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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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Parenting: advice & issues

THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF PARENTING

Aliza Pressman

Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans

Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child's life while creating your own definition of success from development psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.

Great news: science says that getting it right about half the time is all you need to do to be the parent that your kid needs.

One hundred years of developmental psychology established what really matters in parenting. Contemporary neuroscience shows that we can retrain our reactions to situations. Now, Dr. Aliza Pressman, cofounding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center and host of the hit podcast Rasing Good Humans, has written the book on how to combine those fields and start cutting yourself some slack as a parent. This parenting book is for parents who are tired of extreme advice and the pressure to be perfect and want a playbook for raising independent, motivated, and well-adjusted kids.

The Five Principles of Parenting teaches you how to let the little stuff go, identify when to worry, and focus on the skills that actually impact raising kids who are responsible, motivated, healthy, and connected such as:
-Engaged observation using the BALANCE technique
-Setting and holding boundaries consistent with your family's values
-The ability to repair after a rupture
-Shared experiences of joy
-And more

Dr. Pressman's process gives strategies for the most common parenting challenges, meeting difficult moments in a way that is as relevant for six-year-olds as it is for sixteen-year-olds (because, spoiler alert: the tantrums of childhood are mirrors of the tantrums of adolescents and teens). With enormous compassion and just the right amount of snarky humor, Dr. Pressman provides the breath of fresh air you need to focus on what really matters when it comes to parenting.

Dr. Aliza Pressman is a developmental psychologist with over fifteen years of experience working with families. After cofounding SeedlingsGroup and the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she began the Raising Good Humans podcast to directly bring the latest child development research to parents. Dr. Aliza holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in risk, resilience, and prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teacher's College and her PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is cofounding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center.

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Book Published 2024-01-24 by Simon Element
Book Published 2024-01-24 by Simon Element

Comments

UK: Headline ; Romania: DVG

Comprehensive and filled with ideas that parents can quickly translate into action. A remarkable addition to collections.

...uplifting, practical parenting guide... shares big- picture principles and advice on how to apply them...

Here, at last, is the book parents have been waiting for! Dr. Aliza Pressman distills decades of developmental research into sound and practical guidance that addresses the real questions and concerns that all parents face. Brimming with warmth and wisdom and free from fads and fear, this book belongs in the hands of everyone who cares for or about children.

What Aliza does is come in and teach us how to individually handle how we raise children as well as ourselves. Her process is empowering and based not just on one person's opinion. It seems impossible for one human to know so much research and yet her hard work has paid off for all of us. She eschews judgment and helps us all quiet the inner voices of doubt and gets us all into problem solution mode. I simply don't know what I would do without her wisdom. She is my go-to for how we all, including ourselves, RAISE GOOD HUMANS!

...discerning... Her science-based suggestions are detailed and persuasive, and her tone is empathetic: "Doing the best we can more often than not" is "good enough." Overextended parents will appreciate the astute guidance.

This book is a gift to parents... relax, build your relationships, enjoy your parenting.

In a time where there is a lot of noise and advice about parenting and child development, Dr. Aliza Pressman is a rare find. She is at once a credible expert, practical, accessible, and beloved. Respected by colleagues and parents alike, her work is impactful and powerful, influencing how this generation of parents thinks about and cultivates their children's development.