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Book

Peaceful parent, happy kids : how to stop yelling and start connecting

Call Number

  • 649.1 M3459 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Perigee Book, 2012.

Physical Description

xxvii, 274 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

  • Foreword / by Jack Canfield
  • Introduction: secrets of peaceful parents
  • Regulating yourself. Peaceful parents raise happy kids
  • Fostering connection. The essential ingredient for peaceful parents, happy kids
  • Coaching, not controlling. Raising a child who can manage himself : emotion coaching
  • Raising a child who wants to behave : dare not to discipline
  • Raising a child who achieves with joy and self-esteem : mastery coaching.

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