Parenting
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Joanna Faber, Julie King How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood
From tantrums to technology to talking to kids about tough topics, this book has concrete strategies for these and many more difficult situations. Part One introduces readers to the How To Talk "toolbox," with whimsical cartoons demonstrating the basic communication skills that will transform readers' relationships with children in their lives. Part Two answers specific questions and share relatable stories, offering practical tools for addressing issues such as homework hassles, sibling battles, digital dilemmas, problems with punishment, and more. Readers can turn directly to any topic of interest and find the help they need, with handy reminder pages. These are real solutions to struggles familiar to every parent, grandparent, teacher, and anyone else who lives or works with children.
$26.95
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Jo Witek, Christine Roussey In Your Cozy Bed Board Book
From Jo Witek and Christine Roussey, the team behind In My Heart and the Growing Hearts series, comes this soothing bedtime board book, In Your Cozy Bed. Told from the point of view of a loving parent, a child is gently guided to get ready for bed, say goodnight to favorite toys, and finally settle into sleep. Like the rest of the Growing Hearts series, this book features a die-cut front cover for added appeal and gift ability.
$12.99
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Just Between Us (Family Conversation Cards)
Conversation Cards for the Whole Family This helps the whole family get beyond the chit-chat and deepen the conversation. Housed in an elegant keepsake box, these conversation starters can sit on display at a kitchen table or be tossed into a bag for a road trip. Slip a conversation card into the display window and take turns answering the question. Then flip the card over for more ways to enrich the conversation. With more than 150 prompts, these cards generate many rich opportunities for connection, and because the questions are open-ended, they can be reused again and again.
$19.99
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Dr. Ross W. Greene Lost at School
Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr. Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids.
$27.99
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Elizabeth Crary Love And Limits: Guidance Tools for Creative Parenting
This concise 48-page book represents the "Cliff Notes" to child guidance. Short and to-the-point, Love & Limits is jam-packed with parenting tools. The text models how to use this information to deal with children's feelings and reduce power struggles.
$15.95
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Making Sense of Counterwill
The instinct to resist being controlled or coerced is one of the most perplexing and troublesome dynamics in dealing with children and youth. The counterwill instinct is manifest in a myriad of behaviours and attitudes, and some children are highly afflicted. Dr. Neufeld reveals the dynamics controlling this instinct and provides suggestions for how to deal with this troubling phenomenon. This material is applicable for all adults dealing with toddlers through adolescents - teachers, parents and helping professionals. Participants find the insights highly enlightening and life-changing. This material is suitable for both self and group study.
$90.00
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Elizabeth Verdick Naptime - Board Book
Naps are just a little break—but when it’s naptime, many toddlers have trouble settling into sleep. This calming, encouraging book helps young children quiet down so they can get the rest they need. Eyes are closed, lights are dimmed…and (yawn, s-t-r-e-t-c-h) before little ones know it, it’s time to wake up. Cozy illustrations enhance the text. An award-winning author/illustrator team offers a fresh look at the times and transitions all toddlers face daily, giving young children the tools to handle routines with confidence and cooperation.
$15.50
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No Drama Discipline Calm & Nurture Developing Mind
The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Inside this guide you'll discover strategies that help parents identify their own discipline philosophy-and master the best methods to communicate the lessons they are trying to impart, facts on child brain development-and what kind of discipline is most appropriate and constructive at all ages and stages, the way to calmly and lovingly connect with a child-no matter how extreme the behavior-while still setting clear and consistent limits, tips for navigating your children through a tantrum to achieve insight, empathy, and repair, 20 discipline mistakes even the best parents make-and how to stay focused on the principles of whole-brain parenting and discipline techniques. Also available: The No-Drama Discipline Workbook.
$25.99
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Dr. Deborah MacNamara Nourished
Connection, Food, and Caring for Our Kids (And Everyone Else We Love) In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food. Dr. McNamara gives us the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding our children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of attachment. Based on developmental and relational science, qualitative research with families, counselling parents, and her own experience as a mother, MacNamara combines storytelling with science and puts food in its rightful place.
