Parenting
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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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Julie Morgenstern Time to Parent
Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You This book takes on the ultimate time-management challenge parenting, from toddlers to teens with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Finding a healthy balance between raising a human and being a human often feels impossible, but the author shows you how to harness your own strengths and weaknesses to make the job your own.
$24.95
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Elijah C. Nealy Trans Kids And Teens: Pride, Joy, And Families In Transition
A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has become front and center after years of marginalization. And kids are coming out as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what written resources are available to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals who need to support these children? Elijah C. Nealy, a therapist and former deputy executive director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center, and himself a trans man, has written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding, supporting, and welcoming trans kids. Covering everything from family life to school and mental health issues, as well as the physical, social, and emotional aspects of transition, this book is full of best practices to support trans kids.
$34.00
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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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Carl Honore Under Pressure: Putting the Child Back in Childhood
Using fascinating anecdotes about obsessive parents (including one about the father of a tennis player who drugged all his child's opponents), solid research and personal insight, Honor explains the over-parenting phenomenon, dispels myths and rallies for change in clear and persuasive prose. Topics explored include the use of technology as babysitting, how enrolling children in hours of extra-curriculars every week can do more harm than good and how we underestimate the resilience of our children at the expense of their freedom.
$21.00
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Michele Borba UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
Dr. Borba explains what parents and educators must do to combat the growing empathy crisis among children today — including an empathy-building program with tips to guide kids from birth through college, and beyond. She pinpoints the forces causing the empathy crisis and shares a revolutionary, researched-based, nine-step plan for reversing it. She also offers a framework for parenting that yields successful, happy kids who also are kind, moral, courageous, and resilient. UnSelfie is a blueprint for parents and educators who want to kids shift their focus from I, me, and mine to we, us, and ours.
$26.99
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Kate Scharff We Need to Talk About Divorce
An IMPORTANT book about Separation, Stepfamilies, and Feeling Heard A kid-centric guide for the children of parents going through a separation or divorce, written by internationally renowned divorce therapist Kate Scharff, MSW. Children of separating or divorcing parents often feel alone and alienated, as though no one understands what they're going through. They need reassurance that their feelings are normal, and age-appropriate answers to their many questions. But divorce is confusing and overwhelming thinking and talking about it are hard, for kids and grown-ups alike. Kate Scharff (a child of divorce herself) addresses many of kids common concerns, such as navigating life in two homes, feeling pressured to choose sides, and adjusting when parents date or remarry. Her central theme is the importance of parent-child communication, and she offers lots of tips for how kids can speak up constructively even in the trickiest situations. This book, with illustrations by Annika Le Large, is suitable for kids to read by themselves or with a parent. It's frank, honest, and open. But while the author doesn't shy away from the painful aspects of the experience, she also reassures her reader that while divorce will always be a sad memory, it doesn't have to be a bad turning point. In fact, divorce can make lots of things easier over time. We Need to Talk About Divorce is the next book in Neon Squids critically acclaimed series tackling subjects that are hard to talk about for kids aged 10 and above.
$19.99
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Peter L. Benson, Judy Galbraith, Pamela Espeland What Kids Need To Succeed: Proven Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids
This common-sense book offers suggestions for helping kids lead healthy, productive, positive lives. This revised and updated third edition draws on findings from a 2010 survey of about 90,000 kids (grades 6 - 12) and offers new insights to help kids stay out of trouble. It describes developmental assets essential to promoting success and preventing at-risk behaviors.
$15.50
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Leslie Davenport, Irma Ruggiero What To Do When Climate Change Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Dealing With Climate Change Stress
This groundbreaking new workbook uses evidence-based activities and practices along with approachable illustrations and language to distill this complicated topic for young minds. In addition to identifying and working with eco-emotions, kids are encouraged to find ways to participate in creating a healthier world without placing the burden on their young shoulders. Feeling empowered to make a difference is an essential coping strategy.
$24.95
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Dawn Huebner, Katie Saunders What To Do When You Dread Your Bed: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems With Sleep
If you're a kid who dreads your bed, and you're convinced that nothing short of magic will make nighttime easier, this book is for you. This book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with sleep. Fears, busy brains, restless bodies, and over-dependence on parents are all tackled as children gain the skills they need for more peaceful nights. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to fall asleep and stay asleep like magic!
$24.95
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What To Expect: The First Year
Everything new parents need to know about the care (and feeding) of an infant, from the authors of What to Expect When You're Expecting. Covers monthly growth and development, feeding for every age and stage, sleep strategies that really work. Filled with the most practical tips (how to give a bath, decode your baby's crying, what to buy for baby, and when to return to work) and the most up-to-date medical advice (the latest on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, safety, and more). The only book on infant care to address the physical as well as the emotional needs of the entire family.
$19.95
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Adele Lafrance, Ashley P. Miller What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide For Parents And Caregivers
With a dose of humor and plenty of real-life examples, the authors will guide you to "build a bridge" into your child's world to make sense of their emotions and behavior. Sample scenarios and scripts are provided for you to customize based on your caregiving style and your child's personality. These are then followed by concrete support strategies to help you manage current and future situations in a way that leaves everyone feeling better. Chapters are organized by common kid-related issues so you can quickly find what's relevant to you. Ages 5-12
$44.95
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Lauren Muhlheim When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating
If your teen has an eating disorder such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That's why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on its own, this book offers an evidence-based approach you can use now to help your teen make healthy choices and stay well in body and mind. When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teens nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse. In addition to helping parents and caregivers, this book is a wonderful resource for mental health professionals, teachers, counselors, and coaches who work with parents of and teens with eating disorders. It clearly outlines the principles of FBT and the process of involving parents collaboratively in treatment. As a parent, feeding your child is a fundamental act of love it has been from the start! However, when a child is affected by an eating disorder, parents often lose confidence in performing this basic task. This compassionate guide will help you gain the confidence needed to nurture your teen and help them heal.
$28.95
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Where do I Sleep? A Pacific Northwest Lullaby
This beautifully illustrated lullaby book features shimmering salmon fry, a long-legged baby moose, feathery eaglets, and fifteen other Northwest animals bedding down for the night (or day!). Rhythmic and soothing four-line stanzas describe the animals' habitatas and sleeping patterns. Children will love learning about the familiar creatures in this special book.
$15.95
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Ayala Manolson, Barbara Ward, Nancy Dodington You Make The Difference In Helping Your Child Learn
You Make the Difference is designed for parents of all young children, especially those who are at-risk for developing a language delay. The principles of the Hanen "3a way" approach - allow, adapt, add -- are captured in this condensed, user-friendly book. The simple language, colorful illustrations and humorous cartoons help parents learn how to connect with their children in ways that foster the child's self-esteem and learning.
$24.95
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Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior
Every child has "ornery" moments, but more than 1 in 20 children exhibit behavioral problems that are out of control. For readers struggling with an unyielding or combative child, Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior offers the understanding and guidance they need. Drawing on Dr. Russell A. Barkley's many years of work with parents and children, the book clearly explains what causes defiance, when it becomes a problem, and how it can be resolved. The book's comprehensive eight-step program stresses consistency and cooperation, promoting changes through a system of praise, rewards, and mild punishment. Filled with helpful charts, questionnaires, and checklists, Your Defiant Child helps parents get their child's behavior back on track and restore harmony in the home.
$28.50
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