Laura Markham - Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using Mindfulness and Connection to Raise Resilient, Joyful Children and Rediscover Your Love of Parenting

Praise for Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook

Dr. Laura Markhams book is an extremely useful guide for parents in connecting with their childrens emotions. It is highly gratifying to finally see a research-based guide for parents. Every parent will want a copy of this book.

-John Gottman, PhD
Author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook teaches parents to manage their own emotions, connect more deeply with their children, and guide kids with respectful, attuned limit-setting. As always, Laura Markhams encouraging tone, realistic scenarios, and step-by-step instructions make her research-based advice immediately accessible to busy parents, brilliantly coaching them to create the strong, healthy child-parent relationship that every mother and father seeks.

-Tina Payne Bryson, Co-author of The Whole-Brain Child,
No-Drama Discipline, and The Yes Brain

The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is more than an excellent resource; it offers a well-researched, clearly written, step-by-step process that will completely transform your parenting. In a carefully guided format, richly packed from first page to last, Dr. Laura Markham teaches the practical and powerful tools that help you skillfully regulate the emotional climate in your family. This is the must-read road map youve been looking for.

-Linda Graham, Author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being

Dr. Laura Markham teaches parents how to use the daily challenges of living with children as an opportunity for their own growth. The result is more mindful, peaceful parents, who can help their children grow into happy, responsible people. Clear, compelling and essential for every parent.

-Dr. Shefali Tsabary, NYTs bestselling author of The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family

Dr. Laura Markhams Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is full of enlightening exercises and worksheets for parents to practice how to regulate their own emotions, and build a lifelong foundation to connect and engage with their children. Mindfulness exercises bring evidence-based and user-friendly ways to integrate mindful awareness into parenting, increasing resiliency for both parent and child.

-Mona Delahooke, PhD
Author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention

I will return to Dr. Laura Markhams Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook again and again. I will return to it for inspiration, guidance, and practical how-to personal reflection. Most importantly, I will revisit her words out of love for my son. For I want him to benefit from the most honest, warm hearted, and peaceful energy I can bring to mothering. When friends, family, or colleagues ask me about my parenting philosophy, I always direct them to the work of Dr. Laura Markham.

-Amy Wright Glenn, Author of Birth, Breath, and Death and Holding Space

Dr. Laura Markham taps into fascinating brain science, meditation and mindfulness practices to help parents heal themselves and be more peaceful. With the exercises, practices and reflections in this book, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook provides wonderful support to parents. Dr. Markham inspires parents to believe that they can grow into the best version of themselves.

-Melissa Hood, Author of Real Parenting for Real Kids

I am so grateful Dr. Laura Markham has written this workbook. I believe most parents find it difficult to remember helpful guidelines and put them into practice in everyday life when we are angry or impatient with our children. This workbook walks parents through a progression of worksheets and exercises that help incorporate Dr. Markhams ideas about connection into everyday life in practical, hands-on ways. This workbook will change your relationship with your child for the better; will help you engage with your child from a place of love and mindfulness every day.

-Jesmyn Ward, Author of Sing Unburied Sing, winner National Book Award 2017

Laura Markham integrates mindfulness practices and spiritual wisdom with the latest research findings to give parents a toolbox for transformation. Her love for parents and children shines through this book.

-Susan Stiffelman, Author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence

The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is like a Swiss Army Knife for parents, with scripts, activities, worksheets and practical tips that parents will find effective, inspiring and fun. Dr. Laura Markhams tone is empowering, and her positive parenting approach works. Every parent will benefit from this book, and the real winners will be their children.

-Amy McCready, Author of The Me, Me, Me Epidemic

Laura Markhams approach is down-to-earth, filled with respect and compassion for children and parents, and most of all, its effective. Many parents who have benefited from Lauras writings have told me that they wish they could have her move in with them for a while and provide on-the-spot advice. This workbook is the next best thing! You will rekindle that spark of connection and joy with your children.

-Dr. Lawrence Cohen, Author of Playful Parenting and The Opposite of Worry

Dr. Markhams book is like a friend, ready to offer support and encouragement when you need it the most. She clearly demonstrates how to replace power struggles with cooperation and a sense of calm. Based on the latest brain and mindfulness research, The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is filled with hope and detailed exercises for understanding and managing your own emotions as well as those of your children. You will discover the secrets to staying emotionally connected and working together, even during the most difficult times.

-Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, EdD, Author of Raising Your Spirited Child, Kids, Parents and Power Struggles and Sleepless in America

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook

Copyright 2018 by Dr. Laura Markham

Published by

PESI Publishing & Media

PESI, Inc

3839 White Ave

Eau Claire, WI 54703

Cover: Amy Rubenzer

Editing: Hazel Bird

Layout: Amy Rubenzer & Bookmasters

ISBN: 9781683731153

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Markham, Laura, author.

Title: Peaceful parent, happy kids workbook: using mindfulness and

connection to raise resilient, joyful children and rediscover your love of

parenting / by Dr. Laura Markham.

Description: Eau Claire: PESI Publishing & Media, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000064 | ISBN 9781683731153
Subjects: LCSH: Parenting. | Parent and child.

Classification: LCC HQ769.M286 2018 | DDC 306.874--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000064

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Marianne Williamson, bestselling author

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