Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls
Actionable strategies to help you avoid common parenting pitfalls
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Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls
A Compassionate Roadmap to Conscious, Connected, and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting
By Ahmad Taufiq
Are you tired of reacting in ways you later regret? Do you find yourself stuck between wanting to do things differently and falling back on old patterns? Are you searching for a parenting approach that fosters deep connection, emotional growth, and lasting trust?
Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls is the warm, wise, and practical resource every modern parent needs. Written by experienced parenting coach, counselor, and speaker Ahmad Taufiq, this book offers a clear path toward parenting with greater presence, empathy, and resilience—no perfection required.
Why This Book?
Parenting doesn’t come with a manual—but it can come with guidance that makes a difference. In this insightful and empowering book, Taufiq explores the most common parenting pitfalls—from reacting with control and fear, to confusing discipline with punishment, to unintentionally dismissing our children’s emotional needs.
Through each chapter, he not only names the problem but offers real, actionable tools to help parents respond instead of react, connect instead of control, and guide instead of punish.
If you've ever thought:
- “Why do I get so triggered by my child?”
- “How can I teach boundaries without yelling or shaming?”
- “I want to parent differently than how I was raised, but I don’t know how…”
This book was written for you.
What You'll Learn
Inside the pages of Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls, you'll discover:
- The most common pitfalls parents fall into—and how to avoid them with compassion and clarity
- Why your child’s behavior isn’t misbehavior, but communication—and what they’re really trying to tell you
- How to regulate your own nervous system and stay calm during meltdowns or conflict
- The truth about obedience, and why connection is more powerful than control
- How to move away from punishment and toward discipline that teaches, not hurts
- Ways to validate your child’s emotions and help them build emotional resilience
- Practical tools for repairing after mistakes, reconnecting, and rebuilding trust
- How your own childhood experiences shape your parenting—and how to begin healing and breaking cycles
What Makes This Book Different
- Non-judgmental and compassionate tone – Taufiq writes like a trusted guide, not a critic. He understands the challenges parents face and meets them with empathy and compassion, not shame.
- Culturally grounded and trauma-informed – The strategies offered respect family diversity, lived experience, and generational influences.
- Deeply practical – You’ll find tools you can use right away, including real-life scripts, reflective questions, and step-by-step approaches to challenging moments.
- Focus on the parent-child relationship – Rather than quick fixes or behavior control, this book centers the relational connection between parent and child.
Who Is This Book For?
Parents who want to break generational cycles of reacting in a tone that may sound aggressive, comparing, or emotional neglect
Caregivers seeking a gentle and conscious approach to discipline and behavior
New parents navigating the early years with intention
Seasoned parents looking for ways to reconnect with older children
Professionals working in parenting, education, or family services
Anyone committed to raising emotionally intelligent, confident, and connected children
Whether you’re parenting a toddler, child or even a teen, or somewhere in between, this book will support you in becoming the safe, trusted adult your child needs.
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About the Book
Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls is a compassionate, practical resource for parents seeking to raise emotionally healthy children while avoiding common parenting pitfalls. Each chapter explores a specific pitfall—like reacting from fear, prioritizing obedience, or dismissing emotions—and offers guidance for shifting to a more conscious, connection-based approach. Grounded in principles of positive parenting, the book encourages self-reflection, emotional regulation, and breaking harmful generational cycles. It provides practical actionable strategies for responding to children's behavior with empathy and long-term vision rather than control or punishment. With a supportive tone and clear, relatable examples, the guidebook empowers parents to become safe, trusted adults in their children’s lives and to parent in a way that fosters trust, autonomy, and lifelong emotional resilience.
About the Author
Parenting Coach | Family Educator | Speaker | Counsellor
“It’s not about being perfect—it’s about being present.”
Ahmad Taufiq is a respected parenting coach, family educator, and speaker with over a decade of experience supporting parents and caregivers through the highs, lows, and everyday moments of raising children. His work bridges evidence-based child development research with deeply practical, culturally grounded tools that resonate with modern families.
Taufiq is also an established speaker and has experience in various international conferences, symposiums and has been invited as a guest on radio and multiple podcasts. Having such a diverse and rich experience as a practitioner in residential settings, working with children, youths, families and suicide prevention. Taufiq is also an strong advocate in suicide prevention and mental health awareness and literacy.
Taufiq holds a Bachelor’s and Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology along with certifications in Positive Parenting, Parent Coaching, Pre-Marital Counselling, Suicide Prevention and Trauma-Informed Practice.
He is known for his warm, no-judgment approach and his ability to hold space for both the emotional and practical aspects of parenting. His signature book, Guidebook to Avoiding Parenting Pitfalls, reflects his commitment to helping parents become more present, empowered, and emotionally connected to their children.
Currently Taufiq oversees the operations of a children’s helpline supporting children in distress, who are struggling and experiencing poor mental health. Taufiq is also the Founder and Lead Practitioner for The Practitioner’s Collective.
In his free time, Taufiq is also an established internationally ranked strength athlete currently representing Singapore in Strongman, Highland Games, Track & Field and the first Asian Strongman athlete to be awarded a full lift on the historic Dinnie Stones in Scotland.