Parenting Skills

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40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child
Barbara Mathias
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Although it's now more than thirty years since the first modern civil rights legislation was passed by Congress, our society is still imbued with the spirit of racism. Ultimately, the only way to end it will be to raise our children differently than we we

 

5 main things: Making Discipline Work
Joyce Divinyi
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This book offers a highly effective approach to helping children learn the things they need to know to be successful and happy in life. It is about effective discipline.

 

7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The
Steven R. Covey
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Covey reinterprets each of his now famous "habits" (Habit 1: Be Proactive, Habit 4: Think Win-Win, Habit 6: Synergize) to apply to parenting and family-life issues. Covey suggests writing a family mission statement, implementing special family times and "one-on-ones," holding regular family meetings, and making the commitment to move from "me" to "we" as techniques to improve family effectiveness. Covey is a brilliant storyteller. By weaving the voices and anecdotes of his wife and children with his own inspirational and informative stories, exercises, and parables, he has created a book with something for all parents interested in enhancing the strength and beauty of their own families.

 

Always Kiss Me Good Night: Instructions on Raising the Perfect Parent
J. S. Salt
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If kids came with an instruction manual, this would be it. This warm and funny book offers truly wise parenting tips from the experts themselves, kids ages 6-12, who know exactly what they need. These suggestions will bring the renewed joy and confidence that you can give your kids the love and support they deserve.

 

Attaching in Adoption
Deborah Gray
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Proper attachment is the most fundamental issue in a successful adoption, but what exactly does the term mean? Attaching in Adoption answers that question thoroughly, and it provides solutions to a variety of specific attachment problems. Along with tech

 

Baby Bond, The: How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child
Dianna Hine
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an easy to read guide that explains how your child learns to think, feel and act. The Baby Bond is a well researched book that describes what babies need to grow into healthy children. This book is recommended by Foster W. Cline, MD author of Parenting with Love & Logic.

 

Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Laura Davis
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Provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosphy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parents of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.

 

Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles
Janice Hale
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As African-American children are acculturated at home and in the African-American community, they develop cognitive patterns and behaviors that may prove imcompatible with the school environment. Cultural factors produce group differences that must be addressed in the educational process. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, sociology, history, and psychology, Hale explores the effects of African-Ameircan culture on a child's intellectual development and suggests curricular reforms that would allow African-American children to develop their intelligence, purse their strengths, and succeed in school and at work.

 

Challenging Child
Stanley Greenspan
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Profoundly optimistic, this book reassures parents that they do not simply have to live with their child's fixed temperament. It demonstrates how, by adjusting their reactions to a child's behavior, they can help the child turn these differences into assets and deal triumphantly with each new challenge. THE CHALLENGING CHILD enables parents to construct a parenting style suited to their child's individual personality, from infancy to adolescence.

 

Children Are From Heaven
John Gray
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The author of the number one bestseller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" speaks to the Baby Boomer generation about their most passionate concern--raising their kids. Gray shows how the crucial years between the ages of one to nine present a golden opportunity to give children messages of encouragement that will guide them throughout their lives.

 

Children Are Not Born With Instructions
Beverly Miles
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A biblically based parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, godparents and foster-parents guide for raising children.

 

Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values
Dorothy Law Nolte
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The author offers a simple but powerful guide to parenting - by inspiring values through example. Addressing issues of security, self-worth, tolerance, honesty, fear, respect, fairness, patience, and more this book of rare common sense will help a new generation of parents find their own parenting wisdom and draw out their child's immense inner resources.

 

Children: The Challenge
Rudolph Dreikurs
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This book develops the idea of natural consequences, a parenting technique that has helped generations of children understand their personal responsibility and power over their own actions.

 

Climbing Jacobs Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African and American Families
Andrew Billingsley
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This book looks at the evolution of black families. It describes the forces shaping them and their resiliency and strengths.

 

Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast
Joe Kelly
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As the primary male role model in a girl's life, fathers influence their daughters in profound ways, from how they see themselves to what they come to expect from men and the world at large. But men often don't realize the importance of their interactions or may shy away from too close involvement because of their inexperience, or conditioning. Especially as girls move into adolescence, fathers may find themselves feeling distant from their daughters or awkward with the changing dynamic. Communication becomes difficult and parenting issues more complicated. But this is also the time when daughters most need their fathers to be an even greater presence in their lives. Dads and Daughters is a tool to bridge that gap and build a rewarding and joyful father-daughter relationship.

