The Parenting Handbook Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children

by Johnson, Tania; Schamuhn, Tammy

• ISBN13: 9781998841103
• ISBN10: 1998841103
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-03-07
• Publisher: Barlow Publishing

Summary

Being a parent can feel overwhelming and exhausting. So much of the prevailing advice on raising children leaves parents feeling conflicted and confused rather than confident that what they’re doing is best for their children.

In The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children, Tammy Schamuhn and Tania Johnson—founders of the Institute of Child Psychology, child psychologists, and moms with an immense social media following—give parents the answers they so desperately need. Using the latest research in neuroscience and developmental psychology, and weaving in concrete strategies, Tammy and Tania have created an essential roadmap for parenting that truly works. Here you will find the secrets to raising children who are kind, empathic, self-regulated, emotionally intelligent, and who grow up to become gritty, resourceful, successful critical thinkers who can handle hard things.

After reading this handbook, you will be well-equipped to:

• tackle tough parenting problems such as screen time and bedtime battles,
• implement effective discipline strategies,
• manage meltdowns and tantrums,
• foster optimal brain development in your children,
• create positive mental health outcomes,
• lose it less on your child and be the parent you always hoped you'd be.

Tammy and Tania provide practical tools that you can implement immediately. This book is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children.

Advance Praise
“The Parenting Handbook is beautiful, reflective, and deeply compassionate. Tammy and Tania weave the latest parenting research, scripts, tools, and strategies into a relatable book that fuels connection, love, and joy.”
—Dr Shefali, Clinical Psychologist and New York Times bestselling author

“Tania and Tammy have woven together the many themes that come up so often in daily family life. They sensitively provide answers to the questions that sometimes confound us as parents. Reading this book will give you the feeling ‘I can do this’ and provide you with the confidence to be the very best parent you can be.”
—Kim John Payne M.ED., bestselling author of Simplicity Parenting, The Soul of Discipline, and Emotionally Resilient Tween & Teens

Author Biography

Tania Johnson is a Registered Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist and Co-Founder and Director of the Institute of Child Psychology. In her private practice, Tania specializes in parent consults, and she helps parents explore how their early relationships affect the way they understand themselves, their children, other people, and the world. Born in South Africa, Tania earned a Master’ s degree in Counselling from City University of Seattle. She and her husband were foster parents for years and have two biochildren. Tania presents workshops on children’ s mental health both nationally and internationally. She co-hosts “ The Childpsych Podcast,” and in the educational world, she supervises Master’ slevel students and provisional psychologists. Tania works primarily from the perspective of attachment theory, which focuses on bonds between parents and children. Her gift, both in the therapy room and when writing, is transforming that concept into concrete strategies parents can use in everyday life with their children. Tammy Schamuhn is a Registered Psychologist and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute of Child Psychology. Tammy earned a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta and worked as an elementary teacher before completing her Master’ s degree in Counselling. As a psychologist, Tammy has worked in private practice for over a decade in Alberta, Canada, primarily with children and their families. She also supervises Master’ s-level counseling students, play therapists, and provisional psychologists. She is a part-time faculty member at City University Seattle. Tammy also has a big place in her heart for animals and developed an animal-assisted therapy program, Hooves of Hope Ranch, which she and her husband operate. She also founded the Child-Centered Animal-Assisted Therapy Association (www.ccaata.com).