Between: A guide for parents of eight to thirteen-year-olds

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However, as they grow, they will often encounter difficulties in these new relationships – Chapter 4 looks at friendships in the tween years and what you can do as a parent when they don’t run smoothly.

And for those parents who have previously used a more authoritarian style of parenting, there’s plenty of advice – and reassurance – on making the transition to a gentler approach. Adults have been complaining about tweens and teens for cen – turies, and likely will do for many more to come. Family incomes and schedules are stretched to the breaking point by tutoring fees and athletic schedules. It answers all the questions that parents have about their baby, toddler and preschooler’s physical and psychological development.Lots of good reminders about the common sense things that work at these ages, and also served as wonderful inspiration to think about the tween years as super special, fun and amazing. You could argue that there is little difference between an older tween and a teen, aside from the label.

Later in the book, we will move on to hot topics surrounding the tween years and issues commonly raised by parents. Naughty is the tip of the iceberg, it is a wholly inadequate word to describe what the child is experiencing and it sets us on the wrong path of discipline. At each age The Gentle Eating Book will help parents to feed their child in a manner that will set up positive eating habits for life. What really blows my mind is that at that point she was also offering a sort of 'sleep consultancy', but was clear that it wouldn't involve any sleep training and that she wouldn't do anything that aimed at getting the baby to sleep through.The essential guide to choosing the best time to have a second baby, preparing for birth second time around and navigating all the practical and emotional challenges of the early days with two. Reassuring but also challenging views and top tips on subjects I was wondering how to tackle through the teenage years….

In Chapter 9, we focus on raising tweens who will advocate for others, and how to cultivate in them an empathy for the world around them and a willingness change the world that they live in for the better (rather than changing them to fit into our cur – rent world). As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher — in more ways than one. The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. It is true that once they are well settled at school, you often have a smooth ride parenting-wise for a couple of years, with the challenges of toddlerhood well behind you and those of the teen years far in the future.The first chapter of Between covers some neuroscience but it is quickly turned into language we can understand and ideas that are certainly already familiar to me and I finished this chapter with a much better knowledge of how tween brains are changing at this stage and how my expectations should too. Covering a range of ages from toddler to teen the book will help parents to understand how the minds of children work and what makes them tick at each stage, helping parents to adopt a style of managing their child’s behaviour that will see them through many years to come.

As much as every clown writing a parenting book wants you to believe otherwise, there is no magical one size fits all approach to parenting that makes everything perfect. As far as evidence goes, she cherry picks studies to choose her and draws conclusions that are wildly different to that the author has stated.Ultimately, it's not about shortcuts or magic words - as Shipp reminds us, it's about investing in kids and giving them the love, time, and support they need to thrive. I really tortured myself by reading her stuff while trying to decide whether or not to sleep train and it was so unhelpful, shaming and completely unevidenced. I can’t remember the first time it happened, or even what it was about, but I do remember the hurt I felt the first time my son shouted that he hated me, quickly followed by a declaration that he most certainly didn’t love me anymore. Finally, on the relationship front, Chapter 6 looks at romantic associations, consent and diversity in sexuality – subjects it’s never too early to discuss with your tween, yet which are often delayed and avoided by so many.