Emotionally Intelligent Parenting : How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child

Have you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating your children in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? The authors call for a new Golden Rule: Do unto your children as you would have other people do unto your children. And most important, they show us how to live by it. With this book, parents will learn how to communicate with children on a deeper, more gratifying level and how to help them successfully navigate the intricacies of relating to others.

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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, 'Chronically Inflexible' Children
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Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants: Parenting Styles and the Messages They Send
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Coping with Miscarriage

Angry Young Men

Parenting Your Parents

Though one in three pregnancies ends in miscarriage, it remains a taboo topic that's subject to misunderstandings and myths. Miscarriage: Your Questions Answered, a book in the Element Guide series, explores the emotional and physical realities of healing from miscarriage in a clear, authoritative, and immanently sensitive manner.

In Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, two male therapists want readers to understand the ways boys suffer and what causes them emotional pain.

In 1994, psychologist Mary Pipher revealed the "girl-poisoning" tendencies of our society in Reviving Ophelia. Now, with Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders, she explores the horrifyingly lonely lives of the elderly in America--and how baby boomers can communicate better with their aging parents.

Joint Custody With a Jerk : Raising a Child With an Uncooperative Ex

Family Life magazine said, “In many ways, dealing with an uncooperative former spouse is like dealing with a difficult child: You’ve got to set limits, express your feelings clearly, and pick you battles with care. The authors’ strategies for mediating the many issues in a separated parent’s life are apt and easy to apply.” In Joint Custody With A Jerk, you’ll find tools and techniques that will help you change the dynamics of your relationship with your pain-in-the-ex by changing how you communicate with him or her. buy it | comment

Smart Love

How do you avoid the common pitfalls of parenting? Trust your instincts, say the Piepers--Martha Heineman and William--in Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person. A psychotherapist and child psychiatrist, respectively, the Piepers use real-life examples from their practices to show you how to strike a happy balance between too much permissiveness and overly harsh discipline.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families : Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World

By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence. buy it | comment

parenting your add/adhd child

The Adhd Parenting Handbook focuses on management techniques that a family and child can utilize to survive everyday life--morning activities, homework, peer relations, summer-vacation blues. Tips from educators and other professionals are tucked in, especially throughout the lengthy chapter on school and teachers.

Featuring step-by-step methods for managing a child with ADHD in a variety of everyday situations, Taking Charge of Adhd : The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents is an authoritative book which includes the latest information on available medications, numerous techniques for enhancing a child's school performance, and a special section devoted to the needs of the parents.

A practical and concise format presents tested solutions to common ADD/ADHD behavior problems, such as fighting, disobeying rules, failing to complete homework, poor hygiene, name-calling, disorganization, bed-wetting, and talking back. The Add/Adhd Checklist is organized for quick access and easy use into eight sections. An indispensable guide for beleaguered teachers, counselors, and parents.

Families of Value: Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children Speak Out

This is a remarkably candid and honest book on the ups and downs of gays and lesbians raising children. Whether the parent is gay or not is essentially unimportant, it is the commitment to caring and providing the best home possible that is the author's extraordinary message. buy it | comment