Help your children to become happy, confident and self-reliant. Step-by-step solutions to common parenting and family challenges including whining, arguing, homework, tantrums and lack of cooperation. Build a stronger relationship with your children and maintain it as they grow. Take the blame out of your relationship if you have conflicting parenting styles. Tailored to children aged 1 to 18. Based on the latest research in child psychology and neuroscience. Through a series of easy-to-apply tools, insights from the perspective of parents and children, and real-life examples, Carole and Nadim Saad have helped thousands of parents with their parenting programme that equips parents with all the support they need to let go of the guilt and find better alternatives to time-outs, threats, rewards, yelling, giving-in and punishing.
Nadim is a parenting and relationship coach and the author of seven books including the highly acclaimed Kids Dont Come With a Manual, the Happy Confident Me Journal series and Raising Happy Confident Kids. He founded The Happy Confident Company (www.happyconfident.com), which mission is to help families and children thrive by developing their emotional intelligence and their confidence. Nadim worked with experienced psychotherapists and drew from the latest research in child psychology and neuroscience as well as his own experience as a father of three to develop a programme of highly effective tools to help families become happier and more harmonious. He is also a regular speaker on parenting themes for leading companies such as Barclays, HSBC, Google & JP Morgan, and he has been featured in leading media publications including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian and the BBC.
"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." --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 other 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." --myfamilyfever.co.uk