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To drive a car or buy a gun requires a license and some
instruction. To parent requires only having a child. Yet the job of
parenting is the most important job anyone will ever do, because
parenting plays a huge part in building the future of the world.
Many parenting books offer suggestions about controlling our
children, directing them, shaping them as we need them to be.
In "Raising the Future," author R. Felice Gedeon-Gaude
encourages parents to see the uniqueness of each child, asking them
to explore how to foster that uniqueness while facilitating the
safe, healthy, and appropriate growth of the children in their
care. This guide offers methods for parents to explore their own
memories of being parented, in order to recognize the sources of
their responses to their children's behavior. "Raising the Future"
also directs parents to listen carefully to their children, because
it is through those exchanges that parents will better understand
how to help them to grow into well-adjusted children and,
eventually, happy, productive adults.
This book lets you learn compatible zodiac signs when conceiving
your child.
This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug
prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when
children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes
effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed
antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a drug-fueled mental
health system. Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in
the use of antipsychotics to treat children for an ever-expanding
list of symptoms. The prescription rate for toddlers, preschoolers,
and middle-class children has doubled, while the prescribing rate
for low-income children covered by Medicaid has quadrupled. In a
majority of cases, these drugs are neither FDA-approved nor
justified by research for the children's conditions. This book
examines the reasons behind the explosion of antipsychotic drug
prescriptions for children, spotlighting the historical and
cultural factors as well as the role of the pharmaceutical industry
in this trend; and discusses the ethical and legal responsibilities
and ramifications for non-MDs-psychologists in particular-who work
with children treated with antipsychotics. Contributors explain how
the pharmaceutical industry has inserted itself into every step of
medical education, rendering objectivity in the scientific
understanding, use, and approvals of such drugs impossible. The
text describes the relentless marketing behind the drug sales, even
going as far as to provide coloring and picture books for children
related to the drug at issue. Valuable information about legal
recourse that families and therapists can take when their children
or patients have been harmed by antipsychotic drugs and alternative
approaches to working with children with emotional and behavioral
challenges is also provided. A chapter on effective parenting
coauthored by a leading parenting expert, Laura Berk Contributions
by noted medical journalist Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of
an Epidemic Information on legal issues by Harvard-educated lawyer
Jim Gottstein Insights from former pharmaceutical industry insider,
Gwen Olsen An examination of community approaches to children's
mental health care by internationally known psychologist Stuart
Shanker
It is a challenge for parents to raise children in one home even
when everyone is getting along. After a divorce-when all the
mediators, attorneys, evaluators, and judges have moved on to other
families-parents are left with the most difficult task of all:
moving past their own conflicts and learning to raise their child
in two homes.
Divorced parents often begin with the best of intentions,
seeking to protect their children from hurt; even so, they often
feel overwhelmed with the seemingly complex array of tasks and
decisions that must be made after the dissolution of a marriage.
Dr. Frank Leek is an experienced clinical and forensic psychologist
(Now retired) who relies on his years of experience working with
divorcing and divorced parents to offer parents twenty essential
co-parenting tasks that encourage joint decisions, conflict
reduction, and a focus on the well-being of children. While guiding
parents through a process that often tests emotion and patience,
Leek shares practical advice that helps parents effectively deal
with the initial transition and the often complicated issues that
follow.
The insight offered in "Shared Parenting: Beyond the Great
Divide" leads divorcing parents on a healing journey where they
learn to communicate effectively, share parenting responsibilities,
and find workable systems that encourage a peaceful future for
everyone.
There may not be a cure for adolescence, but there are ways for parents of teens to survive these challenging years! Parenting expert Tom McMahon has gone straight to the source -- veteran moms and dads -- to try and solve the mysteries of raising a happy, healthy teenager. Gathered here are hundreds of practical, creative, and proven tips that cover all aspects of parenting a teen: - Rules and Discipline -- Keep order while encouraging your child's independence, and pick your "battles" for what matters the most
- Talking and Listening -- Get to know when to sympathize, when to back off, and how to deal with your teen's inevitable moodiness
- School and Learning -- Free yourself from being the "homework cop," while nurturing both curiosity and enthusiasm
- Friendships and Relationships -- Use role-playing to handle peer pressure, and help nurture healthy relationships
- Drugs and Alcohol -- Pinpoint telltale signs of problems before they become serious, and stay involved by providing alternatives to parties with alcohol
- Responsibilities and Money -- Strike a balance between chores and allowance, and make part-time jobs an introduction to money management
- Self-Esteem and Values -- Enhance your teen's exposure to role models who will strengthen character and boost self-confidence.
Whatever the situation, Teen Tips is full of down-to-earth, inventive advice. It's an indispensable guide to navigating the teen years -- and making the journey as rewarding for the parent as it is for the aspiring young adult.
Aspergers Can Be Fun is a book written by Harrison, an eleven year
old boy who wants to share his own life embarrassments, hi-cups and
experiences to help you on your journey. Harrison's helpful
insights and tips are not only for the child struggling with or
conquering aspergers, but for parents, siblings and friends - mabye
even teachers Its honest and straight forward approach will assist
any age along their own journey. Most of all, it's about
remembering to have fun along the way.
If you have ever wished teens weren't so rebellious, you won't
after reading this book. It is an explanation of spirited youth and
the heroic roles they struggle to have in society. Rebelliousness
is a part of this struggle, an inborn drive to demonstrate high
self-worth that opposes families, schools, and communities that
restrict them to roles that offer no means of being special,
daring, and invincible. Notions about adolescence create such
restrictions. The book counters them with findings and perspectives
from human and social science, philosophy, myth, and cultural
history to show that spirited youth: innately struggle to realize
potentials of their awakening spiritual intelligence. aren't
adequately supported by modern forms of parenting, family, and
community. respond well to authoritative validation and properly
resist authoritarian control. lose optimism about what they can
become when forced to be obedient and dependent. will become a
Guardian Class that defends and creates good in communities when
they are consistently validated. A validating approach to parenting
that extends beyond one or two adults in a nuclear family is
presented. Guidelines are offered on how it can support youth
spiritual development, which is manifested by behavior that departs
from established norms, encounters trials and tests, and confronts
adversaries and dangers. This pattern of behavior produces positive
change when adults nurture, affirm, and engage what is actually
underway: 1) struggling for freedoms, possibilities, and
opportunities; 2) aspiring to be special, daring, and invincible;
3) seeking to change things through defiance, challenge, and
aggression; and 4) discovering the calling, purpose, and vision for
one's life.
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