Positive Parenting in Action by Rebecca Eanes and Laura Ling
We are giving away 2 copies of this eBook!
(description from the author site:)
Are you tired of books that tell you want you should or shouldn’t do but don’t give you any alternatives?
We were, too! So we’ve written an eBook specifically to show you what positive parenting looks like in action! In this 69 page PDF eBook, we cover 15 behavior areas and walk you through 42 different scenarios! This book covers ages 0-6.
During the Carnival you can also get this wonderful eBook for the discounted price of $5.99 – that’s $4 off! Click here to purchase the book at the discounted rate.
Help Your Child Want to Behave
We are giving away 3 copies of this eBook!
(description from the author site:)
Would you like to try a more gentle form of discipline but you aren’t sure how? Parents who spank, yell, or use timeouts and “consequences” as threats are often disbelieving when they hear that there are families who never hit, never use timeouts, and rarely raise their voices to their children.
But you shouldn’t need to use these methods of discipline, and if you’re using them now, you’ll probably be quite relieved to hear that not only can you wean yourself away from them, but your children will be better behaved as a result.
In this 90 page workbook, you’ll develop your own plan to put positive discipline to work in your house.
In addition Dr. Laura Markham is offering 20% off all her eBooks and audio lessons! Use code CARNIVAL at checkout to receive your discount!
For My Children: A Mother’s Journal of Memories, Wishes and Wisdom
We are giving away 3 copies of this eBook!
(description from Amazon.com)
An easy-to-follow and heartfelt journal for moms to pass down their life story and joy of motherhood to their children
As a mother ages and sees her children go off into the world, she begins reflecting on her time as a mom and yearns to share memories with her kids. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this perfect gift contains creative prompts that spark Mom’s recollections of fun family vacations, favorite childhood games, and special holidays. The thought-provoking queries allow Mom to delve into her own lifetime of experiences — her childhood and school years, falling in love and getting married, and, most of all, having and raising children. This collection of fill-in-the-blank lists is the easiest way for a mother to record on paper answers to the questions her children never thought to ask but will love to discover.
Win a Print from our Featured Artist!
Print size is 8” x 10”and will have a white border around it for framing. Printed onto beautiful Canson textured paper 100% rag, using Claria archival inks. The print will be signed, sealed in a cellophane sleeve and packaged in a sturdy cardboard mailer for shipping.
© Ruth-Mary Smith at patchwork family art, please respect copyright.
Our Grand Prize is a bundled pack called the Parenting Gently Starter Pack!
Everything you need to get started with or enhance your gentle parenting library. This pack includes 3 books, a feeling card set, a Parenting Gently tote, and a Parenting Gently key chain. All together this is a $75 value! The prize is only available in the continental United States.
In addition you can get your own Parenting Gently bag and many more items at the Parenting Gently store! OR you can get your own Parenting Gently Starter Pack by emailing parentinggently+starterpack@gmail.com
The items in the bundle:
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
(description from Amazon.com)
30th Anniversary Edition
Updated with new insights from the next generation
You can stop fighting with your children! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children—and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Now, in this thirtieth-anniversary edition, these award-winning experts share their latest insights and suggestions based on feedback they’ve received over the years.
Their methods of communication—illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action—offer innovative ways to solve common problems. You’ll learn how to:
* Cope with your child’s negative feelings—frustration, disappointment, anger, etc.
* Express your anger without being hurtful
* Engage your child’s willing cooperation
* Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
* Use alternatives to punishment
* Resolve family conflicts peacefully
and
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
(description from Amazon.com)
The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings.
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understandingmuch gained from raising their own childrenFaber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword.
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
by Alfie Kohn
(description from Amazon.com)
Most parenting guides begin with the question “How can we get kids to do what they’re told?” and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking, “What do kids need — and how can we meet those needs?” What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them.
One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including “time-outs”), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That’s precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it’s not the message most parents intend to send.
More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from “doing to” to “working with” parenting — including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents.
