FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY SELLING The Chimp Paradox
How can we help our children:
· become more resilient?
· get over mistakes?
· develop a positive outlook?
And, what can we do to become better role models?
Prof Steve Peters uses his Chimp Mind Management Model to help parents, teachers and carers understand the neuroscience behind unconscious beliefs and habits that may be silently guiding children's emotions, thinking and behaviours.
The Silent Guides explores ten positive habits and many related themes taken from the children's educational book My Hidden Chimp.
Prof Steve Peters helps challenge unhelpful behaviours such as:
· being overly self-critical
· fear of failure
· low self-esteem Prof Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked in the field of psychiatry for over twenty years. He helps people to gain insight into their own unique mind and situation and then attain skills to optimise their performance and quality of life. He works across a range of areas including health, education, corporate, elite sport and with members of the public. He runs the Chimp Management company and is the author of the best-selling personal development book The Chimp Paradox. From the author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox, a guide to supporting happy, confident children The long-awaited second book from Professor Steve Peters, author of the acclaimed global bestseller The Chimp Paradox, which has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone. In his new book, Peters applies his groundbreaking mind-management model to the science of the developing mind. Based on Steve's theory that dysfunctional behaviours can become ingrained by the age of eight, Peters reveals the ten skills or habits necessary to prevent these behaviours setting in. Peters both drills down into the scientific explanation behind these habits, the how and why they work, and provides an accessible and practical plan for children, their parents, carers and teachers. For fans of smart thinking books such as Thinking Fast and Slow, Blink and also parenting classics such as Steve Buddulph's Raising Boys and Raising Girls.
