Confident Parenting: Restoring your confidence as a parent by making yourself the project and not trying to change your child

by Jenny Brown

CONFIDENT PARENTING HELPING PARENTS TO RECOVER THEIR CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE This little book is not focused on understanding your child. Instead, it is all about focusing on managing yourself as a parent. The ideas are based on research findings that reveal that the more a parent leans on 'experts' to tell them how to understand and influence their child the less confident they are about themselves as a parent leader. A well-intentioned focus on helping or fixing a child can easily lead to a confused and intense parent-child relationship where the child becomes reactive to their parent's monitoring. In this small book, Dr. Jenny Brown presents some big ideas about a different pathway to effective parenting. Based on her research and Dr. Murray Bowen's family systems theory she uses real examples to illustrate how parents recover their clarity and confidence, and in turn help their children to grow into responsibly resilient young people. This book contains experts from Dr. Brown's best-selling Growing Yourself Up (Exilse Publishing) Further parenting www.parentproject.com.au

Genres: Parenting

60 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2020

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

More like an extension pamphlet to go alongside 'Growing Yourself Up' than a book. If you're familiar with 'Growing Yourself Up' this short book covers similar ground in encouraging parents to manage themselves and their responses to their children. When we can manage ourselves, we can confidently parent, outside of the noise of endless 'expert' advice.

[Rebecca Shead · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has really helpful content but I found the poor editing very irritating.