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As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...
2) The good news about bad behavior: why kids are less disciplined than ever--and what to do about it
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Today's parents live with an exhausting reality: persistent defiance from children. About half of the current generation of children will develop a mood or behavioral disorder or a substance addiction by age eighteen. And many parents feel increasingly unable to exert any influence over their children. In our highly connected age, the all-powerful parent is largely a thing of the past.
Parents often take the blame for their child's misbehavior, but...
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Examines how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
"A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, and drawing widely...
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You are truly a gene therapist; manipulating and guiding your child's genetic makeup based on the experiences you create for them. Contrary to what modern parenting trends have told us, parenting is much simpler than we dared to imagine. Great parenting comes down to one mission: to be prepped and present for the windows of your child's development so that you can take full advantage of them and help your child become a smart, successful, self-sufficient...
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Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressed--and unprepared for...
8) The Ultimate Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder: Easy, Everyday Solutions to Sensory Challenges
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Shockingly, 1 in every 20 children experiences symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD Foundation), affecting their ability to fully participate in everyday life. When sensory processing is impaired, lights can be too bright, sounds too loud, and clothes can actually be painful on the skin. It can be practically impossible for children to tolerate their day, let alone learn in a classroom. In this book, endorsed by best-selling special needs
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In a book likely to transform how parents manage many of their child's daily struggles, Drs. Smith and Gouze explain the central and frequently unrecognized role that sensory processing problems play in a child's emotional and behavioral difficulties. Practicing child psychologists, and themselves parents of children with sensory integration problems, their message is innovative, practical, and, above all, full of hope.
A child with sensory processing...
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This second edition speaks to the concept of "trauma-informed" early childhood education and includes many activities to help fragile children process and heal from stressful events, including natural disasters, community and family violence, extensive medical treatments, complicated family dynamics, deployment of a parent in the military, and more.
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Attachment parenting means ensuring that children grow up with their emotional needs fulfilled. This book provides information to help parents choose their own attachment style, and makes attachment parenting accessible to everyone, no matter their life or family structure.
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En este libro, la autora ofrece una mirada amplia y comprensiva sobre el desarrollo psicológico temprano del ser humano; siguiendo un itinerario que inicia desde el momento mismo de la concepción y se extiende hasta el momento en que se constituye la conciencia psicológica (antes del primer año). En sus páginas, invita al lector a pensar al ser humano desde su dimensión estética, incorporando para ello el concepto de estesis, el cual le permite...
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La entrevista a niños y niñas ha sido un desafío para las ciencias sociales, especialmente para la psicología, sobre todo en los ámbitos jurídicos y forenses, espacios en los que se vela por el interés superior de protegerlos, al tiempo que se procura preservar la equidad en el sistema de justicia.
Esta obra compila conocimientos básicos y empíricos relacionados con la psicología del testimonio infantil en el contexto colombiano, con especial...
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Perfecto para estudiantes, profesores y cualquier persona interesada en la psicología.
¿Cómo se desarrolla el cerebro?
¿Cómo desarrollamos una identidad?
¿Qué influye en el desarrollo psicológico y social?
Estas son sólo algunas de las preguntas interesantes e importantes que exploraremos en este libro mientras exploramos qué es la psicología del desarrollo y cómo nos afecta.
Así que, únanse a mí mientras exploramos juntos el fascinante...
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"Factors Shaping Sexual Attraction in Children" delves into the complex tapestry of early emotions, feelings, and understandings that children develop as they begin to recognize and define their emerging attractions. Aimed primarily at parents seeking insight into their child's emotional and psychological growth, this book works to dismantle myths while offering guidance based on current scientific understanding and empirical research.Within these...
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Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett are widely praised for their analysis of women, men, and society. Their "uncommon storytelling grace" led the Boston Globe to name their book, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Harm Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs, one of the best of 2004. The New York Times has called Barnett "one of the researchers who is re-drawing the map of women's psychology," and the New York Review of Books has commended their...
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"In 'Through Her Eyes: A Guide to Understanding Autism in Girls and Women,' author Desmond Gahan provides a deeply insightful and compassionate exploration of the often overlooked and misunderstood experiences of females on the autism spectrum. Through personal anecdotes, extensive research, and heartfelt narratives, this book unravels the unique challenges and strengths that girls and women with autism bring to the world.While autism has long been...
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Este libro sostiene la plasticidad de un movimiento deseante; se divide en dos partes articuladas entre sí: una se ocupa de los aspectos teóricos y la otra de lo que acontece en el territorio clínico e interdisciplinario. Entre ambas, se pliegan y despliegan ideas, pensamientos y experiencias.
Recorrido teórico: cuando un niño o niña sufre, lo primero que se afecta es la relación con los otros: con su familia, docentes, amigas, amigos y la...
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¿Por qué el JUGAR?... Infinitos infinitivos enlazados al jugar: para construir, para gozar, para aprender, para vincular, para proyectar, para crear, para disfrutar, para aunar, para desplegar, para elaborar, para probar, para divertir, PARA CRECER... Porque sin jugar no hay infancias.
El jugar como la infancia no es transitorio sino permanente: jugar, juegos, juguetes, infancias, espacios, corporalidades, sonoridades, necesidades son ideas que...
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In "Unmasking the Shadows: Early Detection of Psychopathy in Children and Adolescents," readers are taken on a journey deep into the enigmatic world of childhood psychopathy. This thought-provoking and insightful book delves into the complex task of identifying and understanding psychopathic traits in the young, shedding light on a topic often shrouded in mystery.Drawing from the latest research in psychology and child development, this book offers...
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