Winning Parent, Winning Child by Jan Fortune

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What parent hasn’t longed to improve his or her relationship with children? What parent hasn’t thought – surely there must be a better way? This book is about that better way. Jan Fortune-Wood, author of four previous books on parenting and education, helps both parents and children to get what they want from life and live well together.

In easy to follow chapters full of examples, Jan illustrates how battles and uneasy compromises can be replaced with solutions that everyone prefers, facilitating ways to respect children and help them to grow as independent, flexible people.

Dr Jan Fortune is one of the best and most radical writers on education and parenting.

Professor Roland Meighan, Director of Personalised Education Now

Jan Fortune is an eloquent advocate for families living and learning together. Her writing is gentle, yet passionate and never fails to provide inspiration.

Wendy Priesnitz, Editor, Life Learning Magazine

Jan Fortune studied theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge and did a PhD in feminist theology. She has worked as a teacher, parish priest and charity director and moved to North Wales in 2001, where she runs Cinnamon Press with her son, Rowan, and continues to try to learn Welsh. Jan has tutored creative writing courses for the Arvon Foundation, Open College of Arts, Women on Tour, Gardoussel Retreat and NAWE as well as running writing  courses for Cinnamon Press.

Her publications include many articles, chapters and five non fiction books on alternative education and parenting, inspired by home educating her four (now adult) children, the most recent being Winning Parent, Winning Child; novels, including Dear Ceridwen, Coming Home, and a novel for teenagers, The Standing Ground, which is also popular with adults; a poetry collection and a prose poetry collection, Stale Bread & Miracles. She is currently working on a new novel and a long poetry sequence focussing on an abandoned slate mine and valley, Cwmorthin, near her home.