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by Sarah Naish (Author)
Move over Perfect Parents! 'But he looks so NORMAL!' A phrase guaranteed to catapult me into bad-tempered parenting. If you are a foster parent, adopter, kinship carer or other Therapeutic Parent looking after a child with additional needs, you may be tired of putting up with Patronising Professionals, dealing with Arguing Children whilst worrying that you have become a very bad-tempered parent. This irreverent look therapeutic parenting epic fails, also combines strategies for efficiently dispatching reward charts. Sarah Naish, a self-confessed Bad-Tempered Mother & adopter of 5, will help you to feel comfortable in your own bad- tempered skin.
Author Biography
Sarah Naish is a therapeutic parenting expert and adopter of five children. Currently the CEO of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents, she has also worked as a Social Worker and owned a therapeutic fostering agency which gained an 'Outstanding' Grade due to groundbreaking models of care. Sarah is the author of the acclaimed 'Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell' and the best selling Therapeutic Parenting children's books series, written with her eldest daughter Rosie Jefferies. These compelling, simple stories help Therapeutic Parents to connect and name behaviours for their traumatised children. William Wobbly and the Very Bad Day Sophie Spikey has a Very Big Problem Rosie Rudey and the Very Annoying Parent Charley Chatty and the Wiggly Worry Worm Five further books in the series are planned for 2016. Sarah now works full time as a trainer and motivational speaker and is MD of Fostering Attachments Ltd, part of inspire Training Group. This company commissioned and published, the first worldwide research with the University of Bristol, into compassion fatigue in fostering in the UK, November 2017.
