Parenting
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Ellen Galinsky The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens
Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, this book offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Challenging widely held assumptions about adolescents, the author offers new ways for parents and others to better understand and interact with teens in a way that helps them thrive. Learn how to turn conflicts into opportunities for problem-solving where both teens and parents feel listened to and respected; encourage positive risk-taking and promote five essential executive function based skills that can help them succeed now and in the future.
$43.99
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Lisa Damour The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure. With clear, research-informed explanations alongside illuminating, real-life examples, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers gives parents the concrete, practical information they need to steady their teens through the bumpy yet transformational journey into adulthood.
$37.99
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Donna Wittmer The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities
For Children Birth to 3 With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, the Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource! Learn about the rapid brain growth in the earliest years. Discover how infants and toddlers learn through active exploration. Learn how to create a developmentally appropriate environment where infants and toddlers feel safe to explore. Find out how to support development of language, social-emotional, cognitive, and motor skills. Activities will help you support curiosity, play, exploration, persistence, emerging foundations in literacy and math, problem solving, and so much more!
$31.95
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Darcia Narvaez, G. A. Bradshaw The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities
A beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the Animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives. Each of 10 chapters explores a different animals parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their evolved nests.Psychologists Drs. Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw show us how each evolved nest offers inspiration for reexamining our own systems of nurturing, understanding, and caring for our young and each other. Alongside beautiful illustrations, stunning scientific facts, and lessons in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, we learn to care deeper: to restore our innate place within the natural world and fight for an ecology of life that supports our flourishing in balance with Nature alongside our human and non-human family.
$23.95
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Linda Kavelin Popov The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves
Through a collection of fifty-two virtues, one for each week of the year, Popov instructs parents how to teach morals and ethics to their young children, including such values as trust, caring, humility, and generosity.
$21.00 $12.60
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Kimberly Ann Johnson The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
This holistic guide offers practical support through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels-and provides a roadmap to the transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Learn how to organize yourself and your household for the best possible transition to motherhood, simple practices and home remedies to facilitate healing and restore energy, how to strengthen relationships and aid the return to sex, learning to exercise safely postpartum, carrying your baby with comfort, exploring the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise postpartum.
$25.95
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Andrew Adesman, Christine Adamec The Grandfamily Guidebook: Wisdom and Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Whatever the reason for your new role, you must now help your grandchildren adjust to their extended family as part of their everyday life, through the best care you are able to provide. While your new role means that you will likely have to change the way you live, the kinship care you provide your grandchildren might make all the difference in the world. In this "must-have" resource for grandparents raising grandchildren, the authors offer expert medical advice, helpful insights gleaned from other grandparents, and data mined from the 2016 Adesman Grandfamily Study-the broadest and most diverse research study of its kind to date. You'll also find hands-on tips you'll be able to reference whenever you need them, including how to cope with difficult birth parents, school issues and social-life challenges, problem behaviors that stem from a difficult past, and your own self-care.
$25.95
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Ryka Aoki, Cai Steele The Great Space Adventure
The planets are all unique, and never feel embarrassed or self-conscious about their differences. Join Nande in their out-of-this-world journey of exploration, and learn with them about all the special and awe-inspiring parts of our solar system as they find they have a family they never knew about in space!
$15.95
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William Sears, Martha Sears, Linda Holt, BJ Snell The Healthy Pregnancy Book: Month by Month, Everything You Need to Know from America's Baby Experts
The Healthy Pregnancy Book guides expectant mothers and fathers through all stages of pregnancy from preconception through birth, focusing on how to enhance the health of mother and baby. In this uniquely authoritative and comprehensive month-by-month guide, the Searses address emotional and physical changes that take place during pregnancy, baby's brain development, healthy pregnancy habits, pregnancy superfoods, optimal weight gain, fitness, managing stress, sleep, choosing the right healthcare provider, birthing choices, the transition into parenthood, engaging personal stories, and more.
$22.95
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Don Dinkmeyer, Gary Mckay The Parent's Handbook: Systematic Training For Effective Parenting
The STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) program has taught over two million parents more effective parenting techniques, encouraging mutual respect between parent and child, cooperation, responsibility, and self-reliance. The Parent's Handbook shows parents the best way to raise responsible children who will grow into responsible adults.
