Wild Child

Brushing teeth, tidying up, getting dressed – how parents can resolve conflicts in a gentle and loving manner.

Stay competent in parenting, scold less, and keep your cool. For parents with toddlers aged 1 to 5 years. Includes an easily understandable foundational section on needs-oriented parenting and attachment research. Many practical tips for typical conflict situations in everyday life.

Parents who live in an attachment-oriented way with their baby know: responding promptly to the child's needs benefits the bond. However, as the baby grows into a toddler, they increasingly confront parents with their desires for autonomy and boundaries, often testing their patience. How can conflicts be resolved lovingly and parenting be approached calmly? This book shows parents of toddlers how to handle tantrums, scold less, set boundaries, and strengthen both autonomy and attachment through concrete everyday situations.

"A well-structured and useful book that I personally use as a reference!" – Stefanie Stahl, psychotherapist and bestselling author. Wild Child is an engaging guide that deserves a place on every bookshelf. The authors manage to convey expert knowledge in an understandable way and provide parents with various tools based on everyday situations without lecturing them. Particularly great about Wild Child: The chapters are marked with an approximate reading time, allowing parents to quickly assess which chapter they have time for – because as parents of a toddler, reading time is often quite limited.