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This book is an absolute game-changer. Paul manages to impart practical wisdom about our behaviour as parents - and how small changes have huge impacts - without ever sounding preachy. I laughed, nodded, winced a few times and most importantly felt inspired to make slow, incremental changes to how we do things in our house. Warm, funny and extraordinarily helpful. A must-read for anyone who looks after children.

In this fantastic book Paul empowers us parents to put our energy and focus where we can have the most influence: over our own behaviour. With wit and warmth, he teaches us the most miraculous thing - that when we change, our children change too. This is a book every parent needs to read.

Many of us have children. Not enough of us truly parent. In this transformative book, Paul Dix offers a simple method to revolutionise the culture in your home - one that will change your children's behaviour and yours. He gets it: the most important part of high performance is high-performance parenting, and this book shows you how to get there.

Jake Humphrey, author of High Performance

A highly practical, down-to-earth, well-reasoned book. It would enrich the parenting of anyone.

Barry Carpenter OBE, Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University

Paul Dix has an approach that I love: he understands that when you see a child differently, you see a different child. For years he has been passionate about supporting teachers and children in the classroom, and in this brilliant book he shares his valuable insights to support families too.

KATE SILVERTON, author of No Such Thing as 'Naughty'

The principle at the heart of Paul Dix's book is singularly powerful: that if we want to build a loving, resilient relationship with our children, we need to start with ourselves.

TINA PAYNE BRYSON co-author of The Whole-Brain Child

Another fabulous book from Paul. Sound, sensible advice for families because we know that schools only see children for a fraction of their lives. All parents and carers should read this book and learn the &lsquo;six steps to stay in control&rsquo; &ndash; helping families be better able to help themselves.

MAUREEN MCKENNA, former Director of Education, Glasgow

I became a better mother in two weeks . . . How simple techniques, and a different way of thinking, can change the entire atmosphere at home . . . and when that happens, children&rsquo;s behaviour changes, too.

Seismic Shifts in Children’s Behaviour

'Brilliant' Kate Silverton, author of There's No Such Thing As Naughty 
'An absolute game-changer' Sarah Turner, aka The Unmumsy Mum 
'Singularly powerful' Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Whole-Brain Child 
 
The culture of any home is determined by the parents. If you can remain unflappably calm in the face of every supermarket tantrum and sarcastic eye-roll, order will soon follow. 
 
Here, bestselling author Paul Dix reveals how to turn even the most chaotic home into an oasis of calm &ndash; by focusing not on your children&rsquo;s behaviour, but on your own. You will never need to raise your voice again. 
 
&lsquo;How simple techniques, and a different way of thinking, can change the entire atmosphere at home.&rsquo; iNews

After countless attempts to sabotage his own education, Paul Dix miraculously went on to train at Homerton College, Cambridge, before going on to work as a teacher at some of Britain's most challenging urban schools. 
 
Over the next three decades, Paul would develop a unique approach to behaviour change - one rooted in the calm consistency of the adults. After outlining his method in the bestselling When the Adults Change, Everything Changes, it became a word-of-mouth phenomenon among teachers and has now been drawn upon in over 150,000 classrooms worldwide. 
 
When, in 2002, Paul became a dad, he began to wonder whether his behaviour change method might just work for parents too. Now, for the first time, Paul introduces his findings to the most important audience of all: parents.

&lsquo;The principle at the heart of Paul Dix&rsquo;s book is singularly powerful: that if we want to build a loving, resilient relationship with our children, we need to start with ourselves.&rsquo; Dr Tina Payne Bryson, co-author of The Whole-Brain Child 
 
The culture of any home is determined by the parents. If you can remain unflappably calm in the face of every supermarket tantrum and sarcastic eye-roll, order will soon follow. 
 
Here, bestselling author Paul Dix reveals how to turn even the most chaotic home into an oasis of calm &ndash; by focusing not on your children&rsquo;s behaviour, but on your own. You will never need to raise your voice again. 
 
&lsquo;An absolute game-changer . . . I laughed, nodded, winced a few times and most importantly felt inspired to make slow, incremental changes to how we do things in our house.&rsquo; Sarah Turner, aka The Unmumsy Mum 
 
&lsquo;How simple techniques, and a different way of thinking, can change the entire atmosphere at home.&rsquo; iNews

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