Parent Resources: Parenting Resources

Presents a practical guide that addresses the issues of child discipline, and offers simple advice to controlling obnoxious behavior and encouraging good behavior and at the same time strengthening the relationship between parent and child.

Students come to understand their mind's unique features, learn about getting help from others, helping themselves, and building on their strengths.

A Complete Self-Help Guide to Help You Move On A step-by-step guide to help you make any kind of change in your life.

In this ground-breaking collection, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang--an affective neuroscientist, human development psychologist, and former public school teacher--presents a decade of work with the potential to revolutionize educational theory and practice by deeply enriching our understanding of the complex connection between emotion and learning.

A parenting guide covering every developmental stage, providing strategies to help change children's behavior, decrease the stress in family relations, and more.

Advises parents to let their children experience disappointment, frustration, and failure, giving them an opportunity to learn from mistakes, and grow up to become successful, resilient and self-reliant adults.

Demonstrates that the words we say to children can have a profound positive – or negative – effect and it goes on to show readers how a few simple changes in parenting language can reward them with family harmony, turn parenting into a joy rather than a burden, and help them rear children with healthy self-esteem.

So why do we continue to administer this modern cod liver oil-or even demand a larger dose? Kohn's incisive analysis reveals how a set of misconceptions about learning and a misguided focus on competitiveness has left our kids with less free time, and our families with more conflict. Pointing to stories of parents who have fought back-and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework-Kohn demonstrates how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children's love of learning.

Parents with school-aged children will find in this volume the help they need to create an unstressful learning environment in the home and motivate their youngsters to succeed in school.

Presents the authors' comments on parenting, which were originally made when they were children, and includes their reflections on them as adults and parents as well as surveys to help readers evaluate their relationships with their children.

Exposes the effects of helicopter parenting and puts forth an alternative philosophy for raising self-sufficient young adults.

Anthony Wolf applies his philosophy and humor to a wide variety of everyday situations, showing both the way interactions tend to go (not so well) and why, then offers parents a script and guidance on how to achieve the most satisfying outcomes.

Children become the messages they get the most. And as a parent, your words, attitudes, and actions are constantly sending your children messages, creating their earliest ideas about themselves, others, and the world around them. Now, parenting expert Dr. Jim Taylor describes the vital opportunity you have to shape your children (even when they may not appear to be listening) and guides you to answer this crucial question: "How can I be sure I'm sending the healthiest messages?" If you consciously send your children the right messages, the benefits for them will be profound.

This nonfiction book--a blend of realism and optimism--helps students with learning differences gain insights into their problems. Dr.Levine suggests specific ways to approach schoolwork, overcome learning differences, and manage struggles that students face at school.

Discusses how parents can help their children manage frustrating problems with executive functions, such as impulse control, cognitive flexibility, initiation of chores and homework, memory, planning, organizing, and self-monitoring.

For years, parents have asked Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay for specific words they can use when kids leave them speechless. The book is finally here Twenty-three chapters include parent-child dialogues and plenty of information about how to handle the most frustrating things kids say.

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school.

Offers an alternative approach to parenting and discipline and discusses five essential elements necessary for children to thrive, including unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth opportunities.

Offers a program for parents and teachers to teach children the skills of optimism needed to combat depression. Based on the results of a long-term research project on preventing depression.

Shows parents how to identify their children's strengths and weaknesses to determine their individual learning styles and help them succeed in school. Discusses eight fundamental systems of learning.

Mindful Awareness is a widely used stress-reduction technique that works by enabling people to pay closer attention to what is happening within them - thoughts, feelings, emotions - so that they can better understand what is happening to them. In The Mindful Child, Susan Kaiser Greenland extends her internationally known program to children, showing how they can be taught to be kinder and more compassionate to themselves and others.

Parenting is tough enough in your own backyard, but when an opportunity leads you and your family abroad, parenting can take on a whole new dimension. Dr. Jeff Devens skillfully addresses the issues parents face today while living in an international setting and raising third-culture kids.

Contains twenty articles that provide a variety of perspectives on parenting issues, discussing discipline choices, different forms of parenting, and parents liability for their children's actions.

Based on her clinical experience, a psychiatrist presents a valuable guide that helps parents and children navigate the emotional and psychological minefields of family dynamics.

The author examines the rise of depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse among privileged adolescents; and identifies specific parenting practices that have contributed to these issues.

Examines the role of parents as educators, suggesting ways to support a child's early reading and writing attempts, describing methods to decipher math expectations, and offering advice on what teachers want to see in children's book reports; and including advice on home-based instruction in imagination and manners.

Provides advice for parents on how to raise respectful children; exploring effective and noneffective parenting styles, teaching respect at home, stressing purpose, setting boundaries, discipline, shielding children from disrespectful messages, instilling gratefulness, and listening.

7 Steps to Build a Child's Inner Strength: Praise - Listen - Limits - Love - Time - Responsibility - Higher Values!

A parent's guide to promoting the independence of teenagers by building their executive skills--the fundamental abilities needed to be organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues

Neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents, and teachers

Presents a comprehensive guide to understanding and treating the source of a child's unhappiness including parents who overwork and over schedule, peer pressure and bullying by other children, multiple family breakups and remarriages, and exposure to media violence.

Explains why schools are failing, and how we can bring back young peoples love of learning. Provides strategies and exercises already tested and proven effective for teachers and parents on how to encourage kids to learn.

Lays out the current scientific understandings of mental disorders and articulates new ways to realistically, compassionately and productively help children grow into responsible well-adjusted adults.

Highlights some of the problems, risks and dangers on the Internet. It is not written with the aim of worrying parents, but to help them communicate better with their children on Internet safety issues.