Raising the Best Possible Child: How to parent happy and successful kids from birth to seven

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In this book, Jo Jackson King assesses information from three main branches of current early child development science, in a bid to find the best advice for parents. She made some interesting discoveries: too much parenting guidance is based on out-of-date information so that parenting myths are perpetuated in our society; this affects all aspects of child-rearing: childcare, breastfeeding, leaving to cry, sleep, nutrition, discipline, physical and mental milestones, and education; the research agrees on one thing: to be happy and successful in life, a child needs to be able to manage stress, stay focused and navigate both their own and other people's emotions. King debunks long-standing parenting myths and gives parents the necessary skills to help their children make the most of their natural temperaments and endowments, so that they can confidently raise happy and emotionally savvy children.

Author Bio

Jo Jackson King is the author of the award-winning and best-selling Station at Austin Downs. An occupational therapist, she works with remote communities in the outback. A gifted writer with extensive rural women's networks, Jo is a School of the Air mother and veteran of late-night talkfests between women where the conversation veers away from school and land care and becomes about love. So when asked what angle she might take on a book about outback women she said: 'it is always love that keeps or pulls women into the outback towns and properties and those are the stories I want to tell'.