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If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.
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A one-of-a kind guidebook on how to help smart kids cope with anxiety Why Smart Kids Worry aims to be the book for parents of anxious children (ages 4-12). The first section of the book explains how smart kids think, why they're drawn to adult-level topics and how they become debilitated by anxiety.
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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...
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"Little Things Long Remembered," updated for today's time-strapped families, offers hundreds of ways to create treasured childhood rituals. Chock full of thoughtful and loving ideas that mean a lot-especially to children. Chapters are divided into convenient timeframes: Gestures to strengthen family ties that take seconds, activities when you have five minutes, half an hour, or the entire weekend. Plus special circumstance suggestions for when your...
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"Most parents are not child psychologists and that's why it can be hard to discern what are normal childhood anxieties and what is more problematic. However, even with childhood anxieties, parents can learn how to raise resilient, independent, and healthy children with the help of licensed clinical psychologist, Regine Galanti, PhD. Galanti offers a research-based, practical guide for parenting through all ages and stages with strategies to help build...
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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....
10) A modern approach to the birds & the bees: a parent's comprehensive guide to talking about sexuality
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"Raise sexually healthy kids. As parents, we want our children to be armed with scientifically accurate sexual education. But many of us lack the information, tools, and skill to be able to effectively engage in these complex conversations with our children. This book is an essential tool for parents, informing them about key issues surrounding sexual health so that they are better equipped to engage in age-appropriate, evidence-based, informed discussions...
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Kids today are facing unprecedented pressures, and their mental health is suffering. As a parent, you may feel burned out and exhausted yourself, and perhaps overwhelmed by the idea of taking on your child's stress. But “Building Happier Kids” offers practical, concrete steps you can take to help your kids and yourself! Dr. Bhargava prescribes taking an intentional pause from modern life's nonstop pace to focus on ways you can meaningfully impact...
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"Your kids are grumpy, irritable, and inattentive when they don't have their screens-but how do you fix it? In this shame-free book, you'll learn to apply all of Molly DeFrank's digital detox secrets with her 14-day kickstart plan, and you will be equipped with all the simple and practical tools that you will need to continue for a lifetime"--
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Mama Talks to Germs is a children's picture book, which displays a relationship between a mother and her son. When they find out that Pop Pop isn't feeling well and can't have any visitors, Mama starts to teach him about germs. She shows him how they spread, and ways that they can stay safe and healthy. Together, they learn how to have fun in new ways and to be positive when they're missing their loved ones. When the night is coming to a close after...
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A step-by-step guide to answering your kids' toughest questions
"When people die, where do they go?"
"Why is her skin darker than mine?"
"But how does the baby get in there?"
Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate, empathize, and answer their biggest queries, what do you do when that tricky-to-answer
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This widely recommended parenting guide offers a wealth of practical techniques to help you identify and communicate your own values about sexuality to your children, infants to age twelve. In this revised edition, acclaimed parenting educator Debra Haffner covers the latest research and addresses issues of timely concern, including Internet safety. The book includes: "Values Exercises" to help you identify and communicate your beliefs to your children...
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Has your child ever asked you a question that made you blush? Weren't sure how to respond? The Big Talk is probably the most dreaded discussion any parent will ever have with their child. Most parents prefer to wait until the child is older to discuss sex while others simply avoid it altogether. The problem is, if you aren't talking to your young child about sex someone else is, and it likely isn't the kind of information you want them know! Although...
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Positive Self-Talk for Children is a book that teaches children self-esteem through the affirmation process. It is a guide that can be used by parents, teachers and counselors to instruct children how to speak kindly and lovingly to themselves. Positive Self-Talk for Children makes affirmations easy to teach, understand, and use. Kids learn affirmations for many situations and challenges such as school and academics, athletics, facing fears, feeling...
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Parenting a child who's just starting his youth sports experience is a job that carries huge implications. These years are the foundation for the adults that your kids will become. This book gives 22 practical, specific ways that you can help your child enjoy sports, even while growing through the experience.
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Parenting can be tough – tougher still when everyone has an opinion on raising a child. From the press, social media and online influencers right through to our friends and family, we're bombarded with advice – and criticism – on how to be good parents. Our kids aren't born with a manual, so How to Have Happy Children is the book you need. Dr Martin J. Coles has seen it all, and having spent a lifetime working with and for children, his expert...
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All children will be 'hard work', 'difficult' or 'challenging' at times. This book is intended to give you the tools you need to navigate your way through your child's middle years (ages six to twelve) and beyond with assertiveness, decisiveness, confidence, empathy and compassion.
You will learn how to be a skilful parent and be provided with strategies that have been proven to work. They are not the magic solution to all your difficulties, but...
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