$25.99
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Parenting isn’t easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out—in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships—is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, showing up for your child might sound like a tall order. But as bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson reassuringly explain, it doesn’t take a lot of time, energy, or money. Instead, showing up means offering a quality of presence. And it’s simple to provide once you understand the four building blocks of a child’s healthy development. Every child needs to feel what Siegel and Bryson call the Four S’s:• Safe: We can’t always insulate a child from injury or avoid doing something that leads to hurt feelings. But when we give a child a sense of safe harbor, she will be able to take the needed risks for growth and change.• Seen: Truly seeing a child means we pay attention to his emotions—both positive and negative—and strive to attune to what’s happening in his mind beneath his behavior.• Soothed: Soothing isn’t about providing a life of ease; it’s about teaching your child how to cope when life gets hard, and showing him that you’ll be there with him along the way. A soothed child knows that he’ll never have to suffer alone.• Secure: When a child knows she can count on you, time and again, to show up—when you reliably provide safety, focus on seeing her, and soothe her in times of need, she will trust in a feeling of secure attachment. And thrive!Based on the latest brain and attachment research, The Power of Showing Up shares stories, scripts, simple strategies, illustrations, and tips for honoring the Four S’s effectively in all kinds of situations—when our kids are struggling or when they are enjoying success; when we are consoling, disciplining, or arguing with them; and even when we are apologizing for the times we don’t show up for them. Demonstrating that mistakes and missteps are repairable and that it’s never too late to mend broken trust, this book is a powerful guide to cultivating your child’s healthy emotional landscape.
$39.00
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Michael E. Lamb The Role Of The Father In Child Development
Edited by Dr. Michael Lamb, the recognized authority on the role of fathers in child development, The Role of the Father in Child Development, Fifth Edition brings together contributions from international experts on each subject to provide a thorough and current summary of the state of fatherhood across cultures, classes, economic systems, and family formations. This classic guide offers a single-source reference for the most recent findings and beliefs related to fathers and fatherhood. This thoroughly updated new edition provides the latest material on topics such as: The effects of divorce, Fathers from low-income backgrounds, Stepfathers' lives: exploring social context and interpersonal complexity and more.
$153.95
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Emily Kline, PhD The School of Hard Talks: How to Have Real Conversations with Your (Almost Grown) Kids
Learn how to connect with your young adult children in this practical guide using techniques that focus on not on inducing compliance but rather on respecting their thoughts and understanding their motivations. A five-step program based on Motivational Interviewing gives parents simple takeaways to have conversations about any topic, whether it is curfews, sex, drugs, and rock ‘n' roll, or college applications. Each chapter includes sample scripts and concludes with practical takeaways to get parents started immediately on having better conversations and more rewarding relationships with their teens and young adults.
$18.95
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Alison Hughes, Ninon Pelletier The Silence Slips In
When the party's over and the baby finally falls asleep, when the dog is all barked out and the screens are dark, the Silence pads in on soft, furry feet. A warm, comforting presence, the Silence curls up in a sun-beam like a cuddly cat and helps you read, think and be still. The Silence is friends with the Dark. Together they soothe the jagged edges left when the Noise has rolled on and gently launch the boats of your dreams into the night. When the day becomes overwhelming or other feelings become too big, the Silence slips in. With soft illustrations and soothing text, this is a quiet story about learning to find calm in the busy world around you. Ages: 3-5
$19.95
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Rebecca Huntley, Kathleen Kerr The Sleep Book For Tired Parents: Help for Solving Children's Sleep Problems
Therapist Rebecca Huntley, an experienced parent educator, introduces three popular techniques: the Family Bed, Cry-It-Out and Teaching in Small Steps. She explains how you can modify these options to fit your family's values and style. She also emphasizes that there is no single "right" way to handle sleep problems. Each family has the right to make its own choices, according to its values, situation and what works best.
$21.95
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Rebecca Schrag Hershberg The Tantrum Survival Guide: Tune In to Your Toddler's Mind (and Your Own) to Calm the Craziness and Make Family Fun Again
If you are the parent of a toddler or preschooler, chances are you know a thing or two about tantrums. While those epic meltdowns can certainly be part of "normal" toddler behavior, they are still maddening, stressful, and exhausting--for everyone involved. What can you do to keep your cool and help your child calm down? The author is a child psychologist and mother of two, and she has a unique understanding of both the science behind tantrums and what works in the heat of the moment to nip blowups in the bud.
$20.95
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Matis Miller The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child's Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
Evidence-based skills, insight, and methods drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you gain a greater understanding of your child's behavior, parent them with compassion and confidence, and restore peace to your home. Written for parents of children with emotion dysregulation disorders, including disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD),The Uncontrollable Child is a lifeline. It contains a powerful set of skills based in DBT including mindfulness, validation, limit-setting, and behavior-shaping to help you better understand your child and their behavior, and successfully find balance between acceptance and change, flexibility and consistency, and limits and love.
