Happy Family, The

Ken and Elizabeth Mellor's valuable parenting advice is also available in bite-sized form! The Happy Family, one of the Busy Parents Series, contains many topics from their acclaimed ParentCraft. The Happy Family is about how to make family life enjoyable. The Mellors write: '
'Many families have contributed to what you will find here. Most of the families we would call 'happy' were managing things well. They had discovered simple, practical and easy-to-use ways of doing things.' The Mellors have spent the past thirty years working with families, presenting fundamental concepts, such as the ones that appear in this book:

• Our families are little communities in which children learn how to live in the wider world 
• We, as parents, are really on a twenty-one year journey with our children as we raise them to be responsible and happy adults 
• Achieving a balance between our work and our family life is critical 
• We can learn a lot about the challenges we face in parenting by considering our own childhood experience of families 
• Families can get stuck in unhelpful patterns - but we can change these 
• Parents need to model the behaviour they want to see from their children.