Parenting > Pre-Teens and Teenagers

A beautiful and gentle look at the circle of life, using Christine Pym's gorgeous animals characters to explore the emotions and facts around death, with questions such as Is it ok to talk about dying? What happens when someone dies? Can I shout and cry and hide away? and How can I stop feeling sad? The latest in the wonderful First Questions and Answers series, this title covers an extremely tricky topic in a friendly and approachable way. Uses animal characters in the same way as First Q&A: What are feelings? Fills a very important gap in the market, helping parents and care givers to find the words to explain death and dying to young children.

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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’ll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen’s 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 teen’s ally, guide, and consultant.

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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.

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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).

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Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough, bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk . Now, they return with this essential guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. Filled with straightforward advice and written in their trademark, down-to-earth style sure to appeal to both parents and teens, this all-new volume offers both innovative, easy-to-implement suggestions and proven techniques to build the foundation for lasting relationships. From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs, it gives parents the tools to help their children safely navigate the often stormy years of adolescence.

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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.

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Saving Today's Overwhelmed Teens With Love, Laughter, And The Science Of Resillence Based on a career counselling kids and their parents, Michael Bradley locates the most powerful protective trait: resilience. Teens with this crucial quality know how to handle difficulty, overcome obstacles, and bounce back from setbacks. Packed with insights from neuroscience and psychology, real-life case studies, and a dose of humor, this book sheds light on the teen brain and offers a wealth of resiliency-boosting strategies. The author reveals ways to strengthen the seven skills that every teen needs to survive and thrive for common behaviour, school, and social issues, and tactics for coping with conflict, teaching consequences, improving communication, staying connected, and more.

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Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe Acclaimed adolescent psychiatrist and educator Jess Shatkin brings his research and clinical experience to the subjects, along with cutting-edge findings from brain science, evolutionary psychology, game theory, and other disciplines.

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By examining the history of period shame and stigma and its effects on women's health and wellness today as well as providing a crash course in menstrual self-care, Heavy Flow aims to lift the veil on menstruation, breaking the "curse" once and for all.

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