 

Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children
Jawanza Kunjufu
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Many contemporary Black Scholars have continued to address the question of educating the African-American child. The author addresses the issues for parents in a coherent manner providing real things that can be done in spite of the educational system that exists. Dr. Kunjufu believes the development of positive self-images and discipline in Black children is the primary responsibility of the parent. Teachers should provide supplemental nurturance and high expectations. His book is a must read for parents who want to develop positive self-images & Discipline in their Black child.

 

Dialogues About Adoption
Linda Bothun
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Using hundreds of true-life vignettes, DIALOGUES ABOUT ADOPTION provides sample conversations covering every aspect of adoption. Each thematic chapter of the book is prefaced by a review of relevant developmental stages. In most discussions about adoption, there is neither a right nor a wrong answer, but this book will help you to make the appropriate response for your family.

 

Difficult Child, The
Stanley Turecki, M.D.
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Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive.

 

Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
Kyle D. Pruett, M.D.
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Children need the right balance of nurturing care that all children need to grow into healthy adults, including the kind of care only a father can give. For years the most trusted child care experts have emphasized the mother/child bond, but this is only half the story. Kids and dads are also biologically hardwired for a different but equally important relationship. In Fatherneed, Dr. Kyle D. Pruett draws on more than two decades of highly acclaimed research at the Yale Child Study Center to offer the first complete understanding of the father's role in child and adult development.

 

First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts
Caroline Archer
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Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, but of considerable use to foster carers of young children, this publication approaches attachment and developmental issues arising when even the smallest child is in your care. Extremely well researched, it offers practical, sensitive guidance through the dark areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It reassures that no problem faced as a result of your child's early experiences is insignificant or undeserving of a solution. Neither is the reader patronized by assumptions that some matters should already be common knowledge. Archer sets out purposefully to encourage confidence and thereby to enable enjoyment of the young life in your care, confessing this to be the book she herself would have welcomed 20 years ago.

 

Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (And When) about Sex and Family Building
Anne Bernstein
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"Children think differently from adults concerning sex and birth", reads the 9/1/94 review in Library Journal. "Page after page of enlightening interviews take us deep into the minds of children 3-12 years old...This understanding of child development will help adults communicate better with children about the origin of families as well as the origin of babies". Our customers confirm that this has been a perfect gift for any and all of the parents they know, not to mention teachers!

 

Games Babies Play: From Birth to 12 Months
Vicki Lansky
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This is a guide to playing with your baby in ways that will capture and hold your baby's attention. Every baby's daily routine should include play that is fun - for both of you. Play is vital to every infant's emotional, social, physical and intellectual development. It also helps forge the crucial bond between child and parent. Playing with your baby teaches the baby that he or she is loved.

 

Guide for the Care of Infants in Groups
Sally Provence, M.D.
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This book provides a good guide for infant and child development . Good material for those parenting an infant. Offers some insight into infants who've experienced group care/institutionalization.

 

Happiest Toddler on the Block, The: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One - to Four-Year-Old
Harvey Karp, M.D.
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Pediatrician Karp offers a unique approach to the tantrums, melt-downs and overriding challenges that often accompany the demanding years from one to four. Parents may find the toddler years so frustrating, Karp suggests, because they don't speak their child's language. To deal effectively with the undeveloped brains of toddlers, one must understand "Toddler-ese," he says, a method of talking to youngsters that employs short phrases, repetition, a dramatic tone of voice and the use of body language.

 

Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss
Claudia Jewett-Jarrett
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All adopted children have suffered a loss—the loss of their birthparents. Some have also been separated from one or more foster parents. HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH SEPARATION AND LOSS contains compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss. It offers warm advice, specific techniques, and innovative ideas for helping children overcome the sadness, anger, and anxiety they feel during a difficult time.

 

Holding Time
Martha Welch
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HOLDING TIME presents a breakthrough parenting strategy—a revolutionary approach to parent-child bonding that can make all children happier, more cooperative and more self-confident. This simple, scientific program is based on the nurturing bond that forms when you hold your child. The author has already had remarkable success in solving problems ranging from bedwetting and sibling rivalry to hyperactivity and anti-social behavior in patients from infants to their preteens.

