Parenting
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Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers
In this practical book, Dr. Peter Benson, a leading authority on childhood and adolescence, describes a simple yet powerful plan for awakening the spark that lives inside each and every young person. Sparks--when illuminated and nurtured--give young people joy, energy, and direction. They have the power to change a young person's life from one of "surviving" to "thriving." Grounded in new research with thousands of teenagers and parents, "Sparks" offers a step-by-step approach to helping teenagers discover their unique gifts, and works for "all" families, no matter their economic status, parenting situation, or ethnic background.
$33.99
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Kristin Lombardi, Christine Drew Spectrum of Independence
As a parent of a neurodiverse child, milestones that many families take for granted--like seeing your kid graduate from high school or college, get a rewarding job, and, eventually, leave the nest--may be fraught with uncertainty. How can kids who need loads of support to get through the day ever learn to take care of themselves? This motivating, practical book gives you concrete strategies for maximizing the independence of your child or teen with autism, intellectual disabilities, or other forms of neurodiversity. Exercises and downloadable worksheets are rooted in scientifically based behavioral principles and illustrated with vivid, empathic examples.
$34.50
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Yshai Boussi Staying Connected with Your Teen: Polyvagal Parenting Strategies to Reduce Reactivity, Set Limits and Build Authentic Connection
Grounded in cutting-edge polyvagal theory, Staying Connected with Your Teen shines a light on why teens are so easily triggered, and offers nerve-calming strategies to minimize reactivity, nurture a stronger connection, and help you lovingly guide your teen on the path to adulthood. You'll also find skills to help you meet your teen where they are developmentally, and discover ways you can help them feel safe and loved even when you are having disagreements. Trust is at the heart of the bond between parents and teens. This book will help you strengthen that trust and create a peaceful atmosphere where expectations are better communicated.
$29.95
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Strength Switch
How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Lea Waters demonstrates how we can not only help our children build resilience, optimism, and achievement but we can also help inoculate them against today’s pandemic of depression and anxiety.
$36.00
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Stress Free Kids
A Parent's Guide to Helping Build Self-Esteem, Manage Stress, and Reduce Anxiety in Children Based on Lori Lite's award-winning series, Stress Free Kids provides relaxation techniques you can use to free your child from stress. Lite shows you how to apply breathing, visualizations, affirmations, and muscle relaxation exercises effortlessly throughout the day. These parenting solutions to everyday stressors will reduce worries and anxiety while increasing self-esteem. You and your children will gain freedom as you live a more joy-filled life with less stress.
$22.95
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Surviving Your Adolescents DVD
Living with a teenager is no picnic. There are times when you must bite your tongue as they push towards independence. Or, if you sense there is trouble, there are times when you must take charge. This DVD gives parents a step-by-step approach that will help end the hassles and offer concrete solutions.
$50.00
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Mariam Gates, Leigh Standley Sweet Dreams: Bedtime Visualizations for Kids
Bedtime Visualizations for Kids This book includes eight visualizations that help kids slow down, breathe, and become aware of their bodies so they can relax into a good nights sleep. Whether they are envisioning flying a kite, making it rain, or rocketing to the moon, Sweet Dreams offers guided narratives that will spark their imaginations, as well as breathing techniques that encourage restful relaxation. Ages 4-8.
$23.50
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Joyce Dunbar, Debi Gliori Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep
Bedtime isn't so scary when you have such a nice morning to look forward to. When little bunny Willa can't sleep, big brother Willoughby helps her think of all the happy things that await her when the sun comes up cozy slippers, a yummy breakfast, and the morning itself, which loves to gently nudge her awake. For Willa, the happiest thing of all is knowing that Willoughby will be there in the morning, too, just like always. With soothing text, sweet illustrations, and cuddly bunny characters, this lap-sized board book is a comforting way to say goodnight and sweet dreams.
$18.95
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Tenacity in Children
Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow's successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts - intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness - as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.
$26.95
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Todd Parr The Bedtime Book
With his signature humor and heart, Todd Parr puts a twist on the traditional bedtime story with all the animals sharing why they aren't quite ready to go to sleep. Ages 4-8
$22.99
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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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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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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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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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The Sleep Book For Tired Parents
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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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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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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