Kids Don't Come With a Manual Series
'Kids Don't Come With a Manual is beautifully presented and really easy to read - a compendium of all the best advice from parenting research, based on the authors’ real-life experience. I love the Troubleshooting section at the back. It's the book I would've liked when I was a parent'
Sue Palmer - Former Headteacher and Author of Toxic Childhood
a brief summary
Would you like to:
- Help your children become happy, fulfilled and self-reliant adults;
- Deal with everyday parenting challenges without confrontation or anger;
- Maintain a strong and loving connection with your children throughout their lives;
- Agree with your partner on a balanced and more enjoyable approach to parenting?
Drawing on their experience in early childhood education, as Parenting Coaches, and as parents, Carole and Nadim Saad have helped thousands of parents with their programme of practical tools designed to empower parents by giving them more effective alternatives to nagging, yelling, threatening, rewarding punishing or giving in. Kids Don’t Come With a Manual offers simple and effective tools that every parent can use to make parenting more enjoyable and more fulfilling.
Praise for Kids Don’t Come With a Manual
“Kids Don’t Come With a Manual offers a fresh perspective that helps parents harmonise their conflicting parenting styles, rather than make them feel guilty for failing to fit into an ‘idealised’ parenting mould. The practical tools provided allow parents to do away with the good cop/bad cop roles and work better as a team.”
Oliver James – Clinical Psychologist and Author of They F*** You Up
“A wonderful piece of work. It reads well, it is easy to digest, and it contains useful and practical information for parents.”
Grendon Haines – School psychologist at Harrow school
“Very erudite and strong and one of the best and most pragmatic books on parenting and family life I have read in a long time. I think that the ‘Voice of the child’ and the practical strategies and solutions will be a boon to most parents.”
Stephen Adams-Langley – Senior Clinical Consultant at Place2be.org.uk”
“A wonderfully all-round emotionally intelligent book. I loved the format – the voice of the child vs Strict and All heart parent as it helps parents accept responsibility for how their behaviour plays out in their children.”
Tanith Carey – Award-winning journalist and author of Taming the Tiger Parent
‘How I finally stopped my children’s fights and tantrums – After veering wildly between ‘hippy liberal’ and ‘Victorian’ attitudes to parenting, Julia Llewellyn Smith calls in the experts. Nadim and Carole tackled their differences in parenting styles by studying reams of child-rearing research. The result was Kids Don’t Come with a Manual, a guide to parenting techniques that uses mainly soft philosophies (proven to be more successful in the long term), while ensuring our children don’t become entitled brats.’
The Telegraph
‘Top tips for a happy family life’
Sunday Express
‘There is no how-to guide for raising a child, so what do you do when you and your partner have very different ideas? Desperate to find a middle ground, Carole and Nadim turned to child psychology, neuroscience and education to find simple tools they could both use, to give a more balanced approach to parenting. Kids Don’t Come With a Manual helps parents going through the same struggles.’
Prima Baby and Pregnancy
‘I think this is genuinely one of the best parenting books I’ve read; it doesn’t focus on tactic related to gender or age, it provides clear strategies based on real life scenarios and is no condescending. The format works very well and its easy to quickly dip into and absorb. I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes one of those ‘classic’ parenting manuals for our generation.’
www.beingamummy.co.uk
‘It’s the first book focusing on children (rather than babies) that I’ve managed to read from cover to cover. More importantly, it’s one that I’ve been able to apply to my own daily battles with a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, with dare I say it and tempt fate? a degree of success. Kids Don t Come With a Manual has taught me new tricks for managing situations that would have previously resulted in me losing my cool and spiralling into the ugly vortex that is Parental Guilt.’
www.crumbsandpegs.com
‘Kids don t come with a manual has been really easy to dip in and out of. It’s laid out in a way that makes it easy to find help with the particular situation you are currently dealing with, and I found it a lot less patronising than some parenting manuals. It doesn’t say you should do things this way because let’s face it, no two children are the same. Instead it is packed with some helpful ideas and ways to understand the behaviours you are facing.’
www.myfamilyfever.co.uk
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