 

How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
Sal Severe, Ph.D.
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Based on Dr. Severe's more than twenty years of experience as a school psychologist and parenting workshop leader, this book shows why a child's behavior is often a reflection of the parents' behavior, and how, by making changes themselves, parents can achieve dramatic results in their children. It teaches you how to teach your children to behave, listen and to be more cooperative.

 

I'm Furious
Elizabeth Crary
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This book provides options that children can use to diffuse their anger without denying or feeling shame about it. The book offers alternatives to aggressive behavior when children feel angry.

 

Insight Into Adoption
Barbara Taylor Blomquist
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The goal of this book is to help adoptive parents understand some potentially challenging factors so they can deal with positively and to help parents comprehend the thinking process of their child. It will also be an invaluable resource to social workers, teachers, and counselors so that they may approach their adopted clients in an enlightened way once they understand that an adopted child has issues in his life unique to the adoptive process.

 

Lessons for Lifeguards: Working With Teens When the Topic is Hope
Dr. Michael A. Carrera
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A guide with practical advice for adults working with abstinence education and adolescent sexuality. The author has spent almost 40 years in the community working as an educator with young people and families.

 

Magic Tools for Raising Kids
Elizabeth Crary
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Parenting your children is easier and more effective with a toolbox of useful, child-tested, positive tools that are versatile enough to fix or prevent most problems. This book shows what to do, how to it, and what to say.

 

Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
Selma Fraiberg
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In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of a child, showing how he confronts this world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualities--above all, the quality of understanding--that can provide the right answer at critical moments.

 

Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children, The: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
James A. Fogarty
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This book is designed for clinicians, educators, clergy, and nurses, anyone who is assisting children who have experienced the death of a loved one. It describes how children's grief-related magical thoughts can progress with cognitive distortions, developing into defense mechanisms, and finally to personality disorders.

 

Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours
Dr. Kevin Leman
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Do your kids refuse breakfast, hassle you about the clothes you've set out for them, then complain about the lunches you're packing? Have you lost control before the day even begins? Dr. Leman's action-oriented method puts you back in command. Filled with real-life incidents and familiar anecdotes, here is real, practical help and freedom from confusion. Begin to make your children mind lovingly, wisely and well.

 

Making Sense of Adoption: A Parents Guide
Lois Melina
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Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. This wise and timely guide helps parents anticipate and respond to these concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities, parents will find the methods need to answer their childrens questions. MAKING SENSE OF ADOPTION will open the door to a lifetime of growth and understanding for adoptive families. It is a resource that you will continue to consult as your child grows.

 

Myth of Laziness, The
Mel Levine, M.D.
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Dr. Levine shows how we can spot the neurodevelopmental dysfunctions that may cause "output failure" as he calls it, whether in school or in the workplace. He identifies seven forms of dysfunction that obstruct output. He shows how identifying the problem can make all the difference, leading to a course of corrective action rather than to accusations of laziness and moral failure.

 

Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts
Caroline Archer
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Written for adoptive parents and long-term foster carers, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to support adopted children and teenagers and their families. An adopted child may well have suffered abuse or neglect; he or she will have experienced separation, loss, and inconsistent parenting. This early trauma and upheaval is often expressed in emotional and behavioral problems, which are especially difficult for the child and his or her parents to cope with during the teenage years.

 

Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood
Foster Cline
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A unique approach to dealing with the turmoil of adolescence that recognizes that teens learn best when they're allowed to make choices and learn from the consequences. The trick is in setting up choices so the consequences are constructive.

 

Parenting With Love and Logic
Foster Cline
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As a parent, you have only a few years to prepare your children for a world that requires responsibility and maturity for survival. So what should you do? Hover over your kids so they never make mistakes? Drill them so they'll remember the important principles when they're on their own? Tear your hair out in frustration? If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready to live in the real world, take advantage of this win-win approach to PARENTING WITH LOVE AND LOGIC.

 

Parenting Your Adopted Child
Stephanie Siegel
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From infancy through the teenage years and beyond, PARENTING YOUR ADOPTED CHILD is a practical manual for raising adopted children. For each stage of development, it provides advice on how to handle the issues of adoption, special situations, and common questions. In addition, this newest edition expands upon the challenges facing special needs adoptive families. There are even chapters about adult adoptees' issues. Unique to this book, there is also a chapter for grandparents of adopted children.