Feelings Flash Cards
(description from Amazon.com)
Todd Parr makes understanding feelings fun with these 20 sturdy flash cards featuring 40 different emotions. Each card shows two opposite feelings, one on each side, rendered in words and lively pictures. Kids will learn what it means to feel silly and serious, calm and nervous, brave and scared, and more.
admin says:
What is your favorite product in the giveaway?
Nikki B says:
Help Your Child Want to Behave.
My 11 month old is already beginning to show many signs of defiance. Although my methods so far have proven somewhat effective, I would love to start off on the right foot.
kendra godfrey says:
The art work is beautiful, but I would love to read A Mother's Journal!
pyvsi says:
Is this where I comment for the rafflecopter entry?
It's hard to choose one item – I think every single book would be a great asset in my "new" journey into gentle parenting. I wish I could line all the books up on a shelf and run my finger across their bindings and immediately know everything inside.
But I think I would choose the feelings flashcards as my favorite. I think they would provide the most immediate benefit for my almost 2 year old daughter.
Anna B says:
I would honestly love any of them! Positive Parenting in Action, Help Your Child Want to Behave, and the Starter Pack would all be invaluable in my work. I'm thinking the workbook format of the second one would be especially awesome for parent coaching.
Amy says:
Feelings Flashcards! What a clever idea. I, myself, could use those.
Sarah says:
I'd love the Parenting Gently Starter Pack. What a great collection of books! Especially have been wanting to read How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen…
Sarah says:
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Laura Wood says:
I would love any of the positive parenting items, but I think the one I need the most is, Positive Parenting in Action.
Jennifer says:
So excited for the carnival to begin! I love the artwork and the story behind it!
admin says:
I know! It was so ironic (or serendipitous) that I contacted her and she had an infertility story! Small world!
Jennifer says:
I would love a copy of Positive Parenting in Action. But all the products look awesome!
Bess says:
There is so much we could use but I would probably start with the Positive Parenting in Action eBook first. We're really struggling with non-punitive parenting and could use all the help we can get!
Jeri Thurber says:
I would really love the Parenting Gently Starter Pack – a lot of good stuff in there! Especially want Unconditional Parenting.
Tat says:
I'd love the Parenting Gently starter pack, but the other prizes are amazing, too! I have a copy of Unconditional Parenting already, but if I win, I will gratefully give it away to one of my blog readers. Gotta spread the love
Mirka says:
I would like the Parenting Gently Starter Pack…if I win. But – I've already won the best and biggest prize of all in my life – my healthy, happy and awesome baby boy, that I do want to raise in gentle way, so if I don't get the books for free, I will gladly purchase them (used probably
Alisha says:
My favourite would be 'Positive Parenting in Action' e-book to get me started but I equally like 'Help Your Child Want to Behave' because ultimately that is what I hope for my 4 boys.
Caitlin says:
With my daughter being non-verbal I would love to win the grand prize. The flashcards would be a huge help in our house as communication is really difficult and both her and I get frustrated a lot. My son would benefit from them also because it would help him and his sister communicate better.
Jessica Jacobs says:
Parenting Gently Starter pack
Jennifer Stott says:
Mine would be the parent pack! Esp siblings without rivalry.
Lori says:
I would love the Mother Journal. I'm an older mom and by time my son is interested, I may not remember anything!
Jennifer Windhorst says:
All of the prizes sound awesome, but I'd like the started pack the best. I read better with book in hand.
mary says:
I would love the sibling without the riverly book!!
Maiesha M says:
This looks amazing! I would inhale these things!
Maiesha M says:
I would love the starter pack
Amy says:
I would love the starter pack. I've read a number of other books over the years, that have been very little help. Having kids that are 8, 3, and 2, i feel like i have hit a wall right now &I no approach works. I am exhausted, and we are all unhappy. I need help.
