It's time to take our power back We can barely imagine our lives without technology. Tech gives us tools to connect with our friends, listen to our music, document our lives, share our opinions, and keep up with what's going on in the world. Yet it also tempts us to procrastinate, avoid honest conversations, compare ourselves with others, and filter our reality. Sometimes, it feels like our devices have a lot more control over us than we have over them. But it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, we deserve so much more than what technology offers us. And when we're wise about how we use our devices, we can get more--more joy, more connection, more out of life. Tech shouldn't get in the way of a life worth living. Let's get tech-wise.

Author Biography:
Dr Ruth Westheimer, world-renowned psychosexual therapist, is the author of fiteen books. She lives in New York City. Amos Grunebaum, M.D. is Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York and Assistant Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Contents:
Author's note Foreword by Lorna Wing Introduction 1. The Variable Picture of Autism 2. The History of Autism 3. What Causes Autism? 4. Problems of Diagnoses 5. Understanding Autism: Assessing the Autistic Child 6. Practical Considerations - Management and Counselling 7. Speech and Language: Communication Development in Autistic Children 8. Educating Autistic Children 9. Growing up - What lies Beyond? 10. A Postscript - Alternative Treatments and Cures for Autism? Appendices References and Further Reading Index

Autism is a variable and complex development disorder which frequently goes unrecognised, or else is misunderstood by both parents and professionals. This new edition of the Handbook of Autism brings up to date the relevant and practical information of the best selling first edition, with updated research and new case-studies to reflect the extent of the autistic continuum. It dispels many of the myths associated with this puzzling condition and provides readers with up-to-date information that makes sense. Practical in its approach, it will be essential reading for parents of autistic children and for all professionals involved in their education and welfare.

Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

Profane, affectionate and refreshingly honest, it captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your child to bed for the night.

Colourfully illustrated and hilariously funny, this is a breath of fresh air for parents new, old and expectant*.

(*You should probably not read this to your children.)

Dr Westheimer, known to millions as Dr. Ruth, has written this comprehensive guide to 'grandparenting' with the assistance of Dr. Kaplan, showing grandparents of all ages and backgrounds how to develop a more rewarding bond with their grandchildren.
Topics covered include:
*how to establish a relationship
*managing visits
*suggestions for new and unusual activities
*giving presents.
Dr. Ruth and Dr. Kaplan also address the increasingly common situations of divorce, non-traditional families, and what happens when the grandparent becomes the parent.

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The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.

Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire kids to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and responsive to the wonders of learning.

Contents:
Kids who are different. So-o-o-o-o Many Questions. Introduction: The Core Symptoms. The Full Profile of Symptoms with ADHD: Co-existing Conditions. What Causes ADHD: The Attention Zone. Adults with Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. The Impact of ADHD on Families. "Just have them walk a mile in our shoes" - What The Kids Have To Say. The Diagnosis of ADHD. General Treatment Principles. Involving the ADHD Youngster In His Own Evaluation and Treatment Program. Home Management of ADHD. Special Adolescent Treatment Issues. Managing Family Stress. School Management: The Process. School Management: The Strategies. Psychological Therapies. Principles of Medical Intervention. Commonly Asked Questions About Medical Therapy. Stimulants Medications. Other Medical Therapies. Non-Traditional ADHD Therapies. Getting Started: Organizing Your Efforts. Glossary. Information Resources. Appendix: Forms-Getting Started: Organizing Your Efforts.

Everything you need to know about how to best raise, educate and guide Generation Alpha (born 2010-24) - the most materially endowed and technologically literate generation ever - to help them live their best life. Renowned social demographer Mark McCrindle shares everything we need to know about Generation Alpha in this accessible, fascinating book for parents and educators on how the most globally connected generation ever (born 2010-2024) will grow up, how we should parent them, what we should teach them and what we need to be aware of to ensure that we get the best out of them. Discussing the impacts of the recent Coronavirus pandemic as an educational, world health and economic crisis with a unique set of problems presented to this first-ever remote-learning generation, Mark will help parents understand how complex the life experiences of today's children truly are. From looking at digital anxieties around social media to the unprecedented rise of environmental and social consciousness at a young age, Mark McCrindle will help parents and teachers to create the best possible framework for a child's development right the way through into adulthood.

