Bøger af Daisy Turnbull

50 Questions to Ask Your Teensis a guide for parents and carers navigating the confusing and exciting world of adolescence. For anyone who wants to better connect with their teens and help them to be functioning, self-aware and kind adults, Daisy Turnbull offers a simple framework with clever questions to engage your teen and pre-teen from age 10 onwards. In50 Questions to Ask Your Teens, youll find questions that encourage your teen to master the practical as well as trickier topics, including friendships, consent, self-compassion, managing conflict, mental health, boundaries and media influences. Moving beyond the predictable milestones of childhood, this book addresses the nuanced social and emotional needs of teens that we often assume are being met elsewhere. Parents and carers will learn how to promote their teens awareness of the world, and encourage them to take responsibility and understand consequences and risks in a fast-changing world. Underpinned by research and informed by Daisys own experiences as a teacher of teens for more than a decade, a Lifeline counsellor, and a mother of two,50 Questions to Ask Your Teensis a warm, relatable book thats perfectly in tune with where teens are at right now, and the ideal starting place for parents to raise an adult they can hang out with.

50 Risks to Take With Your Kids is a guide for parents and carers to nurture resilience and independence in kids as they learn to take their own risks. For anyone who wants to combat helicopter parenting and a bubble-wrapped generation, Daisy Turnbull offers an easy-to-use framework with simple, practical challenges for children aged up to 10 years old. In 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids, youll find risks that build physical skills, social confidence and character development before kids enter those risky teenage years. Youll also find some all-important parenting risks that will encourage you to step outside your comfort zone and think a little differently about raising children. It may sound counterintuitive to say that the more opportunities you give children to test boundaries, the better they will ';adult', but it's true. The more they are allowed to play in the mud, create games and find their own solutions to problems, the more they will thrive later in life. Peppered with Daisy's own experiences in teaching, wellbeing and parenting, this warm and funny book is not about developmental KPIs, and its certainly not about judgement. Its about teaching kids to recognise and assess risks themselves, and readying them to take on life and all that it brings. And its about having fun and connecting as a family along the way.