Stephanie says:
I have the Positive Parenting in Action ebook, and I love it!! It really helps to show so many scenarios! I would love to win the starter pack though. I still struggle with raising my voice a bit, but I'm no longer spanking. Thank y'all for so many great resources; it has really helped me change my parenting style completely and my son and I have a really deep connection now!
Angela says:
I really need the Help Your Child Want To Behave book. I have two rambunctious preschool-aged boys. I am a stay-at-home mom, and we're homeschooling. They are good…until they're around a child that misbehaves, and then they follow suit. The bad behavior takes weeks to reverse. When I ask them why they're misbehaving and acting like so-and-so, they say it's because they "want to." We have tried so many discipline books and tactics and have even asked our pediatrician. Their behavior is considered normal, but I really need help at reversing it and making them want to behave without bribery. Thank you!!
Shanon says:
I'd love any of the prizes! But definitely the Parenting Gently Starter Pack. I have an almost two year old and am due this summer with our second child… I really want to be a gentle, positive parent. What an amazing giveaway.
Spirit says:
Lovimg this so far. So helpful. Hope to win something's to help me and my son and husband continue on this path
Suzette says:
Gosh, I would be thrilled with any if these resources! My little guy is 31/2 and we are really struggling with his intense spiritedness. He is also being evaluated for speech delays and sensory processing disorder, so all of this coupled together has been a challenge, especially since I did not grow up with a patenting style I wish to replicate. thanks so much for this opportunity!
Julinda says:
I think Siblings Without Rivalry would be helpful to me! But they all sound great.
Catherine says:
I'd love the Help your Child Want to Behave book, but all of these are great.
Deb says:
How to Talk… would be my favorite. I've heard of this book before and have no doubt it would be useful. The flashcards too–my 5-year-old has big emotions and I think these would help him understand himself better.
Cynthia says:
I would love a copy of the mother's journal; what a sweet gift to pass on to your child.
marissa says:
I would like to have the Positive Parenting in Action. I'm sure it has info I could use! : )
Christie says:
Siblings without rivalry is much needed around these parts!
karien says:
Unconditional Parenting
Meaghan says:
All of these prizes are amazing. I would love to win any of them. I have had two of the books in the Starter Kit on my wishlist, so it would be a blessing to win those.
Jacinta says:
Would love to win the parenting gently starter pack
Amy says:
I would love to win any of these prizes but the Starter Pack would be amazing. I have been wanting to read these books for awhile now! Thanks so much!
Brenda King says:
I'd also love any of the prizes, but am keeping an eye on the starter pack
Missie says:
I would love to win the grand prize or a copy of one of the ebooks. I am truly at my wits end right. My son as been misdiagnosed for three years and mow we have a new counselor, who thinks he may have a mood disorder. I am at a lost on what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Kristin says:
I’d love Unconditional Parenting, but they’re all great!
Melanie L says:
I am so needing these with my 4 year old right now
Amanda says:
Are you guys reading minds today? So glad I saw this giveaway because I just found some great book titles, and would love the possibility to win some!
It's so hard to choose. The feeling flashcards would perfect for my son right now, the artwork is just beautiful and would be a reminder of our gentle parenting goal in our home, and a book would be so helpful… As I've come to find out with our second little guy, gently parenting one child is different from the next, so a book like positive Parenting in Action and Help your Children Want to Behave would be SO helpful.
Thank you, Parenting Gently, for being such a great resource for parents!
Tracy Burkett says:
I'd love Siblings without Rivalry as I'm trying to figure out how to nourish that relationship in our house!
Ryan says:
I would really like either of the e-books. I am new to the positive parenting and could really use some guidance/advice!
Jennifer says:
I want the parenting gently starter pack! I love the feelings cards
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Brandi says:
I love this blog, the page, and everything it's helped me do!
Brandi says:
I would LOVE to have any of the books or the feelings flash cards.
Dana says:
I'd love to win the Parenting Gently starter pack or any of the prizes!
Nicole says:
I would love to have the Unconditional Parenting book. I have heard awesome things about that book.