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

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If you want your child to be calm and respectful, that’s how you have to act towards them,’ Ockwell-Smith explains. Chapter 8 delves deeper into body image and why the tween years are key to helping your child grow into an adult with good body acceptance – one who is more likely to escape the seemingly ever- growing pressures of the diet and cosmetics industries. uk: ‘Children have a right to grow up free from violence – without fear of being hit and hurt by those that are meant to care for and nurture them. The Company is not responsible for contacting or forwarding prizes to entrants who provide unclear or incomplete information or for entries lost, misdirected, delayed or destroyed.

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com) which is read by 3 million parents per year, and is the author of BabyCalm, ToddlerCalm, The Gentle Sleep Book, The Gentle Parenting Book, The Gentle Discipline Book, The Gentle Potty Training Book, The Gentle Eating Book, The Second Baby Book, The Starting School Book Between: A guide for parents of eight to thirteen-year-olds, How to Be a Calm Parent and Beginnings. It covers any type of physical punishment, including smacking, hitting, slapping and shaking children. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. For more advice on helping your tween navigate their way through life read Sarah’s brilliant new book Between: A guide for parents of eight to thirteen-year-olds.

New behaviours surface giving you the same worry and confusion you felt as a new parent all over again, only without the support that you had during the baby and toddler years. It feels right to leave you at the age when your child becomes a true teenager – the official end of the tween years.

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

Between also offers advice on coping with your own feelings as your child moves through this developmental period. While children often stop what they’re doing when they get a smack, it does not help children learn about self-control or appropriate behaviour,’ Kalini explains.Of course, the above tips have focused solely on helping your tween to cope with the transition to a new school, but it’s import- ant not to forget what a big experience it is for you, too. You may be feeling like all the parenting techniques you used when your kids were younger are no longer working and you're starting from scratch, which is where this book comes in. The prize draw is open to residents of the England, Scotland and Wales aged 18 or over except employees of the Company, their families, or anyone professionally connected to the prize draw either themselves or through their families.