The Parenting Backpack: Strategies and Tools to Help You Parent With Confidence
If you want to raise children who are confident, secure, responsible, and able to navigate the challenges of today’s world, you’ll want to master the parenting tools presented in The Parenting Backpack.
During her years of working with families while raising one of her own, Susie Garlick has identified surefire strategies that bring order and logic to parenting. Drawing on research and personal experience, she brings a common-sense approach that enables parents to gain confidence in their parenting skills.
The Parenting Backpack will help you
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Identify your own parenting style
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Gain insight into the ways parental reaction affects children’s behavior
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Ease daily tensions and deliver guidance in a nurturing way
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Connect with your child while setting clear and consistent limits
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Bypass power struggles and build trust
If you are ready to fill your backpack with the tools you need to parent with confidence, while giving your children the tools they need to be confident, secure, and responsible, The Parenting Backpack is for you.
The Parenting Backpack
Mom's Choice Awards
Gold Award Winner
Praise for The Parenting Backpack
“Her personal anecdotes give readers an array of real-world examples of the challenges they’ll face as well as some practical approaches to those challenges … A cleareyed, compassionate blueprint for parents of all styles to improve their game … Garlick covers all this and much more in fast-paced, clearly written, and well-illustrated chapters.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Garlick guides readers through this idea with compelling stories from her personal and professional experience as a mental health counselor, questions for contemplation and self-investigation, and reports on established research … Encouraging, pragmatic, and always clear and honest, The Parenting Backpack should lighten parents’ load.”
—BookLife Reviews
“The Parenting Backpack provides a masterful blueprint for managing our own reactions as moms and dads. By doing so, we can help our children feel less fearful and more powerful about going forth, exploring the world, and solving their own problems in life. This book is a must-have resource for every parent!”
—LAURA T.COFFEY, Senior Writer, Editor and Producer for the website of NBC’s TODAY Show and Editor of theTODAY Parenting Team community
“In my counseling practice, I work with many parents who jokingly ask for the “parenting handbook” when they feel unsuccessful in managing the challenges of raising children. Susie has given us a resource that feels like a step-by-step guide, with the added charm of personal and professional anecdotes to illustrate her well-informed advice. This is a book I highly recommend for all parents.
—LESLEY ISAAK, LPC
“All I could think about while reading The Parenting Backpack was, who else needs to read this? EVERYBODY! With a clear writing style that breaks down complicated theories, Garlick uses personal examples to build a connection with readers who feel vulnerable. She normalizes every parent's struggle. It's a good refresher for seasoned professionals, a must read for new therapists and interns, and definitely a book for all parents.”
—SAMANTHA WHITE, LPC, RPT
“The Parenting Backpack is a perfect blend of research, personal stories, and practical tips. Garlick’s book is full of strategies to help parents, at any stage, proactively raise their children with more confidence. No matter what stage of parenthood you are in, The Parenting Backpack offers you simple ideas to better lead your son or daughter toward adulthood with more purpose.”
—AMY CARNEY, author of Parent on Purpose and 100 Questions for Mom
The Parenting Backpack provides direct and concrete direction for the complex and overwhelming struggles of parenting. So often parents become fixated on finding strategies to improve or fix potentially problematic behavior. Susie’s book provides a more meaningful approach that allows the reader to investigate how their own internal experience and emotion management can contribute to the “problems,” or more ideally, be a function in resolving them. This book provides an opportunity for parents to learn ways to connect more deeply, not just with their children, but to their own selves, and develop healthier and more effective family dynamics, overall.
—KRISTIN DAY-HARDWIG, Psy.D., Psychologist
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DiddleDots: Tips to Ease the Craziness of Parenting
Once a first-grade teacher to 25+ children, Susie could not understand how being the mom to her three young children could be so challenging. Susie soon realized that she could use her teaching techniques to manage her small classroom of three. With time, practice, and love she created an environment that, while still a little crazy, was much more manageable. The lessons she learned inspired DiddleDots.
DiddleDots is filled with 100 tips to ease the craziness of parenting. Raising children today is challenging; instant gratification, high expectations, and technology overload can all feel overwhelming. These Dots will give you tools to begin thinking about how you parent and how you want to parent. Learn to organize your home, teach your children what you expect, understand your children and their feelings and instill your values. Click below to buy DiddleDots today.
