Customized Parenting
Creating Easy, Intuitive Parenting Plans for Evolving Families
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Publisher Description
Customized Parenting is the ultimate guide for parents who want to feel calm, empowered, and joyful while navigating the ever-evolving journey of parenting.
Parents thrive when encouraged to explore their personal beliefs on parenting and tap into their deep well of wisdom. Author and parenting coach Bailey Gaddis will help parents discover their unique, effective, and sustainable parenting style so they can create a customized Parenting Plan that allows them to settle into and enjoy this intense time.
Once we identify the values we want our families to embody, and put them into words, we can parent from a place of confidence and empowerment, rather than exhaustion and frustration. And with the custom Parenting Plan the reader creates through the guidance in this book, they will relax into parenthood, develop mutual respect and boundaries with their child, and parent with intuitive knowledge and strength.
This Parenting Plan will bloom from the trifecta of the reader's intuition, their family values, and research-based insights, providing them with clear, constructive methods for navigating everything from communication, emotional regulation, and boundaries to discipline, parent-child social life, and so much more.
Parenting is not static, and neither is your Parenting Plan: it's a living document designed to grow and change as children—and parents—evolve.
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Working Mother contributor Gaddis (Feng Shui Mommy) helps parents identify their child-rearing values in this instructive manual. A well-tailored approach to parenting should address discipline, schedule-making, and communication style in a way that directly reflects one's principles, Gaddis contends. For instance, a household committed to environmentalism might create rules around recycling and composting, and families who prioritize compassion could institute a no name-calling policy. Elsewhere, Gaddis encourages parents to lean on intuition as a guide when receiving unsolicited advice; for example, one might tune into physical signals such as stomach pain when considering counsel that goes against their best judgment. These skills, she notes, can be shared with children to help them do the same. Though Gaddis advises readers to do what works best for their families, she also draws on studies to help steer parents away from outdated and potentially harmful practices such as corporal punishment, citing possible connections between spanking and negative outcomes including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Writing prompts and links to guided meditation exercises are included in each chapter and will help readers bring Gaddis's tips off the page. Parents will find no shortage of worthwhile guidance here.
