Confident Parents, Confident Kids

Confident Parents, Confident Kids is an excellent resource for helping raise our children with appropriate emotional responses to their environment. In a short, easy to read book, Jennifer Miller provides a breakdown of children’s emotional responses by age (birth-3, 4-7, 8-12, and 13-17) and how we as parents can help shape our own reactions to model behavior. It’s a helpful reminder that how adults respond to outside stimuli directly affects how kids will develop their own reactions.

Also helpful are lists of questions to foster discussions with your children and an appendix that includes family contracts—including one for limiting screen time.

Thank you to Quarto Books and NetGalley for providing this review copy.

What I like most about this book is that the title delivers on its promise. I am a much more confident parent of a tween after having read this book. It seems as if one evening I was the mother of an easily satisfied young boy and the next morning I was the mother of a more complicated tween, testing the boundaries on everything, reforming beliefs and opinions and renegotiating relationships with himself and others. He’s a wonderful boy that I want to grow up into a confident and socially intelligent young man. I want to help him navigate his emotions and the complex social world in any way I can. I’ve implemented many of the suggestions in this book. I am grateful to Jennifer Miller for writing it.

I thought this was a pretty good book on changing the parent/child dynamic. I loved the music analogies and liked the advice about letting go of who you *think* your kid should be and nurture them into the person they are becoming on their own . I think if more parents would heed this advice, we would have much happier children.

I think you can safely assume, but the insane amount of notes I took while reading this book, that I loved it! For me, it will become my "parenting bible". I will refer to it every time I will encounter a problem with my kids. Jennifer Miller offers plenty of advice for any situation that you can have with your kids, from birth until their teens.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Informative book on how to raise confident children through confident parents. The author provides real examples and includes helpful methods you can use to help your child handle difficult situations and feelings. Very helpful.

This book is written with a framework of comparisons to music. The book is split into three sections - first is about emotions, second is chapters on kids' ages and stages, and the third is focusing on the parent. There is a helpful appendix with good tools. Overall the book had some useful advice, but it is very focused on feelings as a way to build confidence.
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