Parenting
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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids. What do you do with a little kid who...won't brush her teeth...screams in his car seat...pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential emergency first-aid manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.
$26.00
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How To Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk
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.
$21.99
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How to Talk to Kids about Anything
Tips, Scripts, Stories, and Steps to Make Even the Toughest Conversations Easier Dr. Robyn Silverman is the host of the How to Talk to Kids About Anything Parenting Podcast, a child development specialist, and mom. In this book, Dr. Robyn takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions, giving you the strategies and scripts to prepare you for life's most challenging conversations. That way your kids get age-appropriate information straight from you, their trusted source, rather than from peers, the media, or the internet. You'll learn how to develop calm, well-thought-out answers to tricky questions on subjects including death, sex, friendship, divorce, money, and more. Drawing on the expertise of dozens of well-known experts, Dr. Robyn's decades of working with children and teens, and her personal experience as a mom, How to Talk to Kids About Anything is a vital resource for parents who value having honest, meaningful conversations with their kids. When you just can't find the right words, this book will be your guide to talking to your kids about anything as they grow from toddlers to teens...and beyond.
$26.99
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How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen
Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood From tantrums to technology to talking to kids about tough topics, this book has concrete strategies for these and many more difficult situations. Part One introduces readers to the How To Talk "toolbox," with whimsical cartoons demonstrating the basic communication skills that will transform readers' relationships with children in their lives. Part Two answers specific questions and share relatable stories, offering practical tools for addressing issues such as homework hassles, sibling battles, digital dilemmas, problems with punishment, and more. Readers can turn directly to any topic of interest and find the help they need, with handy reminder pages.These are real solutions to struggles familiar to every parent, grandparent, teacher, and anyone else who lives or works with children.
$26.95
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In Your Cozy Bed Board Book
From Jo Witek and Christine Roussey, the team behind In My Heart and the Growing Hearts series, comes this soothing bedtime board book, In Your Cozy Bed. Told from the point of view of a loving parent, a child is gently guided to get ready for bed, say goodnight to favorite toys, and finally settle into sleep. Like the rest of the Growing Hearts series, this book features a die-cut front cover for added appeal and gift ability.
$12.99
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Just Between Us (Family Conversation Cards)
Conversation Cards for the Whole Family This helps the whole family get beyond the chit-chat and deepen the conversation. Housed in an elegant keepsake box, these conversation starters can sit on display at a kitchen table or be tossed into a bag for a road trip. Slip a conversation card into the display window and take turns answering the question. Then flip the card over for more ways to enrich the conversation. With more than 150 prompts, these cards generate many rich opportunities for connection, and because the questions are open-ended, they can be reused again and again.
$19.99
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Little Sprouts and the Dao of Parenting: Ancient Chinese Philosophy and the Art of Raising Mindful, Resilient, and Compassionate Kids
The ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius compared children to tender sprouts, shaped by soil, sunlight, water, and the efforts of patient gardeners. At times children require our protection, other times we must take a step back and allow them to grow. A practical parenting manual, philosophical reflection on the relationship between parent and child, and necessary response to modern stereotypes of Eastern parenting, Little Sprouts and the Dao of Parenting reconsiders cultural definitions of success and explores how we might support and nourish young people. Engaging deeply with foundational Daoist and Confucian thinkers, philosopher Erin Cline shows how we can strengthen innate virtues of compassion, generosity, and individuality in our own tender sprouts.
$22.95
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Lost at School
Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr. Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids.
$27.99
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Love And Limits
Guidance Tools for Creative Parenting This concise 48-page book represents the "Cliff Notes" to child guidance. Short and to-the-point, Love & Limits is jam-packed with parenting tools. The text models how to use this information to deal with children's feelings and reduce power struggles.
$15.95
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Making Sense of Counterwill
The instinct to resist being controlled or coerced is one of the most perplexing and troublesome dynamics in dealing with children and youth. The counterwill instinct is manifest in a myriad of behaviours and attitudes, and some children are highly afflicted. Dr. Neufeld reveals the dynamics controlling this instinct and provides suggestions for how to deal with this troubling phenomenon. This material is applicable for all adults dealing with toddlers through adolescents - teachers, parents and helping professionals. Participants find the insights highly enlightening and life-changing. This material is suitable for both self and group study.
$90.00
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Mindful Motherhood
From hormones to stretch marks, labor pains to diaper changes, motherhood is an adventure like none other. The rapid changes in your body, your lifestyle, and your very identity call for a certain mental agility. Mindfulness can help you meet the challenge and approach every experience with your new baby with open eyes and an open heart.
