Ready for the Day: A Tale of Teamwork and Toast, and Hardly Any Foot-Dragging

Getting a pre-schooler out the door in the morning can be a frustrating battle of wills complete with crying and complaining—by parents and kids alike. Ready for the Day! offers healthy, lasting solutions for a stress-free morning routine.

This book, and others in the series, provides a BONUS for parents and caregivers. With honesty and gentle humour, Ready for the Day! shows how to handle typical morning routine struggles by modelling three parenting techniques using colour-coded text to teach the language of positive parenting:

• Giving encouragement
• Validating feelings
• Offering choices

These techniques are explained in detail in a section at the end of the book that is just for adults. The result: you get through morning routine challenges with less stress while building your child's emotional intelligence and your own parenting skills.

Ready for the Day! features:

• An engaging, realistic story that will ring true for parents and kids alike
• Easy-to-use techniques and positive language highlighted in colour-coded text
• A section just for adults that explains the language of positive parenting
• An easy, fun way to improve parenting skills—by reading with your child

Ready for the Day! is part of the ParentSmart/KidHappy series, the only parenting books intended for grown-ups and kids to share. Reading this book not only teaches adults effective techniques for encouraging co-operation, it provides a model for kids to follow.