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Teacher Minju's Encyclopedia of Parenting Coaching
Teacher Minju's Encyclopedia of Parenting Coaching
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“Minju’s parenting bible, trusted and followed by 300,000 subscribers!”
Lee Min-ju, Korea's leading parenting education expert
77 Smart Parenting Solutions


* Customized guide for each developmental stage from 0 to 6 years old
* Providing parenting solutions based on the child's temperament
* Includes diagnostic tools such as self-esteem scale tests
* Includes vivid, on-site Q&A
* QR code included for parenting vlog

Author Lee Min-joo, a "real parenting mentor" who has captured the hearts of 300,000 parents, has compiled a book of customized parenting solutions for parents of children aged 0 to 6.
This book, which contains vivid insights and know-how gained through direct experience in the educational field for many years, focuses on 'practice' rather than 'theory'.
In particular, it delicately captures the practical concerns of new mothers and fathers who have jumped into the world of child-rearing without learning anything about it, and presents 77 customized solutions.


“Parenting changes the moment you read the flow of development,” emphasizes the author, explaining that many behaviors in infants and toddlers that may appear to be problem behaviors at first glance are actually natural phenomena that occur during the developmental process.
For example, the 'throwing of objects' that children exhibit around the age of two is not a simple play, but an expression of curiosity about physical phenomena and cognitive development, and lying is also a natural developmental stage that appears in the process of distinguishing between imagination and reality.
Understanding this developmental perspective can be very helpful in reducing unnecessary discipline and providing appropriate stimulation.

What is particularly noteworthy is the customized parenting method based on the child's temperament.
Parents' concerns also vary depending on their child's temperament.
Some parents say, “My child hides in the corner whenever he goes to a new playground,” while others say, “I’m worried because my child is so active and often engages in dangerous behavior.”
The first is the typical 'risk-averse' temperament.
For a child with this temperament, an approach like “Let’s do this together, Mom!” is needed, rather than “Just give it a try!”
The second is the 'stimulus-seeking' temperament, and an environment must be created that allows sufficient challenges within safe rules.
Just as each child has a different innate temperament, parenting should also be tailored to each child.

The author also carefully cares for the hearts of parents who are tired from raising children.
Because the quality of parenting depends on parents' stress management.
“I often get depressed and suddenly get angry because I’m raising a child alone.”, “I don’t know how to deal with the fatigue caused by raising a child.” For parents who are exhausted from the stress of raising a child, this book clearly explains how to objectively check how much stress they are currently experiencing and realistic ways to prevent and overcome parenting burnout.


《Minju's Parenting Coaching Encyclopedia》 contains a variety of visual materials, including warm illustrations and easy-to-understand diagrams, so that even new parents can easily understand and apply the information.
In particular, QR codes throughout the book link to the author's vlog, which contains vivid voices from the parenting field, making it easier and more accessible to watch videos to provide practical parenting tips that are difficult to convey in words.

Here, we provide various diagnostic tools, such as the Parenting Stress Checklist, Self-Esteem Scale Test, and Understanding Your Child's Temperament Test, to help you understand your child and yourself more deeply.


This book, filled with the author's warm heart, aims to prevent you from being swayed by unverified parenting information and from getting lost in the overflow of parenting information. Stop worrying about parenting and fully enjoy your precious time with your child.
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Prologue - There is a solution to parenting!

PART 1.
Key Parenting Principles Parents Must Know


1.
Parenting begins with a good relationship between child and parent.
- The starting point of parenting is the relationship with the child.
- The first step to a good relationship is forming a stable attachment.
- What kind of attachment style do my child and I have?
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
- The child-parent relationship that determines the depth of parenting
- 5-Minute Nightly Conversation for Parent-Child Relationships

2.
Knowing your child's temperament reveals a shortcut to parenting.
The reason parenting is difficult is because of temperament.
- Customized parenting methods based on the four temperaments of children

3.
Establish your own parenting principles
Parenting without principles is a surefire path to ruin.
- Our parenting principles
- Create principles that the whole family agrees on together.
A peek into Teacher Minju's eleven parenting principles
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

4.
Check my child's development status
- Understanding your child's behavior
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
Child development checks are a necessity, not an option.
- My child's development that needs to be checked every month

