[PDF] Be A Happier Parent Or Laugh Trying eBook

Author : Betsy Kerekes
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1681922932

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This isn't that parenting book. You know, the kind that makes you feel utterly inadequate and convinced you’ll probably mess up your little humans. As author, speaker, and mom Betsy Kerekes is here to tell you it’s not about being a "better" parent, it’s about being a happier parent. Not when your kids are older, not when your kids are easier, but right now. Today even. And it’s possible, with a little laughter. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll discover in Be a Happier Parent or Laugh Trying: You CAN be a happier parent What a good parent is (and how to be one even when you don’t feel like it) How to actually have fun with your kids Defusing tantrums doesn’t require a PhD Discipline is not a dirty word When kids tidy up, something amazing happens (besides seeing your carpet again) Wrangling kids at Mass is totally worth it Click here to register for the related webcast ABOUT THE AUTHOR Betsy Kerekes is coauthor of 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person and 101 Tips for a Happier Marriage. She has contributed articles to Aleteia, MercatorNet, Catholic Lane, Catholic Exchange, Catholic Mom, The Southern Cross, and Creative Minority Report, and has been a frequent guest on Catholic radio nationwide. Kerekes is editor and director of online publications for the Ruth Institute. She home-schools her children and writes about her experiences in motherhood at parentingisfunny.wordpress.com.

Author : KJ Dell'Antonia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0735210500

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An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the New York Times' Motherlode blog. In all the writing and reporting KJ Dell'Antonia has done on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up again and again: parents crave a greater sense of happiness in their daily lives. In this optimistic, solution-packed book, KJ asks: How can we change our family life so that it is full of the joy we'd always hoped for? Drawing from the latest research and interviews with families, KJ discovers that it's possible to do more by doing less, and make our family life a refuge and pleasure, rather than another stress point in a hectic day. She focuses on nine common problem spots that cause parents the most grief, explores why they are hard, and offers small, doable, sometimes surprising steps you can take to make them better. Whether it's getting everyone out the door on time in the morning or making sure chores and homework get done without another battle, How to Be a Happier Parent shows that having a family isn't just about raising great kids and churning them out at destination: success. It's about experiencing joy--real joy, the kind you look back on, look forward to, and live for--along the way.

Author : Claire Lerner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 153814901X

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Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

Author : Christine Carter, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0345515625

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What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain. Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate do’s and don’ts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, boils the process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing steps. With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting—how best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table—as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In these 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Inside you will discover • the best way avoid raising a brat—changing bad habits into good ones • tips on how to change your kids’ attitude into gratitude • the trap of trying to be perfect—and how to stay clear of its pitfalls • the right way to praise kids—and why too much of the wrong kind can be just as bad as not enough • the spirit of kindness—how to raise kind, compassionate, and loving children • strategies for inspiring kids to do boring (but necessary) tasks—and become more self-motivated in the process Complete with a series of “try this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kids—and, in the process, become more joyful yourself.

Author : Caspar Addyman
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1783527986

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Few things in life are more delightful than sharing in the laughter of a baby. Until now, however, psychologists and parenting experts have largely focused on moments of stress and confusion. Developmental psychologist Caspar Addyman decided to change that. Since 2012 Caspar has run the Baby Laughter project, collecting data, videos and stories from parents all over the world. This has provided a fascinating window into what babies are learning and how they develop cognitively and emotionally. Deeper than that, he has observed laughter as the purest form of human connection. It creates a bond that parents and infants share as they navigate the challenges of childhood. Moving chronologically through the first two years of life, The Laughing Baby explores the origin story for our incredible abilities. In the playful daily lives of babies, we find the beginnings of art, science, music and happiness. Our infancy is central to what makes us human, and understanding why babies laugh is key to understanding ourselves.

