Reading the new book Listen: Five Simple Tools To Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges
is a little like visiting an amazingly caring, honest, and helpful parents' group. Hearing the stories of other parents, readers will feel less alone with their parenting struggles. Parents will also feel deeply understood by authors Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore, who know parenting and families inside and out. They are down-to-earth and funny, like when they comment that when our children have big upsets, it’s like they are taking “emotional poops.” But Wipfler and Shore also take very seriously the lack of support that exists for all families and the strains that poverty, racism and other oppressions put on parents.
Posts tagged #Catherine Fischer
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Strategies for the Emotional Challenges of Parenting — Helping Children Adjust to a New Sibling
By Catherine Fischer
Having siblings is wonderful and a special relationship like no other. Of course parents want to support close and caring relationships between our children. You can see from the excitement and adoration many children show when a new child arrives, that great love and closeness are possible and natural.
Where The Rubber Meets the Road: Strategies for the Emotional Challenges of Parenting — Three Reasons Why Parenting Is Harder Than We Thought It Would Be
By Catherine Fischer
Most of us arrive at parenthood with little idea of what to expect, and we begin the most important job of our lives without much accurate information about how to do it well. If we are lucky, we will have some intuition that guides us, but it’s hard to trust ourselves in a haze of exhaustion and worry, and surrounded by a storm of conflicting advice.
Where The Rubber Meets the Road: Strategies For The Emotional Challenges of Parenting — 4 Playful Tools to Reduce Sibling Rivalry
By Catherine Fischer
Games which bring siblings together as a team to defeat their parents (all in good fun) are good for sibling relationships! You play the role of the less smart and capable, less powerful one, the one the kids can laugh at together and team up against.
Where The Rubber Meets the Road: Strategies For The Emotional Challenges of Parenting — Three Things Children Need Us to Know When They Hit or Bite
By Catherine Fischer
After young children pass through the stage of hitting experimentally, which is a stage that passes early on, if they show aggressive behavior, they need your help.