5.
Parents are getting tired, is this okay?
The quality of parenting depends on parents' stress management.
How to Prevent and Overcome Parenting Burnout
- Three Practices for Becoming a Happy and Healthy Parent

PART 2.
Customized parenting solutions for each developmental area

1.
Physical development is the foundation of all development.
- A child's self-help skills and physical development come first.
- The core of early childhood writing activities: fine motor development
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
Experience is the best teacher! - Gain experience to help you develop.
- Capture the moment you fall into repetitive hell.
Expand your child's interests through everyday play.
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

2.
The key to language development in infants and toddlers is the role of parents.
- Why is language development important in infants and toddlers?
- Communication is more important than speaking.
- Parental language stimulation is more important than speech therapy
- This is what parents of 'speaking children' do.
- Related to a child's aggression and language development
- A three-step interaction method to reduce aggression and promote language development.
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

3.
Social and emotional development that fosters self-esteem and independence
- Attachment to parents gives us the strength to navigate the world.
- Smart ways to deal with a child who has become a mother's chewing gum again
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
- Parents' words to help children build self-esteem
- If you want to raise a child with high self-esteem
- Emotional Development - “It’s difficult to express my feelings in words.”
- Social Development - "I need friends now."
- Social development varies depending on the child's age.
- When and how to develop self-control
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

4.
Cognitive development that gives wings to thought
- Infancy is a critical period for brain development.
- The key to brain development is diverse experiences.
- Fostering autonomy and initiative
- Children who play well are also good at self-directed learning.
- Parents' role in fostering playfulness
- 'Immersion' comes before 'concentration'
- 4 Steps to Improve Concentration
- How to teach Korean without resistance
Five Ways to Raise a Self-Educated Child
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

5.
Lifestyle habits shape a child's life.
- Teaching basic living habits - “Habits formed at age three last until age eighty.”
- Creating lifestyle habits by age
- Developing self-help skills
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
- Different eating habit education methods for children aged 0 to 6
Five things parents should avoid doing when feeding their children.
- Proper sleep education for mothers trying to get their children to sleep and children trying to hold on.
- Timing and method of separate sleep for sleep independence
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]
- Start potty training wisely
- 4 Steps to Potty Training
Five Common Mistakes Parents Make When Potty Training
[Minju's Realistic Parenting Coaching]

Epilogue - It's okay if it's not perfect!

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Many parents worry when their child shows shyness or separation anxiety, wondering, "Is there something wrong with the attachment?"
Rather, this behavior is evidence that the child properly recognizes the attachment figure that protects him or her and feels a stable attachment.
So, you don't have to worry about shyness or separation anxiety in children under two years of age.

By 24 to 36 months of age, children no longer show significant anxiety when separated from their parents for short periods of time, even when they are with familiar people, such as grandmothers or aunts.
Of course, you can still cry and look for your mom, but if you explain it to her, she will understand and you can wait, believing that she will return.
In developmental psychology, this is called 'object constancy'.
Object constancy refers to the internalized belief that an attachment figure exists safely somewhere, even when that person is not visible.

--- p.23

Even though we study parenting diligently, when we don't understand our child's behavior and see no change, we become very exhausted.
When you find yourself wondering, "What on earth could be the problem? Why is this so difficult for both my child and me?", first examine your child's temperament.
At this time, it is helpful to understand not only the child's temperament but also your own temperament as a parent.
It can be difficult because the child has a difficult temperament, but there are also many cases where the temperaments of parents and children do not match, which can cause difficulties.

--- p.37

For children with risk-averse tendencies, rather than urging them to “Just give it a try!”, try to ease their burden by saying, “Let’s do it together!”
If your child still hesitates, say, “Watch what Mommy does.
Showing a child an example by saying, “Mom, I’ll try it first” is a good way to relieve the child’s burden.

