Eanes - Positive parenting: an essential guide

Positive Parenting

In this valuable contribution to parenting, Rebecca Eanes provides insightful, effective, and practical solutions to end family conflict and build loving connections. Her masterful approach allows parents to implement powerful strategies with ease and grace, forever transforming their family life. This is a must-read for every family that yearns to create peace and harmony.

Dr. Shefali Tsabary, New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent

With a belief that each parent knows their own child best and that raising children should be enjoyable, not stressful, Rebecca Eanes helps parents develop their own positive parenting blueprints to create happy, loving families. Positive Parenting helps parents work through the difficult feelings that naturally occur throughout the parenting journey and provides strategies to help raise positive thinkers.

Katie Hurley, LCSW, author of The Happy Kid Handbook

Positive Parenting is more than a parenting book. Its a guide to human connection. Rebecca provides a road map for creating happy, deeply connected families where children and parents alike are able to rise to their fullest potential.

Amy McCready, author of The Me, Me, Me Epidemic

As I soaked up the wisdom contained in this book, two words kept coming to mind: positive pathways. No matter how challenging your family situation is or how long youve been going down a negative road, this book offers pathways to peace, connection, and true happiness. Through practical examples, detailed steps, and soul-stirring questions, Rebecca Eanes shows us how to reach our fullest potential as parents, partners, and human beings. Let Positive Parenting set you on a path to rewriting your story in all aspects of life, in the most positive way possible.

Rachel Macy Stafford, New York Times bestselling author of Hands Free Mama and Hands Free Life

Rebecca Eanes has a deep understanding of what can hold mothers and fathers back from being the parents they want to be. Positive Parenting provides concrete tools to grow the self-discipline, connection, empathy, and techniques that will help parents (and their kids!) be their best.

Andrea Nair, MA, CCC, psychotherapist, parenting educator, and creator of the Taming Tantrums app

Watch out: Eaness book will transform your parenting, especially if you pause to do the self-work exercises.

Tracy Cutchlow, author of Zero to Five

In our always connected world of social media and Google searches there is a never-ending flow of new and better parenting information. Its easy to get lost in the sea of best practices. The focus is often on changing kids behavior or all the reasons you are ruining your kids. The problem is that so much of what we read seems to conflict and leaves us feeling powerless rather than truly supporting parents and families. Rebeccas new book Positive Parenting emphasizes that parenting is far more than simply making kids comply. Its about real lives, relationships, and people; its about real moms, dads, and kids stories and how to make those stories incredible. This book gives the reader timeless, foundational principles and practices that help to build the parent, the child, and the family as a whole from the inside out.

Andy Smithson, www.truparenting.net

Positive Parenting beautifully illustrates the choices that modern-day parents have to raise healthy and successful children through nurturing, empathetic relationships. Bolstered by research in neuroscience and human development, Eanes shows how parents must grow alongside their children, and how this parallel journey helps young people reach their full potential. This is a must-read book for all who care enough about their children to reflect deeply on themselves as parents.

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD, author of Tomorrows Change Makers

In this one-of-a-kind book, Rebecca Eanes goes beyond just discipline to look at the big picture of parenting. If youre longing for more in your parenting journeymore joy, more peace, more cooperationI recommend Positive Parenting!

Jessica Alexander, coauthor of The Danish Way of Parenting

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Eanes, Rebecca, author.

Title: Positive parenting : an essential guide / Rebecca Eanes.

Description: New York : TarcherPerigee, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009096 (print) | LCCN 2016015873 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143109228 (paperback) | ISBN 9781101992203 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Parenting. | Parent and child. | BISAC: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood. | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers. | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General.

Classification: LCC HQ755.8 .E176 2016 (print) | LCC HQ755.8 (ebook) | DDC 649/.1dc23

First edition: June 2016

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This book is dedicated to my sons, who led me to a gentler path. Thank you for loving me unconditionally while I figure out how to be your mother. You are amazing people, and I am honored to share in lifes journey with you. And to Eric, Im forever grateful that we are family. You are my happy place. I love you all to the moon and back.