The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is like a Swiss Army Knife for parents, with scripts, activities, worksheets and practical tips that parents will find effective, inspiring and fun. Dr. Laura Markham's tone is empowering, and her positive parenting approach works. Every parent will benefit from this book, and the real winners will be their children.

I will return to Dr. Laura Markham's Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook again and again. I will return to it for inspiration, guidance, and practical how-to personal reflection. Most importantly, I will revisit her words out of love for my son. For I want him to benefit from the most honest, warm hearted, and peaceful energy I can bring to mothering. When friends, family, or colleagues ask me about my parenting philosophy, I always direct them to the work of Dr. Laura Markham.

Laura Markham's approach is down-to-earth, filled with respect and compassion for children and parents, and most of all, it's effective. Many parents who have benefited from Laura's writings have told me that they wish they could have her move in with them for a while and provide on-the-spot advice. This workbook is the next best thing! You will rekindle that spark of connection and joy with your children.

Dr. Laura Markham teaches parents how to use the daily challenges of living with children as an opportunity for their own growth. The result is more mindful, peaceful parents, who can help their children grow into happy, responsible people. Clear, compelling and essential for every parent.

I am so grateful Dr. Laura Markham has written this workbook. I believe most parent find it difficult to remember helpful guidelines and put them into practice in everyday life when we are angry or impatient with our children. This workbook walks parents through a progression of worksheets and exercises that help incorporate Dr. Markham's ideas about connection into everyday life in practical, hands-on ways. This workbook will change your relationship with your child for the better; will help you engage with your child from a place of love and mindfulness every day.

Dr. Laura Markham's book is an extremely useful guide for parents in connecting with their children's emotions. It is highly gratifying to finally see a research-based guide for parents. Every parent will want a copy of this book.

The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is more than an excellent resource; it offers a well-researched, clearly written, step-by-step process that will completely transform your parenting. In a carefully guided format, richly packed from first page to last, Dr. Laura Markham teaches the practical and powerful tools that help you skillfully regulate the emotional climate in your family. This is the must-read road map you've been looking for.

Dr. Markham's book is like a friend, ready to offer support and encouragement when you need it the most. She clearly demonstrates how to replace power struggles with cooperation and a sense of calm. Based on the latest brain and mindfulness research, the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is filled with hope and detailed exercises for understanding and managing your own emotions as well as those of your children. You will discover the secrets to staying emotionally connected and working together, even during the most difficult times.

Dr. Laura Markham taps into fascinating brain science, meditation and mindfulness practices to help parents heal themselves and be more peaceful. With the exercises, practices and reflections in this book, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook provides wonderful support to parents. Dr. Markham inspires parents to believe that they can grow into the best version o themselves.

Dr. Laura Markham's Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook is full of enlightening exercises and worksheets for parents to practice how to regulate their own emotions, and build a lifelong foundation to connect and engage with their children. Mindfulness exercises bring evidence-based and user-friendly ways to integrate mindful awareness into parenting, increasing resiliency for both parent and child.

Laura Markham integrates mindfulness practices and spiritual wisdom with the latest research findings to give parents a toolbox for transformation. Her love for parents and children shines through this book.

The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook teaches parents to manage their own emotions, connect more deeply with their children, and guide kids with respectful, attuned limit-setting. As always, Laura Markham's encouraging tone, realistic scenarios, and step-by-step instructions make her research-based advice immediately accessible to busy parents, brilliantly coaching them to create the strong, healthy child-parent relationship that every mother and father seeks.

It contained strategies that I could implement straight away.I liked the thoughts around connectedness and self-regulation. Within a few pages I was already deepening my understanding of my daughter and developing new strategies to improve our relationship.

This book provided me with a clear idea and plan for how I can help change my behavior, in order to connect more with my daughter. It also gave me a different lens for "seeing" what her behaviors are really about. Loved the research, and how I can apply the strategies within my family. Clear changes I can make within myself, and actual language I can use with my children.

After reading this book, my little boy responds so much "better" (more positively) to my own "better" behaviour. He is also expressing himself more openly and more frequently.

If you are picking this book up because you are having difficulty, you will feel inspired and filled with hope. Loads of wonderful ideas. I like that after reading through this, I have concrete ideas and ideas ready to try--start out slowly--and begin to put in place. I feel inspired and supported!

Your kind and loving voice shines through the book and I felt so comforted and supported.

This book is so kindly written it's like someone is holding my hand guiding me through.

This book has helped me work through my reactions toward my husband as well as my daughter and has helped me appreciate the power of a pause and a deep breath to change the outcome of a situation. An important take away for me is so simple yet so important (and sadly can be forgotten on busy, stressful days) -- to delight in my child. Thinking on this has helped me take a step back and let my child be who she is.

I loved it all. I love the exercises and the general ease of the text. There's nothing too high brow in the text, so a layperson with no psychological training can understand it. It's practical, highly interesting, candid, confronting and yet, consoling!

The whole book is a treasure, Dr. Laura! I like that in the workbook you take more time and space on explaining everything that you only touched in the first Peaceful Parent Happy Kids book. Every time I read this book or remember the practices, I feel more open and calm and empathic and thus my children are suddenly behave much better. :-)

The writing is very engaging, and relatable. It makes me feel like this was written for me personally. I feel like some of the difficulties with my son will be resolved in me just regulating my own emotions. He explodes like I do.

I love the compassion that this book shows to parents. It's clear the author is a coach who is really helping us with techniques for parenting. I really liked how this book is written, format, and also how the text is simple and concrete, the author is knowledgeable but the language, techniques and exercises feel approachable... I loved the step by step techniques like stop drop and breathe. The concrete techniques, examples and exercises paired with text were perfect for me.

I felt so loved and hopeful reading this and I imagine that's how other parents will feel. Your love was reaching through the pages to my heart!

I actually forgot I was reading a parenting book. It really places the change on the parent to better assist the kids when chaos breaks loose. The book helped me realize Peaceful Parenting starts from within. I create the end of the beginning problem. If treat them as I want to be treated and speak calmly and connect with them before I correct it makes all the difference. This book opens your eyes to ones self. That is where it starts.

Recognizing my own triggers allowed me some wait time before responding, which was a good strategy to be reminded of. After a meltdown my 13 year old acknowledged feeling bad for overreacting. That was different!

Your manner is so gentle. It's like a good friend or kind family member speaking from a place of love and care, not criticism. It's one of your consistent strengths that this tone comes across in your writing even though I haven't met you. It feels authentic.

My kids can sometimes get a little over-tired and crazy in the lead up to bedtime, running around and laughing rather than doing what I've asked them to do. I have found that using your mantras like "They're acting kids because they're kids" or "Don't take it personally" helps me to stay calm.

Such a change! I have been reading the book and doing the worksheets and before the book my temper was starting to get shorter and shorter and I was recognizing it, but because of the crankiness in me I wasn't motivated to change it. Then I started reading and BOOM I'm calmer and making sense of my children's behaviors! So my son (2.5 years) has moments of upset and attitude like any toddler, well my daughter (5 months) got sick and I was up with her all night then the next day my son missed his nap and we were all worn down. It was bedtime and he was in full scream mode, didn't want daddy, mommy, cuddles, food, drink, Milkies, nothing! But I just said "This isn't an emergency; you are allowed to cry and tell me what's wrong," and just like that, I kept myself completely calmed the whole 30 min or more he was out of sorts! And this was an epic meltdown, I haven't seen him behave like that in a very long time. It felt so good to be level headed and in control while comforting my son!!! Man that feels nice. I actually felt like I knew what I was doing, and that my son was safe and just needed to vent.