--- p.43

Children with a stimulation-seeking temperament like new things, are adventurous, and full of curiosity.
When they encounter new environments or objects, they react very actively and sometimes even act impulsively.
When raising a child with a stimulation-seeking temperament, it's important to consistently remind them, "It's okay to have fun, but there are rules to keep them safe."
--- p.46

Children at this age are very interested in what happens when they apply physical force to change something.
“Huh? I dropped the spoon and it made a sound?”, “I pushed the block and it fell down with a crash?”, “I pushed it from a high place and it went down with a thud?” This is a period when curiosity and awareness about physical phenomena are very developed, so interest explodes.
If you don't know these developmental characteristics, you will only discipline your child with things like, "Don't throw your spoon while eating!" or "Don't knock down what Mom has built!"
Of course, it is necessary to inform people of the standards for what can and cannot be done.
But it doesn't end here. We need to satisfy the child's curiosity and desires while providing them with ample opportunities to play safely, throwing, knocking down, and dropping objects.

--- p.73

At this age, children lie without any particular intention or purpose.
Because they are still in the stage of egocentric thinking and their cognitive abilities are still developing, they cannot clearly distinguish between themselves and the outside world.
Simply put, it is talking about things you imagine, want to do, or things you see or hear that are impressive as if they were real, without being able to distinguish them from reality.
In times like this, instead of scolding them with, "Lying is bad," say, "Oh, I heard your friend went to Jeju Island, so you really wanted to go too. Let's definitely go with Mom next time."
--- p.76

To learn how to use eating utensils, you must first have fun experiencing using ladles, spoons, forks, etc. as play tools.
For example, by playing with a spoon to scoop up pieces of cypress or grain, children can naturally learn the movements of the finger and wrist muscles needed to hold a spoon and scoop food, as well as the ability to control their strength.
--- p.110

Publisher's Review
“No more hesitating and wavering parenting!”
Teacher Minju's YouTube accumulated views reached 35 million
Realistic parenting coaching

Don't miss this crucial period of development.
A guide to each area of ​​development from a parenting mentor chosen by 300,000 parents.


Knowing the flow of child development changes parenting.
Understanding the developmental stages can help you reduce unnecessary discipline and provide the stimulation you need.
It is important to accurately understand the child's current developmental status and provide experiences that are appropriate for that.

This book is full of customized parenting methods tailored to each developmental stage, discovered through field experience.
Author Lee Min-ju, an expert in infant and toddler development and play coaching, provides detailed, practical parenting methods based on her extensive teaching experience, including characteristics of each developmental stage, appropriate stimulation and play methods, and know-how in creating an environment.
The following concrete, practical solutions will transform vague parenting anxieties into confidence.

·Developmental characteristics by age and the corresponding roles of parents
·Conversation and interaction methods that build children's self-esteem
·Strategies to improve self-regulation at each developmental stage
·Natural learning method through play
·Customized lifestyle habit formation guide for children aged 0-6
· A step-by-step approach to sleep, eating, and toilet training
Practical solutions to develop children's language skills
·3-step interaction method to reduce a child's aggression

“Parenting that’s perfect for your child’s temperament!”
A comprehensive parenting solution tailored to each child's temperament.


When raising a child, there are times when you wonder, "What on earth is the problem?", "Why is it so difficult for both my child and me?"
If you study parenting so diligently but still cannot understand your child's behavior or see any changes, try looking for the cause in your child's temperament.


Based on the theory of the 'TCI Temperament Personality Test', the author classifies children's temperaments into four types: risk avoidance, stimulation seeking, social sensitivity, and perseverance, and introduces specific parenting methods suited to each temperament.
For example, a child with a risk-averse temperament needs an approach of “Let’s do it together!” rather than urging them with “Go ahead and try it!”, and a child with a stimulation-seeking temperament needs an environment that allows them to be sufficiently challenged within safe rules.


This book contains a checklist that helps you understand the characteristics of each temperament, as well as detailed parenting solutions tailored to each temperament.
This will allow parents to understand their children more deeply, and children will be able to develop their unique characteristics into strengths.

“Parents of children who speak well do this.”
Practical know-how for creating a rich language environment


“Why is my child so late in speaking?”, “How can my child be late in speaking even though I talk a lot?” Many parents worry as they wait for their child to say their first words.
Author Lee Min-ju emphasizes that "language development should be approached from a broader perspective, not simply as 'the ability to speak,' but as a 'means of communication,'" and presents various practical know-how for creating a rich language environment.