$34.95
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Tina Payne Bryson The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids
Free, unstructured playtime is great for children's development. Add playful interaction with parents to cultivate healthy emotional development and resilience. Kids want their parents to play with them, but many parents don't know how to play or find it boring. All it takes is little daily moments together to make the most impact. These pediatric therapists and play experts break down seven simple, playful techniques that harness this caregiving magic in only a few minutes each day. Leaning in to emotions reduces a child's anxieties, drama, and chaotic behavior. Storytelling promotes better problem-solving. Science-backed research, real-life stories, and charming line illustrations bring this advice to life, and make it easy to learn how to nurture your kids and encourage them to become calm listeners, cooperative problem solvers, and respectful communicators.
$37.99
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids throw tantrums, fight, or sulk in silence. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth.Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
$25.99
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Debra Wesselmann The Whole Parent: How To Become A Terrific Parent Even If You Didn't Have One
How To Become A Terrific Parent Even If You Didn't Have One. An important look at how parents can break free from their past unhealthy parent-child relationships and provide a healthy psychological foundation for their children.
$31.95
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Hetty van de Rijt, Frans X. Plooij, Xaviera Plooij The Wonder Weeks: A Stress-Free Guide To Your Baby's Behavior
Everything a new parent needs to know about their baby’s 10 magical “leaps”—and when to expect them—in a new, modern sixth edition of The Wonder WeeksThe Wonder Weeks answers the question, “Why is my baby cranky, clingy, and crying?” with helpful guidance. Maybe they’re experiencing a leap in brain development, after which new skills are mastered, discoveries are made, and perceptions evolve. Fussy behavior might signal that great progress is underway! Better yet, these phases occur on similar schedules for most babies—as explained and mapped out in this book—so parents can anticipate the “stormy weeks” that precede the “sunny weeks.” Based on decades of research, this fully revised sixth edition covers the first 20 months of a baby’s life and includes: The top 10 things to know and remember about a leap Fun games to support brain development Fill-in-the-blank checklists to help better understand personality and behavior traits Science-based explanations about sleep Fresh insight and recent commentary from new parents who’ve used The Wonder Weeks Anchor moments to keep new parents sane, especially when they are exhausted and discouraged With 2 million+ books sold, and 4 million+ downloads of the corresponding app, The Wonder Weeks has struck a chord. Join the phenomenon that has been embraced by celebrities, social media influencers, and parents worldwide.
$29.95
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Yes Brain: How To Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, And Resilience In Your Child
From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child’s innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity.When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. This is what New York Times bestselling authors Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson call a No Brain response. But our kids can be taught to approach life with openness and curiosity. When kids work from a Yes Brain, they’re more willing to take chances and explore. They’re more curious and imaginative. They’re better at relationships and handling adversity. In The Yes Brain, the authors give parents skills, scripts, and activities to bring kids of all ages into the beneficial “yes” state. You’ll learn• the four fundamentals of the Yes Brain—balance, resilience, insight, and empathy—and how to strengthen them• the key to knowing when kids need a gentle push out of a comfort zone vs. needing the “cushion” of safety and familiarity• strategies for navigating away from negative behavioral and emotional states (aggression and withdrawal) and expanding your child’s capacity for positivityThe Yes Brain is an essential tool for nurturing positive potential and keeping your child’s inner spark glowing and growing strong.
$25.99
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David Magee Things Have Changed: What Every Parent (and Educator) Should Know About the Student Mental Health and Substance Misuse Crisis
Written with a parent's passion and empathy, Things Have Changed offers a clear road map for navigating painful struggles that many modern children and students face, including mental health issues, substance abuse, and more. David Magee offers guidance on raising teens amid increasingly common challenges. Magee shares research-backed insights on how to: have conversations about mental health and drug and alcohol abuse; empower your child to ask for help when they need it; decide when and if treatment is needed; encourage your child to invest in healthy relationships; be intentional about social media use and interactions; foster your child's desire to engage with your family; create and maintain healthy boundaries; and advocate for your child's wellbeing at school and with family.
$29.99
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Thrivers
The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine The bestselling author of UnSelfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test scores) are no longer reliable predictors of success in the 21st century - and offers 7 teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future. These traits - confidence, empathy, self-control, integrity, curiosity, perseverance, and optimism - will allow kids to roll with the punches and succeed in life. And the even better news: these traits can be taught to children at any age...in fact, parents and educators must do so. In Thrivers, Dr. Borba offers practical, actionable ways to develop these traits in children from preschool through high school, showing how to teach kids how to cope today so they can thrive tomorrow.
$27.99
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