How to Be a Calm Parent

An indispensable guide to more peaceful and enjoyable parenting ''This isn''t a parenting advice book, it''s a book about you. The words you read in this book, however, will have a far greater impact on your children, than those contained in any parenting book you could read (and I count my own in that too).'' How many times have you asked yourself ''what''s wrong with me? Why can''t I stay calm?''. So many of us would love to follow a gentler, more positive style of parenting, but we don''t think we''re cut out for it, because we aren''t naturally calm. We feel that there is something wrong with us, that we''re not good enough. We believe we are failing our children by not controlling our own emotions adequately. What we don''t realise is that this describes almost every parent there ever was - and ever will be. In her trademark gentle, supportive and reassuring style, bestselling author Sarah Ockwell-Smith shows that while we all