An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop strategies to manage it together. An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop strategies to manage it together. Parents hold the key to helping their children with the strains of our always-on world. Love In, Love Out helps parents to step back and learn to understand the anxiety that an increasing number of children experience at one time or another. In her book, Clinical Psychologist, National University of Ireland Lecturer, A Lust for Life Mental Health Advisor and mother of two, Dr Malie Coyne sets out to help parents to help their anxious children. Drawing from key psychological theories (attachment theory, cognitive behavioural therapy and compassion-focused therapy), and real-life case studies, Coyne translates her knowledge and experience into practical advice for busy families and stressed-out parents. As parents learn to become the 'emotional anchor' from which their child can learn to trust and begin to explore their world, they will find the balance between helping their anxious children feel safe and encouraging them to face their fears as they grow and develop. Filled with hands-on activities and centred on a compassionate, kind approach to children and their parents, Love In, Love Out will become a bedside bible for parents of children of any age, helping them to negotiate the many bumps in the road to managing their anxiety.

Growing Up- A Modern Memory Book for School Years features gender-neutral artwork and space to record precious memories from each year of your child's schooling so you can one day gift to your grown child. Growing Up includes- Space to record moments for each grade level from kindergarten through high school Prompts to capture your child's personality, traits, and growth at each special stage Space for special photos, including the first day of school and class photos Pockets to save special mementos like report cards, awards, and programs

The best-selling authors of The Baby Book (Dr William and Martha Sears) have created a supportive and practical guide to coping with difficult and fussy children. The book contains proven methods for dealing with a multitude of difficulties you may encounter. Parents of fussy or difficult children, take heart, best-selling childcare experts William and Martha Sears have written a book just for you. Drawing on more than twenty years of paediatric practice and their experiences with their own high-need children, they provide: - Creative ways to soothe a fussy baby - Information on medical causes of infant fussiness - from infections to food sensitivities - Effective ways of coping with common high-need personality traits and behaviour - Proven strategies for discipline - getting connected to your child early, providing structure, setting limits, knowing when to say yes and when to say no - Tips on learning how to talk and listen - Real-life stories and advice from parents of high-need children In The Fussy Baby Book Dr. William and Martha Sears acknowledge the difficulties you face but show you how responsive parenting can turn these challenges into advantages for both you and your child. The Searses prove that difficult children can provide the most rewarding parenting experiences of all.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Teenagers are tough and anyone who has their own needs help. Witty, enjoyable and genuinely insightful, Get Out of My Life is now updated with how to deal with everything from social media to online threats and porn, as well as looking at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers, school, sex, drugs and more. But it's the title of the second chapter, 'What They Do and Why' that best captures the book's spirit and technique, explaining how to translate teenage behaviour into its true, often less complicated meaning.

One key mistake, for instance, is getting in no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up when shutting up would be the most effective, albeit least satisfying, thing to do. Another is taking offence when the teenager views you, the adult, as idiotic. And there's advice on what to do when this happens.

The message is clear: parenting adolescents is inherently difficult. Don't judge yourself too harshly!

Read chapter 3 for free! Understand and encourage your toddlers physical, social, emotional and language development. Learn about developmental principles and use a journal section to capture and preserve your memories of your toddlers likes and dislikes, favourite songs, stories and daily routines. The book is organised around helping toddlers accomplish three developmental milestones: (1) secure attachment or bonding with parents; (2) development of language, social and emotional expression and (3) developing a sense of self and unique individuality. The book provides simple but effective techniques to help you: Promote toddlers preschool and reading readiness with academic and persistence coaching; Strengthen toddlers emotional and social competence; Cope with separations and establish predictable routines for bedtime, toileting and mealtimes; Use positive discipline strategies; Manage successfully typical toddler responses such as hitting, biting, opposition and tantrum storms; Keeping toddlers safe and secure; Develop your family support team.

