Books
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Grandparents as Parents
A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family If you're among the millions of grandparents raising grandchildren today, you need information, support, and practical guidance you can count on to keep your family strong. This is the book for you. Learn effective strategies to help you cope with the stresses of parenting the second time around, care for vulnerable grandkids and set boundaries with their often-troubled parents, and navigate the maze of government aid, court proceedings, and special education. Wise, honest, moving stories show how numerous other grandparents are surviving and thriving in their new roles. Updated throughout, and reflecting current laws and policies affecting families, the second edition features new discussions of kids' technology use and other timely issues.
$26.95
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Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide
In the last thirty years, the suicide rate among young people has tripled. In this book addressed to the young survivors of this epidemic, Earl A. Grollman, the internationally known lecturer, writer, and grief counselor, and Max Malikow, a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor, offer solace and guidance to adolescents who are confronted with someone of their own age who is contemplating or has committed suicide.
$25.95
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Finding the Words
How to Talk to Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and other End-of-Life Matters With this compassionate book by respected grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, readers will find simplified and suitable methods for talking to children and teenagers about sensitive topics with an emphasis on the subject of death. Honest but child-appropriate language is advocated, and various wording and levels of explanation are suggested for different ages when discussing topics such as death in general, suicide, homicide, accidental death, the death of a child, terminal illness, pet death, funerals, and cremation. An ideal book for parents, caregivers, and counselors looking for an easy resource when talking to youths about death, this book can be used for any setting, religious or otherwise.
$16.95
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The Invisible Boy
Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party . . . until, that is, a new kid comes to class. When Justin, the new boy, arrives, Brian is the first to make him feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a class project together, Brian finds a way to shine. From esteemed author and speaker Trudy Ludwig and acclaimed illustrator Patrice Barton, this gentle story shows how small acts of kindness can help children feel included and allow them to flourish. Any parent, teacher, or counselor looking for material that sensitively addresses the needs of quieter children will find The Invisible Boy a valuable and important resource.
$25.99
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Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life For Teens 2nd Edition
Now a teen self-help classic, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens has already helped thousands of teens take charge of their emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills. This fully revised and updated second edition provides even more strategies for managing difficult feelings, and includes new information on how to accept your emotions, body-based practices for finding calm, and tips to help you identify the things in life that make you feel happy and fulfilled.
$32.95
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Ease The Tease
Ten easy-to-learn tools to help kids ease the pain of teasing and stand up for themselves. Children can try out these practical and memorable strategies, practice them, and team up with others to ease the tease. Includes a glossary of terms at the back of the book to equip and empower children with the vocabulary they need. Ages 6-9
$16.95
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Rachel Pepper, Stephanie Brill The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Nonbinary Children
Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Transgender Child has won accolades from medical and mental health professionals, teachers & parents. Authors have revised and updated their classic with expanded coverage of gender development, affirming parenting practices, mental health and wellness, medical decision making, legal advocacy, and how best to ensure school success from preschool through the high school. This is a compassionate and educational guide for anyone who cares about, or works with, a child who falls outside expected gender norms.
$33.95
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Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell And Tango Makes Three
In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others.
$27.95
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M. Gary Neuman Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
Based on Gary Neuman's phenomenally successful Sandcastles program, which has helped more than fifty thousand children cope with divorce, this warm, empathetic guide shows you: How to build a co-parenting relationship--even when you think you can't, When you or your child should see a therapist, Age-appropriate scripts for addressing sensitive issues, How to navigate the emotional turmoil of custody and visitation, How to help your child deal with change, How to cope with kids' common fears about separation and more.
$29.00
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Parenting Apart
How Separated and Divorced Parents Can Raise Happy and Secure Kids This comprehensive and empowering guide is filled with practical, effective ways to minimize the effects of divorce on children, and offers immediate solutions to the most critical parenting problems divorce brings. This go-to resource addresses the issues including: how and when to tell the children about the divorce, guiding children through transition, helping children cope with having two homes, dealing with finances and more.
$25.95
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Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two
This book has been the gold standard for inspiring and supporting divorcing and remarrying parents for more than twenty-five years. With her new book, Dr. Isa adapts her time-tested advice on maneuvering the emotional, logistical, and legal realities of separation, divorce, and stepfamilies to speak directly to children. Alongside practical ways to cope with big changes she offers older children and their families key resiliency tools that kids can use now and the rest of their lives. Kids and families are encouraged to believe in themselves, to take heart, and to plan for their lives ahead.
$24.99
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Dr. Temple Grandin Different Not Less
Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD. In these pages, Temple presents the personal success stories of fourteen unique individuals that illustrate the extraordinary potential of those on the autism spectrum. One of Temple's primary missions is to help people with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and ADHD tap into their hidden abilities. Each individual tells their own story, in their own words, about their lives, relationships, and eventual careers. The contributors also share how they dealt with issues they confronted while growing up, such as bullying, making eye contact, and honing social skills. Different Not Less shows how, with work, each of the contributors: Found invaluable mentors, Learned skills necessary for employment when young, Became successfully employed, Developed self-confidence, and Faced the challenges of forming and maintaining relationships, and sometimes raising families.
