Help Your Child Grow While You Stay Calm

This book is a must-have manual to help you parenting your 6-month to a 3-year old child. It is structured to help parents facing typical development passages like how to potty train, how to avoid tantrums in public, teeth growing, biting and so on. It also explains the development stage by stage. You can decide to read it based on your needs or all at once. The tips are easy to apply and the author provides a lot of examples from her own experience. You will learn about development stages and you will definitively understand why your child behave the way it does. It helps you stay calm and bring more empathy to the relationship while keeping the respectful authority alive.

This book helps you be the parent and the grandparent of 6-month to a 3-year old child. It is structured so that you learn about the pillars of parenting before you dive in the stages of development. You will learn how to be the mother, the father, and the grandparent. Each section is divided by development stages so that you know exactly what it is to be a mother of a 6-month old baby or 2-year old toddler. It is filled with tips and examples that color the text and inspire. Then you learn what it is to be a baby. You will learn about development stages divided by 3 months sections. It provides a clear view of what to expect by age and is clearly identified in the index. Each stage is explained and supported by theory. You will learn about the Piaget stages of development or how Witgostky explains learning. Throughout the book, you will find coaching points that address specific topics like a coach would do. It gives perspective and new insight. The last section is dedicated to ways to manage typical situations such as potty training, the anxiety of being separated, eating patterns, biting, quarrel between brother and sister... This book is thorough, easy to read and acts like a loving grandmother who shares all her parenting secrets.

Sara Bigwood is an author of parenting (Baby Coaching) and leadership books (The Expat Method, Mastering Personal and Organizational Change) in French and English. She is the mother of two young children. She loves to learn as much as she can to help them grow and be confident, autonomous and good listeners. She then shares her knowledge by writing about it. She is also a certified coach and a Belgian expat living in New York. She helps parents and organization build a better collaboration and support child or leadership development. She believes in the strong connection between parenting and leadership. Her vision is to grow the leaders of tomorrow by providing the right setting to develop thriving future leaders.