Why Is My Child in Charge?
A Roadmap to End Power Struggles, Increase Cooperation, and Find Joy in Parenting Young Children
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
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.
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Child development–specialist Lerner (Learning & Growing Together) turns her decades of experience into an easy-to-implement guide for navigating common sticking points of early childhood. Her goal is to shift parents' perspectives so as to accept "that you can't control your children but you can control the situation," as that mindset "enables you to focus on changing your reactions in a way that reduces power struggles." After identifying eight "faulty mindsets" (such as "my child is misbehaving on purpose" and "experiencing failure is harmful for my child"), Lerner tackles thorny issues such as tantrums (parents should view them as a form of "temporary distress" that ultimately leads to resilience), aggression (creating a "cooldown space" can help), and potty training (reframe it as "potty learning," to start). Lerner bolsters her advice with case studies and real-world anecdotes: to end mealtime battles, for example, Lerner writes of a child who was provided two plates, one for preferred foods and the other a "learning plate," which encouraged her to try new things. Recap strategy lists round out chapters, providing straightforward steps that will help readers put her advice into practice. Parents of young children in particular will welcome Lerner's perspective and actionable advice.
