Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This! - Softcover

Latta, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869508653 ISBN 13: 9781869508654

Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS 360, 2013

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Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? Do your kids sometimes make you feel your head is going to explode? Ever yelled at them until you were hoarse? Do you have days when you feel like making a run for the airport? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that bad behaviour has inevitable consequences, this is the perfect book to help your family make it through the crucial first decade or so and still enjoy each other's company. Practical commonsense answers and real life examples, logical and realistic strategies, and innovative behaviour modification tools that work in the real world - all from a parent and family therapist who's seen almost everything there is to see and offers some hard-won battlefield wisdom. Written in down-to-earth language, this book needs to be handed out at birth, an essential guide for the struggling parent who knows family life can and should be better. Clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and father of two, Nigel Latta specializes in working with children with behavioural problems, from simple to severe. A regular media commentator and presenter, he has had three television series adapted from his books - BEYOND tHE DARKLANDS, tHE POLItICALLY INCORRECt PARENtING SHOW and tHE POLItICALLY INCORRECt GUIDE tO tEENAGERS (all of which screen in New Zealand and Australia) - and has had a regular parenting segment on National Radio.

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Nigel Latta is a respected senior clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and television presenter.

Latta has written eight books, published in 19 different countries, with translations into 15 different languages. Over the last fifteen years he's been a sought-after keynote speaker on the topic of resilience, engaged by brands, NGO's, the defence force, and government agencies. His work as a clinical psychologist spans over two decades and reflects a dual interest in both forensic psychology and working with young people and their families.

Latta was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, for services as a psychologist.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS 360
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1869508653
• ISBN 13: 9781869508654
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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