Passionate about her own family, and dedicated to the well-being of her clients, Dr., Maryann Rosenthal has written this book to help parents navigate those difficult years when children are simultaneously pulling away and in need of parental guidance, structure, and love.

In the groundbreaking work, Thomas Hine examines the American teenager as a social invention shaped by the needs of the twentieth century. With intelligence, insight, imagination, and humorm he traces the culture of youth in America-from the spiritual trials of young Puritans and the vision quests of Native Americans to the media-blitzed consumerism of contempory thirteen-to-nineteen -year-olds. The resulting study is a glorious appreciation of youth that challenges us to confront our sterotypesm, rethink our expectations, and consider anew the lives of those individuals who are blessing, our bane, and our future.

Give your child the best start in life with this fun, practical book. Packed with simple play activities to do with your child - there is one for every week from birth to age five - 'Fun Start' will help you maximize his or her emotional, intellectual and physical development. Each activity takes about 10 minutes and uses common household items. All experts agree that the first 5 years of a child's life are the most important in terms of learning, memory, emotions and physiological responses. 'Fun Start' is every parent's answer to maximize the intellectual growth and motor skills of their child and give them the best start in life. Carefully structured into weekly 10-minute activities - there is one activity for every week of every year of your preschooler's life - it shows you how to use common household items to help your child learn and grow. Exercises and games include: * The shoe box house * Feely squares * Funnel fun * Sink or float * Finger writing

Parents of girls on the autism spectrum often wish their daughters were celebrated for their talents, rather than discouraged for their differences. They recognise that their children's unique natures may make them distinctive in some ways, but resent labels such as 'disabled' and 'disorder' being applied to their daughters. This book is a celebration of all the wonderful and unexpected gifts that having daughters on the autism spectrum can bring to your life. Each chapter explores a topic of concern, offering encouragement and guidance on common issues such as school, friendships, meltdowns, special gifts, family relationships, therapies and interventions. Having daughters on the spectrum presents unique and rewarding challenges and this book is packed with friendly advice and real life examples from a mother who has experienced it all first hand. The hopeful perspective given in this book is guaranteed to offer much appreciated comfort to parents, grandparents and family members. It will provide educators and anyone who cares for girls on the spectrum with an insight into what life is like for these extraordinary girls and their parents.

*** 'A powerful, moving and inspiring story - it opens up a whole new world of understanding.' Esther Freud 'This is wonderful. I urge you to read it. It is life enhancing and I defy you not to fall in love with Ben!' Natasha Poliszczuk, Books Editor, You Magazine 'An honest and unflinching account of Jessica's journey as the mother of a child born with complex needs. Essential reading... and a source of solace for those who may find themselves on a similar path.' Leah Hazard, author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story 'Jessica's beautiful words gave me a deeper understanding about embracing disability. I am inspired and will be recommending this book to parents as a testament to following your parenting instincts.' Arabella Carter-Johnson, author of Iris Grace 'A courageous, heartrending story of grief, love and ultimately hope.' The Sun, 5 star review *** Jessica Moxham thought she was prepared for the experience of motherhood. Armed with advice from friends and family, parenting books and antenatal classes, she felt ready. After giving birth, she found herself facing a different, more uncertain reality. Her son, Ben, was fighting to stay alive. When Jessica could finally take him home from hospital, the challenges were far from over. In this hopeful memoir, Jessica shares her journey in raising Ben. His disability means he will never be able to move or communicate without assistance. Jessica has to learn how to feed Ben when he can't eat, wrestle with red tape to secure his education and defend his basic rights in the face of discrimination. As Ben begins to thrive, alongside his two younger siblings, Jessica finds that caring for a child with unique needs teaches her about appreciating difference and doing things your own way. This uplifting story is about the power of family love, finding inner strength and, above all, hope.

