10 Best Parenting Books For Strong Willed Toddlers
Updated on: September 2023
Best Parenting Books For Strong Willed Toddlers in 2023
The New Strong-Willed Child
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds, Third Edition
Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing CLEAR, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Raising the Challenging Child: How to Minimize Meltdowns, Reduce Conflict, and Increase Cooperation
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
Explosive Child, The: A New Approach For Understanding And Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Toddler Discipline for Every Age and Stage: Effective Strategies to Tame Tantrums, Overcome Challenges, and Help Your Child Grow
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old
Quantity Versus Quality Time: Parenting Advice
Sometimes when the working parent is ready for togetherness with the child, the child is sleepy, wants to be alone, or is involved in some other project.
"Quality time" has been a popular concept to comfort parents into thinking that they can make up for hours of separation by a few intense hours together. But sometimes when the working parent is ready for togetherness with the child, the child is sleepy, wants to be alone, or is involved in some other project. A working parent must make the most of those moments of togetherness with spouse and child. This does not mean that a working parent should smother the child with constant attention. Children still need time to be alone, to play on their own, to figure things out for themselves. It does mean that aside from important quality times, the family needs to grab quantities of other time (for going shopping, preparing supper, cleaning the house, washing the car) to enjoy one another. We give these gifts to our children through the expenditure of our abilities and our time. We need the ability to show a child how to live adventurously; we need the ability to help, to listen, to laugh, to change, to teach, to entertain, to love, to encourage. And, where our own abilities fall short, we must either acquire the ability ourselves or call on others to help.
Some researchers are coming out with sad statistics on children of working parents. They say that these children are less confident, get poorer grades, get into more trouble, and so forth. But let's not be intimidated by such research. It makes good news to come up with a scary report, but your child doesn't have to be a part of it.
A working parent can't expect to be on hand for all the highlights of childhood. A parent may miss the first smile, the first word, the first step, the funny saying, the sad story told, the triumph of learning something new. These may not come during a brief "quality time" session. So, along with the quality times, we need the quantity times, too. We have two gifts to give our children: One is roots, the other is wings. We must see that our sons and daughters are rooted in knowledge, integrity, and love. And we also want them to take wings and fly on their own because they have learned self-government and self-esteem.
Our time to accomplish all this must be both quality and quantity time. So, in our busy week, we have to balance career time with family time. We have to make time to come together for learning and loving. And parents should remember that it is impossible to meet a child's ultimate need for self-knowledge and self-sufficiency without occasionally making the child unhappy. A child can't always know what is right for him to have and good for him to do. Your child's confidence in you must be continually growing so that he can accept your correction and guidance.
