The Parenting Handbook helps parents develop deep and connected relationships with their children. The authors, child psychologists and moms with an immense social media following, give parents practical tools and strategies backed by the latest research in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Parents will learn about how to foster optimal brain development in children, and how to translate that into actionable steps each and every day. This book is a roadmap to nurture resiliency, connection, emotional regulation, and well-being in children.
The authors explore:
* A child's emotional world and how their parents' responses to their emotions become a psychological map for the child and their ability to recognize, feel, and respond to life's storms.
* Attachment theory, which determines how a child understands himself, others, and the world, and how parents can nurture a secure attachment for the best outcomes in children.
* How parents can identify their own childhood scars and avoid passing them on to their children.
* Discipline, which should be used to teach, not to punish. Parents will get a toolbox of ideas to use in the tough times so that discipline will nurture resiliency and growth. Parents will get tools for the toddler up to age 7, and for older children and teens.
* How to nurture resiliency and grit.
* Play, a child's language, which children need to develop mastery and confidence, to explore psychological conflict.

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Tammy Schamuhn and Tania Johnson are registered psychologists, registered play therapists, co-founders of the Institute of Child Psychology, and most importantly, moms (with five children between them). They' re both internationally acclaimed speakers, and present global workshops on a variety of topics, such as childhood anxiety, trauma, depression, resiliency, and emotion regulation. Their workshops are packed with the latest research, tools, and strategies to foster positive mental health outcomes and resiliency in children. Tammy and Tania are the creators and hosts of the popular The Childpsych Podcast. They both maintain private practices in Alberta, Canada, where they live and are raising their families. Tammy was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta and worked as an elementary teacher before completing her Master' s degree in counseling in Oregon. She supervises Master' s-level counseling students, play therapists, and provisional psychologists and is a part-time faculty member at City University Seattle. Tammy also has a big place in her heart for animals; she founded the Child-Centered Animal-Assisted Therapy Association (www.ccaata.com) and, alongside her husband, runs her own animal-assisted therapy program called Hooves of Hope RanchTania was born in South Africa, where she received an Honours degree in psychology. She spent several years teaching in Taiwan before adventuring to places like Mount Everest base camp and the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. She then completed a one-year internship at Cancer Treatment Centres of America in Chicago, where her focus was on supporting patients in the stem cell unit. Tania then earned her Master' s degree in counseling from City University of Seattle. She and her husband were foster parents to four First Nations children for five years and have two bio children of their own. She currently supervises Master' s-level students and provisional psychologists. Tania works primarily from the perspective of attachment theory, which focuses on bonds between parents and children. Her gift, both in the therapy room and when writing, is to translate the latest research into concrete strategies that parents can implement in everyday life with their children.