The Bonsai Child
In The Bonsai Child, Judith explains why the current generation of parents
and children are in this mess, why parents are encouraged to parent this way,
and what often happens to their children. Most importantly, she offers practical
and realistic strategies on praise, time together, helping your child deal with
disappointment, building their confidence, and managing discipline that have
worked for thousands of parents she has helped. These strategies will work
for you, too.
Order at your local bookstore
The Bonsai Student
This book will teach you how to encourage your child’s confidence and
capability in their schoolwork so they become motivated and responsible
at school and ready for the years that follow. It gives realistic ideas on ways
to prepare your child to start primary or high school, get the morning and
afternoon routines to run smoothly, turn around the homework situation,
deal with report cards and parent–teacher nights, help your child thrive in
Year 12, manage screens without screams, and tips on how to help your child
prepare for university or vocational education.
Order at your local bookstore
The Bonsai Child
In The Bonsai Child, Judith explains why the current generation of parents
and children are in this mess, why parents are encouraged to parent this way,
and what often happens to their children. Most importantly, she offers practical
and realistic strategies on praise, time together, helping your child deal with
disappointment, building their confidence, and managing discipline that have
worked for thousands of parents she has helped. These strategies will work
for you, too.
Order at your local bookstore
The Bonsai Student
This book will teach you how to encourage your child’s confidence and
capability in their schoolwork so they become motivated and responsible
at school and ready for the years that follow. It gives realistic ideas on ways
to prepare your child to start primary or high school, get the morning and
afternoon routines to run smoothly, turn around the homework situation,
deal with report cards and parent–teacher nights, help your child thrive in
Year 12, manage screens without screams, and tips on how to help your child
prepare for university or vocational education.
Order at your local bookstore
The Bonsai Child
Order at your local bookstore
The Bonsai Student
Order at your local bookstore
About The Bonsai Child
Modern parenting is in crisis. Parents put more time and effort into raising their children than ever before, but children’s self-esteem, resilience and wellbeing don’t appear to be improving.
In her work as a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr. Judith Locke sees a link between high-effort parenting and poor outcomes for children. She believes parents make their children’s lives too easy by doing too much for them and giving too much to them. This type of parenting produces ‘the bonsai child’, an apparently perfect child raised in a protected environment and nurtured on attention to their every need.
Dependent on constant care, the bonsai child can remain confined by their ideal conditions, incapable of coping in the real world.
In The Bonsai Child, Judith explains why the current generation of parents and children are in this mess, why parents are encouraged to parent this way, and what often happens to their children. Most importantly, she offers practical and realistic strategies on praise, time tog ether, helping your child deal with disappointment, building their confidence, and managing discipline that have worked for thousands of parents she has helped. These strategies will work for you, too.
The Bonsai Child will show you the best way to be a good parent for your child.
It will teach you how to encourage your child’s confidence and resilience. It is an essential resource for parents and anyone working with families or children today.
About The Bonsai Student
To follow up her bestselling first book, The Bonsai Child, Dr. Locke turns her attention to schooling. She looks at the current environment in parenting and education, and shows the different ways bonsai parenting affects students, parents, teachers and schools. Most importantly, she offers practical and easy-to-implement strategies which have helped thousands of parents she has worked with clinically and in her sessions for parents and teachers at schools across Australia and New Zealand.
The Bonsai Student will show you the best way to be a good parent for your child in their school years.
This book will teach you how to encourage your child’s confidence and capability in their schoolwork so they become motivated and responsible at school and ready for the years that follow. It gives realistic ideas on ways to prepare your child to start primary or high school, get the morning and afternoon routines to run smoothly, turn around the homework situation, deal with report cards and parent–teacher nights, help your child thrive in Year 12, manage screens without screams, and tips on how to help your child prepare for university or vocational education
The Bonsai Student is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers and anyone working with parents or children in an educational environment
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About the Author
Dr. Judith Locke
D.r Judith Locke is a registered clinical psychologist, former teacher, school counsellor and workplace trainer. She is the director of Confident and Capable®, a company specialising in psychological training solutions for parents, children, teachers, and others in schools, childcare centres, government and community organisations, and private companies. Judith also provides clinical assistance to families and individuals in her private practice in Toowong, Queensland.
Judith’s research at the Queensland University of Technology investigated modern parenting, family wellbeing, and how children and parents interact with academic environments. Her psychological commentary, including a weekly parenting column for The Sunday Mail, features regularly in the media. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.
Judith’s first bestselling book, The Bonsai Child, discusses problems with current well-meant parenting practices and shows parents practical ways to turn their situation around. Her second, The Bonsai Student, focuses on children’s school experience and gives parents useful and realistic strategies to ensure their children develop confidence, capability and independence in their studies to give them the best chance of future success and satisfaction in their work and personal lives.
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Get your copy of the book now. The Bonsai Child is available as an ebook and print copy at leading bookstore websites.
Many parents report regret that they hadn’t heard Judith’s advice earlier in their parenting journey. Don’t wait to hear her important messages and learn effective parenting strategies to help you in your important job as a parent.
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