The Positive Parenting Handbook

Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas. The clear and easy advice provides parents with skills and tools that support positive parent/child relationships for happy and confident children. It explains common behaviour problems in young children and offers expert advice on: -How to build strong bonds and let children know they are important to you -How to encourage behaviour we want to see through praise and small rewards -Giving instructions that children are more likely to follow -How ignoring some unwanted behaviours can be helpful -Strategies for managing difficult behaviour -Teaching new behaviour to our children -Developing children's language. It includes six case studies of how these strategies have helped real families with everyday problems at bedtime and mealtimes, during toilet training, out shopping and when children experience anxiety. Together with suggestions of other useful books and information sources, The Positive Parenting Handbook is ideal for all parents, including those of children with diagnosed developmental difficulties, and the range of professionals who work with them.

Professor Judy Hutchings was an NHS Clinical Child Psychologist for 37 years, and since 1988 has also worked as a researcher at Bangor University, where she set up the Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention. She introduced parenting programmes into treatment and preventive services and undertook research trials on services for children with behavioural problems, including developing the EPaS (Enhancing Parenting Skills) programme. In 2011, she was awarded an OBE for her work with children and families.

Foreword Background to CEIT Chapter 1: Introduction- understanding common behaviour problems in young children Chapter 2. Building a positive relationship: letting children know that they are important to you Chapter 3: Encouraging your children's positive behaviour Chapter 4: How to get better at giving instructions Chapter 5: Ignoring problem behaviour Chapter 6: Managing difficult behaviours Chapter 7: Teaching new behaviour to our children Chapter 8: Developing Children's Language Chapter 9: Summing it all up Chapter 10: Typical problems experienced by real families: Positive parenting in action 10.1 A bedtime problem 10.2 A morning problem 10.3 A shopping problem 10.4 A toileting problem 10.5 An eating problem 10.6 Avoidance and anxiety problems Other useful books and information sources for parents