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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

by Becky Kennedy

Connection and practical strategies for parenting

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    Instant #1 New York Times bestseller

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    Praise from Eve Rodsky

    Eve Rodsky praises the book as a wise, practical and supportive parenting resource.

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Connection and practical strategies for parenting

Becky Kennedy presents a parenting approach that puts connection with children ahead of correcting behavior, while still emphasizing a parent’s role as a steady leader. The guide pairs its broad principles with strategies for specific challenges, including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, and tantrums. It also addresses the uncertainty and self-blame caregivers can experience, alongside the effects of their own upbringing on how they parent. The book’s central concerns are children’s emotional needs and the development of skills such as self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents seeking practical approaches to everyday challenges such as tantrums, sibling rivalry, or separation anxiety.
  • Caregivers interested in connection-centered parenting and children’s emotional development.
  • Parents reflecting on how their own upbringing may shape their caregiving.

Themes

Connection-centered parentingChildren’s emotional needsParent self-reflectionSelf-regulation, confidence, and resilience

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Book overview

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An Instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise and practical guide to raising resilient, emotionally healthy kids, it's also a supportive resource for overwhelmed parents who need more compassion and less stress. Dr. Becky is the smart, thoughtful, in-the-trenches parenting expert we've been waiting for!"--Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space

Dr. Becky Kennedy, wildly popular parenting expert and creator of @drbeckyatgoodinside, shares her groundbreaking approach to raising kids and offers practical strategies for parenting in a way that feels good.

Over the past several years, Dr. Becky Kennedy--known to her followers as "Dr. Becky"--has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents, tired of following advice that either doesn't work or simply doesn't feel good, have embraced Dr. Becky's empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritizes connecting with our kids over correcting them.

Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn't work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. These techniques don't build the skills kids need for life, or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents' complicated relationships with their own upbringings, and it's easy to see why so many caretakers feel lost, burned out, and worried they're failing their kids. In Good Inside, Dr. Becky shares her parenting philosophy, complete with actionable strategies, that will help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership.

Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios--including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more--Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

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