 

Punished by Rewards: The trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
Alfie Kohn
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Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: DO THIS AND YOU'LL GET THAT. We dangle goodies in front of people in the same way that we train the family pet. Rewards and punishmens are two sides of the same coin. What is needed, Kohn explains, is an alternative to both ways of controlling people. Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished by rewards presents an argument that is unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.

 

Putting Children First: A Guide for Parents Breaking Up
Hanna McDonough
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This book describes a child-centred approach for separated and divorcing parents who want to minimize the damage done to children during and after the break-up. It offers essential information and advice on renegotiating the practical and emotional aspects of the parent-child relationship.

 

Raising Adopted Children
Lois Melina
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RAISING ADOPTED CHILDREN is a parents' guide to rearing children in an adoptive family. It covers circumstances important to all adoptive parents. Drawing from child development, psychology, sociology, medicine, and also the experiences of adoptive parents, it examines the child's physical, emotional and psychological development at every age. In addition, there are chapters on special topics such as the multiracial family, serious behavior problems, and single parent adoption. This book should be on the reference shelf of every adoptive family.

 

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From The Myths of Boyhood
William Pollack
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As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has seen behind the stoic masks of troubled, modern boys as they struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and increasingly complex demands they receive from our evolving society. "New research shows that boys are faring less well ... that many boys have remarkably fragile self-esteem, and that the rates of both depression and suicide in boys are frighteningly on the rise."

 

Real Parents, Real Children
Holly van Gulden
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If you've ever heard Holly van Gulden speak, you'll know that a wealth of information awaits you in this book. REAL PARENTS, REAL CHILDREN offers insight into how adopted children commonly think and feel about being adopted. It explains why, and in what way, adopted children grieve for their birth parents and suggests ways that adoptive parents can help them to come to a healthy resolution of this grief. This book offers confidence and assurance, as well as sought-after answers to lifelong questions. Dr. Jerri Jenista calls this book the "...Dr. Spock of raising adopted children."

 

Resilient Self, The: How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above
Steven & Sybil Wolin
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This book, directed at people who claim to have been raised in troubled families, provides methods for overcoming the handicaps created by a dysfunctional upbringing. The authors cast a broad net in defining a dysfunctional family. Virtually all survivors of negative childhood experiences can boost their self-image by adapting the seven "resiliencies" prescribed by the authors. The resiliencies include insight, humor, independence, initiative, and creativity.

 

Self Esteem Revolutions in Children: Understanding and Managing the Critical Transitions
Thomas Phelan
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Parents want their children to grow up with a robust, yet realistic self-respect. In their eagerness to help, however, parents often fall into traps that make them feel better without actually advancing their children's self-esteem. In this enlightening n

 

Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years Later
Robert Hill
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This book uses a holistic framework to study African American families and view them from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The book identifies solutions, not problems, and links current family strengths to African cultural legacies.

 

Surviving Your Adolescents: How to Manage and Let Go of Your 13 to 18 Year Olds
Thomas Phelan
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Living with a teenager is no picnic. There are times when parents must bite their tongue as their teens push towards independence. Or -- if they sense there is trouble -- there are times when they must take charge. Dr. Phelan gives a step-by-step approach that will help end the hassles and offer concrete solutions.

 

Talking to Your Child About Adoption
Patricia Dorner
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Covering infancy through the teen years, TALKING TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT ADOPTION guides adoptive parents as they learn about adoption issues and how to comfortably discuss them. The emphasis of this book is that communication about adoption is an ongoing process. This book is also useful for friends and family.

 

Talking With Young Children About Adoption
Mary Watkins
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Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their children about adoption as early as possible. But it's often hard to know what to say and when to say it. How do children respond to the concept of adoption? How do they incorporate adoption into their make-believe play? What worries do they have? This book, for parents of children aged two to ten, answers these questions, and many more. It provides wonderful insights into the process of TALKING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN ABOUT ADOPTION.

 

Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
Betsy Keefer
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There are three overriding principles guiding the contents of this book: the needs of the adopted child are paramount; honesty is essential to integrity; and love for children and hope for their future as well-adjusted, secure individuals should be the bedrock underlying talks about adoption. TELLING THE TRUTH TO YOUR ADOPTED OR FOSTER CHILD will equip you with the knowledge and tools you will need for a lifetime of communication about the complex, troubling, and often painful aspects of your child's fragmented past.

