49 crazy solutions for the problems of everyday life with kids.
What is wrong with eating cream cakes on the way to nursery school? Or why not pay some teenagers to go walking with the pram so that you can finally get some sleep? To dare to ‘do the ...
49 crazy solutions for the problems of everyday life with kids.
What is wrong with eating cream cakes on the way to nursery school? Or why not pay some teenagers to go walking with the pram so that you can finally get some sleep? To dare to ‘do the opposite’ starts up processes that hopefully give rise to new ideas – and you and your family have a bit of fun meanwhile.
Do the opposite – a book for parents is divided into three sections: ‘Grow as an adult’, ‘Break down everyday patterns’ and ‘Say YES’. They consist of 49 stories from parents, stories from real life, and three sections with the authors’ thoughts about the main subjects. Every parental story starts with a short background to the problem, for example that the child never eats dinner or that doing the weekly shopping always ends in a catastrophe. The parents try out a crazy idea like giving the child an ice-cream while the parent prepares the meal. We get to follow what happens in the family when they try out the idea. The section ends with which new ways of thinking that have been brought to life through the crazy idea.
“It may be that the first idea is just perfect, but it is perhaps most likely that the craziness leads to a new, modified idea adapted to the parent. We want to show that by looking at something from all sorts of new angles, we can come across new ideas and approaches that we wouldn’t have found if we hadn’t done something crazy first,” say authors Åse Teiner and Anna Glas.
Åse Teiner and Anna Glas jointly run the ACC-certified Föräldrarcoacherna [Parent coachers]. Together, they have many years experience as teachers, conversational therapists, lecturers and parents of several children.