How to stop losing your sh*t with your kids A practical guide to becoming a calmer, happier parent
Book - 2019
"Drawing on evidence-based practices, here is an insight-packed and tip-filled plan for how to stop the parental meltdowns. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help readers feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it."--Amazon.
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- Published
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New York :
Workman Publishing
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 216 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN
- 9781523505425
- Introduction: It's Time to Stop Losing Your Shift
- The truth about parental shit loss
- It's not your fault
- You can get it together
- Chapter 1. Why Are You Losing Your Shit?
- Common features of parental freak-outs
- The downsides of exploding
- Why it's so hard to stop losing your shit
- A wee bit of brain science
- Chapter 2. How I Stopped Losing My Shit (Quite So Often)
- My shit-losing days in all their glory
- How I got it together again
- Chapter 3. Know Thy Shit: Owning Your Buttons and Triggers
- Your triggers are making you crazy
- How to know when you're triggered
- What's setting you off?
- Chapter 4. How Doing Less Will Help You Not Lose Your Shit
- Self-care for people who despise self-care
- Multitasking: Not as awesome as you'd like to think
- Your phone is making you lose your shit
- Chapter 5. Shit You Have to Do If You Don't Want to Lose Your Shit
- Sleep sleep sleep. You must sleep
- The village is not optional
- Cut yourself a whole lotta slack
- Chapter 6. Shit You Should Do If You Don't Want to Lose Your Shit
- Stop thinking
- Start moving
- Slow your roll
- Chapter 7. Get Some Space form Your Kids So You Don't Lose Your Shit with Them
- How to get away from your kids
- Even when you're with them
- Chapter 8. What You've Been Waiting For: How, Exctly, to Not Lose Your Shit
- Notice
- Pause
- Do Literally Anything Else
- Chapter 9. After the Shitstorm Has Passed
- Be kind
- Get curious
- Make nice with your kids
- Extra Stuff: Keep Your Shit Together
- A recap of key points and how to put it all into practice
- A ridiculously long list of potential triggers
- Some awesome parenting hooks that will also help you not lose your shit
