Confident Parents, Confident Kids

Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids--from Toddlers to Teenagers

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Pub Date 05 Nov 2019 | Archive Date 21 Nov 2019

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Description

Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents—and the kids they love—hone their emotional intelligence so that they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well with others (even when patience is thin), and become socially conscious and confident human beings.

How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions (aka emotional intelligence)—and helping our children do the same. Like learning to play a musical instrument, we can fine-tune our ability to skillfully react to those crazy, wonderful, big feelings that naturally arise from our child’s constant growth and changes, moving from chaos to harmony. We want our children to trust that they can conquer any challenge with hard work and persistence; that they can love boundlessly; that they will find their unique sense of purpose; and they will act wisely in a complex world. This book shows you how.
 
With author and educator Jennifer Miller as your supportive guide, you'll learn:  
  • the lies we’ve been told about emotions, how they shape our choices, and how we can reshape our parenting decisions in better alignment with our deepest values.
  • how to identify the temperaments your child was born with so you can support those tendencies rather than fight them.
  • how to align your biggest hopes and dreams for your kids with specific skills that can be practiced, along with new research to support those powerful connections.
  • about each age and stage your child goes through and the range of learning opportunities available.
  • how to identify and manage those big emotions (that only the parenting process can bring out in us!) and how to model emotional intelligence for your children.
  • how to deal with the emotions and influences of your choir—the many outside individuals and communities who directly impact your child’s life, including school, the digital world, extended family, neighbors, and friends.
Raising confident, centered, happy kids—while feeling the same way about yourself—is possible with Confident Parents, Confident Kids.
Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents—and the kids they love—hone their emotional intelligence so that they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well...

Marketing Plan

Key Selling Points: Learn the lies we’ve been told about emotions, how they shape our choices, and how we can reshape our parenting decisions in better alignment with our deepest values.   Learn how to identify the temperaments your child was born with so you can support those tendencies rather than fight them.  Raising confident, centered, happy kids—while feeling the same way about yourself—is possible

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Pre-publication: Long lead media outreach targeting parenting, women’s and lifestyle media Pre-order promotion on author’s social platforms Finished book mailing to top mommy bloggers and industry influencers

Trade: Submit for review in Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, Booklist and Foreword/Back cover Reviews Pitch for Publishers Weekly Call for Info: Parenting Titles

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Publicity/Media: Magazines: Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Parade, Women’s World, Health, Women’s Health, Shape, First for Women, redbook, Women & Health, Time, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Parents, Family Circle, Fit Pregnancy and Baby, Prevention, Everyday Health Online: all online editors for magazines above, Well+Good, MindBodyGreen, The Bump, Babble, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Café Mom, Feministing, Mommyish, WebMD TV and Radio: The Doctors, Dr. Oz, The Doctors Radio, NPR Health, Talk Healthy Today

Key Selling Points: Learn the lies we’ve been told about emotions, how they shape our choices, and how we can reshape our parenting decisions in better alignment with our deepest values. Learn how...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781592339044
PRICE $21.99 (USD)
PAGES 192

Average rating from 6 members


Featured Reviews

Confident Parents, Confident Kids is an excellent resource for helping raise our children with appropriate emotional responses to their environment. In a short, easy to read book, Jennifer Miller provides a breakdown of children’s emotional responses by age (birth-3, 4-7, 8-12, and 13-17) and how we as parents can help shape our own reactions to model behavior. It’s a helpful reminder that how adults respond to outside stimuli directly affects how kids will develop their own reactions.

Also helpful are lists of questions to foster discussions with your children and an appendix that includes family contracts—including one for limiting screen time.

Thank you to Quarto Books and NetGalley for providing this review copy.

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What I like most about this book is that the title delivers on its promise. I am a much more confident parent of a tween after having read this book. It seems as if one evening I was the mother of an easily satisfied young boy and the next morning I was the mother of a more complicated tween, testing the boundaries on everything, reforming beliefs and opinions and renegotiating relationships with himself and others. He’s a wonderful boy that I want to grow up into a confident and socially intelligent young man. I want to help him navigate his emotions and the complex social world in any way I can. I’ve implemented many of the suggestions in this book. I am grateful to Jennifer Miller for writing it.

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I thought this was a pretty good book on changing the parent/child dynamic. I loved the music analogies and liked the advice about letting go of who you *think* your kid should be and nurture them into the person they are becoming on their own . I think if more parents would heed this advice, we would have much happier children.

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I think you can safely assume, but the insane amount of notes I took while reading this book, that I loved it! For me, it will become my "parenting bible". I will refer to it every time I will encounter a problem with my kids. Jennifer Miller offers plenty of advice for any situation that you can have with your kids, from birth until their teens.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Informative book on how to raise confident children through confident parents. The author provides real examples and includes helpful methods you can use to help your child handle difficult situations and feelings. Very helpful.

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This book is written with a framework of comparisons to music. The book is split into three sections - first is about emotions, second is chapters on kids' ages and stages, and the third is focusing on the parent. There is a helpful appendix with good tools. Overall the book had some useful advice, but it is very focused on feelings as a way to build confidence.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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