 

Therapeutic Parenting: Its a Matter of Attitude
Deborah Hage
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A practical guide to parenting children with attachment disorders, mood disorders and oppositional defiant disorders

 

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wished Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Sherrie Eldridge
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This remarkable book offers an unparalleled window into the heart of the adopted child, giving voice to feelings that are often too difficult to express. In powerful, poignant essays, it highlights the TWENTY THINGS ADOPTED KIDS WISH THEIR ADOPTIVE PARENTS KNEW. It also speaks to the unspoken concerns at the heart of every adoptive family, offering practical advice for addressing past issues, handling current crises, and ensuring a long, loving future for you and your children.

 

Two-Income Trap, The: Why Middle-class Mothers & Fathers are Going Broke
Elizabeth Warren
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The authors write about how today's middle-class parents are suffering from an unprecedented and totally unexpected economic meltdown. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but actually has less discretionary income once their fixed monthly bills are paid.

 

What Did I Just Say: How New Insights Into Childhood Thinking Can Help You Communicate More Effectively with Your Child
Denis Donovan
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What Did I Just Say!?! shows how conventional communication styles actually prevent parents from saying what they mean and cause children to hear something entirely different than what was intended. The authors demonstrate how a simple understanding of the logic of language and of childhood thinking can dramatically improve parent-child communication. Among the subjects covered are understanding the complex experiential world of young children; putting structure, rules, and boundaries into children's lives while still fostering individuality; encouraging healthy emotional responsiveness and interpersonal sensitivity while decreasing anger and aggression; focusing a child's attention; and foiling behaviors such as tuning out and forgetting.

 

Whole Life Adoption Book
Jayne Schooler
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Adoptive families face unique issues regarding attachment, adjustment and identity. Creating a nurturing family environment and being prepared for typical crisis points are critical to forging a healthy, lasting family relationship. THE WHOLE LIFE ADOPTION BOOK provides encouragement and practical information to help families succeed in forming these relationships.

 

Whole Parent: How to Become a Terrific Parent Even If You Didn't Have One
Debra Wesselmann
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In The Whole Parent, parents are taken on a compelling, in-depth journey of discovery and healing that can help them improve their lives and the lives of their children. Wesselmann, an expert in parent-child counseling, contends that contrary to what most people believe, parental instincts are not born to us. Despite the best intentions and genuine love for their children, parents who grew up with inadequate nurturing find themselves trapped in a generational cycle of problematic parent-child relationships. The author shows how moms and dads struggle with shame and frustration as parental ghosts of the past affect their relationships with their children

 

Your Amazing Newborn
Marshall Klaus
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With over 120 stunning photographs -- all of babies less than two weeks old -- Your Amazing Newborn illustrates the incredible new findings of research on newborns and guides parents and caregivers through the fascinating first weeks of a baby's life. Newly identified abilities are shown in astonishing photo sequences and insightful explanations. Abilities such as reaching (once considered impossible) are seen in exciting detail, along with the beautiful choreography between infants and parents, new discoveries about the five senses, the wonderful adaptation of adopted newborns, and above all that first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond.

 

Your Child: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Birth through Preadolescence
David B. Pruitt, M.D.
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Written by members of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the leading national association of physicians dedicated to the healthy mental development of children and adolescents, Your Child is the only reference to offer comprehensive and accessible information for parents on the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of children from infancy through the preadolescent years.

 

Your Premature Baby and Child: Helpful Answers and Advice for Parents
Amy E. Tracy
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The only comprehensive guide for the parents of "preemies"-from homecoming to the school years.Rraising "preemies" often places special demands on parents whose little ones seem-especially in those early weeks and months-as fragile as they are precious. This illustrated guide written by mothers of preemies in collaboration with medical experts, can help. With guidance on such wide ranging topics as bringing the baby home to medical issues to doctor visits to starting school-plus tips on dealing with the emotional and family stress of parenting a preemie.

 

Children

Discipline That Works - 5 Simple Steps
Joyce Divinyi
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There's a crucial difference between discipline and punishment. We all make mistakes. Teaching children how to handle mistakes and how to keep from making the same mistakes over and over is the awesome responsibility of parents and other adults who care for them. Providing goo healthy discipline is a vital part of that teaching process.

