Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. Indexed for easy reference.

    Teenagers' needs are explored in relation to family, friends, schools, the arts, and love. Issues such as stress, depression, drugs, alcohol, and eating disorders are included.

    He describes a process through which parents can uncover and work through ambivalent feelings toward their children, to gain a more compassionate view of themselves and of their children. (Parenting)

    With simple materials a series of colourful and effective tableaux can be made at home or in school for depicting the seasons and major festivals.

    

    This award-winning classic shows Christian men how to be co-creators with God, imitators of Christ's love for His people, high priests in the domestic Church, teachers of their children, witnesses to society, providers of spiritual and material goods, and models of holiness.

    The edition of this successful guide to children's physical, psychological and spiritual development combines medical advice with discussion of questions relating to a child's upbringing and education.

    Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language: -- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience -- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school -- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder -- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born

    From an explanation of the newest theory about self-control and what it has to do with AD/HD to the failures of education, Fowler gives parents practical and necessary information from the most respected researchers and practitioners in the field.

    Short booklet for parents, one of a set of six, on how to play with a child in order to enhance child's intelligence and emotional well-being.

    Sylvia Rimm is our foremost expert on how to raise children in an environment that encourages learning and achievement.In Smart Parenting, Dr. Rimm gives practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising a happy, secure, and productive child from preschool age to teenage. Easy-to-follow parent pointers, sample dialogues, and boxed step-by-step examples show parents how to: Select appropriate rewards and punishments for your childDecrease arguments and power struggles with your childEncourage appropriate independence without over-empowering your childSet limits for children who are too powerfulReplace competition with cooperation and compromiseGuide your child toward good study habitsHelp your child improve test-taking skills and cope with test anxietyBecome good role models for achievement

    Tim Kimmel gives parents a positive strategy for raising kids who can stand up to the pressures around them by raising them from the inside out with character. The Building Character small group study will help you: • Raise kids who can thrive in a hostile culture • Instill the six most critical character traits that a child needs to turn out right• Prepare kids for the biggest challenges of life—loneliness, fear, temptation, betrayal…• Minimize the hassles of parenting • Maximizes the potential of your children's future• Apply practical lessons that work with your kidsThe Building Character study will give you a strategy for raising your kids on purpose. Like a blueprint serves the builder of a beautiful home, this study will give you practical ways to use character to build happy, confident children who can stand strong and reach their true potential in the future. Box Includes: • 7 sessions on two DVD's (20-25 minutes each)• A Participant Workbook• A Leader's Guide• 1 copy of the book, Raising Kids Who Turn Out RightGet the confidence and skills to raise kids who flourish in their culture by building character for life.

    

    By making their own baby food, parents can drastically reduce the sugar, salt, artificial colors, fillers, additives, and preservatives in their child's diet. And now making baby food from scratch has never been easier--with this practical, user-friendly cookbook by Martha and David Kimmel, founders of the phenomenally successful Mommy Made* line of baby and toddler food.Updated for a special 10th anniversary edition, Mommy Made* is filled with 140 easy-to-make recipes that are perfect for introducing your baby to wholesome solid foods. These delicious, kid-tested dishes--which include finger foods, shakes and smoothies, snacks on the go, spoonable treats, and a variety of table dishes--were created with your baby's special nutritional needs in mind, and will help your child establish healthful eating habits that will last a lifetime. Mommy Made* also includes: Nutrition advice from birth to three years--incorporating guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics A blueprint for when and how to get your baby started on solid food Answers to parents' most frequently asked questions:  from milk and protein needs to determining portion size, preventing "hunger strikes," and detecting food allergies Tips on pureeing, straining, and mashing, as well as storage, thawing and reheating, and using the microwave A handy nutrition glossary, food pyramid, and list of helpful websites And much more!

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