By Sarah Ockwell-Smith

ToddlerCalm turns mainstream parenting techniques on their head and offers a genuine alternative to raising your toddler.

Are you looking for ways to cope with your toddler without resorting to the naughty step or controlled crying? ToddlerCalm offers a gentle approach to parenting that will help you to enjoy your toddler, to understand the limitations of sticker charts and time out, to have the confidence to ignore the experts and to parent your own child with empathy and trust.

Sarah Ockwell-Smith shares the empowering strategies of her popular ToddlerCalm classes and workshops and deconstructs commonly held beliefs about toddler behavior.

Contents include:

• The science of toddler sleep
• Carrots and sticks - the problem with current popular parenting techniques
• Coping with a picky eater
• Communication - toddler style
• Avoiding difficult situations
• The importance of unconditional love
• Why you don't need to be permissive to parent respectfully

About the Author

Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four small children. She has a BS in psychology and worked for several years in pharmaceutical research and development before retraining as a pediatric homeopath, hypnobirthing antenatal teacher, and birth and postnatal doula. She has trained in baby massage, hypnotherapy, and psychotherapy. She founded BabyCalm™ in 2007. Ockwell-Smith resides in England.

Her other works:

• BabyCalm: A Guide for Calmer Babies and Happier Parents Book

Publisher: Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown
Pages: 272
Size: 23.0x15.4cm
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405528597
Publication date: 2013/10