$24.95
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Micah Ioffe Overcoming Parental Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain to Worry Less and Enjoy Parenting More
Be the calm and collected parent you aspire to be with this powerful, neuroscience-based guide. Do you worry about your child all the time? Maybe they are behind on certain milestones, struggling in school, having difficulty making friends, or heading off to college and away from home for the first time. Their problems or struggles become your own, and you end up feeling so anxious that you forget what it’s like to just enjoy being their parent. The good news is that you can rewire your “parent brain” to respond differently to these challenges. This book will show you how to replace parental anxiety with parental effectiveness. In Overcoming Parental Anxiety, three anxiety specialists team up to help you change your anxious brain using the core principles of neuroscience and exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. You’ll learn how to overcome worry by identifying your parental values, paying attention to the moment, and cultivating self-compassion. Most importantly, you’ll find targeted exercises to help minimize parenting related worry and anxiety, so you can live more fully and enjoy the shared experiences you have with your children. Thanks to the brain’s lifelong ability to create new neural connections, you can achieve that coveted and elusive sense of calm that seems to come so easily to some parents. And by practicing the simple neuroscience-based skills in this book, you can overcome your parental anxiety, stress less, and be more present with your kids. Why not get started now?
$28.95
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Will Geddes Parent Alert: How to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
Protect your children from cybercrime, sexting, cyberbullying, phishing, cyberstalking, grooming, nude selfies, and other internet dangers. You can't shield your kids from the risks if you don't know what they are. Packed with real-life scenarios, practical advice, and action plans in non-techspeak, Parent Alert! is your go-to guide for one of the greatest dangers facing children today. International security expert Will Geddes provides information on no-nonsense best-practice cybersecurity on social media accounts; what signals might indicate that your child is falling prey to online grooming, bullying, or extortion; and how you can protect your kids from danger without being critical of them or setting unrealistic restrictions.
$23.95
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Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions
DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional & Behavioral Challenges The teen years can be daunting. If your teen lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure of how to respond in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowned experts in teen mental health offer evidence-based skills for dealing with a teen's out-of-control emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
$32.95
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Regine Galanti Parenting Anxious Kids
Understanding Anxiety in Children by Age and Stage The complete CBT-based guide for parenting kids with anxiety. Parenting Anxious Kids is an accessible, research-based guide for parents that is filled with actionable steps to help your child conquer their anxiety — and a must-have parenting tool in a world where kids' anxieties and fears are increasing. Utilizing clinically proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, Parenting Anxious Kids provides parents with the tools they need to support their children without asking them to become their kids' therapist. Author and clinical psychologist Regine Galanti guides parents to help their children grow into resilient, independent, and healthy adults. This book includes: a guide to childhood anxiety based on developmental stages; assessments to help parents differentiate unhealthy and problematic anxiety from normal, transitional anxiety; and CBT skills related to parenting styles that foster brave, well-adapted children.
$26.99
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Parenting From The Inside Out
How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive An updated edition—with a new preface—of the bestselling parenting classic by the author of "BRAINSTORM: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain". In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.
$27.99
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Parenting Teenagers (S.T.E.P.)
Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens Parents know the challenges of raising teenagers. This popular guide is filled with easy-to-understand-and-apply skills that help parents connect with teens and deal with their "issues." Includes practical guidance on social pressure, dating, grades, career plans, and alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse prevention. It is an excellent choice for parents who want to improve their relationship with teens. PARENTING TEENAGERS is part of the STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) series, the world's best selling parent education program.
$25.99
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Dr. John Duffy Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
A Complete Guide to Your Child's Stressed, Depressed, Expanded, Amazing Adolescence Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. Learn how to sort through the overwhelming circumstances of today's teens and better understand the changing landscape of adolescence, come away with a revised, conscious parenting plan more suited to addressing the current needs of your teen and discover the joy in parenting again by reclaiming the role of your teens ally, guide, and consultant.
