging them towards maturityEverything you say in the book really resonates with the way we hope we will parent—Dame Sarah Storey

I like the fact that ToddlerCalm is written in a non-judgemental way. It offers support and guidance to parents and I find myself dipping in and out of it for advice and reassurance. I can really relate to the personal stories and love the quotes throughout.
The section on Avoiding Difficult Situations got me thinking about all of the times I dreaded ‘circle time’ at the various parent/toddler groups I went to. If I had read this book first I wouldn’t have felt the need to persevere and my toddler and I would have happily pottered at home instead of feeling we always had to be so busy!

—Nell McAndrew, model and marathon runner

Additional information

Dimensions	0.875 × 6 × 9.2 in
Imprint	Piatkus
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780349401058
ISBN-10	0349401055
Author	Sarah Ockwell-Smith
Audience	General / adult