Learn how to be a parent who reacts with patience and kindness instead of anger and frustration and overcome the cycle of reactive parenting.

Pretty much every parent has been reactive at some point. Reactive parenting encompasses the negative behaviors that stem from frustration, like yelling, threatening, screaming, and over-rewarding or bribing. It’s difficult not to snap when you’re overworked, overtired, and faced with a child experiencing extremely high emotions. That’s where this book comes in.

Wherever you are in your parenting journey, there are ways to improve, connect, and find calm in the chaos. Instead of repeating the same patterns, feeling overwhelmed or uncertain of what to do next, today can be the day you let go of the guilt and shame around feeling like a “bad” parent or telling your child they’re being a “bad kid.” 

Break Free from Reactive Parenting offers up a new approach toward self-regulation and child expression, focusing on the family as a whole to create a calmer, more equitable home environment. From addressing the issues that cause and result from being reactive to implementing a more effective parenting approach, this book serves as your support system as you seek to bring meaningful change into your home. Within these pages you’ll find helpful advice and tools including: 

• Creating healthy morning and nighttime routines
• Dealing with anger and power struggles (yours and your child’s)
• Moving from mind-full to mindful
• Self-regulating for kids and adults
• Setting family goals and creating day-to-day balance
• And so much more!

1. KNOWLEDGEABLE AUTHOR WITH MEDIA CONNECTIONS: Laura Linn Knight is a parenting educator who has been featured in media outlets, including NBC’s Today Show, PureWow, Motherly, and more.

2. NEEDED RESOURCE: According to Statista, American parents believe that being a parent in 2021 is harder than it was 20 years ago. In the database company's survey, 69 percent of parents in the United States said that parenthood today was generally harder, 88 percent of respondents stated that it was more expensive, and 67 percent felt there was more pressure than before.

3. ENGAGED AUDIENCE: Gentle parenting groups on Facebook have upwards of 56,000 members. The hashtag #gentleparenting on TikTok has over 1 billion views.