$34.95
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Naptime Child's Board Book
Naps are just a little break-but when it's naptime, many toddlers have trouble settling into sleep. This calming, encouraging book helps young children quiet down so they can get the rest they need. Eyes are closed, lights are dimmed...and (yawn, s-t-r-e-t-c-h) before little ones know it, it's time to wake up. Cozy illustrations enhance the text. This book gives young children the tools to handle routines with confidence and cooperation.
$14.95
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No Drama Discipline Calm & Nurture Developing Mind
The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Inside this guide you'll discover strategies that help parents identify their own discipline philosophy-and master the best methods to communicate the lessons they are trying to impart, facts on child brain development-and what kind of discipline is most appropriate and constructive at all ages and stages, the way to calmly and lovingly connect with a child-no matter how extreme the behavior-while still setting clear and consistent limits, tips for navigating your children through a tantrum to achieve insight, empathy, and repair, 20 discipline mistakes even the best parents make-and how to stay focused on the principles of whole-brain parenting and discipline techniques. Also available: The No-Drama Discipline Workbook.
$25.99
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No Drama Discipline Workbook: Developing Minds
Exercises, Activities, and Strategies to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Developing Minds Based on their New York Times bestselling book No-Drama Discipline, this workbook guides helps to manage and reduce drama in your interactions with your kids. The goal is simple: discipline less by developing a set of principles and strategies based on your own family dynamics. These stories, reflections, and exercises will help you think more deeply about the way you communicate with your kids, and provide opportunities for peaceful and nurturing conflict resolution. Topics include: developing clear and consistent strategies for responding to misbehaviour; moving from tantrum to tranquility; understanding how neuroscience impacts disciplinary decisions; tips to remain firm and consistent yet compassionate and respectful in discipline; teaching children how to handle difficult situations, and how to control emotions and impulses.
$37.95
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Nourished
Connection, Food, and Caring for Our Kids (And Everyone Else We Love) In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food. Dr. McNamara gives us the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding our children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of attachment. Based on developmental and relational science, qualitative research with families, counselling parents, and her own experience as a mother, MacNamara combines storytelling with science and puts food in its rightful place.
$24.95
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Overcoming Parental Anxiety
Rewire Your Brain to Worry Less and Enjoy Parenting More In Overcoming Parental Anxiety, three anxiety specialists team up to help you change your anxious brain using the core principles of neuroscience and exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. You’ll learn how to overcome worry by identifying your parental values, paying attention to the moment, and cultivating self-compassion. Most importantly, you’ll find targeted exercises to help minimize parenting related worry and anxiety, so you can live more fully and enjoy the shared experiences you have with your children.
$28.95
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Parent Alert: How to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
Protect your children from cybercrime, sexting, cyberbullying, phishing, cyberstalking, grooming, nude selfies, and other internet dangers. You can't shield your kids from the risks if you don't know what they are. Packed with real-life scenarios, practical advice, and action plans in non-techspeak, Parent Alert! is your go-to guide for one of the greatest dangers facing children today. International security expert Will Geddes provides information on no-nonsense best-practice cybersecurity on social media accounts; what signals might indicate that your child is falling prey to online grooming, bullying, or extortion; and how you can protect your kids from danger without being critical of them or setting unrealistic restrictions.
$23.95
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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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Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions
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).
$32.95
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Parenting Anxious Kids
Understanding Anxiety in Children by Age and Stage The complete CBT-based guide for parenting kids with anxiety. Parenting Anxious Kids is an accessible, research-based guide for parents that is filled with actionable steps to help your child conquer their anxiety — and a must-have parenting tool in a world where kids' anxieties and fears are increasing. Utilizing clinically proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, Parenting Anxious Kids provides parents with the tools they need to support their children without asking them to become their kids' therapist. Author and clinical psychologist Regine Galanti guides parents to help their children grow into resilient, independent, and healthy adults. This book includes: a guide to childhood anxiety based on developmental stages; assessments to help parents differentiate unhealthy and problematic anxiety from normal, transitional anxiety; and CBT skills related to parenting styles that foster brave, well-adapted children.
$26.99
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Parenting From The Inside Out
How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive An updated edition—with a new preface—of the bestselling parenting classic by the author of "BRAINSTORM: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain". In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.
$27.99
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Parenting Teenagers (S.T.E.P.)
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.
$25.99
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Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
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.
$26.95
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Parenting Traumatized Children with Developmental Differences
Strategies to Help Your Child's Sensory Processing, Language Development, Executive Function and Challenging Behaviours Children who have encountered trauma early in life can experience real differences in their social and cognitive development. This comprehensive guide introduces what such developmental difference means, how it affects a child, and offers strategies to help support or alleviate problems that commonly arise. Learn how children with developmental differences understand the world around them and offers easy to use techniques to help children with sensory and emotional regulation difficulties or delays in language, communication or memory development.
$35.95
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