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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Morgenstern views parenting as the ultimate time-management challenge-- and shares concrete ways for you to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Finding a healthy balance between raising a human and being a human often feels impossible, but you can learn to harness your own strengths and weaknesses. She shows readers how to separate parenting responsibilities into actionable, manageable tasks; presents simple strategies for staying...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Offers up a new approach toward self-regulation and child expression, focusing on the family as a whole to create a calmer, more equitable home environment. From addressing the issues that cause and result from being reactive to implementing a more effective parenting approach, this book serves as your support system as you seek to bring meaningful change into your home.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on views of success and child rearing, a renowned psychologist combines cutting-edge research with thirty years of clinical experience to explain how to shift focus to a parenting style that promotes academic success, a sense of purpose, and meaning in life.
Author
Publisher
MJF Books, Kramer
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Instilling self-esteem is the most valuable contributionan adult can make to a child's life. . . .This wonderful book is full of specific, carefully explained techniques, exercises, games and other activities that quickly create obvious results.
Author
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Parenting doesn't always come naturally. This book provides expert guidance for caregivers who struggle with parenting because of adversity in their own lives, or simply because they are raising kids in an increasingly stressful world. As parents and caregivers, we want to shore up kids to help them through difficult or disturbing experiences. But if we or our child have experienced adversity or trauma, this can be especially challenging, and we may...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Outrageously confident and sweetly indignant, the Honest Toddler tackles everything from preferred toddler foods (unbroken crackers and undiluted juice), sleep- and potty-training methods (none), playdate etiquette (mi casa es not su casa), and the proper response to random aggression at the playground (embrace it--Park justice is messy but swift). The result is a parenting book like no other, one that will leave moms and dads laughing, and maybe...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan provides a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationship with our children and getting everyone's needs met in the process. She provides an alternative, not just to spanking and verbal abuse, but to Time Outs, countdowns, and emotional manipulation.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A quick-to-use resource for first-time parents on why newborns don't take baths, why one should burp their baby, why a newborn has constant gas, and much more! Most new parents approach their upcoming adventure with mixed feelings of excitement and trepidation. There are so many questions that seem to be unanswered about their newborns and toddlers"--
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD. is a neuroscientist, doula, and parent. Her work began the goal of developing new treatments for poor mental health; she dreamed of creating a new medication to address conditions like anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic stress. Over time, she realized that science had already uncovered a powerful medicine for alleviating mental health struggles, but the answer wasn't a pill. It was a preventative approach: when babies...
Author
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Advance gender equality one family at a time. Pediatrician and mother of four Dr. Shelly Flais gives parents the tools they need to start the lifelong process of raising their boys into men who are mentally healthy, empathetic, and committed to gender equality. Dr. Flais provides concrete techniques for parents to push back against cultural stereotypes and toxic masculinity as they nurture their sons. Because "kids do as they see," the work of being...
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As parents, we want our children to take responsibility for their schoolwork, their chores, and their choices. We want them to grow into independent adults, but when we see them struggling, we sometimes have a tendency to step in and problem-solve, telling them exactly what to do or even doing things for them ourselves. The problem is the more controlling we are with our children, the more out of control they feel. When our children feel out of control,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When children and teenagers are at their best, it is easy to enjoy them, teach them, live with them and appreciate them. However, when they are defiant, argumentative or withdrawn, it is easy to get wound up, to argue back, threaten, nag and shout. If this sounds like the situation in your house, then Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting is for you.
18) Gifted and distractible: understanding, supporting, and advocating for your twice exceptional child
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Does your child exhibit giftedness and behavioral issues like meltdowns, power struggles, and difficulty relating to their peers? Are they out-of-the-box thinkers requiring different teaching and learning methods? It's a widely held misconception that intellectual ability and social and emotional success go hand in hand. In fact, "twice exceptional" kids-those who are gifted and have simultaneous learning differences like ADHD, high-functioning autism,...
Author
Publisher
Namaste Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The time has come for parenting to become what it was always meant to be - about the parent. Dr Shefali Tsabary details how our children can be raised as conscious adults only when we as parents allow ourselves to be raised into a higher state of consciousness.
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