$26.95
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Sara McLean Parenting Traumatized Children with Developmental Differences: Strategies to Help Your Child's Sensory Processing, Language Development, Executive Function and Challenging Behaviours
Children who have encountered trauma early in life can experience real differences in their social and cognitive development. This comprehensive guide introduces what such developmental difference means, how it affects a child, and offers strategies to help support or alleviate problems that commonly arise. Learn how children with developmental differences understand the world around them and offers easy to use techniques to help children with sensory and emotional regulation difficulties or delays in language, communication or memory development.
$35.95
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Pathways to Positive Parenting
Helping Parents Nurture Healthy Development in the Earliest Months An essential resource for all professionals who work with families of infants, this valuable handbook serves as a parent educator's guide to coaching and supporting new parents. Describes innovative teaching techniques, along with practical and effective strategies that are field-tested, science-based, and can be applied immediately.
$62.95
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Dr. Laura Markham Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings
How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world. Her simple, insightful approach helps to create the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though, it's challenging for even the most engaged parent to maintain harmony and a strong connection when competition, tempers, and irritation run high. In this highly anticipated guide, Dr. Markham presents simple yet powerful ways to cut through the squabbling and foster a loving, supportive bond between siblings, while giving each child the vital connection that he or she needs.
$25.99
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Peaceful Piggy Bedtime
Bedtime can be a joy: a quiet time, a nice cuddle a sleepy angel. Bedtime can also be a challenge: riled energy, hidden anxieties a restless little monster! This book is intended to provide children with an effective bedtime ritual to relax the body, settle the mind, and drift into a peaceful sleep. Parents may find they sleep better, too! Ages 3-8
$24.95
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Pick Up Your Socks
...and Other Skills Growing Children Need! Responsibility is a skill you can teach. This book shows you how encouraging this skill will produce a youngster who becomes a competent adult. Questions about discipline, household chores, homework, and independent living skills are answered through examples and exercises. Learn how to— motivate kids to do chores and homework; build skills in decision making, problem solving, memory, and motivation; identify what are reasonable expectations for different ages, and more!
$16.95
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Play Therapy Activities: 101 Play-Based Exercises to Improve Behavior and Strengthen the Parent - Child Connection
What’s the best way for children to relate to the world around them? Play! In this book, you’ll find a collection of joyful activities that allow parents of children ages 3 to 9 to unlock the therapeutic benefits of play. From strengthening your bond to decreasing their screen dependency, Play Therapy Activities offers a variety of simple exercises that can help improve your child’s behavior, impulse control, self-awareness, and more. New to the idea of play therapy? This parent-friendly guide offers a comprehensive overview of the practice, as well as advice for making sure you and your child get the most out of your experiences together.
$22.95
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Lawrence J. Cohen Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply blowing off steam. That’s why “playful parenting” is so important and so successful in building strong, close bonds between parents and children. Through play we join our kids in their world–and help them to • Express and understand complex emotions• Break through shyness, anger, and fear• Empower themselves and respect diversity• Play their way through sibling rivalry• Cooperate without power strugglesFrom eliciting a giggle during baby’s first game of peekaboo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, Playful Parenting is a complete guide to using play to raise confident children. Written with love and humor, brimming with good advice and revealing anecdotes, and grounded in the latest research, this book will make you laugh even as it makes you wise in the ways of being an effective, enthusiastic parent.
$24.95
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Positive Discipline
The key to positive discipline is not punishment, Nelsen tells us, but mutual respect. Nelsen coaches parents and teachers to be both firm and kind, so that any child–from a three-year-old toddler to a rebellious teenager–can learn creative cooperation and self-discipline with no loss of dignity. Inside you’ll discover how to: • bridge communication gaps, • defuse power struggles, • avoid the dangers of praise, • enforce your message of love, • build on strengths, not weaknesses, and more!
$27.99
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