Sarah Ockwell-Smith’s indispensable guide to more peaceful and enjoyable parenting.

Part self-help book, part parenting book, this guide is aimed at parents who know that they need to be calmer to raise well-adjusted, happy children, but who struggle with their own emotions and stress levels.

How to Be a Calm Parent includes twelve chapters, each with important takeaway messages and exercises for parents to practise, to make a real and tangible change in their parenting.

Topics the book will cover include:

• Understanding your triggers and making peace with your own childhood.
• Why it’s OK to be ‘good enough’ and why you should embrace your own failures.
• Guilt and why it gets in our way of better parenting.
• The mental load of parenting – why we need to understand the pressure and share it more.
• Why ‘busy’ is not a badge to aim for.
• Communicating with partners and wider family – why your adult relationships impact those with your child.
• Why all parents need a support network (and how to let them go if you find yourself in one that’s not for you).
• Balancing work and home life
• How to tackle life transitions with grace and ease.
• The four physiological corners of calmer parenting – eating well, sleeping well, moving well and resting well.
• Self-kindness – why the pressure of self-care can be so damaging and why we need a new approach.
• How to not throw your own tantrums and what to do if you do.

Find How to Be a Calm Parent at Amazon.