Imperfect Parenting: How to Build a Relationship With Your Child to Weather any Storm

This book offers a model of authoritative parenting that emphasizes the importance of building a strong parent-child relationship and provides practical tips for developing parenting skills. It covers a range of topics, including acceptance, positivity, social support, boundaries, respect, self-care, and gratitude, and is based on the latest findings from neuroscience and psychology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 415 pages
Publication date: 05 April 2022
Publisher: American Psychological Association

This book offers a model of authoritative parenting that embraces imperfection, focusing on the skills needed to build a strong parent-child relationship. As parents, we often worry that we're making the wrong decisions, but the good news is that having a strong relationship with your child means you can make a parenting blunder from time to time and exercise grace and patience to try again. Written for parents of children from birth to young adulthood (ages 0-24), this book helps you examine your role as a guide, cheerleader, advocate, and most importantly, as a human being who doesn't always have the right answers. While your child's brain, body, emotions, and social abilities develop over time, author Dona Matthews shows how your skills as a parent can be developed too, by practicing relationship fundamentals such as acceptance, positivity, social support, boundaries, respect, self-care, and gratitude. Rooted in the latest findings from neuroscience and psychology, this book presents a model of authoritative parenting that embraces imperfection. Each chapter focuses on a key relationship skill for parenting, with tips on how to practice it during different stages of your child's growth and in common stressful situations such as social, school, health, and family scenarios.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433837562