When the Parents Change, Everything Changes Seismic Shifts in Children’s Behaviour

A children's behavior expert reveals how to transform the culture of any home

Your own behavior is the only behavior over which you have absolute control. To change your children's behavior, you first need to change your own.

Here, Britain's leading behavior expert reveals how we get children's behavior wrong - and how to get it right. Drawing on a method tried and tested in over 100,000 classrooms, he shows that the only way to change what your child does is by first changing what you do.

He explains why punishing your way to a life without tantrum-prone toddlers/sulking teenagers is a fool's errand - and how to instead grow new behaviors with love. And he reveals why a positive, relational, consistent approach to parenting is 1,000 times more powerful than any Xbox, Disneyland trip or cold, hard cash bribe that money can buy.

Filled with practical tools and relatable case studies, Paul Dix's method will turn your home into a behavioral nirvana. It is not just a list of punishments and rewards. It is so much more useful than that.

After countless attempts to sabotage his own education, Paul Dix miraculously trained at Homerton College, Cambridge, before going on to work as a teacher at some of the most challenging urban schools. Over the next three decades, Paul would develop a unique approach to behavior change - one rooted in the positive, loving behavior of the adults. His book introducing his method, When the Adults Change, Everything Changes, has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon among teachers and is the biggest-selling children's behavior book of the twenty-first century. Since then, Paul has delivered training and spoken on large stages all over the world, been featured in The Times, Guardian and on BBC News, and seen his framework applied in over 100,000 classrooms worldwide. When, in 2002, Paul became a dad, he began to wonder whether his behavior change method might just work for parents too. Over the next two decades, he would learn how the positive, calm, relational strategies he developed for the classroom can also transform the culture of any home. Now, for the first time, Paul introduces his findings to the most important audience of all: parents.