The Silent Guides | Professor Steve Peters

About the book

How to understand and develop children’s emotions, thinking and behaviours

How can we help our children:

become more resilient?
get over mistakes?
develop a positive outlook?

And, what can we do to become better role models?

Children usually don’t welcome their own unhelpful Chimp activity. They just don’t understand how to manage it…If we can distinguish between the child and the machine in their mind, this will help us to see the child’s behaviour in a different light.

Prof Steve Peters uses his Chimp Mind Management Model to help parents, teachers and carers understand the neuroscience behind unconscious beliefs and habits that may be silently guiding children’s emotions, thinking and behaviours.

The Silent Guides explores ten positive habits and many related themes taken from the children’s educational book My Hidden Chimp. Prof Steve Peters helps challenge unhelpful behaviours such as:

being overly self-critical
fear of failure
low self-esteem

What are the Silent Guides

During our childhood, we learn to manage our emotions by developing coping strategies. These strategies, whether helpful or unhelpful, often progress into habits for life – our Silent Guides.

Helpful habits can give many advantages in life. Unhelpful habits that persist into adult life usually bring stress. These habits can be detrimental to our day to- day functioning, psychological health and relationships.

What Other Say

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It makes you see your child’s behaviour in a whole new light. Rather than finding my children’s tantrums truly irritating, I now take on board the fact there is a Chimp taking over their immature brains. I now have more patience and understanding when the tantrums hit. Unless, of course, I am in a busy supermarket 😉

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If you’re a parent – read this, if you’re a teacher – read this. This book gives you so many strategies to talk, to understand and to help your child or pupil. The ideas are so easy to incorporate into the way you deal with children that you will see the benefits straight away. When my child, grandson, student tantrums I used to try really hard to find a way to work my way through what to do. Since I’ve read this book I’ve been able to turn the worst tantrum around and bring my gorgeous grandson/ daughter, student child around. As a parent, teacher, or anyone who looks after children then please read this.

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Already a fan of Prof Steve Peters, this addition to our parenting library was a ‘must’. Easy to read, applicable and family friendly, its a must for parents, teachers, coaches and mentors, or simply oneself.

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Here, the bridge between the adult and child mind is crossed with incisive background knowledge that compares the differences. Ten useful habits for children and adults alike follow, to share and develop together as a family.

What’s inside

The Silent Guides Has Two Themes

To offer ideas and support to parents, teachers or carers that could help children to form healthy and constructive habits. Preventing unhealthy or destructive habits from developing.

To help adults consider and understand where some of their unhealthy or destructive learnt behaviours and beliefs might have come from. Then offer ways to replace them with healthy and constructive behaviours and beliefs.

Helpful and Unhelpful Thinking

The book addresses some common unhelpful thoughts and behaviours we can change. It then offers helpful thoughts and behaviours that we can learn.

Unhelpful Thinking

Examples of unhelpful thinking, behaviours and habits include:

• Being overly self-critical

• Fear of failure and unforgiving perfectionism

• Worrying excessively or overreacting to situations

• Procrastinating

• Living with low self-esteem

Helpful Thinking

Examples of helpful thinking, behaviours and habits include:

• Getting over mistakes

• Developing a positive outlook

• Being able to talk through your feelings

• Seeking appropriate help

• Being proactive

• Smiling

About the Author

Professor Steve Peters – Consultant Psychiatrist – BA, PGCE, MBBS, MEd, MRCPsych, PhD, DSc, Dip Sports Med.

Steve is a medical doctor; he specialises in mental health and the functioning of the human mind and has dedicated his working life to help people get the best out of themselves and to be in a good place. His current and past experiences include clinical director of Mental Health Services within the NHS at a district hospital, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield Medical School. He has spent 20 years as an examination panel member at the Royal College of Psychiatry and has been an expert advisor to World Anti-doping Agency.

As an author, he has written 4 books including the bestselling self-help book of all time in the UK, The Chimp Paradox, which has sold over a million copies – as per Nielsen TCM Chart 2020.

Other achievements include attending Downing Street for winning the senate award twice for his excellence in teaching. He has been a consultant to over 20 Olympic and national sporting teams and organisations over the course of his career.

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Chimp Management

Chimp Management was set up by Professor Steve Peters in order to respond to the numerous requests he was receiving for help in understanding and using The Chimp Model.

Steve and his experienced team of doctors and psychologists specialise in helping others be the best they can be and achieve psychological well-being. The Model helps people working in all walks of life including public services, the corporate sector, education, health and the world of sport. Their daily work is helping clients to get the best out of themselves and others, using The Chimp Model.

Our aim is to help educate and assist anyone who would like to further develop their chimp management skills.