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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
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the privacy of her exam room, pediatric nurse practitioner Jessica Peck has treated teens and tweens who struggle with anxiety and depression, cyber-bullying, sexting, self-harm, gender identity, and other issues. We long for the young people we love to thrive, but they are facing realities we never experienced in adolescence ourselves--and it's hard to even know how to start a conversation. Behind Closed Doors encourages families and guides them...
Author
Publisher
Northfield Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on Chapman's best-selling The Five Love Languages®-an intentional resource for adding love, meaning, and adventure to your family days! Family Time, borne out of the authors own experiences and desires to love their children well, is an invaluable resource of activities incorporating each of the five love languages.
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
"Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call 'parenting' is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended...
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
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
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on nearly twenty years' experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that's aligned to their own values and their children's unique temperaments.
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
Windsor Peak Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now the reality hits you--what the heck am I doing? What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those parents who've come before you...and mix it with the solid medical advice from a nationally-renowned pediatrician? Baby 411 is the answer! Take the guesswork out of parenting and feel empowered, instead of overwhelmed. The expert advice includes sections on: sleep, nutrition, first aid, fussy baby 411, 'is my...
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
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Of course you think you're doing a sh*tty job. Every parent does. It's pretty much a byproduct of our society, with its incessant demands coupled with the in-your-face competitiveness parents see on social media. Unfortunately, the pandemic only made things worse, as parents juggled the stresses of helping their kids navigate online schooling while they also had to work from home. All of which makes Carla Naumburg's new book utterly necessary. Author...
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Every parent hopes for a healthy child, the reality is that children face many common challenges, including medical issues like ADHD, asthma, food allergies, autism, school failure, depression, and developmental delays, throughout their formative years. As the role of a parent becomes one of a caregiver, it can be overwhelming for parents and children alike, particularly if money, time, access, or any combination of those are in short supply. As a...
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