Best of
Parenting

2005

The Duties Of Parents


J.C. Ryle - 2005
    Bishop Ryle shows parents their duty to go forward and obey God's commands. Pamphlet

Family Worship: In the Bible, in History & in Your Home


Donald S. Whitney - 2005
    But as Donald S. Whitney makes clear, the daily worship of God by families at home is a practice rooted in the Bible and common throughout Christian history. How can people unfamiliar with family worship lead it in their own homes? How do busy households in today's culture recover faithfulness in family worship? This practical book shows you how simple and easy it can be.

What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety


Dawn Huebner - 2005
    If your worries have grown so big that they bother you almost every day, this book is for you.What to Do When You Worry Too Much guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries.Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, this book educates, motivates, and empowers children to work towards change. Includes a note to parents by psychologist and author Dawn Huebner, PhD.From the Note to Parents:If you are the parent or caregiver of an anxious child, you know what it feels like to be held hostage. So does your child. Children who worry too much are held captive by their fears. They go to great lengths to avoid frightening situations, and ask the same anxiety-based questions over and over again. Yet the answers give them virtually no relief. Parents and caregivers find themselves spending huge amounts of time reassuring, coaxing, accommodating, and doing whatever else they can think of to minimize their child's distress. But it doesn't work. The anxiety remains in control. As you have undoubtedly discovered, simply telling an anxious child to stop worrying doesn't help at all. Nor does applying adult logic, or allowing your child to avoid feared situations, or offering reassurance every time the fears are expressed. This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do Guides for Kids(R) series and includes an "Introduction to Parents and Caregivers." What-to-Guides for Kids(R) are interactive self-help books designed to guide 6-12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of various psychological concerns. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, these books educate, motivate, and empower children to work towards change.

The Parenting Breakthrough: Real-Life Plan to Teach Your Kids to Work, Save Money, and Be Truly Independent


Merrilee Browne Boyack - 2005
    Boyack Fun and practical, author Merrilee Boycak will have readers laughing out loud as well as feeling grateful for her parenting advice. She s a mom who s spent the last 22 years in the real-life work of parenting. "I have four sons, 13, 15, 17, and 22. You know what that means," she writes. "I m an absolute expert in raising children 23 and older." Merrilee offers the "LDS parenting owner s manual they forgot to give you" for training kids - from toddlers to teens - to be independent. It includes ideas for how to teach kids about money, investing, debt, and the importance of earning their own money; how to teach children to serve; how to help children with emotional and spiritual development; and much more.

Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers


Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett - 2005
    It is the biological norm, but it is not the cultural norm. By learning the seven basic principles in this book, mothers can dramatically increase their likelihood of success and make breastfeeding the enjoyable experience it should be. The seven laws taught in Breast Feeding Made Simple are easy for mothers to understand and are sure to help them avoid some of the pitfalls that they might otherwise face.The seven principles include: Babies Have the Urge to Self-AttachUse the Power of Skin-to-Skin: A Baby's Natural HabitatBreastfeed Ad LibReach for the Comfort ZoneExpect Cluster NursingMore Milk Out = More Milk MadeBabies Outgrow BreastfeedingThe book also addresses how to solve common problems and deal with special situations such as breast reductions and babies with special needs. The authors describe some of the social, psychological, and cultural reasons why breastfeeding is not currently the norm, and what this implies for mothers. In all, this is an easy-to-use breastfeeding resource for new mothers, which includes all the latest research and techniques used by those in the lactation field.

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men


Leonard Sax - 2005
    From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard at school and getting A’s, her brother Justin is goofing off. He’s more concerned about getting to the next level in his video game than about finishing his homework.Now, Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience to explain why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home. He shows how social, cultural, and biological factors have created an environment that is literally toxic to boys. He also presents practical solutions, sharing strategies which educators have found effective in re-engaging these boys at school, as well as handy tips for parents about everything from homework, to video games, to medication.

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason


Alfie Kohn - 2005
    In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them. One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including "time-outs"), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That's precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it's not the message most parents intend to send. More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting — including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents.

Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius


Angeline Stoll Lillard - 2005
    In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind eight insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom. In reading this book, parents and teachers alike will develop a clear understanding of what happens in a Montessori classroom and, more important, why it happens and why it works. Lillard, however, does much more than explain the scientific basis for Montessori's system: Amid the clamor for evidence-based education, she presents the studies that show how children learn best, makes clear why many traditional practices come up short, and describes an ingenious alternative that works. Now with a foreword by Renilde Montessori, the youngest grandchild of Maria Montessori, Montessori offers a wealth of insights for anyone interested in education.

Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear


Pam Leo - 2005
    The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds children need to thrive.

Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues


Lindsey Biel - 2005
    Now as awareness of this condition reaches an all-time high, this comprehensive guidebook offers cutting-edge advice to parents of SI children. Written by an occupational therapist and a parent with a child with SI dysfunction, "Raising a Sensory Smart Child makes it easy for readers to recognize and understand their child's sensory issues and to find the best treatment for their child's needs.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children


Elizabeth George - 2005
    Your days are spent caring for and nurturing your children. In all the distractions of life and the demands of motherhood, how can you know if your children will grow to follow after God?Bestselling author, Elizabeth George has journeyed through the ups and downs of mothering children into adulthood. In A Mom After God's Own Heart, she offers practical tips and encouraging advice to help you raise children of all ages in the knowledge of the Lord. Here you'll find . . .Easy-to-implement principles for enjoyable and effective parentingSpecific tools for teaching your children about God's love for themBiblical insight to encourage you along the parenting journeyMom, as you meet your children's daily needs, know that God has given you a unique position of influence over their lives—you guide their hearts. No matter what their ages, you can help them experience His love, blessings, and provisions when you become A Mom After God's Own Heart.

Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right


Joel Fuhrman - 2005
    helps families transform their eating habits and recover their health. His nutrient-rich eating plan can have a significant impact on your child's resistance to dangerous infections, and a dramatic effect on reducing the occurrence of illnesses like asthma, ear infections, and allergies. Dr. Fuhrman explains how you can make sure your children are eating right to maintain a healthy mind and body, and how eating certain foods and avoiding others can positively impact your child's IQ and success in school.He also presents the fascinating science that demonstrates that the current epidemic of adult cancers and other diseases is closely linked to what we eat in the first quarter of life. Eating well in our early years may enable us to win the war on cancer. Bolstered by this scientific evidence, he helps you do everything you can to protect your child against developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, and cancer through a solid nutritional groundwork.Featuring easy-to-prepare, kid-friendly recipes that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters, Disease-Proof Your Child will help your whole family will learn to establish life-long healthful eating habits.

Parenting is Heart Work


Scott Turansky - 2005
    There are countless ways to try to get a child's attention and to effect change—but here's the truth—unless you deal with a child through his or her heart, you are not likely to see lasting change.In this breakthrough book, Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, reveal how you can learn to truly reach your child's heart to teach, train, and build a tremendous relationship.Parenting is Heart Work gives you the practical tools an easy-to-follow steps that will revolutionize how you:Turn Correction times into learning experiences. Equip your children to accept responsibility for their mistakes and meditate on the right things. Influence and adjust the values and beliefs your children hold. Maintain relationship with your children through love and emotional connectedness.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health


Christiane Northrup - 2005
    Christiane Northrup is one of today's most trusted and visionary medical experts. Now she presents her most profound and revolutionary approach to women's health. . . . The mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for our state of health and well-being for our entire lives. Because our mothers are our first and most powerful female role models, our most deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves as women come from them. And our behavior in relationships--with food, with our children, with our mates, and with ourselves--is a reflection of those beliefs. Once we understand our mother-daughter bonds, we can rebuild our own health, whatever our age, and create a lasting positive legacy for the next generation.Mother-Daughter Wisdom introduces an entirely new map of female development, exploring the "five facets of feminine power," which range from the basics of physical self-care to the discovery of passion and purpose in life. This blueprint allows any woman--whether or not she has children---to repair the gaps in her own upbringing and create a better adult relationship with her mother. If she has her own daughter, it will help her be the mother she has always wanted to be.Drawing on patient case histories and personal experiences, Dr. Northrup also presents findings at the cutting edge of medicine and psychology. Discover:-How to lay the nutritional foundation to prevent eating disorders and adult diseases-The truth about the immunization controversy-and the true meaning of immunity-How we can change our genetic health legacy-Why financial literacy is essential to women's health-How to foster healthy sexuality and future "love maps" in our daughters -How to balance independence with caring, and individual growth with family tiesWritten with warmth, enthusiasm, and rare intelligence, Mother-Daughter Wisdom is an indispensable book destined to change lives and become essential reading for all women.