Previously unpublished in the UK, this book by best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager and author of Who Moved My Cheese? shows the quickest way for mothers to help their children learn to like themselves and want to behave themselves. With the pressures of 21st century working life an everyday topic of news and conversation, this book addresses the fundamental question of how to be a better mother. Adopting the same tell-a-simple-story approach as the other Blanchard and Johnson books, the story shows how to reach your own potential while helping your children reach theirs, how to develop their self-esteem and responsibility, and how to communicate effectively and enjoy one another more as a family. Not only a 'how-to' for making time for your child, it also improves every second spent with them. This will be particularly useful to mothers of school-age children helping them empathize with their children and strengthen the parent-child bond.

Toddlerhood is a time of tremendous growth and development. It is also a time of tantrums and conflict. Knowing what constitutes normal toddler behaviour will help you accept and respect this and go a long way towards effective, guilt-free and realistic parenting. Your toddler learns though his senses - to guide him, you need to practise wisdom with sense. Now fully updated and expanded to include the latest relevant research, this ever popular follow up to Baby Sense tells you how to: recognise and understand your toddler's unique sensory profile; manage stimulation to avoid overload; solve bedtime battles with age-appropriate sleep-training; discipline with love and a sense of humour; follow a sensible approach to toilet training; monitor and encourage development; feed your toddler and manage fussy eating in the toddler years; recognise learning disorders for early intervention.

Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family. But given the appropriate knowledge, and the right tools, parents can intervene to manage their child's behaviour, leading to improved relationships at home and, it is hoped, a more successful time at school. This simple, flexible six-step programme is full of tried-and-tested ideas for parents and professionals supporting families of young children with ADHD. By practicing the techniques and strategies, parents will gain confidence in their parenting and, over time, will improve the child's management of the condition. The programme includes games that will help improve the child's attention, exercises to develop patience and tips for supporting the child in successful self-organization. There are also plenty of useful ideas for developing communication between parents and schools. Based on research and extensive clinical experience, Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD will help families to adapt their parenting to the child, improving relationships and behaviours in the home and at play group.

This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure. All of the chapters are either extensively revised or entirely new. Biological, evolutionary, demographic, developmental, cultural, sociological, economic, and legal perspectives of father involvement are described along with policy and program implications. Now with a greater international perspective, this edition considers demographic shifts in families in the United States and Europe. All chapters now follow a common structure to enhance readability and interdisciplinary connections. Each chapter features: Historical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives; Research Questions; Research Methods and Measurement; Empirical Findings; Bridges to other Disciplines; Policy Implications; and Future Directions. In addition, each chapter highlights universal and cultural processes and mechanisms. This structure illuminates the ways that theories, methods, and findings are guided by disciplinary lenses and encourages multidisciplinary perspectives. This extensively revised edition now features: * Expanded section on Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives that reviews fathering in animal populations and the genetic and hormonal underpinnings that feed into fathering behaviors within and across species. * New section on Economic and Legal Perspectives that addresses the economics of fatherhood, marriage, divorce, and child custody issues, and family dispute resolution. * New section on Child Development and Family Processes that covers topics on father-child relationships, the father' role in children's language, cognitive, and social development, and father risk, family context, and co-parenting. * Separate chapters on Black, Latino, and Asian American fathers. * Now includes research on cohabitation and parenting, gender roles and fathering, intergenerational parenting, and fatherhood implications for men in the section on Sociological Perspectives. * The latest demographics, policies, and programs influencing father involvement in both the US and Europe. * Coverage of methodological and measurement topics and processes that are universal across ethnic groups and cultures in each chapter. Intended for advanced students, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers interested in fatherhood and family processes from a variety of disciplines including psychology, family studies, economics, sociology, and social work, and anyone interested in child and family policy.