Author:Gina Ford
Toddlers tantrums can be both embarrassing and stressful for parents. Gina Ford's Top Tips for Coping with Toddler Tantrums offers parents concise and effective advice on how to deal with this seemingly uncontrollable behaviour.
Gina's no-nonsense quick and easy parenting tips will help you to:
- understand why children have tantrums
- learn ways to prevent a tantrum when you see it coming
- calm a toddler in the middle of his tantrum
- learn how to stay calm yourself
This handy guide is full of practical, sensible advice to help parents, and toddlers, cope with tantrums.
For an astonishing number of mothers, she has proved a saviour
—— Daily TelegraphGina Ford is the Delia Smith of parenting ... while Delia tells you how to make the perfect omelette, Gina tells you how to nurture the perfectly happy baby
—— You magazineFor me she was an absolute godsend
—— Kate WinsletI agree with Oliver James. Caring for a baby or toddler is personal, because you have to tune in to the child's changing needs.
—— Sue Palmer , The TimesUnlike other books of this sort, How Not to F*** Them Up focuses on the wellbeing of the parent as a starting point for meeting the needs of the child... This is a man who wears his heart on his sleeve, and is not afraid to admit his own frailties. As a result his theories come across not as condescension, but as advice from one fucked-up-person to another.
—— Jake Wallis Simons , The Independent on Sunday... it is obvious that James is truly on the side of women and creating a society in which parenting and the issues it raises are shared between both partners.
—— Louise Carpenter , The Times MagazineHugely gripping... it certainly makes you think.
—— Angels and Urchins[Oliver James] does a great job of describing some of the problems in modern society and how the demands of the 21st century can affect a person's happiness... [he] uncovers the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. In other words, how to be successful and stay sane.
—— Ana Ivanovic, Tennis Professional , AmazonAdvice that focuses on training you - the parents - rather than your kids. A refreshing approach.
—— Easy LivingDeeply moving
—— Angus McBride , GuardianA searingly honest book
—— Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan , Daily ExpressExtremely honest and candid
—— Lorraine Kelly , Sun(A) testament to the ferocity of maternal love
—— Allison Pearson , Daily Telegraph