GPS: Good Parenting Strategies

The No-Guilt Survival Guide for Parenting During the Pandemic and Beyond
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GPS: Good Parenting Strategies
March 2021 | 152 pages | Corwin
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Ensure that your kids (and you) thrive during distance learning when school is at home!

To say the pandemic of 2020 threw parents and educators a curveball would be an understatement. Suddenly, we were charged not only with meeting our children’s emotional and social needs, but also helping them fulfill their academic tasks outside of the school and classroom. Feelings of stress, anxiety, and guilt were inevitable.

While you’re recreating the structure and routine of school and attending to students’ mental health, the Good Parenting Strategies (GPS) offered in this essential guide will help you help your children succeed while learning at home. Ben Springer, an expert educator and school psychologist, provides you with real-life scenarios and ready-to-use tools rooted in positive psychology that show you how to

  • Manage stress and anxiety at home
  • Focus on the key ingredients to learning (both distance and face-to-face)
  • Prevent problem behaviors before they occur
  • Build resilience and find happiness 

Also included are more than 25 charts and tools that are accessible online for ease of printing. Full of humor, insights, and guidance fit for parents and teachers alike, this book equips you to confidently face challenging student behaviors, emotions, and schoolwork both now and in the future—and, perhaps most importantly, to begin to heal.

Contents

Preface: Parenting and the Pandemic

Preface: Parenting and the Pandemic

Overview: What This Book Will Do for You

Overview: What This Book Will Do for You

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

  • Introduction: Scorched Earth
  • SECTION 1. How to Battle Guilt and Shame
  • SECTION 2. How to Build Your Very Own Structure and Routine in a Global Pandemic (and Beyond)!
  • SECTION 3. How to Identify, Create, and Utilize Your Very Own Core Values as a Family
  • SECTION 4. Discipline 101
  • SECTION 5. Advanced Discipline
  • SECTION 6. How to Manage Intense Emotional Outbursts From Your Kids
  • SECTION 7. How to Navigate Screen Time and Social Media
  • SECTION 8. How to Navigate Distance Learning
  • SECTION 9. How to Find Happiness in Our Families
  • SECTION 10. How to Build Resilience in Our Families

Conclusion: A Diaper Bag for Life

Conclusion: A Diaper Bag for Life

Appendices

  • Appendix A: House Rules
  • Appendix J: Two Lists
  • Appendix V: Common Coping Skills

References

References

Index

Index

Description

Ensure that your kids (and you) thrive during distance learning when school is at home!

To say the pandemic of 2020 threw parents and educators a curveball would be an understatement. Suddenly, we were charged not only with meeting our children’s emotional and social needs, but also helping them fulfill their academic tasks outside of the school and classroom. Feelings of stress, anxiety, and guilt were inevitable.

While you’re recreating the structure and routine of school and attending to students’ mental health, the Good Parenting Strategies (GPS) offered in this essential guide will help you help your children succeed while learning at home. Ben Springer, an expert educator and school psychologist, provides you with real-life scenarios and ready-to-use tools rooted in positive psychology that show you how to

  • Manage stress and anxiety at home
  • Focus on the key ingredients to learning (both distance and face-to-face)
  • Prevent problem behaviors before they occur
  • Build resilience and find happiness 

Also included are more than 25 charts and tools that are accessible online for ease of printing. Full of humor, insights, and guidance fit for parents and teachers alike, this book equips you to confidently face challenging student behaviors, emotions, and schoolwork both now and in the future—and, perhaps most importantly, to begin to heal.

Contents

Preface: Parenting and the Pandemic

Preface: Parenting and the Pandemic

Overview: What This Book Will Do for You

Overview: What This Book Will Do for You

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

  • Introduction: Scorched Earth
  • SECTION 1. How to Battle Guilt and Shame
  • SECTION 2. How to Build Your Very Own Structure and Routine in a Global Pandemic (and Beyond)!
  • SECTION 3. How to Identify, Create, and Utilize Your Very Own Core Values as a Family
  • SECTION 4. Discipline 101
  • SECTION 5. Advanced Discipline
  • SECTION 6. How to Manage Intense Emotional Outbursts From Your Kids
  • SECTION 7. How to Navigate Screen Time and Social Media
  • SECTION 8. How to Navigate Distance Learning
  • SECTION 9. How to Find Happiness in Our Families
  • SECTION 10. How to Build Resilience in Our Families

Conclusion: A Diaper Bag for Life

Conclusion: A Diaper Bag for Life

Appendices

  • Appendix A: House Rules
  • Appendix J: Two Lists
  • Appendix V: Common Coping Skills

References

References

Index

Index

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GPS: Good Parenting Strategies

The No-Guilt Survival Guide for Parenting During the Pandemic and Beyond


March 2021 | 152 pages | Corwin

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Paperback 01/02/2026 9781071847251 $37.95
Lifetime 01/02/2026 9781071847237 $35.00

Ensure that your kids (and you) thrive during distance learning when school is at home!

To say the pandemic of 2020 threw parents and educators a curveball would be an understatement. Suddenly, we were charged not only with meeting our children’s emotional and social needs, but also helping them fulfill their academic tasks outside of the school and classroom. Feelings of stress, anxiety, and guilt were inevitable.

While you’re recreating the structure and routine of school and attending to students’ mental health, the Good Parenting Strategies (GPS) offered in this essential guide will help you help your children succeed while learning at home. Ben Springer, an expert educator and school psychologist, provides you with real-life scenarios and ready-to-use tools rooted in positive psychology that show you how to

  • Manage stress and anxiety at home
  • Focus on the key ingredients to learning (both distance and face-to-face)
  • Prevent problem behaviors before they occur
  • Build resilience and find happiness 

Also included are more than 25 charts and tools that are accessible online for ease of printing. Full of humor, insights, and guidance fit for parents and teachers alike, this book equips you to confidently face challenging student behaviors, emotions, and schoolwork both now and in the future—and, perhaps most importantly, to begin to heal.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface: Parenting and the Pandemic
  • Overview: What This Book Will Do for You
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: Scorched Earth
  • SECTION 1. How to Battle Guilt and Shame
  • SECTION 2. How to Build Your Very Own Structure and Routine in a Global Pandemic (and Beyond)!
  • SECTION 3. How to Identify, Create, and Utilize Your Very Own Core Values as a Family
  • SECTION 4. Discipline 101
  • SECTION 5. Advanced Discipline
  • SECTION 6. How to Manage Intense Emotional Outbursts From Your Kids
  • SECTION 7. How to Navigate Screen Time and Social Media
  • SECTION 8. How to Navigate Distance Learning
  • SECTION 9. How to Find Happiness in Our Families
  • SECTION 10. How to Build Resilience in Our Families
  • Conclusion: A Diaper Bag for Life
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: House Rules
  • Appendix J: Two Lists
  • Appendix V: Common Coping Skills
  • References
  • Index

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"Dr. Springer has written a must-read for parents, whether it's during a pandemic or not. This book provides at-a-glance guidance and resources for busy moms seeking guilt-free and healthy long-term parenting solutions. Good Parenting Strategies is funny, practical, and includes tips and tricks that encourage us all to be superhero parents!"
Stacey Moore, First time mom who trying to be better

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