About Crash Test Mummy:
“I loved it. Sharon has such a way with words and the whole car analogy is brilliant (even for someone who doesn’t like cars!). I’ve learned a lot from it.”
A guide to successful communication-based parenting from a mum, teacher, and therapist who has tried it all!
Children don’t come with an instruction manual. Thankfully, you can buy this one!
Lacking confidence as a parent? Unsure and questioning your parenting approach, but not knowing where to start? I’m Sharon Eshmade and I can relate, as someone who has been there, done that, and written this book.
Parents deserve a shortcut, and this book achieves just that. Luckily, you don’t have to drive around in circles, hit the constant potholes, or meet the same dead ends that I did. Fasttrack and upgrade your parenting now. You can be a safe and confident driver, with a roadworthy vehicle and happy passengers too.
After 20 years in special needs teaching, I wondered why my traditional parenting style hadn’t delivered me perfect parenting status or stopped my kids from lying, defying, manipulating, and kicking me in the shin when they didn’t get their way. I then questioned whether a U-turn on my outdated parenting methods was needed.
This book details my journey, testing the best and worst parenting approaches, which transformed my life to become a talk therapist and parenting coach. Unexpectedly, I also developed acceptance and kindness of myself to become a more positive and compassionate person.
My individually tailored communication-based parenting approach instils empathy and connection as your kids develop into independent adults. If you’re exasperated with your boisterous children, or you just want to strengthen your relationship with them, you’ll find answers in this book.
I have done the testing, so throw out the old roadmap and get straight on the highway of confident parenting.
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Author Bio:
Sharon is a writer, coach, and counsellor, working with clients to increase their communication and proactive strategies to cope better. Whether that means encouraging cooperation with their kids or helping them as they’re struggling with anxiety, bereavement, and other mental health challenges.
Sharon initially trained to be a primary school teacher in South Africa before completing her postgraduate diploma in dyslexia and literacy in the UK. Soon after marrying, she and her husband moved to the United Arab Emirates, where they still live today with their two preteen sons.
Following her successful twenty-year career in special needs teaching, working with vulnerable children and adults, including working with her challenging children and being one herself; in late 2019 Sharon felt as if something was amiss. Her older son’s behaviour had always been challenging but, she believed, that by strictly enforcing behaviour modification techniques to control his conduct, he would find his teenage years easier. As the opposite began to quickly unfold, Sharon was inspired by her son to question her traditional parenting style and make significant and positive changes.
Sharon went outside of her comfort zone and realised that we don’t have to be so extreme in our parenting views or follow any one way to raise our children confidently. She sat in the centre of all the different parenting styles, tested their validity, and listened to her gut to determine that what worked was a balanced, communication-based approach to raising her children.
Sharon has a unique perspective to connect and challenge individual perceptions with humour and insight.