Your Journey to Successful Parenting

Do parenting misadventures have you frustrated, dazed, and ready to explode? Learn to turn bad behavior at any age into chances for growth and connection.

Are your child's endless antics becoming impossible to reign in? Do problem attitudes and actions rule your home? Have you tried a multitude of methods that never seem to work? With over thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist specializing in children and families, Alexandra J. Rogers, Ph.D. has helped hundreds of families through therapy, school-based interventions, and neuropsychological testing. Now she's here to share straightforward solutions to promote mental health wellness for you and your child.

Your Journey to Successful Parenting is an engaging and easy-to-navigate guidebook with tips and techniques that offer answers for any kid-shaped dilemma. Bursting with insight into misbehavior, effective interventions, and a thorough index of issues affecting youngsters ages 2-11, Rogers' loving advice and logic-based approaches improve communication and relationships.

Learn to:

• Extinguish unwanted behaviors and mold beneficial habits from toddlers to preteens
• Use conversation, storytelling, and limit setting to change unwanted behavior
• Use behavior charts effectively to gain cooperation
• Foster listening and restore peace in your home
• Identify mental health conditions that may affect your children
• Use the magic of attention
• Teach children relaxation techniques
• Teach thought stopping and thought replacement to manage emotions
• Work with your children to keep them away from bad influences
• Fix disruptive patterns and habits
• Avoid power struggles with your children
• Increase children's self-awareness
• Teach children feeling words to help them express themselves

Your Journey to Successful Parenting is a must-have resource to repair relationships and better the lives of families. You'll love Dr. Rogers' keys to joy if you like thoughtful messages, easy-to-look-up information organized by need, and expert perspectives.

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Reviewed by BookLife, the independent publishing division of Publishers Weekly

Rated Editor's Pick

Packed with practical advice, clear examples, and hard-won insight for parents and caregivers of younger children, this handbook from psychologist Rogers, the first in a series, focuses on understanding, handling, and improving communication and behavior. "Can you think of any unpleasant patterns of interaction with your child? If so, you can plan how to change them," Rogers writes early on, getting right to the point and making a persuasive case for the power of caring interventions and the establishment of new routines and habits. In brisk, inviting chapters, Rogers offers direct and plainspoken guidance tied to a host of scenarios: helping a child who has fallen into "learned helplessness"; handling familiar battles about homework, screen time, bedtime, and morning routines; and teaching kids about feelings to ensure clearer communication.

In all these cases and more, Rogers provides actionable steps and easy-to-follow examples to help parents and caregivers recognize the triggers behind certain behaviors (like food refusal or tantrums) and make positive interventions. Rogers explains that as young kids are still learning how to express their feelings and verbalize their emotions, an explicable reason lies at the root of most behaviors, such as a desire for attention or learning cues from their parents. Highlighting the importance of listening to children when they talk and not treating them as "pets" to be called or reprimanded, Rogers demonstrates that parents must lead by example, especially when it comes to attempting to "break up long-standing, infuriating patterns" before they become entrenched.

Advice on pressing subjects like how to avoid power struggles and raise self-aware, communicative children is fresh and immediately applicable. Throughout this well-organized guide, Rogers writes with brisk efficiency, quickly defining concepts and then moving right into what readers will want to learn about: handling challenging behaviors in both common and uncommon situations, and building healthy and open relationships with their elementary-aged children. While compact, this guide is admirably thorough, pragmatic, and informative, sharing a wealth of Rogers's own tried-and-tested techniques.

Highly recommended.

Dr. Rogers is a seasoned clinical psychologist from California. Throughout her thirty-year career, she has worked with children and families. She began her career as a psychological assistant, doing psychological, educational, and neuropsychological testing. Soon, she branched into individual and group therapy, parenting groups, and implementing school-based interventions.Later in her career, she advocated for the autism community through the Grandparent Autism Network. Dr. Rogers co-led a monthly drop-in support group for children, parents, and adults on the autism spectrum. During the span of her career, Dr. Rogers gave presentations on topics of suicide prevention, relaxation techniques, parenting autistic children, and police training on handling mentally ill and autistic individuals.She served as the newsletter editor, webmaster, and president of the Orange County Psychological Association. Now retired, Dr. Rogers focuses on authoring books and articles about mental health, offering her expertise to a broader audience through Medium.com and her website. She is passionate about helping parents understand what drives their children's actions, arming them with time-tested methods to manage difficult situations, and making mental health and family harmony accessible to people who cannot access therapy when things go wrong.

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