Author : Hillary Frank
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0525504478

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Unconventional--yet effective--parenting strategies, carefully curated by the creator of the popular podcast The Longest Shortest Time Some of the best parenting advice that Hillary Frank ever received did not come from parenting experts, but from friends and podcast listeners who acted on a whim, often in moments of desperation. These "weird parenting wins" were born of moments when the expert advice wasn't working, and instead of freaking out, these parents had a stroke of genius. For example, there's the dad who pig-snorted in his baby's ear to get her to stop crying, and the mom who made a "flat daddy" out of cardboard and sat it at the dinner table when her kids were missing their deployed military father. Every parent and kid is unique, and as we get to know our kids, we can figure out what makes them tick. Because this is an ongoing process, Weird Parenting Wins covers children of all ages, ranging in topics from "The Art of Getting Your Kid to Act Like a Person" (on hygiene, potty training, and manners) to "The Art of Getting Your Kid to Tell You Things" (because eventually, they're going to be tight-lipped). You may find that someone else's weird parenting win works for you, or you might be inspired to try something new the next time you're stuck in a parenting rut. Or maybe you'll just get a good laugh out of the mom who got her kid to try beets because...it might turn her poop pink.

Author : Laura Markham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1101613629

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A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don’t need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe—or even punish. This remarkable guide will help parents better understand their own emotions—and get them in check—so they can parent with healthy limits, empathy, and clear communication to raise a self-disciplined child. Step-by-step examples give solutions and kid-tested phrasing for parents of toddlers right through the elementary years. If you’re tired of power struggles, tantrums, and searching for the right “consequence,” look no further. You’re about to discover the practical tools you need to transform your parenting in a positive, proven way.

Author : Collie Wyatt Conoley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0470473851

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An affirming guide equipping family therapists to effectively incorporate positive psychology within their practices The next step in the evolution of family therapy, positive psychology has enabled family therapists to help families—whatever their form—to build upon their strengths, overcome dysfunction, and move to new levels of harmony and thriving. Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth integrates positive psychology into traditional family therapy, presenting therapists with best-practice wisdom and evidence-based clinical tools to help?turn dysfunctional or troubled families into flourishing families. Contributing a unique perspective to the field that combines the research, practice, and theory associated with the latest in positive psychology and family therapy, Positive Psychology and Family Therapy equips therapists to cultivate virtues, such as empathy, kindness, responsibility, involvement, social justice, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and volunteerism. Filled with homework assignments and exercises that integrate positive techniques and interventions, this book establishes and promotes the family as the basic building block of the individual and the community. Offering therapists with no previous introduction to positive psychology a solid foundation, this text includes essential discussion of family interventions and techniques that demonstrate positive family therapy, as well as case examples that bring the concepts covered to life in real and accessible scenarios. Authors Collie Conoley and Jane Close Conoley draw from their years of experience working with families to offer an integrated, practical?approach that allows family therapists to utilize positive psychology principles effectively within their practices.

Author : Andrei Isaev
Publisher : Litres
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2023-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 5045221019

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Some might not believe it, but raising kids is interesting. Sometimes children behave badly, they scream, demand the impossible, are rude, get dirty, disobey. But we love them anyway!What could be more pleasant than seeing how a child becomes smart, educated, well-mannered, and not without our help. I am convinced that parenting can be enjoyful. For both kids and parents.

Author : Nongdarel Ningthou
Publisher : Nongdarel Ningthou
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9355662238

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This book is all about the struggles overcomes by a poor student, Nongdarel Meitei, who is a medical student at JAWAHARLAL NEHRU INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, Porompat, Imphal. He was the only son of his parents after three daughters. He got his MBBS selection after 4 years of struggle. He was growing up in his childhood with a special love for his parents. His life was a big challenge for him but he managed his best level to win the lovely heart of his parents. Indeed, he was depressed enough to burn out all his books but, with his motivations and parental supports, he finally cracked NEET-UG 2020. He as a symbol of hard work wanted to motivate and inspire his younger to work for giving such smiles to their parents as his parents got when he was selected for the MBBS course at JNIMS, IMPHAL.....