A Guide to Respectful Parenting

Elevating Child Care

Janet Lansbury is a parenting teacher and consultant whose blog is read by millions annually. Her podcast, Janet Lansbury Unruffled, is one of the all-time most downloaded parenting podcasts, and her supporters include big names such as James Clear, Tina Payne Bryson and Susan David. Trained by parenting pioneer Magda Gerber in her Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) philosophy, Lansbury has more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience working with parents and their infants and toddlers. The author of bestselling parenting books No Bad Kids and Elevating Child Care, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and has three grown-up children.

A modern parenting classic by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids. 
 
In this straightforward and practical book, trusted parenting teacher Janet Lansbury helps you look at the world through the eyes of small children and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating opportunities to learn, discover and connect with our child. 
 
Elevating Child Care focuses on common infant issues, including how to calm your clingy, fearful child, how to build your child’s focus and attention span, developing routines that promote restful sleep and nourishing your baby’s healthy eating habits. Eschewing the ‘quick-fix’ approach of popular parenting culture, Lansbury's gentle, insightful guidance lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent–child relationship, and is an essential guide to raising children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.

Radically Fulfilling, Less Anxious Parenting

Baby Person

From trusted infant and childcare expert Janet Lansbury comes an empowering method for raising confident, independent and resilient children – not by parents doing more, but less. 
 
Janet Lansbury’s philosophy is simple: a baby is to be respected and trusted, not constantly managed, fussed over, or taught. In Janet Lansbury's wise and eminently helpful hands, however, this is more than a philosophy – she makes it actionable. At the heart of her method is her compelling ‘baby whisperer’ approach: how to truly understand your baby and have the confidence to support their development, not control it. 
 
Drawing on Lansbury's more than twenty-five years working with families and being a parent herself, Baby Person will help parents deal confidently with the pressure points they face every day – from getting a child to sleep or eat to setting boundaries and from reacting to tantrums to potty training. A guide sure to be cherished by readers everywhere, it will reframe the way a whole generation relates to the little people in their lives, helping them become the calm and emotionally present caregivers they want to be – now, and beyond the tender first few years.

Janet Lansbury

Toddler Discipline Without Shame

A bestselling modern classic on the gentle art of discipline for toddlers by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of Elevating Child Care 
 
No Bad Kids presents Janet Lansbury’s signature approach to discipline, which she sees as a parent's act of compassion and love for a child. Full of wisdom and encouragement, it covers all your common toddler concerns, such as why toddlers need clear boundaries (and how to set them without shouting), advice for parenting a strong-willed child, how to be a gentle leader, and Lansbury’s secret for staying calm. 
 
For parents anticipating or experiencing those critical years when toddlers are developmentally obliged to test the limits of our patience and love, No Bad Kids is a practical, indispensable resource for putting respectful discipline into action.

Janet Lansbury

Books by Janet Lansbury

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