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Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

by Gabor Mate?, Gordon Neufeld

A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. Dr. Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for... (more)

Attachment (Attachment and Loss Series, Vol 1)

Attachment (Attachment and Loss Series, Vol 1)

by John Bowlby

The first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior--how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills. In the fifteen years since Attachment was first published,... (more)

The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library)

The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library)

by Martha Sears, William Sears M. D.

Gives expectant parents an overview of the options available, offering up-to-the-minute advice on such matters as physical and emotional preparation, the father's role, avoiding a cesarean birth, and other information. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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

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

by Alfie Kohn

Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. 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 ... (more)

Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow

Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow

by Gregory C. Keck

Your Hurt Child Can Heal and Grow. When a child is adopted, he can arrive with hurts from the past—pain that stunts his emotional growth, and your family’s life, too. At some point your parenting dreams can shatter, and raising a hurt child becomes more like a burden than a blessing. But don’t give up. With time, patience, informed parenting, and appropriate therapy, your adopted child can heal, grow, and... (more)

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby

by Martha Sears, William Sears M. D.

Is it OK to sleep with your newborn baby? How old is too old for breastfeeding? These questions and more are answered in this latest addition to the Sears Parenting Library. Attachment Parenting encourages early, strong, and sustained attention to the new baby's needs and this book outlines the steps that will create the most lasting bonds between parents and their children. Practical and inspirational, this... (more)

Attachment & Loss, volume 2: separation : anxiety & anger

kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline (Harperresource Book)

kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline (Harperresource Book)

by Barbara Coloroso

The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing issues regarding our children This bestselling guide rejects "quick-fix" solutions and focuses on helping kids develop their own self-discipline by owning up to their mistakes, thinking through solutions, and correcting their misdeeds while leaving their dignity intact. Barbara Coloroso shows these... (more)

Moby Dick

by Allan Drummond

In this full-color picture-book adaptation of the classic, Allan Drummond pays homhge to one of the greatest sea stories ever told. Staying as true to Herman Melville's language as possible, and taking Ishmael as his narrator, Drummond tells of the adventure of Captain Ahab's relentless quest for revenge.

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

by Elizabeth Pantley

A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third... (more)

Transforming the Difficult Child

by Jennifer Easley, Howard Glasser

Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors. This is the newly updated 2008 revision.

Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

by Myla Kabat-Zinn

The bestselling author of "Wherever You Go, There You Are" joins forces with his wife, Myla, in this groundbreaking new book about mindfulness in parenting children of all ages. Two-color throughout.

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

by Deborah D. Gray

Proper attachment is the most fundamental issue in a successful adoption, but what exactly does the term mean? Attaching in Adoption answers that question thoroughly, and it provides solutions to a variety of specific attachment problems. Along with technical explanations of challenges such as self-esteem, childhood grief, and limit-testing, the book includes a tremendous number of personal ... (more)

Keys to Parenting an Adopted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

Keys to Parenting an Adopted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

by Kathy Lancaster

If you have just adopted a child, you need special advice. In an encouraging tone, this book offers that advice as it guides parents through the practical considerations of raising an adopted child. The author also discusses transracial adoptions, adopting older children, and adopting children with physical and emotional disadvantages. Includes a special question-and-answer section.

Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled LifeRue Kream

Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled Life

by Rue Kream

How do the principles of unschooling apply to television viewing, toothbrushing, and chores? How can we develop respectful relationships with our children? How do unschooled children learn to read? Parenting A Free Child addresses these issues and more in an easily accessible question and answer format.

Ability to Love, TheDr. Allan Fromme

Ability to Love, The

by Dr. Allan Fromme

Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the causes of our children's acting-out behavior by parenting and educating the way nature intended

Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the causes of our children's acting-out behavior by parenting and educating the way nature intended

by Laurie A. Couture

Parents in our culture today are bombarded by "experts" offering "tools," "programs," diagnoses," treatments" and medications. Why doesn't any of it seem to help our children act and feel better? With this book parents will learn: -That children's brains are wired from conception through adolescence to need certain parenting and educational conditions that are different from almost everything that we have... (more)

Sisters

by Danielle Steel

The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

by Jan Hunt

The role of caring adults, points out the author, isn't to give children "lessons in life" (life brings its own lessons and its own frustrations), but to parent children the way we wish we had been treated in childhood. The Natural Child dispels the myths of "tough love" and building baby's self-reliance by ignoring its cries, and explains the importance of extended breast-feeding and why the homeschool... (more)

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)

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by Gabor Mate?, Gordon Neufeld

by John Bowlby

by Martha Sears, William Sears M. D.

by Alfie Kohn

by Gregory C. Keck

by Martha Sears, William Sears M. D.

by Barbara Coloroso

by Allan Drummond

by Elizabeth Pantley

by Jennifer Easley, Howard Glasser

by Myla Kabat-Zinn

by Deborah D. Gray

by Kathy Lancaster

by Rue Kream

by Dr. Allan Fromme

by Laurie A. Couture

by Danielle Steel

by Jan Hunt

by Jane Austen