Book review: Parent with Confidence

Glenys Bender | May 20, 2015

Picky eater? Tantrums? This mother of four understands your frustration and is ready to help. Parenting expert, Carolyn Bond of Sharbot Lake, has just published her book Parent with Confidence. In it, she gives busy parents what she calls “Power Tools for Bringing Up Great Kids”. Based on the parenting approach of psychologist Alfred Adler, and on her own experiences, Ms Bond has crafted an easy-to-read, jargon-free book. As a Mom, she coped with such problems as sibling rivalry, picky eaters and middle-child woes. Each chapter of her book covers a common problem—and suggests solutions. At the end of each chapter, Carolyn has provided a convenient list of “Reminders” which cover the topic’s key points.

Ms Bond is a graduate of the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto. She is a former social worker with an extensive parent education background. Faced with her own parenting problems as the mother of four, she took a parenting course based on Adlerian psychology. She says this started her on the path to solving her parenting concerns. Her enthusiasm for the Adlerian approach led to more in-depth work and, as she says, she “worked in the trenches” with parents for over twenty years. Now retired, Carolyn has turned her considerable talents to offering parenting one-on-one sessions on-line at her website www.HowToBringUpGreatKids.com. Her book, Parent with Confidence, is available at Amazon. com.