This book contains specific methods to promote language development, such as providing opportunities for self-expression, practicing listening to others, developing thinking skills, and practicing expressing thoughts in writing.
In particular, practical solutions that develop children's language skills through natural conversations in everyday life stand out.
The author details how to use everyday moments as opportunities for rich language stimulation.


The most important thing is to read the child's frustrated feelings that he or she cannot express.
Because language development is a process of emotional empathy and communication.
Rather than simply focusing on getting your child to start talking quickly, "Minju's Parenting Coaching Encyclopedia" guides you on how to raise a healthy child who can express themselves verbally and communicate with others.

The Secret to Conversation That Nurtures a Child's Heart
Solutions for each stage of self-regulation, social skills, and self-esteem development


Parents who have ever felt upset and embarrassed by their children's words like, "Mom, my friend hates me!" or "I don't want to! I won't do that!" should open this book.
《Minju's Parenting Coaching Encyclopedia》 presents social development stages broken down by age up to 6 years old, and provides specific conversation techniques and situational coping methods appropriate for each stage.
For example, for children aged 0-3 who are self-aware, we suggest conversation methods that acknowledge emotions and express them in specific language, such as, “I wanted to do well, but I’m upset because I didn’t do well.” For children aged 4-6, we suggest conversation methods that help children understand the emotions of others and respond appropriately to situations, such as, “I think your friend got angry because you waited too long for the toy.”

Through a variety of experiences, children learn to navigate relationships in increasingly more mature and wise ways.
To achieve this, the role of parents is very important, such as providing opportunities for consistent communication in daily life, creating rules appropriate to the child's developmental level, and allowing them to experience waiting.
However, it must be an enjoyable and positive experience.
"Minju's Parenting Coaching Encyclopedia" presents a practical guide on how parents can nurture their children's social skills, self-regulation, and self-esteem in a healthy manner during a critical period that affects their child's lifelong development.

“Children grow through play, and their brains develop through play.”
The door to cognitive development opened by play


Parents, who know better than anyone that infancy is a crucial period for brain development, are always worried that they may need to do something special or extraordinary for their children.
However, the author says that what children need is not 'great experiences' but 'diverse experiences'.
The solution that effectively helps a child's cognitive development is daily play and experiences appropriate for each age and stage.


《Minju's Parenting Coaching Encyclopedia》 systematically categorizes the core elements of cognitive development in infants and toddlers into 'playfulness', 'immersion', 'concentration', and 'self-directedness', and presents specific methods for each element that can be practiced in daily life without special teaching aids or programs.
It is full of practical tips that can be applied immediately in actual parenting settings, such as how to identify a child's interests by observing play, the role of parents in fostering playfulness, a four-step method to increase concentration, and how to teach Korean without resistance.
This book, which sheds new light on the importance of cognitive development in infants and toddlers through everyday play, will serve as a reliable guide for all parents concerned about their children's healthy brain development.

"No to forced habits! The secret to making yourself want to do something."
A guide to forming healthy lifestyle habits, from eating habits to sleep and toilet training.


“Every time I eat, I have to chase after the child who runs away and force-feed him.”
“When I tell him to brush his teeth, he cries and throws a tantrum, that’s his daily routine.”
“Every day I go to bed, it feels like I’m fighting a war.”

Forming lifestyle habits is a concern for all parents with young children.
Author Lee Min-ju emphasizes that lifestyle habits are not simply repetitive training, but require a systematic approach tailored to the child's developmental stage.
What is particularly noteworthy is that there is a golden period for habit formation.
That period is around the age of two, when the ego begins to develop rapidly.
If you miss this time, it will require more time and energy later.
This book breaks down major lifestyle habits, such as sleep, eating, and toilet training, into stages and presents specific practical methods optimized for each stage.
For example, in the case of sleep, it provides systematic guidance, starting with creating a regular daily routine, creating a suitable sleeping environment, and forming a proper sleep ritual.
Let's create a happy daily life for both children and parents with the know-how to form habits appropriate for each developmental stage.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: February 13, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 304 pages | 574g | 148*205*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791168272774
- ISBN10: 1168272777

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