Psychologists who have practical experience, bringing together the latest thinking and practice in a simple and easy to read format aimed at people who need a simple but effective guide for addressing their problems. Do you have a child who is lacking in motivation, listless and purposeless? Are they unhappy and you/they don’t know why? They make very little effort in any of their hobbies or interests or don’t have any? They are not doing well as school? How can we get our children to engage with life? To strive to achieve their hidden hopes and dreams? It is what every parent wants for their children, to use all their potential and have a fulfilling and positive life. The reality for many parents in this modern world of mobile phones, social media and computer games can seem very different with parents fighting a losing battle to help their children get off the sofa and push themselves a little bit to follow what they really want deep down. This guide written with practical experience of what actually works will help you, incorporating the latest thinking in motivation and covering all the key years from very young children to young adults (and beyond!). Reconnect with your children, understand what drives them and help them be who they really can be. Motivate Your Child examines how parents can help a child become more motivated, it covers three main age ranges from young children, to teenagers and then young adults. It challenges some of the traditional thinking regarding motivation, that rewards can actually be damaging to motivation and that there may be better long term ways to tap into a child’s own internal motivation. What others say about Motivate Your Child: “Our young child became very dependent on rewards to do anything and expected rewards for everything, this book helped us realise there are better ways to motivate our child”“A great book, linking theory to daily examples and a useful summary at the end of each chapter, it is hard to motivate a teenager but this book actually helped them to motivate themselves…..” “Our son was playing computer games all the time and had no interest in school or extra curricular activities, we were worried, it’s not easy getting them to understand their own motivation especially when competing with his games, but it helped us definitely get him moving again and making more effort in other parts of his life.” “A good review of modern and compassionate thinking for motivating children through the various ages, with the theory wrapped up with some practical examples and how to’s” “I really struggled with one of my children who seemed so listless, it gave me some great insight and I really started to make some headway with getting them to want to do things instead of me just telling them” “An excellent and practical guide, it’s not easy but I really did start to understand what motivated my different children and it wasn’t always the same thing!”

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