A fresh and practical guide to successfully managing children’s behaviour – from babies to young adults.A fresh and practical guide to successfully managing children’s behaviour – from babies to young adults.Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for 30 years, during this time fostering more than 150 children, as well as bringing up three of own. Many of these children have had severe behavioural difficulties and have come to Cathy as a last resort, when their parents or carers were no longer able to cope.Drawing on a combination of years of training and extensive personal experience, in this comprehensive guide, Cathy passes on her tried and tested methods for guiding, nurturing and disciplining children.Approaching child development chronologically, this book guides you through Cathy's incredibly simple and effective 3Rs technique: Request, Repeat and Reassure.Within this framework, Cathy addresses a host of childcare issues, including, amongst others, why children misbehave and what parents can do to the change this, how diet can affect children's behaviour, what parents can do to avoid sibling rivalry, and how to spot and address the behavioural symptoms of special needs such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD and bipolar.Applicable to all age groups – from newborn babies to young adults – Happy Kids is a clear and concise guide to raising confident, well-behaved and happy children.Cathy has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 70 children, of all ages and backgrounds. Cathy runs training courses on fostering for her local Social Services, and helps draft new fostering procedures and guidelines. She has three teenage children of her own; one of whom was adopted after a long-term foster placement. The name Cathy Glass is a pseudonym.• Cathy Glass has had huge success with her fostering memoirs. Her first book, Damaged, was a Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller in both hardback and paperback and sold over 42k copies in hardback and 294k copies in paperback.• Cathy has had tremendous success with the four memoirs that have followed since then as well and has built up a loyal fan base.• Down to earth and commercial, this book is written by a parent for parents.• It’s a practical guide that can be dipped in and out of, but Cathy’s distinctive narrative voice and references to personal experience also make it a warm and reassuring read.
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