 

Proactive Parenting: Guiding Your Child From Two to Six
Alvin Poussaint
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An expert guide to the joys and challenges of parenting young children - from the renowned institute that has helped children grow and learn for seventy-five years.

 

touchpoints: The Essential Reference: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
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Touchpoints is a childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who offers parents a complete understanding of child development from a physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral point of view.

 

Mental Health

Taking Care of Your Child
Robert H. Pantell, M.D.
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A Parent's illustrated guide to complete medical care.

 

The Holistic Pediatrician
Kathi J. Kemper, M.D.
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A pediatrician's comprehensive guide to safe and effective therapies for the 25 most common ailments of infants, children and adolescents.

 

Parenting

123 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
Thomas Phelan
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The book version. It's not easy being a parent--and when children are acting like little monsters it would be helpful to handle their disrespectul outbursts in a reasonable, unemotional manner. A proven bestseller, 1-2-3 Magic addresses the difficult task of child disipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience.

 

Becoming the Parent You Want to be.
Laura Davis
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A sourcebook of strategies for the first five years; Nine principles for the parenting journey; Children's feelings; Children's Bodies; Dealing with difficult behavior; Social learning and play; Family relationships; Growing up; growing together.

 

Benjamin Bear Gets a New Family
Deborah Berry Joy
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This book deals, in story-book form, with the feelings many children experience as a result of their birth parents inability to provide care for them, as well as feelings related to their subsequent adoption. Opportunities and guidelines are provided for discussion.

 

Parent Education Text from the series "What Shall We Do With This Kid?
Foster Cline
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The Parent Education Text has been used for parenting classes in Iowa, Michigan and throughout Colorado. Topics covered include Home Atmosphere, Parental Personality Traits and Their Effect on Children, Who Has the Problem, Family Dynamics, How to Talk With Children, Punishment Versus Consequences, How the Real World Operates, How to Handle Infants, Toddlers and Adolescents.

 

Rational Parenting
Ross Campbell, M.D.
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This book could revolutionize the way you interact with your children. Its a book for everyone who has a nagging feeling that the approach to parenting they've been using for years just isn't working. It's also a book for parents of young children - parents who hope to avoid some of the problems they see in other families.

 

Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments & Everyday Heroics of Foster & Adoptive Parents
Richard Delaney, Ph.D.
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This book is about accomplishment, heroics, and foster and adoptive parents. In a nutshell, it about "everyday heroes." Small Feats describes the results achieved by the daily, one-step-at-a-time, cumulative, life-long heroism shown fy foster and adoptive parents.

 

Troubled Transplants: Unconventional strategies for helping disturbed foster and adopted children
Richard Delaney
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Troubled Transplants provides insights into the negative impact of the disturged child on the foster and adoptive family. It presents practical - if unconventional-treatment strategies for addressing the puzzling, exhausting problems of today's foster and adoptive children.

 

What a Difference a Daddy Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter's Life
Dr. Kevin Leman
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What a Difference a Daddy Makes examines the characteristics of a healthy father-daughter relationship.

 

Special Needs

It Couldn't Happen Here: Recognizing and Helping Desperate Kids
Cathy Corder
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Uncontrolled rage among our kids is just one deadly indication that they are not receiving the tools they need to handle the overwhelmingly harsh stress in their lives. Acting on primitive impulses while mimicking tragic adult behaviors is becoming a cultural norm for our youngsters. Their behaviors are red flags. We must begin to examine how these conditions can be changed. This book is a bridge between experts and other concerned citizens. It provides basic information about children and violence. Through the voices of good child experts it gives us an opportunity to make informed decisions about kids. Planning successful strategies is based on this type of solid information.

 

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Angry Children, Worried Parents: Seven Steps to Help Families Manage Anger (Seven Steps Family)
Sam Goldstein, PH.D.
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Acknowledging that anger in children is an emotion that cannot be entirely avoided, this guide for parents outlines a seven-step program to promote healthy anger management in children aged 4 to 14. The advice and experiences of mental health professionals and clinicians who are parents themselves are disclosed, with attention given to the anxiety that many parents feel when their child exhibits angry behavior. Parents learn techniques to help their child deal with stress and anger, build confidence and resilience, and use effective coping behaviors to avoid dysfunctional behavior.

 

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