Parenting for a Peaceful World


Robin Grille - 2005
    It reveals how children adapt to and are influenced by different parenting styles and how safeguarding their emotional development is the key to creating a more peaceful, harmonious, and sustainable world.Practical advice for raising a well-adjusted child includes tips on:Supporting your child's developing emotional intelligenceUnderstanding how your childhood has influenced your own emotional make-upHelping you achieve your full parenting potentialParenting for a Peaceful World is for parents, child health professionals, teachers, and adults seeking to heal and grow.Robin Grille is an internationally renowned author, speaker, educator, psychologist, and psychotherapist specializing in child development, parenting issues, and family relationships.

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family


Ellyn Satter - 2005
    For the first time in book form, Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family outlines her unconventional and remarkably effective eating advice for adults. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, Satter’s simple and delicious recipes provide a backdrop for cooking lessons, fast tips, night-before suggestions, in-depth background information, ways to involve kids in the kitchen and guidelines on adapting menus for young children. Satter cites the studies to build a convincing case that we can lighten up on fat and sodium restriction without endangering ourselves or our children, while emphasizing her well-known division of responsibility in feeding — parents are responsible for the what, when and where of feeding, and children are responsible for the how much and whether of eating.

Prayers and Promises for Supernatural Childbirth


Jackie Mize - 2005
    Jackie Mize--who was told it was impossible for her to have a baby and who is now the mother of four beautiful children--provides readers with a supernatural answer. Filled with powerful and intimate scriptural prayers, this little book gives readers a way to come before Father God in faith with issues from having a difficult time getting pregnant to joyfully cradling that precious gift from God in their arms. By taking an expectant mother--or a women who desperately wants to be expecting--through God's promises for her and her baby's future, Prayers and Promises for Supernatural Childbirth is a bundle of joy that delivers hope and encouragement, while chasing away doubts and fears. Specific issues covered in the scriptural prayers include: fulfillment over barrenness; the threat of miscarriage; a joyful delivery day; and dedicating one's baby to God.

How to Bring Your Children to Christ... & Keep Them There: Avoiding the Tragedy of False Conversion


Ray Comfort - 2005
    Nothing is more important than where your kids will spend eternity. As a parent, you don't want to suffer the heartache of your children rebelling against their Christian upbringing. In this practical book, noted author/evangelist Ray Comfort counters the unscriptural belief that a child can be saved merely by "asking Jesus into his heart," and shows parents (and children's workers) how to guide their children to experience genuine salvation and avoid the pitfall of rebellion. Filled with creative ideas for family devotions, tips for safeguarding kids from harmful influences, and great suggestions for helping kids learn God s holy standard, the Ten Commandments.

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families


Jayne E. Schooler - 2005
    Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family


Catherine Newman - 2005
    Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler. As she navigates life with her existentially curious and heartbreakingly sweet three-year-old, and her doozy of a pregnancy, she lends her irresistibly unique voice to the secret thoughts and fears of parents everywhere. Filled with quirky warmth and razor-sharp wit, Waiting for Birdy captures the universal wonder, terror, humor, and tenderness of raising a family.

The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby


Laura Wattenberg - 2005
    The trick is finding it. The perfect baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life--and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But you can't expect to just stumble on a name like that in an A to Z dictionary or on a trendy list. That's why you need "The Baby Name Wizard." Created by a name-searching mom, it uses groundbreaking research and computer generated models to pinpoint each name's image, examine its usage and popularity over the last 100 years, and suggest other promising ideas. A perfect guide to the modern world of names, "The Baby Name Wizard "will engage you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to the just-right name for your baby.

Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach


Ross W. Greene - 2005
    Many vivid examples and Q&A sections show how to identify the specific cognitive factors that contribute to explosive and noncompliant behavior, remediate these factors, and teach children and their adult caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively. The book also describes challenges that may arise in implementing the model and provides clear and practical solutions. Two special chapters focus on intervention in schools and in therapeutic/restrictive facilities.

Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality


Laura A. Jana - 2005
    Written in a compassionate yet authoritative tone by two moms who are also pediatricians, this guide covers a wealth of topics that often prove daunting in the first eight weeks of a child's life. Starting with "Into the Mouths of Babes" (the trials of breastfeeding) and "What Goes in Must Come Out" (a discussion of "pee and poop") and moving on through "Fever: Trial by Fire" and "Seeing Yellow: Jaundice," this guide offers sound advice that will enable parents to feel confident about their parenting skills. Hints on daily living, sleep patterns, crying, the art and science of diapering, and traveling with a newborn are also provided.

The New Speaking of Sex: What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It


Meg Hickling - 2005
    With new chapters related to the Internet, and multi-faiths, parents will find the latest and greatest information about sexual health. Meg Hickling gently dispels misconceptions and unhealthy beliefs about sex by telling even more humorous stories from over 25 years of experience working with children, families, teachers, and other professionals.Hickling touches on the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of sexuality - a whole person approach to sex. She knows that many parents had no information given to them by their parents, their churches, or their schools, when they were growing up, and Hickling hopes this book will provide the knowledge parents need. Hickling provides age-appropriate information, guidelines on how to talk with children at various stages of their development, and examples of how to answer tough questions.

Devotions for Sacred Parenting: A Year of Weekly Devotions for Parents


Gary L. Thomas - 2005
    Raising children is a sacred calling—and not for the faint of heart. In Devotions for Sacred Parenting, the author of Sacred Parenting continues the conversation and contemplates the soul-transforming journey of being a parent. With all new material, fifty-two devotions explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting. These life-related devotions are creative, fresh, and encouraging, inspiring mothers and fathers to look at parenting from a different perspective—as a holy and high calling from God, and as an opportunity to grow spiritually as you strive to raise godly children. Devotions for Sacred Parenting helps you understand how God is parenting you as you parent your children.

He'll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men


Celia Lashlie - 2005
    So how will your life sort itself out? Oh, that's easy. I'll be about 25 and some gorgeous-looking chick will walk past. She'll have a great plan, so I'll just hook onto her.Do you think you'll ever have a life plan? No. So how will your life sort itself out? Oh, that's easy. I'll be about 25 and some gorgeous-looking chick will walk past. She'll have a great plan, so I'll just hook onto her. 'Celia doesn't tell men how to raise their boys . instead she provides tools for parents who want their sons to become good men. She is a significant asset to this country and a personal inspiration.' - Norm Hewitt Adolescent boys - they seem to disappear into another world where they barely communicate, and where fast cars, alcohol and drugs are constant temptations. Will they survive to become good men? How can parents and schools understand them and help them through this difficult and dangerous time? Celia Lashlie has some of the answers. After years working in the prison service she knows what can happen when boys make the wrong choices. She also knows what it's like to be a parent - she raised a son on her own and feared for his survival. During the recent Good Man Project she talked to 180 classes of boys throughout New Zealand, and what she found was surprising, amusing and, in some cases, frightening. In this funny, honest, no-nonsense book Celia Lashlie reveals what goes on inside the world of boys, and that it is an entirely different world from that of girls. With clarity and insight she offers parents - especially mothers - practical and reassuring advice on raising their boys to become good, loving, articulate men. Researcher and social commentator Celia Lashlie is the author of the bestselling the Journey to Prison: who goes and why. the first woman prison officer in a male prison, she became manager of Christchurch Women's Prison in 1997 and has since worked in a number of areas linked to at-risk children. Celia, who has a degree in anthropology and Maori, is the mother of two adult children. She lives in Wellington.

Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading


Lawrence Goldstone - 2005
    “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt an approach that will unlock the magic and power of reading.With the Goldstones help, parents can inspire kids’ lifelong love of reading by teaching them how to unlock a book’s hidden meaning. Featuring fun and incisive discussions of numerous children’s classics, this dynamic guide highlights key elements–theme, setting, character, point of view, climax, and conflict–and paves the way for meaningful conversations between parents and children. “Best of all,” the Goldstones note, “you don’t need an advanced degree in English literature or forty hours a week of free time to effectively discuss a book with your child. This isn’t Crime and Punishment, it’s Charlotte’s Web.”

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences


Leonard Sax - 2005
    Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated. In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations. For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher—especially if the teacher is female. Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literally cannot say.Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes. A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy.

Your Pregnancy Week by Week


Lesley Regan - 2005
    Stunning state-of-the-art imagery and specialist up-to-the-minute research and information describes your baby's remarkable progress in the womb. With clear, authoritative advice that demystifies complex medical jargon, this is an essential guide for every parent-to-be during this extraordinary and wonderful time.

Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with Your Children


John A. Younts - 2005
    In Everyday Talk, author John Younts explains how to use ordinary conversations to talk to your kids about God and his world. You'll be delighted by his clear, practical insight and biblical wisdom. Buy this book and read it. But don't stop there—put it into practice. Your children will thank you!

Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life


Rue Kream - 2005
    The author advocates unwavering trust and respect toward children, and the tone of the book shows full respect for the reader. Because Rue sees unschooling as simply "life together", her book offers sensible, effective, and humane solutions to a wide variety of typical parenting concerns.The question-and-answer format makes it easy to find answers to a multitude of common parenting dilemmas and unschooling questions. A few of the questions covered are:Why choose unschoolingAre we qualified to unschool?Will my kids stop learning if I stop lessons?Am I spoiling my daughter?What about socialization?What is a typical day?How are your children learning manners?How do unschooled children learn to read?

What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing


Naomi Stadlen - 2005
    'Naomi Stadlen writes with understanding, deep insight and humour. This is truly woman-to woman.' Sheila Kitzinger, childbirth educator, mother. ended up feeling that you have 'done nothing all day'? Do you sometimes find it hard to feel pleased with what you are doing, and tell yourself you should achieve more with your time? Maybe it's because you can't see how much you are doing already. In this unique and perceptive look at mothering, Naomi Stadlen draws on many years' work with hundreds of other mothers of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds. She explores mothers' experiences to reveal what they - and you - are doing when it may look, to everyone else, like nothing. If you are a mother, and have ever felt: that nobody understands what you do all day; overwhelmed by your feelings for your baby; tired all the time; that nothing prepared you for motherhood; uncertain what your baby seems to want; short-tempered with your partner; - you will find this the most reassuring book you have ever picked up.

The Parenting Breakthough


Merilee Brown Boyack - 2005
    A real life plan to teach your kids to work, save money, and be truly independent.

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth


Deepak Chopra - 2005
    Its ideas derive from two sources: the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, with its emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and the latest Western scientific prenatal research. By integrating the best information from these two very different perspectives, this remarkable book gives readers the tools to ensure that our children are nourished by thoughts, words, and actions from the very moment of conception.Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives is rich in practical information, including strategies to help enliven the body intelligence of unborn babies by nourishing each of their five senses, as well as through Ayurvedically balanced nutrition and eating with awareness. Specific yoga poses and meditation techniques reduce the mother’s stress and improve the infant’s emotional environment, as do tips for conscious communication with a partner. Exercises prepare parents for the experience of childbirth itself, followed by natural approaches to dealing with the first weeks of parenting, from healing herbs to enhancing your milk supply to coping with postpartum depression.Inspiring, expansive, and remarkably informative, this unique book from acclaimed experts in mind-body medicine will profoundly enhance the experience of pregnancy and birth for both parents and baby.

Mother To Son: Shared Wisdom From the Heart


Melissa Harrison - 2005
    It’s filled with the importance of nurturing responsibility: Teach him that the world will judge him by his actions, not his intentions. Fun stuff: Have tea with him in the afternoons. Serve cookies. And when he’s ready to go: Hug him fiercely.

Mother to Daughter


Melissa Harrison - 2005
    It’s filled with helpful reassurance: Tickle her, play with her, give her piggyback rides. She’s not breakable. And accepting bittersweet reality: When it’s time—Let her go.

The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child: Helping Your Child Thrive in an Extroverted World


Marti Olsen Laney - 2005
    Engaged by their interior world, they’re often regarded as aloof. Easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation, they can be seen as unmotivated. Content with just one or two close friends, they may be perceived as unpopular. Parents fret that they are unhappy and maladjusted. But the truth is quite different: Introverted children are creative problem solvers. Introverted children love to learn. Introverted children have a high EQ (emotional IQ) and are in touch with their feelings. They take time to stop and smell the roses, and they enjoy their own company. They are dependable, persistent, flexible, and lack vanity. How can parents help their introverted children discover and cultivate these wonderful gifts? Help is here. Written by Dr. Marti Olsen Laney, author of The Introvert Advantage with 74,000 copies in print, The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child fully explains introversion as a hardwired temperament, not a disability, and tells just what parents need to do to help their child become the person he or she is meant to be—and succeed in an extroverted world. Beginning with a 30-question quiz that places a child on the introvert/extrovert continuum, The Hidden Gifts shows parents how to foster a climate that allows introverted kids to discover their inner strengths; schedule ways for a very young innie to recharge those batteries and teach an older child to do it for him- or herself; create a harmonious household with siblings, and parents, of different temperaments; help innies find success at school, sports, parties, and other group activities.

Transformed Into His Likeness: A Handbook for Putting Off Sin and Putting on Righteousness


Armand P. Tiffe - 2005
    Here is biblical help for those who want to change. Transformed Into His Likeness is a valuable resource for individual Christians seeking help in personal struggles, or for pastors and counselors and those they counsel. The workbook contains over 100 common problems facing Christians today along with biblical solutions for each. The strength of this resource is that it is a complete package. It explains the biblical process of change, helps identify where personal change is needed, provides pertinent Scripture references for problem areas, and offers a practical worksheet to walk you through the change process and help you implement biblical change into your life.

How to Grow a Connected Family with Contagious Love and Faith


Jim Jackson - 2005
    These simple but profound ideas will fuel authentic love and faith at home and beyond. Through real-life stories, engaging teaching, and reflective questions, you will learn to:-- Be peaceful and wiser for the challenges of parenting.-- Keep your love and God's love for your children alive in their hearts.-- Integrate Biblical teaching in every day life, and effectively train your children in respect, responsibility, faith, and a sense of calling.-- Discipline in ways that strengthen your children's character and relationships.Families that learn these principles find more joy and peace at home, AND they contagiously share their love with the world around them!

Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God


Mary E. DeMuth - 2005
    Personal stories integrated with scriptural truth and probing prayers will help everyday stay-at-home moms remain connected to the most amazing and extraordinary Parent of all parents.

The Mommy Manual: Planting Roots That Give Your Children Wings


Barbara Curtis - 2005
    This text teaches readers six useful keys to successful parenting. Loaded with personal stories, helpful sidebars, and practical advice, it is intended for moms looking for helpful ways to raise happy, confident kids.

Family Building: The Five Fundamentals of Effective Parenting


John Rosemond - 2005
    Therefore, it is not hard. There will be difficult moments, of course, . . . but if a parent is experiencing the rearing of a child or children as generally difficult--as emotionally, intellectually, and even physically exhausting, then the parent is doing something wrong. --John Rosemond, Family BuildingTrusted family psychologist John Rosemond has a revolutionary message for today's parents: Your grandparents' generation knew a lot more about raising children than all of today's experts. The experts have turned child rearing into a complicated, exhausting chore rather than the simple, straightforward task it should be. In Family Building: The Five Fundamentals of Effective Parenting, Rosemond outlines the five key principles of traditional parenting that are crucial to raising well-behaved children today.* It's about the family, not the children.* Where discipline is concerned, it's about communication, not consequences; leadership not relationship.* It's about respecting others, not high self-esteem.* It's about manners and morals, not skills.* It's about responsibility, not high achievement. Each chapter includes questions from real parents faced with real-life parenting challenges, and in his typical no-nonsense style, Rosemond provides practical solutions. Family Building restores common sense to parenting and puts the parents back in charge. Once again, John Rosemond delivers child-rearing wisdom that no parent should miss.

Respecting Babies: A New Look at Magda Gerber's RIE Approach


Ruth Anne Hammond - 2005
    

King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs from His Father


Steve Farrar - 2005
    What separated the good kings from the bad kings was a father who made time commitments to mentor his son, by modeling biblical manhood. Do you want your son to become a man of regal character? Then this book is for you!

Kids in the Syndrome Mix


Martin L. Kutscher - 2005
    Kutscher provides accessible information on causes, symptoms, interactions with other conditions, and treatments. He presents effective behavioral strategies for responding to children who display traits of these disorders-whether at home, at school, or in other settings-along with case vignettes and practical tips.The author's sympathetic yet upbeat approach and skillful explanations of the inner world of children in the syndrome mix make this an invaluable companion for parents, teachers, professionals, and anyone else who needs fast and to-the-point advice on children with special needs.

Use Your Words: How Teacher Talk Helps Children Learn


Carol Garhart Mooney - 2005
    From the author of Theories of Childhood, this humorous and thoughtful guide contains a wealth of classroom examples, as well as clear alternatives for transforming the language teachers use in the classroom.

Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide


Hilary Flower - 2005
    Hilary debunks myths about the effectiveness of gentle discipline methods while empowering parents to find ways to make gentle discipline work for both themselves and their children. With creativity, courage, and commitment, each parent and child can develop their own unique way of engaging in gentle discipline. Gentle discipline is not a far off standard for us to meet but an imperfect, lively and richly meaningful way of communicating with our children. Although experts can offer theories, this book proves that parents themselves have a great deal to offer other parents in regard to this incredibly worthwhile—and revolutionary!—way of guiding young children. Line drawings capture small scenes from the journey of parenting and personal stories from a variety of mothers show creative adaptations of gentle discipline methods in different families.

Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood: God's Plan for You and Your Baby


Sheila Kippley - 2005
    Kippley Why breastfeeding is good for you and good for your baby, now and forever! God has a plan for you and your baby, and it starts with breastfeeding. He wants you to use the gifts He gave you — physical and spiritual — to help your baby thrive and mold you into a loving Catholic mother. That’s why the Church has long promoted breastfeeding. Today, many mothers know that the medical evidence in favor of breastfeeding is overwhelming: your milk nourishes your baby and boosts his immunity; your warm, reassuring maternal embrace fosters his early mental and emotional development. But the spiritual reasons for breastfeeding are just as strong. Citing priests and popes, author Sheila Kippley here shows that nursing is not only the best way to ensure your baby’s health and proper psychological development; it’s an integral part of your vocation as a Catholic mother. Nursing your baby is an act of Christian charity. Indeed, Pope John Paul II says that nursing mothers are “truly heroic.” Their selflessness is a boon to the family, the Church, and society. Breastfeeding creates the intimate bonds of love and trust on which all Christian communion is based. It awakens tenderness in you and a sense of wonder at creation, especially at the marvel you cradle in your arms, your tiny baby. These pages show that breastfeeding is the best care you can give your baby, and it’s also good for you as a Catholic woman. Nursing will deepen your love and develop in you habits of meditation and prayer. Let Sheila Kippley help you take the next step toward breastfeeding. Soon, as you gaze on the baby nursing in your arms, you’ll find praise of God welling up in your soul, and thanksgiving for His wonderful works and for the marvelous gifts He has given you.

The Dance of Interaction


Jeanine Fitzgerald - 2005
    No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight.

Child Health Guide: Holistic Pediatrics for Parents


Randall Neustaedter - 2005
    Child Health Guide offers sensible alternatives to this disturbing trend, providing the information parents need to make informed decisions about natural healing for their children and the integration of natural treatments into their children's medical care. The book covers the prenatal period through infancy, toddlerhood, and into middle childhood, with emphasis on extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, a natural foods diet, avoidance of toxic chemicals, limited use of vaccines, and treatment of health problems with homeopathic medicines and herbs. Child Health Guide respects parents' choices while providing persuasive arguments for building a healthy immune system by avoiding conventional drugs and stressing natural methods. Using an educational and informative tone, the book discusses preventive medicine, the causes of poor health in children, and common foods and chemical exposures that can contribute to chronic illness. It also provides nutritional interventions that strengthen immunity and promote healing.

Mr. Rogers Parenting Resource Book


Fred Rogers - 2005
    Written by the late Fred Rogers, one of the most trusted names in children’s television, these award-winning titles provide an authoritative and encouraging reference for concerned parents. Informed by a lifetime of study in child development and years of communicating with children, this incredible resource addresses many parenting situations, from everyday concerns like a dentist’s visit to such challenges as divorce and death. It also draws on Mister Rogers’ unique experiences with child’s play, presenting more than 80 activities that any adult can happily engage in with preschoolers. All in all, it’s a perfect gift for any new parent.

Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children


Cheri Register - 2005
    Cheri Register examines ten pitfalls that well-meaning parents like herself can easily slip into: -- Wiping Away Our Children's Past -- Hovering Over Our Troubled Children -- Holding the Lid on Sorrow and Anger -- Parenting on the Defensive -- Believing Race Doesn't Matter -- Keeping Our Children Exotic -- Raising Our Children in Isolation -- Judging Our Country Superior -- Believing Adoption Saves Souls -- Appropriating Our Children's Heritage Each essay opens with an exaggerated version of something an adoptive parent might say, to prompt a fresh, intense look at practices so familiar they are seldom questioned, even though they may not serve the children's and the family's best interests. Register urges readers to bring their own experiences to bear in a candid conversation about internationally adoptive family life.

The Children's Year: Seasonal Crafts and Clothes


Stephanie Cooper - 2005
    Children get enormous satisfaction from playing with something they have made, but many parents lack creative self-confidence.This book has everything you need to get started, with more than a hundred projects for parents and children to enjoy making together. Simple, well-illustrated instructions demonstrate ways to make children's clothing, toys, and gifts, using natural materials.Organized by seasons, the craft activities include knitted Easter chicks, spring flower fairies, summer leaf prints, cosy slippers, pumpkin lanterns, Christmas calendars, indoor play spaces, and much more. Small items such as a tooth fairy purse can be made in a short time, while larger projects can be enjoyed over a weekend or more.

Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens


Debbie Riley - 2005
    The key to successful therapy and healthy development is to help the adolescent discover and accept the person within. Parents will discover: �the six most common adoption stuck-spots �the complexities of adoption �the adopted teen�s quest for identity �how therapy may help the adoptive families learn and grow together. Therapists and clinicians will discover: �a broad knowledge base on adoption �a step-by-step assessment process �clinical intervention strategies �a wealth of case histories �treatment resources and therapy tools �writing and art therapy samples.

Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers


Christopher Brown - 2005
    This easy-to-use guide helps parents teach their children basic signs, allowing the child to express themselves from as early as seven months.An introduction explains how baby signing developed and its uses for the reader and their child. This leads into the main body of the book which is divided into themed categories, and then each entry is alphabetized within for easy use.Baby Signs is a reader-friendly practical guide will help to develop a child's learning abilities at the earliest possible stage, and helps create an invaluable bond between parent and child.

Parenting Your Asperger Child: Individualized Solutions for Teaching Your Child Practical Skills


Alan Sohn - 2005
    Alan Sohn's and Cathy Grayson's groundbreaking Cognitive Social Integration Therapy (CSIT) offers practical solutions that help parents prepare their children for a fulfilling life of social interaction outside the confines of their syndrome, addressing such topics as:- The six characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome- How to identify a child's type of Asperger's--and the best approaches for dealing with it- Understanding how an Asperger's child sees and interprets the world- Replacing inappropriate coping techniques with productive skills- How to survive and learn from a crisis- How school programs can aid in teaching Asperger children - Making changes that last

More Than a Dad: Becoming the Father Every Child Needs and Every Wife Desires


Scot Anderson - 2005
    Becoming a good father is not automatic, it also isn't a gift that some have and some don't. You learn how to be a father from your father or lack of a father. Like it or not you will develop the same type of relationship with your children that your father has with you. The only way to break this is to get the truth inside of you on how to be a great father.

Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome: A Parent's Guide to Student Success


Ann Palmer - 2005
    Ann Palmer advises parents and professionals how to prepare the student for the transition from school and home life to a new environment and educational challenge, and how to support them through potential problems such as academic pressure, living away from home, social integration and appropriate levels of participation in college. She offers helpful strategies that will encourage and inspire parents and students and show that college can be a suitable option for students with an autism spectrum disorder, as well as the basis for a successful independent life later.This book is essential reading for any parent considering college as an option for their child, disability service providers in colleges and for ASD students themselves.

Oh Baby: Birth, Babies & Motherhood Uncensored


Kathy Fray - 2005
    It oozes with warm fuzzies, it reeks of mumsy terms, it exudes realism in every paragraph and it is refreshing in its guiltless honesty. Modern first-time mothers are often alone - devoid of once traditional motherhood knowledge and practical support. Often previously self-confident women find themselves inconceivably isolated, hopelessy fumbling over everday mothering tasks, enduring torturous levels of sleep deprivation, feeling desperately despondent and physiologically aching and leaking everywhere. This book provides supportive, caring advice - one Mum to another - while at the same time serving as an encyclopaedic medical reference regarding the mother and baby. Checked thoroughly by medical professionals, this book is a unique blend, like having access to a kind and gentle GP as well as to all the gems of wisdom of years of mothers' coffee groups. This new title clearly and compassionately explains the ups as well as the downs which are perfectly normal aspects of giving birth and mothering in today's society.

Worksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills: Breaking Down Concepts for Teaching Students with Social Cognitive Deficits


Michelle Garcia Winner - 2005
    Winner's other books: Inside Out: What Makes the Person With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? Thinking About You Thinking About Me, and the Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School Age Students. These lessons are in addition to most of the information in these other three books. The worksheets help to create a lesson plan, defining how to break down concepts for students to explore and they can used directly with students. The worksheets can be copied and sent to parents and other professionals to give an idea of what the student is learning and how to carry the concept over in their own environments. There are some worksheets for children Kindergarten through 2nd grade, the majority of the worksheets are for students in 3rd grade and higher, many of the worksheets are for middle and high school students; the ideas can be used with adults as well. Each worksheet page is coded for the recommended age group it targets.

Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming


Ellyn Satter - 2005
    Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman's Battle: Creative Conversations about Sexual and Emotional Integrity


Shannon Ethridge - 2005
    All of this input–along with the whirlwind of emotions that accompany puberty–can leave them confused, filled with unasked questions about boys, dating, sex, and their own value. While you may believe that your preteen or early adolescent is too young for “the talk,” now is the perfect time for creative conversations about sexuality. By introducing key principles and truths during these teachable years, you can lay a foundation that will help your daughter withstand the inevitable pressures young women face. And you’ll create a lasting bond, establishing yourself as a trustworthy authority who is willing to help her address the sensitive issues in her life.Recognizing how awkward it can be to confront the topic of sex, author Shannon Ethridge guides you and your daughter through enjoyable yet memorable discussions about sexuality, purity, and dating–leading to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for God’s standards. Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman’s Battle provides creative tools that will give you the courage and confidence to talk openly and honestly with your daughter–and instill values that will lead her to a lifetime of sexual and emotional integrity.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child


Mary Gordon - 2005
    Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.Now, as The New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten", Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children — and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and other Developmental Disabilities Through Vision Therapy


Melvin Kaplan - 2005
    Kaplan identifies common ASD symptoms such as hand-flapping, poor eye contact and tantrums as typical responses to the confusion caused by vision disorder. He also explains the effects of difficulties that people with autism experience with "ambient vision", including a lack of spatial awareness and trouble with coordination. Other chapters give guidance on how to identify the visual deficits of nonverbal children, select prism lenses that will alter the visual field, and create individually tailored programs of therapy in order to retrain the system.This book is essential reading for parents of children with ASDs, and professionals in the fields of autism, optometry and ophthalmology, psychology and education.

Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism: Practical Steps to Overcome a Fear of Speaking


Angela E. McHolm - 2005
    The disorder usually presents in children before the age of five, but it may not be recognized until the child starts school. When requested to speak, children with selective mutism often look down, blush, or otherwise express anxiety that disrupts their engagement with people and activities. Selective mutism is related to social anxiety and social phobia, and more than 90 percent of children with selective mutism also manifest symptoms of one of these problems.This book is the first available for parents of children with selective mutism. It offers a broad overview of the condition and reviews the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. The book details a plan you can use to coordinate professional treatment of your child's disorder. It also explains the steps you can take on your own to encourage your child to speak comfortably in school and in his or her peer group. All of the book's strategies employ a gradual, "stepladder" approach. The techniques gently encourage children to speak more, while at the same time helping them feel safe and supported.Angela E. McHolm, Ph.D., is director of the Selective Mutism Service at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, ON. The Selective Mutism Service offers outpatient psychiatric consultation to families and professionals such as school personnel, speech and language pathologists, and mental health clinicians who support children with selective mutism. She is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON.

