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You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent: How to Practice Self-Compassion and Give Yourself a Break
You don't react calmly to every situation? That doesn't make you a sh*tty parent. You'd rather hide in the back of the closet than play dolls with your child (because you hate dolls)--nope, doesn't mean you're a sh*tty parent. The fact is, great parenting is not the same thing as perfect parenting. Great parenting starts with true self-compassion, the kind that means you don't judge yourself. Harnessing this self-compassion is the key to giving yourself a break and embracing your best qualities as a parent. There are four evidence-based elements of self-compassion--noticing, connection, curiosity, and compassion of course--and Naumburg gives tangible steps for how to use each to help parents reduce their anxiety, trust their instincts, move past the guilt and become a calmer, more confident parent. Which, in the end, benefits your child as much as you.
Book Details
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publish Date: Sep 27th, 2022
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.70in - 0.60in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9781523517114
- Categories: • Parenting - General• Personal Growth - Self-Esteem• Conflict Resolution
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Mayim Bialik is an actor and author.
If you ever feel like you're doing a bad job at parenting, read Carla Naumburg's new book ➡️ You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent: How to Practice Self-Compassion and Give Yourself a Break ❤️
Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science journalist and author.
Excited today to run this funny and extremely helpful interview with @CarlaGeorge22 about her excellent new book, YOU ARE NOT A SH*TTY PARENT, and why it's so important and helpful for parents to nurture self-compassion. Happy pub day, Carla!!! https://t.co/RDuzVnIpMJ
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Praise for this book
"Naumburg once again offers a parenting book that parents will actually want to read. Equal parts helpful and hilarious, this book instructs caregivers in the art of self-compassion, even under the hardest of circumstances... Naumburg's advice is invaluable and reassuring while--it can't be overstated--truly embracing the humor of it all. The rare parenting book that readers will want to pick up again and again."-- Booklist, starred review
"Kicking your own ass doesn't help you, and it definitely doesn't help your kids. Here's how to stop." --Dan Harris, author of the New York Times bestseller 10% Happier
"If you ever feel like you're bad at parenting, drop everything and read this book. It's a funny, smart, essential antidote to our fear-mongering, shame-inducing parenting culture." -- Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes.
You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent is the practical, funny, and loving friend you need to get through the real challenges of parenting. Carla completely understands how chaotic and hard parenting is--and how we doubt and question ourselves--because she's been there. Her take on the powerful medicine of self-compassion is to serve it with a loving spoonful of irreverent humor to help it land in our real lives. If you're frustrated, struggling, and sick of holier-than-thou parenting books, grab You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent and get the (very real) help it offers with a welcome dose of wit. -- Hunter Clarke-Fields, Author of Raising Good Humans
Carla Naumburg gets it. She understands how impossible it is to parent these days, and how we beat ourselves up for everything that goes wrong. Not only does Carla have your back, she speaks with a voice that is both reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny, offering ways to find more joy and sanity. If you are exhausted, stressed, depressed and at the end of your rope, grab this book. It is a life saver. -- Dr. Susan Pollak, co-founder, Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. Author, Self Compassion for Parents: Nurture your Child by Caring for Yourself.
"If you ever feel like you're bad at parenting, drop everything and read this book. It's a funny, smart, essential antidote to our fear-mongering, shame-inducing parenting culture." - Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes
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What people are saying
Mayim Bialik is an actor and author.
If you ever feel like you're doing a bad job at parenting, read Carla Naumburg's new book ➡️ You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent: How to Practice Self-Compassion and Give Yourself a Break ❤️
Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science journalist and author.
Excited today to run this funny and extremely helpful interview with @CarlaGeorge22 about her excellent new book, YOU ARE NOT A SH*TTY PARENT, and why it's so important and helpful for parents to nurture self-compassion. Happy pub day, Carla!!! https://t.co/RDuzVnIpMJ