$27.95
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Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety Workbook
A Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, and Everywhere Else Now fully revised and updated, including new and fun activities for dealing with school anxiety, social media overwhelm, bullying, and more. Christopher Willard offers teens like you proven-effective, mindfulness-based practices to help you cope with your anxiety, identify common triggers, learn valuable time-management skills, and feel more calm at home, in school, and with friends. You'll learn doable skills for dealing with specific situations that cause anxiety, such as public speaking, taking tests, meeting new people, and more. You'll also discover special breathing exercises to help you stay calm in moments of panic, and guided visualization exercises to be cool and collected, even in the most tense situations.
$35.95
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Keep Your Brain Alive
83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness.Based on leading neurobiological research, Keep Your Brain Alive introduces a regimen of mental cross-training-a series of deceptively simple exercises that help stimulate the production of natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn grow brain cells and keep the brain younger and stronger. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you're right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get in the car and insert the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it's like doing a round of mental sit-ups.
$12.95
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Jillian Roberts Where Do Babies Come From?
Our First Talk About Birth Research shows that children are learning about sex at an increasingly young age and often from undesirable sources. The Q&A format, with questions posed in the child's voice and answers starting simply and becoming gradually more in-depth, allows the adult to guide the conversation to a natural and satisfying conclusion. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion. Where Do Babies Come From? is the first book in the Just Enough series.
$14.95
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Kirke Olson Invisible Classroom
The Social Neuroscience of Education There is more to a classroom than just a teacher and a group of students. All classroom interactions have "invisible" neurobiological, emotional, and social aspects --the emotional histories of students, the teacher's own background and biography. In this book, Kirke Olson takes lessons from brain science, mindfulness, and positive psychology to help teachers understand the full range of their students' school experiences. Using its classroom-ready resources, teachers, administrators, parents, and policy makers can make the invisible visible, turning human investment in their students into the best possible learning outcomes.
$35.95
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Cynthia Kuhn & Scott Swartzwelder Buzzed: The Straight Facts
The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, Fifth Edition This book is the essential source for understanding how drugs affect the body and behavior. this book has the most recent discoveries about drug use, including new information on electronic smoking devices, abuse of prescription stimulants, and the opioid crisis. "Lively, highly informative, unbiased, [and] thorough" (Addiction Research & Theory), Buzzed surveys drugs from caffeine to heroin to reveal how these drugs affect the body, the different "highs" they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly. Neither a "Just Say No" treatise nor a "How to" manual, this book is based on the conviction that people make better decisions with accurate information at hand.
$25.95
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My Body Belongs To Me
A Book About Body Safety Without being taught about body boundaries, a child may be too young to understand when abuse is happening - or that it's wrong. This gentle, straightforward book offers a tool parents, teachers and counselors can use to help children feel, be, and stay safe. The rhyming story and simple, friendly illustrations provide a way to sensitively share and discuss the topic, guiding young children to understand that their private parts belong to them alone. The overriding message of My Body Belongs To Me is that if someone touches your private parts, tell your mom, your dad, your teacher or another safe adult.
$24.95
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Robert James Challenger Grizzly's Home: and Other Northwest Coast Children's Stories
In this latest collection of beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read fables, Robert James Challenger continues to teach children practical, moral lessons about life in today's complicated world. These stories are perfect tools to teach children how to live in harmony with others and are widely used by parents and teachers to stimulate children to talk about their experiences. Conveying values of respect, cooperation and kindness, their wisdom and beauty will leave a lasting impression on readers young and old.
$9.95
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Michelle Kambolis Generation Stressed
Play-Based Tools to help Your Child overcome Anxiety Generation Stressed explains the causes and effects of anxiety in children and equips concerned parents with an array of highly effective play-based tools with which to help their anxious child. Based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, this easy-to-use handbook is packed with original, engaging, and effective exercises developed by Kambolis to help parents alleviate the symptoms of anxiety in their children, bolstered by the power of parent-child attachment.
$19.99
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Philip Wylie Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome
How Seeking a Diagnosis in Adulthood Can Change Your Life. Philip Wylie sought a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome at the age of 51 after reading an article about autism in an accountancy magazine and having a "Eureka" moment! This book discusses the process, the pros and cons, and the after-effects of receiving an autism diagnosis in adulthood. Outlining the likely stages of the journey to diagnosis, this book looks at what the individual may go through as they become aware of their Asperger characteristics and as they seek pre-assessment and diagnosis, as well as common reactions upon receiving a diagnosis - from depression and anger to relief and self-acceptance. Combining practical guidance with advice from personal experience and interviews and correspondence with specialists, the book discusses if, who to, and when to disclose, how to seek appropriate support services, and how to use the self-knowledge gained through diagnosis to live well in the future.
$35.95
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Ellen Braaten & Brian Willoughby Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up
Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World Boost your child's ability to perform better in school, keep pace with family and friends, and maintain healthy self-esteem. Filled with vivid stories and examples, this crucial resource demystifies processing speed and shows how to help kids (ages 5 to 18) catch up in this key area of development. Helpful practical tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Learn how to obtain needed support at school, what to expect from a professional evaluation, and how you can make daily routines more efficient--while promoting your child's social and emotional well-being.
$21.95
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Lynda Farrington Wilson Autistic? How Silly is That!
I Don't Need Any Labels at All The first book of its kind that tells children with autism they are KIDS with autism, as it gently pokes fun of the onerous label "autistic". The readers will feel better about themselves after reading about their new friend, the narrator, who also HAS autism, as well as many other more important characteristics. Having autism is just one small part of his overall character and humanity. And we would never again label him as simply "autistic".
$14.95
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Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
In this book, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with "tradition," and problematic notions involved in "helping". Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge.
$32.99
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