Sometimes the hardest part of parenting isn’t your child—it’s the emotions parenting awakens in you.

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Moments with your child can trigger memories, reactions, and patterns from your own childhood—often when you least expect it.

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Do any of these parenting moments sound familiar?

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• You lose your patience and regret how you reacted.

• Your child refuses to cooperate, and every request becomes a battle.

• You catch yourself repeating parenting patterns from your own childhood.

• Small issues—spilled milk, messes, screen time—suddenly turn into big conflicts.

• You want to stay calm and connected, but strong emotions take over.

• You wish you had simple ways to repair things after a difficult moment.

This book is for you if:
 

• You want to stay calm but sometimes lose your patience

• You want to break unhealthy parenting patterns from your own childhood

• You believe connection matters more than control

• You want practical tools—not parenting theory

• You want to repair difficult moments instead of feeling guilty about them

 

Every parent has “Oops!” moments.  The moments you think you’re parenting wrong are actually your biggest parenting opportunities.

 

What if those moments could become your greatest parenting breakthroughs?

 

Parenting Wrong shows how everyday “Oops!” moments can become powerful “A-Ha!” insights that strengthen your relationship with your child.

 

Through relatable stories and practical tools, the book shows how childhood experiences shape the way we parent—and how awareness can help break generational parenting patterns. It offers simple strategies for staying calm when parenting becomes stressful.

 

In Parenting Wrong, you’ll learn how to:

 

• Turn parenting setbacks into meaningful growth moments

• Break generational patterns that quietly shape your family

• Respond calmly to defiance, aggression, and everyday challenges

• Build stronger emotional connections with your child

• Use simple tools like Five Magic Minutes to repair and reconnect

 

This story-driven book includes 36 short, easy-to-read chapters for parents and caregivers of children from birth through elementary school.

 

It explores everyday challenges such as:

 

• Screen time

• Picky eating

• Messes and meltdowns

• Defiance and aggression

 

While also addressing deeper emotional patterns rooted in childhood.

 

Parenting Wrong is organized around four key themes:

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• Early childhood challenges

• Communication and connection

• Behavior and boundaries

• Emotional repair and growth

 

Based on real-life parenting experiences and years of working with children and families, the book introduces practical tools you can start using immediately—including Emotional Power Tools and 10 practical Parenting Hacks.

 

Sample chapters include:

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• Oops! Go Ahead, Spill the Milk!

• Five Magic Minutes: What Your Child Really Wants

• The Broccoli Challenge: Fun Always Wins!

• This is Hard to Talk About, Let’s Talk About it Anyway

• Generational Trauma: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow… Gone

 

At its heart, Parenting Wrong reminds parents that difficult moments are not failures—they are breakthroughs waiting to happen.

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Opportunities to repair. To reconnect. And to grow together.

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Because in the end, Kindness Matters. Always.