Sampler: Parenting Tough Kids

Simple Proven Strategies for Success.
Ideas to improve behaviour, organisation, learning, friendship & emotion.

• What is on offer for your children at home?
• What is happening with you?
• What is happening in your family?
• What is the size and composition of your family?
• What is it like living in your family?
• What is really important?
• What will your role be in your child's success?
• Do you offer the basics to set your children up for success?

• Ideas to help the emergence of better behaviours
• Preventative ideas
• Responsive ideas: The "not so easy" art to managing behaviour when things go wrong
• Step by step: design a written plan to encourage new behaviours
• Try another approach - what about self-monitoring?
• The last word
• Reproducible pages

• The cost of disorganisation
• Building structures and routines
• Incorporating "PROMPTS" into routines
• Visual prompts
• Listening prompts
• Helping your child to manage time and task
• Should there be planned consequences for disorganisation?
• A practical close
• Reproducible pages

• Optimistic relationships count most
• Improving your child's contributions around the house
• Ideas to reshape early morning organisation
• Ideas to reshape after school moods
• Ideas to brighten after school moods
• Ideas to help with evening organisation
• Bedtime and going to sleep
• What matters most when tackling home trouble spots?
• Reproducible pages

• Creating friendships
• Ideas to help children build more satisfying relationships
• Simple ways to improve your child's social connections and well-being or is it Improving yourchild's social connections and well-being
• Bullying and how to deal with it

• Who wants homework?
• What are parents and teachers really saying about homework?
• The Homework Grid - is it an exciting new initiative?
• Developing a plan: structure, routines and expectations
• Homework basics: for students
• Homework basics: for parents
• Homework basics: for teachers
• Using the new homework approach: when it doesn't work
• Using the new homework approach: when it does work
• Rounding up
Reproducible pages

• What is emotional resilience?
• Tough problems and tough kids
• Helping children deal with feelings
• Encouraging independence
• You make the difference!