The Parenting Handbook

The Parenting Handbook helps parents develop deep and connected relationships with their children. The authors, child psychologists and moms with an immense social media following, give parents practical tools and strategies backed by the latest research in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Parents will learn about how to foster optimal brain development in children, and how to translate that into actionable steps each and every day. This book is a roadmap to nurture resiliency, connection, emotional regulation, and well-being in children.

The authors explore:

• A child's emotional world and how their parents' responses to their emotions become a psychological map for the child and their ability to recognize, feel, and respond to life's storms.
• Attachment theory, which determines how a child understands himself, others, and the world, and how parents can nurture a secure attachment for the best outcomes in children.
• How parents can identify their own childhood scars and avoid passing them on to their children.
• Discipline, which should be used to teach, not to punish. Parents will get a toolbox of ideas to use in the tough times so that discipline will nurture resiliency and growth. Parents will get tools for the toddler up to age 7, and for older children and teens.
• How to nurture resiliency and grit.
• Play, a child's language, which children need to develop mastery and confidence, to explore psychological conflict.