Practical – Practical, hopeful, inspiring, and compassionate, this is not a soft or fluffy parenting book. It is solidly based in the science of child brain development and recent advances in psychology but with a compassionate heart. This book does not seek to shame nor blame, but to give parents the tools to create a deep and abiding connection with their child in these all-important early years—an immediate value proposition for book buyers. It also delivers the deeper,...
In this easy-to-read, science-based book, parents, caregivers, and adults of all kinds discover how discipline affects children’s development, why intervention should reinforce connection not separation, and why the disciplinary strategies that may have been used on us as children are not the ones that children really need. As a practicing child and family psychologist and advisor to the British Columbia ministry of children and families, Dr. Vanessa has seen it all, and she has...