The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing


Barbara L. Behrmann - 2005
    Dr. Behrmann's wisdom, warmth, and information are heartwarming, reassuring, and practical."---Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause"The Breastfeeding Cafe will become the book of choice for nursing mothers, and for anyone who wants to learn about the awesome experience of breastfeeding for mothers and their babies."-Marilyn Yalom, author of History of the Breast and History of the Wife"A fascinating mixture of storytelling and information, The Breastfeeding Café wisely and honestly explores the history, culture, and realities of breastfeeding. An inspiring, supportive, and influential book."-Penny Simkin, co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide"Here at long last is a guided tour of women's actual experiences with breastfeeding. The Breastfeeding Café offers clinicians invaluable insights, and new mothers-whatever their backgrounds-will find in its pages their own place on the bell curve of the human experience that is breastfeeding."-Diane Wiessinger, International Board Certified Lactation ConsultantThis candid collection of real breastfeeding stories takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the full range of emotions and circumstances that make up the nursing experience.Compelling, moving, and diverse, the stories in The Breastfeeding Café---from women all over the country---reveal the nursing relationship in all its complexity and seek to create a culture in which breastfeeding women are visible, accepted, and valued.The Breastfeeding Café isn't a how-to manual on breastfeeding; instead, it offers a thoughtful forum for women to share their experiences with others. Approaching nursing as a feminist issue and one that is very important to child rearing, the book embraces the wide spectrum of women's experiences breastfeeding their children. Organized thematically and framed within a social and cultural context by a sociologist and former nursing mother of two, The Breastfeeding Café moves the subject of women nursing their children out from behind closed doors. A must-read for clinicians, breastfeeding consultants, and both new and expectant mothers who are curious about the nursing experience in all its variety.Approved for use in La Leche League International Group Libraries.

Baby Secrets: How to Know Your Baby's Needs


Jo Tantum - 2005
    You too can begin a happy spiral for you and your baby. Discover: � The secrets of sleeping through the night� How to calm their crying � Simple feeding routines� The joys of play� How to cope with more than one Jo's approach is warm, empowering for you as a parent and very reassuring. Her advice is easy to follow and very simply, it works. Barbara is proof of that and they can't wait to pass it on. Jo Tantum has worked with parents and their babies around the world for the last 18 years. She is now in demand as a maternity consultant, twin specialist and sleep expert. Barbara Want is a journalist and television producer who has worked for the BBC on many programmes, including Panorama and Newsnight. She lives in London with her husband and twin boys.

Bear With Me: What They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and New Motherhood


Diane Flacks - 2005
    In the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine that having a baby is still shrouded in secrecy and mythology. And yet many women go through their pregnancy with a sense of isolation and without an outlet to express their fears, doubts, and wonder. There is so much more to pregnancy than What to Expect When You’re Expecting. In Bear With Me, readers will discover the truth about pregnancy – poignantly and hilariously. It is important to know how Dr. Sears suggests you work a nasal aspirator, but how do you get through your thirtieth day of morning sickness without shooting someone?! Diane Flacks, who has written for Kids in the Hall and appeared with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, is open about her own experiences: dealing with hormonal mood swings and a changing body image, sex with a burgeoning belly, what really happens in the labour room, and (horror of horrors) becoming your mom. Flacks is witty, urbane, and refreshingly honest. In Bear With Me readers will find a voice that welcomes, does not judge or hide, and will make you laugh out loud.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Running the Rapids


Kevin Leman - 2005
    Kevin Leman as he guides you through the turbulent waters of adolescence. Peer pressure, self-image, dating, sex--Leman covers them all in his trademark "no-holds-barred" style that will bring a smile to the faces and hope to the hearts of even the most beleaguered parents.

52 Weeks Of Family Night: Fast and Easy Lessons for Young Families


Tamara Baggett - 2005
    At the beginning of the book are 52 squares. Each square has an image and a number (1-52). {Parents cut out the squares, put them in a bag or bowl, and each week a child picks a square that points to a corresponding lesson in the book. This is a nice, interactive way to help small children be involved, and a fast and easy way to help busy parents create effective family home evening lessons.

Parenting for Character: Equipping your child for life


Andrew Mullins - 2005
     Parenting for Character is a practical manual to help parents develop in their children qualities necessary for a happy and fulfilling adult life. These include sound judgement, responsibility, self-control, integrity, perseverance, courage and resilience. In this book, Andrew Mullins, Headmaster of Redfield College, Sydney, argues that parents need to help build character: it does not just evolve. He explores how to encourage young people to think independently and make choices that are good for themselves and others. In his experience, young people are damaged by too readily accepting their peer group's values or messages from the media. They are able to take control of their lives once they acquire well-developed habits of thinking, decision-making and acting. The advice for parents in Parenting for Character is clear and simple: lead by example, ensure that good habits are encouraged repeatedly, nurture the spiritual dimension in your life, and show love and affection to your partner and children. The book draws on parenting principles from classical times to the present and offers advice from many sources including Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Confucius, Cicero, Goethe, Winston Churchill and John Paul II. This book is essential reading for any parent who wishes to develop good character in their children. Andrew Mullins offers direction and encouragement to parents who want their children to be socially responsible and morally strong. In an engaging way, Parenting for Character offers practical advice on how to raise children of quality.' Dr Tim Hawkes, Headmaster, The King's School, and author of Boy Oh Boy Effective quality parenting is incorrectly labelled by society as "assumed knowledge". Andrew Mullins helps parents erect scaffolds and to continually assess "work in progress". Parenting for Character is essential reading for all parents!' Michael Quinlan, Principal, James Ruse Agricultural High School. Andrew Mullins career has included over 25 years' teaching the humanities in Australian secondary schools, leading to his interest in presenting the wisdom of classic thinkers and philosophers. In his position as headmaster of Redfield College, Sydney, he has developed a strong policy of involving parents in the process of reflecting desirable values to young people. He writes: "My experience is that parents who keep their focus on these priorities, patiently and lovingly, give their children something of incalculable worth. The Talmud, a type of ancient Jewish guidebook for life, sums it all up: 'The one great requisite is character'. Plutarch, the famous Greek historian writing in Roman times, knew how to cut to essentials: 'Character', he wrote, 'is simply strongly established habit'." This book had its origins in a series of successful talks presented to parents. Contents Part 1: Parenting foundations Principles of raising children with character1 Create unity in the home2 Build up habits of affection with each child3 Have high but reasonable expectations4 Lead by example5 Create customs of close parent-child communication6 Manage the inputs7 Let your child wear his or her mistakes8 Place a high priority on honesty9 Enjoy family life10 Be convinced that love and correction are not opposites11 Commit to building good habits in your son or daughterAssess your own parenting Part 2: Good habits - the building blocks of character Not one more theory of how children should be educatedBenefits of habits of good behaviourRepeated behaviours become second natureWe are the sum of our established habitsGood habits and parentingThe four powers - foundation habits for happiness1 Sound judgement2 Responsibility3 Self control4 FortitudeImportance of a spiritual dimensionReview your child's good habits Part 3: Forging good habits Raise children who can take control of their own lives1 Establish routines and be consistent2 Delegate, even if it takes more time to get the job done3 Teach that actions should be motivated by love4 Don't let bad habits accumulate5 Don't do the thinking for your child6 Model the qualities you want to pass on7 Clearly teach what is right and wrong8 Help your children build good habits in their younger years9 Make character building the aim of children's sport10 Show your children that hard lessons can be the best lessons11 Keep focused on sincerity and generosity - habits for our heads and our hearts12 Teach detachment from material things13 Focus on causes and consequences Part 4: Raising teenagers with strength of character Start earlyAddress the needs of teenage childrenReject any negative view of adolescenceRecognise potentialHow to raise teenagers with strength of character1 Own up to your innermost values2 Show that your values bring you happiness3 Realise that teenagers are changing on the inside first4 Require teenagers to think, not to do5 Help your teenager internalise the process of developing good habits6 Find new ways to keep communicating7 Address issues8 Explain reasons9 Don't underestimate the impact of the peer group10 Look for reinforcement from your son's or daughter's school11 Seek out mentors who have the confidence of your teenager12 Focus on resilience13 Prepare your son or daughter for relationships and sexuality14 Give your teenager affection, affection, and more affection15 Teach peace in the face of the very greatest challengesFinal reflectionsAuthor's notesAcknowledgementsRecommended readingWeb resources on character building and parentingIndex

Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills: An Activity Workbook


Kenneth Lane - 2005
    Kenneth A. Lane has designed Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills: An Activity Workbook to help occupational therapists, optometrists, and other professionals develop the ocular motor and visual perceptual skills of learning disabled children.To establish a framework for understanding, each chapter begins with the scientific theories used to develop the activity forms. Insightful suggestions are included on how to solidify the program's success.The easy-to-follow activity forms are then presented, along with numerous illustrations that help develop ocular motor and visual perceptual skills. The forms are divided into as many as five levels of difficulty so both children and teenagers can benefit from each activity. Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills contains daily lesson plans and practical tips on how to successfully start an activities program. Other helpful features include a glossary of terms and a reference list of individuals and organizations that work with learning disabled children to develop these skills.The first of its kind, Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills utilizes a learning approach by linking the theories with the remediation activities to help learning disabled children improve their perceptual and fine motor skills. All professionals looking to assess and enhance a variety of fine motor and visual perception deficiencies will welcome this workbook into their practices. Topics include:Complexity of readingOcular motorGross motorVisual-motor perceptionVisual memoryLateralityReversals

The Power of a Postive Mom Devotional: 52 Monday Morning Motivations


Karol Ladd - 2005
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Enchanted Meditations for Kids


Christiane Kerr - 2005
    This 1-hour CD comprising of 8 short meditations is designed to help kids sleep more soundly and feel more confident and secure in their home and school life. It guides children to the creative part of their mind through a number of carefully scripted story meditations.

Let's Face It!


Tziporah Heller - 2005
    In a wise, Torah-based, deeply fulfilling manner, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller shares her enriching experiences with the reader, bringing clarity to the challenges that we all face. This eminently readable book has the power to be utterly life-changing for every reader!

The High Cost of High Control


Tim Kimmel - 2005
    Manipulation, power plays, and domination destroy the trust and affection we have for each other. But you can escape this losing game by reading and following the rules of healthy relationships.The High Cost Of High Control helps you understand the various types and causes of controlling behavior, from passive manipulation to aggressive control. You will learn how to break free from the pain caused by controlling personalities-your own and others -and develop or restore secure, lasting relationships.Dr. Tim Kimmel provides biblically based insights and stories of real people that will help you enjoy authentic relationships uncompromised by the manipulative power of over-control. The only way to win the power game is not to play at all. Includes a bonus section of 101 ways to identify and manage a high controller. Previously released as How To Deal With Powerful Personalities"

Read Right


Dee Tadlock - 2005
    This book is based on the successful Read Right[registered) program, and is suitable for parents.

"I'm, Like, SO Fat!": Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World


Dianne Neumark-Sztainer - 2005
    Whether it’s your son’s passion for chips and soda or your daughter’s announcement that she “feels fat,” kids’ attitude about how they look and what they should eat often seem devoid of common sense. In a world where television and school cafeterias push super-sized sandwiches while magazines feature pencil-thin models, many teens feel pressured to starve themselves and others eat way too much. Blending her experience as the mother of four with results from a survey of nearly 5,000 teens, Dr. Diane Neumark-Sztainer shows you how to respond constructively to “fat talk,” counteract negative media messages, and give your kids the straight story about nutrition and calories, the dangers of dieting, and eating right when they’re away from home. Full of examples illustrating the challenges teens face today, this upbeat and insightful book is packed with great ideas that will help kids everywhere feel better about their looks and make healthier choices about eating and exercise.

The Dance of Defiance: A Mother and Son Journey With Oppositional Defiant Disorder


Nancy A. Hagener - 2005
    Filled with heartwarming stories, honest insights and enlightening discoveries, The Dance of Defiance is a story of hope. Written by a parent for parents, this book will be a valuable tool for parents, educators, and individuals working with a child who has oppositional defiant disorder. In addition to strategies for parents and teachers and a section on sibling relationships, The Dance of Defiance contains an extensive Parent and Family Resource section that provides valuable help those on a similar journey.

Is It Sensory or Is It Behavior?: Behavior Problem Identification, Assessment, and Intervention


Carolyn Murray-Slutsky - 2005
    

Love, Limits, and Latitude: A Thousand Small Moments of Parenting


M. Gawain Wells - 2005
     The program is designed to be facilitated by a professional counselor and to help parents of well-adjusted children and parents with concerns about their children's adjustment and misbehavior. Many of the current parenting programs in the United States are based on either behavior modification theory or humanistic communication theory. This program uses techniques from these theories, but the underlying assumptions are based on a different premise: that when children feel securely attached and connected with their parents, they will want to comply with their parents' wishes.

Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers – Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) Principles into Practice


Stephanie Petrie - 2005
    Based on a philosophy of respect and sensitive observation of infants, it is appropriate for use in Sure Start programmes. The contributors offer a model that supports children's development and well being without relying on expensive material resources, and enables a coherent care strategy to be applied across different services.They explain the main elements of the RIE approach clearly and concisely and fully explore the practicalities of its implementation in a range of settings, including state-run and independent day care and residential centres, private households and family-based day care.The fresh and effective approach to caring for infants and toddlers outlined in this book will be welcomed by parents and day care professionals, as well as those who manage and evaluate child care provision.

Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children?


Anne Manne - 2005
    Controversial, unflinching, and intelligent, Anne Manne discusses the big issues surrounding motherhood and childcare and proposes radical new directions for social policy.

Building Babies Better: Developing a Solid Foundation for Your Child


Roxanne Small - 2005
    Whether you are expecting your first child or have been involved with children for years, Building Babies Better promises to add a fresh dimension to your understanding of child development.

Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood


Carolyn Mahaney - 2005
    That's how God designed it. A mother is her daughter's first role model, teacher, and friend, and she carries the responsibility of passing on to her daughter a legacy of biblical womanhood.Join mother-daughter team Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Whitacre as they give you insights and suggestions on how to talk--really talk--to each other about what it means to become a godly woman. Tips and study questions make it easy for moms and their pre-teen and teenage daughters to read, share, discuss, and grow.

A Quiet Place: Essays on Life and Family


Peggy O'Mara - 2005
    These essays were taken from the last couple of years of writings that appeared in the award winning Mothering Magazine. A Quiet Place is packed with the wit and wisdom Mothering readers have come to expect from Peggy through the years. Subjects covered in the book include Finding Soul in the City, The Tenderness of Boys, Having a Baby in America, What is Natural Family Living?, The Wonder of Children as well as essays on birth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, divorce, the environment, non-violent discipline, and much more.

Get Ready For Kindergarten!: 270 Interactive Activities and 2,158 Illustrations That Make Learning Fun! (Get Ready (Black Dog & Leventhal))


Jane Carole - 2005
    Get Ready for Kindergarten covers all of the early-learning basics: Upper and Lowercase Letters; Reading Readiness; Sounds & Letters; Storytelling; Reading & Writing; Health & Safety; Shapes, Sizes, and Sequences; Time & Measurement; Math Readiness; and Science & Nature. Rounded out with age-appropriate games and activities, alphabet and number flash cards, adorable animal characters, and cute, kid-friendly images--all rendered in beautiful full-color throughout--the Get Ready books are an inviting, exciting introduction to the world of learning.

Rock-Solid Kids: Giving Children a Biblical Foundation for Life


Larry Fowler - 2005
    But with the weight of all these influences, little attention is given to what ought to be the most important influence in molding the shape of children's ministry: the Word of God. Whether your children's ministry is in your home or in your church, the purpose of this book is to enable you to build a children's ministry that is rock-solid, modeled on scriptural teachings. Each chapter of this book starts with a Scripture passage--a "rock" for your foundation. The Scripture passage specifically refers to children or ministering to them. Each chapter contains a thorough discussion of implications and applications.

