Parenting
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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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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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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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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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