Vendor: Publishers Distribution LTD
Type: Books
Price: 29.90

How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down

Children are exhausting! In the marathon of modern parenting sometimes you need 10 precious minutes to rest your body and tune out the chaos. 

Enter Horizontal Parenting - The super simple parenting hack for everyone, everywhere.

Need a break...now? This book includes quick and clean instructions for 50 fun effective and hilarious games to play with toddlers and children while lying down. No batteries, screens or endless supply lists needed. 

TRY:

• What's on my butt?
• Hide and seek ish
• Railroad to relaxation
• Don't wake the giant

Relax and let your little ones release some energy while you catch your breath (and maybe even a few z's). All you need is a comfortable surface, a few household items and some imagination and you too can master the sanity-saving art of horizontal parenting.

Published: 14th October 2021

Pages: 112

About The Author

Michelle Woo is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She was the parenting editor at Lifehacker where she wrote essential articles on modern family life, including the widely read inspiration for this book, "How to Entertain Your Child While Lying Down." Her work has been featured by CNN, USA TODAY, and Jezebel . She is a mom to two young children, and is currently a senior platform editor at Medium .

Vendor: dorothy waide
Type: Books
Price: 39.90

The first three months may have passed by in a bit of a blur, but you made it. However, you probably don’t quite feel like you have achieved expert status . . . yet. Enter the original baby-whisperer-to-the-stars, Dorothy Waide.

Simply Parenting: From 12 Weeks to 12 Months picks up where Dorothy’s first book You Simply Can’t Spoil a Newborn left off, outlining all the parenting options from the end of the newborn stage until the beginning of toddlerhood, using matter-of-fact language to gently guide you to make the decisions that are right for you and your baby.

Whether you want to try the routine-based approach or if it suits you better to be more flexible — regardless of whether you are breast or bottle-feeding, co-sleeping or swaddling — this book outlines all the options clearly and without judgement. After all, there truly is no ‘one way fits all’, and no one is more of an expert on your baby than you.

Simply Parenting will help you to become your own baby’s whisperer.

‘How do I encourage my baby to sleep through the night?’
‘How do I teach my baby to self-settle?’
‘Everyone else seems to be coping with their baby, but my boy just cries all the time. What is wrong with him?’

If these questions sound familiar, then this is the book for you.

Vendor: Shirley Pastiroff
Type: Books
Price: 34.90

Is it even possible to be sane, calm and connected in the chaos of parenting? Yes!

Somewhere in our over-scheduled and frantic lives we’ve lost our intuition around how to bring up kids. Our children come with all they need to flourish to their full potential, and yet we’ve accessorised the parent-child relationship beyond recognition, creating a world of stress for parents and kids.

The Mindful Parent changes all that. It’s a timely and liberating journey back to the heart of what really matters — a deep and lasting relationship with our children. Its unique approach leads us to that deep connection by weaving together the latest in neuroscience, personal story and deceptively simple strategies that are so kind and effective it’s hard not to use them. Each chapter reexamines a different area of our parenting lives — our busyness and stress levels; our more difficult emotions; our challenging core beliefs; our essential connection with our children; our children’s tricky emotions; and the struggle of conflict-management. There is more un-learning than learning in this book. It will be read with a huge sigh of relief, a new sense of joy and a realisation that the expertise to parent well is already deep within each one of us.

Shirley Pastiroff is a counsellor, mindfulness trainer and parent coach. She has trained thousands of parents in the techniques described in this book, and now works across the education and commercial sectors as well as with individuals and families. Shirley is a former BBC documentary-maker and lives in Auckland with her husband and five children.

Team Pick

I attended Shirley's Mindful Parenting course a couple of years ago and it changed the parenting game for me. When Shirley released her book I just had to sell it at corporateescapade. Shirley's approach is relatable, peppered with examples of her own experience as a mum of five, readable, and it's based in science. It's about changing yourself, your thoughts and your neural pathways, to gently shift your relationship with your children. Filled with information, examples, diagrams, and exercises, I highly recommend this book.

- Anita

Vendor: Dorothy Waide
Type: Books
Price: 39.90