Take It to the Limit DVD: How to Get the Most Out of Life


Andy Stanley - 2005
    So we fill up our schedules and empty our bank accounts. We do as much as we can, spend as much as we can, and acquire as much as we can—all in an effort to get as much as we can out of life. This six-part DVD shows that the secret to getting more out of life is not by doing more, but by doing less. Its companion study guide is complete with a leader’s guide and six lessons, including conversation-starting exercises, discussion questions, and application steps. You’ll learn to create the margin you need to live the life God intends for you. Come Back from the Edge Overloaded? Maxed out? Our culture encourages us to live as if we have no limits. So we fill up our schedules and empty our bank accounts. We do as much as we can, spend as much as we can, and acquire as much as we can—all in an effort to get as much as we can out of life. In this six-part DVD, Andy Stanley explains that the secret to getting more out of life is not doing more, but doing less. We must learn to create margin to live the life God intended for us. Sessions include: Less Is More Downtime Quality vs. Quantity Reordering Your Finances A Time to Run Finding Professional Margin This DVD is enhanced with curriculum study sessions that can be used for small groups or individual study. Each session includes fifteen to twenty minutes of teaching followed by several discussion questions. This DVD is designed to work with the Take It to the Limit Study Guide, which will help you apply the principles of this study to your life. DVD Interior Part 1: Less Is More Our culture encourages us to live as close to the edge as possible. As a result we pack our schedules and empty our checkbooks—all in a quest to grab the most we can from life. This kind of life is dangerous, however, because God created us with limits. The closer we approach our limits, the less margin and greater potential we have to burn ourselves out—as well as those around us. Part 2: Downtime In an effort to get the most out of life we end up cramming as much stuff as we can into our day. The urgent begins to dominate our schedule, and the important things begin to slip away. In order to gain control of our limited time, we must let God help us prioritize it. This begins by setting aside time with Him. Part 3: Quality vs. Quantity When we live without financial margin we rob ourselves and we rob God. As a result we end up overextending ourselves and living with the stress of making ends meet. By making God a priority and creating margin, we give God the opportunity to be involved in our finances. Part 4: Reordering Your Finances So how do you create financial margin? Learn four practical tips to achieving financial margin: (1) Identify your annual available income, (2) set margin goals, (3) determine your monthly consumable income, and (4) develop a plan. Part 5: A Time to Run There’s something in all of us that wants to walk as close to the line as possible. By setting moral margins, we protect ourselves from experiencing the consequences of sin. Because sexual sin has the greatest consequences, we should always ask ourselves, “Am I fleeing or flirting with the line?” Part 6: Finding Professional Margin The key to professional margin is focus. We should learn to work toward what we’re good at—which means improving our strengths and delegating our areas of weakness. When we learn to do less, we accomplish more and have margin. Story Behind the BookAndy Stanley, senior pastor of three North Point Ministries campuses with a cumulative congregation of more than twenty thousand, sees firsthand the burned-out, frenzied life Christians are living. Some are just beginning to establish unhealthy patterns, while others have been living without margin for years, and their health is paying the price. This curriculum was designed to help people establish balance, so that the life God intends for them will become an achievable reality!

Lithgow Party Paloozas!: 52 Unexpected Ways to Make a Birthday, Holiday, or Any Day a Celebration for Kids


John Lithgow - 2005
    A year's worth of creative party suggestions for parents, written by the award-winning actor, lists ideas on how to host unusual theme parties for children, from a map-focused celebration on Columbus Day, to a Beatlemania party, to a celebration of baseball's opening day, in a guide complemented by supply lists, budget information, activity and mus

Doing and Being Your Best: The Boundaries and Expectations Assests


Pamela Espeland - 2005
    Stories, tips, and ideas show them why and how boundaries help them behave in positive, responsible ways.

What All Children Want Their Parents to Know: 12 Keys to Raising a Happy Child


Diana Loomans - 2005
    Focusing on twelve key child-rearing lessons based on insight from children themselves, What Children Want Their Parents to Know encourages moms and dads to do things like "teach by example," "give appreciation and acknowledgement," "allow room to grow and make mistakes," and "practice true listening." Each chapter opens with a child’s statement of what he or she needs and wants from a parent. Then, using inspiring and heartwarming examples from her personal experience and from her many years educating children, Loomans shows how each statement reflects an important parenting principle. Practical advice and playful, easy-to-do exercises round out each chapter, helping parents work each idea into their individual approach. As always, Loomans makes learning seem casual and fun, and comes across less like an expert and more like a fellow parent sharing the wisdom she has gained through the everyday realities of raising children.

SelfDesign: Nurturing Genius Through Natural Learning


Brent Cameron - 2005
    It is instead a philosophy and a practice based in the belief that children are natural learners. Cameron uses individualized strategies, specific language tools, and a focus on the positive to shift the very premise on which education is built. Through his stories of learners and families he takes the reader on a tour of a new paradigm for learning-the art and science of SelfDesign.

Everyday Traditions: Simple Family Rituals for Connection and Comfort


Nava Atlas - 2005
    Join Nava Atlas who, along with the many women who contributed personal stories, explores how to weave comforting rituals into busy family life. Lushly illustrated and containing scores of inspiring ideas, this book also contains pages for the reader to record and develop their own favorite family traditions.

Thinking Parent, Thinking Child: How to Turn Your Most Challenging Everyday Problems Into Solutions


Myrna B. Shure - 2005
    In this new book, Dr Shure focuses on the specific issues & problems that concern parents the most, illustrating how parents might guide their children to come up with their own solutions through her ICPS (I Can Problem Solve) programme.

Raising a Vaccine Free Child


Wendy Lydall - 2005
    It helps them protect their children both from the wiles of the vaccine industry and from harmful germs. With 467 references, there are no trendy anti-vaccination myths in this book. Readers will learn that immunization is not the reason for the absence of some infectious diseases, that insidious, long-term side effects are very common, and that there is a media blackout on the topics of vaccine side effects and vaccine failures. Understanding the difference between childhood illnesses and the other infectious diseases is the key to understanding immunisation. This book advises parents on how to bring children safely through childhood illnesses like measles and whooping cough, and discusses medical and non-medical prevention and treatment of the non-childhood infectious diseases. The myth that herd immunity exists paves the way for the persecution of non-compliant health-conscious families. The information in this book empowers parents of vaccine free children to withstand the accusation that they are spoiling herd immunity. A look at the early documents regarding vaccination reveals that it is an unscientific procedure that is based on falsehood, cruelty and supposition.

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk


Adele Faber - 2005
    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

A Medication Guide for Breastfeeding Moms


Thomas W. Hale - 2005
    

Mind Your Manners: At the Park


Arianna Candell - 2005
    Suggested activities include games specially suited to the park�1/2s surroundings. The bright color illustrations on every page of How We Should Behave Books will appeal to younger boys and girls, while the easy to understand stories teach them fundamental rules of good behavior. The brief stories dramatize typical events in children�1/2s lives, showing kids as they interact with other children, with teachers, and with other adults. Beginning readers see boys and girls who are very much like themselves, as they make mistakes, have small accidents, then discover the best ways to correct their errors, avoid mishaps, and feel good about themselves while they have fun. Each book suggests appropriate activities and offers guidelines for moms and dads.

Infertility in the Bible: How the Matriarchs Changed Their Fate, How You Can Too


Jessie Fischbein - 2005
    How to work on yourself and perhaps alter your fate.Prayer - Why it sometimes works and sometimes does not work, and how to remold its force within you.Leah and Rachel - How their sibling rivalry impacted on their ability to have children, and why focusing your emotions is a hidden tool for change.Hannah - How the prayers and actions of the mother of Samuel helped her conceive.