Böcker av Claire Potter

An ingenious picture book from Claire Potter, the bestselling author of Which Food Will You Choose?, to help you entice little ones to happily go to bed through an interactive choosing game. Bedtime can be stressful and chaotic for many families: the children are tired and often resistant and uncooperative. Parents then have to nag, pester and appease at every step of the way to get them to bathe, brush their teeth, get into pyjamas... and eventually into bed. Sound familiar? Five Steps to Bed is here to help! This interactive picture book gives children choices and a degree of autonomy, a popular and effective research-based strategy for creating a positive and enjoyable routine that transforms bedtimes. Exhausted Mummy decides to stop the bedtime squabbles by getting her little ones to help create their bedtime routine and comes up with a game to play for each step. While brushing their teeth or putting on pyjamas, the children dream up weird and wonderful ways they could get ready for bed. What would you choose? A bed made of jelly or made from clouds? Toothpaste flavoured like ketchup or mushy peas? A bath with mermaids or baby sharks? In this bedtime game, the choice is theirs!From bestselling author Claire Potter and featuring gorgeous illustrations from Ailie Busby. Guidance notes at the back of book break down the steps and help to reduce stress and chaos to create calm, positive bedtimes.

Highly commended in the Teach Early Years Awards 2022An ingenious and entertaining picture book to entice your little fussy eater to look beyond 'beige' and explore a whole new colourful world of food! Mummy's in a bad mood. She's fed up of food like chicken nuggets, pasta, chips, cereal and crisps. Then she has an idea! She's going to take her children to the supermarket to play a game. On Monday she tells them to choose three RED foods, on Tuesday three YELLOW foods, on Wednesday three GREEN foods... Look at all the foods there are to choose from!Which three foods would YOU choose? And how would YOU eat them?This cleverly concocted picture book features deliciously illustrated pages of red, yellow, green, orange and purple foods for your child to choose from. Enjoy the story together and then take your child to the supermarket to play the game in real life! Recommended by paediatric dietitians to help with fussy eating, it's a fun and effective way to coax your child out of their comfort zone and encourage them to go for something new and different.From Claire Potter, the best-selling author of Getting the Little Blighters to Eat, and with gorgeous illustrations from Ailie Busby.

They're squealing for a packet of strawberry squiggles in the supermarket... refusing to put their coat on even though it's below freezing outside... squabbling over who gets the cup with the kangaroo on it... or running around with their pants on their head when they're meant to be putting their pyjamas on.Let's face it, life with kids can be exhausting and exasperating. Sometimes you can find yourself nagging, negotiating, battling and bellowing your way through the whole day. Surely it's not meant to be this hard, you think. Roll on bedtime!Here, in one little book, is everything you need to know to make your day-to-day life as a parent easier. Based on in-depth interviews with child psychologists, it gives you techniques, tactics, tips and tricks that research shows actually work.The clear, practical, punchy advice tells you exactly how to deal with your child's unwanted behaviours and shifts the dynamic of your relationship so your child not only co-operates but wants to co-operate in the first place. Finally, it will feel like you are on the same team!And that way, not only will your life be easier, but you'll be able to enjoy your child's company a whole lot more!

This exciting new book from Molly Potter addresses the perennial problem of how to prepare your child for secondary school. It will definitely help parents/carers feel more comfortable with their child's move to secondary school.

A book for parents full of quirky and unusual activities to stimulate their children - ideas which come from lateral, left-field, out-of-the-box thinking and cost next-to-nothing!