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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...
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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...
3) 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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Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend? As the focus of family...
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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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Like most parents, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick left the hospital with their first child desperate to know, "What do we do?" But years of parenting three kids and Jeffrey's work as a child psychologist convinced them to ask a better question: "How shall I be with this new person?"
In a culture obsessed with parenting formulas, it's easy to miss the fact that science and lived experience have proven that human development and thriving are a matter of relationship....
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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.
9) The ultimate guide to raising teens and tweens: strategies for unlocking your child's full potential
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Are you concerned or frustrated with the choices your child makes when it comes to their peer groups, study habits, and use of social media?
Do you feel your child is pushing you away and your connection is weakening?
Are you unsure of the next steps you should take to help your child succeed?
A whole new set of parenting concerns arise during tween and teenhood that can be overwhelming for any parent. The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens...
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Born for Love is the definitive book on empathy. Renowned psychiatrist Bruce Perry has appeared on Oprah, CNN, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and other programs as an expert in this hot area of neuroscience, and has been cited as such in Newsweek, the New York Times, and The New Yorker (in a story written by Malcolm Gladwell). He and co-writer Maia Szalavitz explore empathy's startling importance in human evolution and its significance...
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Attachment Play will help you solve discipline problems with children from birth to age twelve without using punishments or rewards. It delves beneath the surface of typical conflicts by addressing the underlying emotions that can lead to challenging behavior. This playful and revolutionary approach to parenting will show you how to: gain cooperation while avoiding power struggles, decrease sibling rivalry and aggressive behavior, solve homework and...
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Cooperative and Connected marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of children's emotional needs from two to eight years of age. It is a revised and updated version of Helping Young Children Flourish, and it continues the same approach described in the author's first book, The Aware Baby. Of interest to parents as well as therapists and early childhood educators, it provides a complete description of respectful, non-punitive parenting. This...
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A parental guide providing strategies and techniques to deal with the tough situations with the difficult to manage child including ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders), ADHD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Mood/Anxiety Disorders and Severely Emotionally Disturbed children.
Book 3: "Becoming the True Parental You" addresses and delivers ways to reduce the personal contributors of adverse thoughts and feelings that disrupt parents' ability to maintain appropriate...
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A parental guide providing strategies and techniques to deal with the tough situations with the difficult to manage child including ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders), ADHD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Mood/Anxiety Disorders and Severely Emotionally Disturbed children.
Book 2: "Understanding Your Aspie Child" provides cutting edge education regarding common
Aspie areas of struggle, triggers and ways to better manage them utilizing the revolutionary...
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A parental guide providing strategies and techniques to deal with the tough situations with the difficult to manage child including ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders), ADHD,
Reactive Attachment Disorder, Mood/Anxiety Disorders and Severely Emotionally Disturbed children.
Book 1: "A Fresh Approach to Parenting Hypersensitive Children provides the foundational concepts necessary to effectively implement the methods unique to obtaining positive results...
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A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity.
Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd argues incisively that parents not peers, not television are the primary shapers of their children's moral lives. And yet, it is parents' lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children's development.
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One-child households have doubled over the last two decades, making it one of the fastest-growing family units in America. Expert Carl Pickhardt aids families in understanding the common traits of many adult "onlies"--like shyness, perfection, and intolerance--so that they can better prepare for potential outcomes. He also celebrates the positive qualities of only children and how to encourage characteristics like thoughtfulness, creativity, and ambition....
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In 1994, Michael and Debi Pearl published To Train up a Child. The book has sold over 660,000 copies, becoming a "handbook on child trainig" for many families. The Pearls received so many child training questions that they started a free magazine to answer them-No Greater Joy. Demand for the back issues became so great that they decided to make the answers available in a book. This book represents about two years of articles. If you have questions...
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In 1994, Michael and Debi Pearl published To Train up a Child. The book has sold over 660,000 copies, becoming a handbook on child trainig for many families. The Pearls received so many child training questions that they started a free magazine to answer them-No Greater Joy. Demand for the back issues became so great that they decided to make the answers available in a book. This book represents about two years of articles. If you have questions about...
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A healthy relationship based on mutual trust is every parent's wish. The bond between infant and parent is a natural phenomenon, but as children reach their preteens and form their own personalities, fireworks between the child and parent can ensue. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience and new theories on attachment, family therapist and consultant to Parents magazine Dr. Fran Walfish argues that parents need to distinguish their own personality...
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