The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder
Offers strategies and guidance to building a happier family life by doing less not more, and parenting smarter not harder.

Most modern parents work. And we have limited time, limited energy, limited patience, and too much to do. We are seldom at our best at the end of a long working day when the parenting shift kicks in. We want to do the right thing but, in the thick of it, with no time to think and no energy to spare, it’s easy to miss the small changes that could make a big difference to our child’s (and our own) wellbeing.

This book moves the goalposts by suggesting ways to parent smarter not harder and to really tune in to the needs of our children and our families. Focusing on the quality of time and not the quantity, parents can learn to cultivate better family wellbeing and happiness.

The Working Parent’s Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder is essential reading for every working parent. Written by an expert in child development and parenting who has worked with thousands of stressed out working parents, it walks you through an approach to parenting that will transform family life - and which can be fitted into modern working patterns.

Covering all the sticky challenges of a working parent’s day (such as getting everyone out of the house on time in the morning, managing difficult behavior when you’re tired at the end of the day, and controlling tech time), The Working Parent’s Survival Guide will help you to stop feeling guilty about being at work and give you the tools to create the harmonious family life you want to come home to.
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The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder
Offers strategies and guidance to building a happier family life by doing less not more, and parenting smarter not harder.

Most modern parents work. And we have limited time, limited energy, limited patience, and too much to do. We are seldom at our best at the end of a long working day when the parenting shift kicks in. We want to do the right thing but, in the thick of it, with no time to think and no energy to spare, it’s easy to miss the small changes that could make a big difference to our child’s (and our own) wellbeing.

This book moves the goalposts by suggesting ways to parent smarter not harder and to really tune in to the needs of our children and our families. Focusing on the quality of time and not the quantity, parents can learn to cultivate better family wellbeing and happiness.

The Working Parent’s Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder is essential reading for every working parent. Written by an expert in child development and parenting who has worked with thousands of stressed out working parents, it walks you through an approach to parenting that will transform family life - and which can be fitted into modern working patterns.

Covering all the sticky challenges of a working parent’s day (such as getting everyone out of the house on time in the morning, managing difficult behavior when you’re tired at the end of the day, and controlling tech time), The Working Parent’s Survival Guide will help you to stop feeling guilty about being at work and give you the tools to create the harmonious family life you want to come home to.
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The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

by Anita Cleare
The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

by Anita Cleare

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Offers strategies and guidance to building a happier family life by doing less not more, and parenting smarter not harder.

Most modern parents work. And we have limited time, limited energy, limited patience, and too much to do. We are seldom at our best at the end of a long working day when the parenting shift kicks in. We want to do the right thing but, in the thick of it, with no time to think and no energy to spare, it’s easy to miss the small changes that could make a big difference to our child’s (and our own) wellbeing.

This book moves the goalposts by suggesting ways to parent smarter not harder and to really tune in to the needs of our children and our families. Focusing on the quality of time and not the quantity, parents can learn to cultivate better family wellbeing and happiness.

The Working Parent’s Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder is essential reading for every working parent. Written by an expert in child development and parenting who has worked with thousands of stressed out working parents, it walks you through an approach to parenting that will transform family life - and which can be fitted into modern working patterns.

Covering all the sticky challenges of a working parent’s day (such as getting everyone out of the house on time in the morning, managing difficult behavior when you’re tired at the end of the day, and controlling tech time), The Working Parent’s Survival Guide will help you to stop feeling guilty about being at work and give you the tools to create the harmonious family life you want to come home to.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538152447
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/26/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 178
File size: 355 KB

About the Author

Anita Cleare is a parenting speaker, writer, coach, and co-founder of The Positive Parenting Project. She lives in Windsor (UK).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Toward a Family Life That Is Good for You and Your Children 1

Part 1 Meaningful Moments

1 Time-Poor Parenting Traps 7

2 Work-Me versus Parent-Me 17

3 Tuning in and Getting Connected 27

4 Making Space for Playfulness 39

Part 2 Calm House, Happy Family

5 Attention Is Your Superpower 51

6 How Not to Shout 61

7 Stress-Free Mornings 75

8 Managing Sibling Conflict 87

9 Taking the Heat Out of Homework 99

10 Tackling Tech Time 109

Part 3 Balancing "Well-Being and Workload

11 Taming Your Stress Monster 123

12 Are You Doing More Than Is Good for Your Children? 133

13 Riding the Rollercoaster of Emotions 145

14 Step Away from the Blame Game 157

Further Resources 163

Index 165

About the Author 169

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