For the parent who loves their child fiercely and is exhausted in equal measure.

Does bedtime take forty-five minutes of negotiation? Does every simple request become a battle? Does your child argue every rule, push every limit, and feel everything at full volume - while you wonder, somewhere in the quiet after a hard evening, whether you are doing any of this right?

Parenting the Strong-Willed Child is the book written for you.

Drawing on developmental psychology, attachment research, and the honest, on-the-ground experience of parents raising children who refuse to be managed, Eugene Awahnde offers a compassionate and practical roadmap for the families that conventional parenting advice consistently fails.

This book will help you:

• Understand why your child resists, argues, and pushes - and what they are actually communicating
• Build a relationship strong enough to make cooperation natural rather than forced
• Set limits that hold without destroying connection in the process
• Navigate the daily battlegrounds - mornings, homework, screens, siblings, and meltdowns - with specific, adaptable strategies
• Raise a child who thinks for themselves, reasons morally, and carries their fire into a life they choose

The traits that make this child difficult to parent today are the same traits that will make them extraordinary tomorrow. Persistence. Intensity. A sense of justice that will not be quieted. This book will help you stop fighting those traits and start guiding them.

Less conflict. More connection. A whole person in the making.