Parenting Made Easy: The early years [Paperback]

?A bag of tricks approach to parenting the 1 to 5 year oldThe early years of parenting are often a tricky and challenging time  a time when you will watch your baby fade and a child emerge, a time of amazing growth, development and change. Your bag of tricks to deal with these changes must take into account your childs development and cognitive abilities at any given stage.Parenting Made Easy: The Early Years provides ideas for your bag of tricks that have worked for thousands of families to foster childrens positive self-identity. The strategies advocated promote positive nurturing relationships while equipping parents with skills to manage problem behaviour.Children, by virtue of being children, will make behavioural errors and so it is the job of parents to love and believe in them and to model and teach respectful communication. Such authoritative parenting is characterised by firm, warm, expectations with clear limit setting while encouraging independent thinking and displaying unconditional love.Parenting Made Easy: The Early Years will help you become thesort of parent you want to be by celebrating your resourcefulness and finding effective solutions to the challenge of parenting the preschooler.Provides ideas for your parenting bag of tricks that have worked for thousands of families to foster childrens positive self-identity. The strategies advocated promote positive nurturing relationships while helping you to find effective solutions to the challenge of parenting the preschooler.IntroductionFor children the early years are a time of innocence and joy. Yet for their parents and other caregiving adults it is often a tricky and challenging time  a time when you will watch your baby fade and a child emerge, a time of amazing growth, development and change. With each developmental stage new challenges need to be faced and solved. Responding to your childs needs is not about rescuing them when they are upset, but rather providing consistent care, pro