A review by heddsomewhere
Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst: Practical Compassion in Parenting by Kim John Payne

3.0

Being at Your Best When Your Kids are at Their Worst. This is more of a self-help book for parents, than a parenting how-to book. The focus is on meditation, or mindfulness, as a tool to deal with difficult situations with your children. Though written from a secular worldview, I found a lot of the tips helpful and can apply a lot of the meditation practices with my Christian worldview. I disagree with the author on his stance on disobedience, because we are all, as human beings, rebellious. It just highlights for me that not every act of defiance from a child is an act of disobedience. There are some good tips in this book for recognising your triggers as a parent, and that is the part I found most helpful.