Simplicity Parenting: Using the Power of Less to Raise Happy, Secure Children

by Kim John Payne, Steve Biddulph (Foreword by)

Overview

This book is for parents who want to slow down, but who don't know how and for families with too much stuff and too many choices. Here are four simple steps for decluttering, quieting and soothing family dynamics so that children can thrive at school, get along with peers and nurture wellbeing. Using the extraordinary power of less Kim John Payne, one of the world's leading Steiner Waldorf educators, offers effective ways to help children feel calmer, happier and more secure. This #1 US Bestseller has been thoroughly updated as a second edition for the UK including a new comprehensive study guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912480036
Publisher:	Hawthorn Press
Publication date:	06/03/2019
Series:	Hawthorn Press Early Years
Edition description:	2nd Second Edition, Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Kim John Payne, M.Ed., is a leading Waldorf educator in the US, UK, and Australia. He travels to speak to 10,000 to 20,000 parents and teachers each year in North America and worldwide. A former movement teacher, he was a school counsellor and worked as a family counsellor therapist. He researched a drug-free approach to attention deficit disorder and his Social Inclusion Approach for breaking the patterns of bullying has been implemented in hundreds of schools by more than a thousand coaches worldwide. Kim John Payne lives in Massachusetts with his wife Katharine, who illustrated his bestselling book Simplicity Parenting.

Steve Biddulph is one of the world's best known parenting authors. His books include Secret of Happy Children; The New Manhood; and Raising Boys, are in four million homes and 31 languages. They have influenced the way we look at childhood and especially the development of boys and men.

Table of Contents

About the Author vi

Abbreviations x

Foreword Steve Biddulph xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Why Simplify? 9

Chapter 2 Soul Fever 49

Chapter 3 Environment 71

Chapter 4 Rhythm 117

Chapter 5 Schedules 165

Chapter 6 Filtering out the Adult World 199

Epilogue 263

Afterword 281

Acknowledgements 285

Appendix I Simplicity Parenting Book Group Study Guide 287

Appendix II SP Programme 303

Notes and References 306

Select Bibliography 313

Index 323