The Parenting Toolkit

The Parenting Toolkit: Simple Steps to Happy and Confident Children

Parenting is often seen as a skill that is instinctive and doesn’t need to be learned. However, many parents and guardians can benefit enormously from learning child-sensitive techniques that help them reflect on their parenting.

The Parenting Toolkit is a unique and valuable resource for parents and guardians who want to give their children the best possible start in life. It is especially relevant today, when families are under so much social pressure. Caroline Penney draws on her years of experience of facilitating parenting groups and working as a family therapist to present the techniques clearly. She explains how to help your children become confident, capable, caring, and able to reach their full potential, as well as offering advice on how to ensure that you are getting all the self-care that you need to be a good parent.

Illustrated throughout with warm and witty illustration by Kate Hajducka.

“[The Parenting Toolkit] uses the secrets that family therapists know to get underneath problems and unlock what is causing them…. In clear, simple, and friendly language, she helps you understand, and overcome, these hurdles.” —Steve Biddulph, Australian author, activist, and psychologist

About the Author

Caroline Penney BSc, SRN, MSc, PGCE is a specialist and systemic family therapist. Her great-grandfather was Sigmund Freud and her great-aunt was Anna Freud. She has spent 30 years working in parenting education, social services, and the healthcare system.