Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using Mindfulness and Connection to Raise Resilient, Joyful Children and Rediscover Your Love of Parenting

Every page is worth its weight in gold. Laura Markham you are deeply appreciated for the help support and enthusiastic teaching of parenting and partnering . Just love and adore this book . Thank you a million times

I have followed her through her website for some time and I decided to get the workbook to helpMe with some parenting challenges. I think it’s so useful to reflect on your parenting. I recommend it! Maybe see her website and blog first to make sure your parenting philosophy is aligned with hers.

Muy práctico, lleno de ejercicios y propuestas, no sólo teoría. Sencillo y aplicable

Workbooks are so 80's I thought to myself. Ha! Boy was I wrong. I'm literally not even to Part 1 of the book and I already feel healing in my relationship with my oldest daughter who is only 4 years old. Last night I did my first assignment from the workbook and wrote a letter to her acknowledging regrets I have from the past few years. The letter was an electrifying jumpstart in helping me let go of parenting-guilt and promising progress in our future with more connection. Basically I feel bad that I didn't understand her motives more when she would act up after her younger sister was born and that I didn't think from her perspective earlier on.... that I expected so much from her just because she was the "older" sibling when really she was only a toddler herself! Tonight, the promises from my letter were put into action: both of my daughters are sleeping on futons in our bedroom. What you ask!? (The workbook isn't pro this or that--it's just about finding ways to regulate your own feelings and connect with your kids, so this for me was one of my first steps). From the beginning both children have been trained to sleep in their own beds which is fine. But we did CIO with my oldest. Even though it was the best I could do at the time, I have always regretted it and wondered if it is part of the reason why she is not super cuddly. Could also just be the way she is. At any rate, I wanted my oldest to feel like she is always welcomed in our room and in our hearts, so this is a change I was actually very excited to make. You should have seen how thrilled she was tonight before bed! It was like Christmas morning and it filled my soul. Also recently she has been picking her nose and swallowing her boogers whole and it grosses me out so much! YUK! I have started using coercion/threats to try and get her to stop ("If you pick your boogers nobody is going to want to hold your hand." SO SAD. Why would I say this? It's true but not the way to address the issue) which of course is not working and just makes her pick her boogers facing the other direction because she thinks I can't see her! So today I told her I love her no matter what-even if her hands are slimy. From now on when she turns to me with boogie fingers, I'll just scoop her up with love while also offering her a tissue. She has already tested me once after digging for gold! Ha! Obviously I'm trying to be a little more laid back. I definitely enforce limits in our house, but maybe we don't actually need SO MANY limits. Ever since I discovered Dr. LM's books, I have been a positive parenting junky. LIFE CHANGING! Especially Peaceful Parent Happy Siblings. I don't know where we'd be without it. I'm so grateful, Dr. LM for your love of children and willingness to share all you have learned with others so we parents can fill their hearts (and at the same time ours) and they can fill the world with love. Thank you!!

This is fantastic for anyone who wants it already has kids! I wish I had discovered it before my kids were born.

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