Anita Cleare is a parenting speaker, writer and coach who supports working parents to balance successful careers with being a parent. With an academic background in developmental psychology, Anita has a talent for helping parents to step back and reflect on parent-child dynamics and implement small changes that make a huge difference. She founded the Positive Parenting Project in 2012 with the aim of helping parents cut through the fads and fashions of parenting advice and focus on evidence-based approaches that work. Anita’s award-nominated parenting blog ‘Thinking Parenting’ has been listed in the Sunday Times Magazine as a must-read for parents. Her book The Work/Parent Switch (UK) / The Working Parent’s Survival Guide (USA) outlines how working parents can use the bits of time left over when work is done to parent smartly and be the parent their child needs. (International editions also available in German, Chinese, Romanian and Polish). Anita’s second book, How to Get Your Teenager Out of Their Bedroom comes out in the UK and USA in September 2024. An accredited Triple P® parenting facilitator, Anita has been working with parents for 18 years. Before founding the Positive Parenting Project, she worked for a local authority children’s services managing specialist family support services including Sure Start children’s centres, parent helplines, teenage pregnancy prevention projects and intensive family support services.
You can follow Anita on Instagram (@anitacleare_parenting) or join The Positive Parenting Project on Facebook.
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