Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life's challenges with grace and grit. In this award-winning guide author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg shares his 7 crucial Cs: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. You'll discover how to incorporate these concepts into your parenting style and communication strategies, thereby strengthening your connection. And that connection will position you to guide your child to bounce back from life's challenges and forge a meaningful and successful life. You'll also learn detailed coping strategies to help children and teenagers deal with the stresses of academic pressure, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension. These approaches will prepare children to thrive and make it less likely that they will turn to risky quick fixes and haphazard solutions. Resilience is a critical life skill. And it can be taught! Learn how with Building Resilience in Children and Teens .

This beautiful color guide was designed to help address the needs of picky eaters that need to eliminate gluten from their diet. Is is also very beneficial in helping anyone go gluten-free by providing the essential information needed to get started. You will learn more about the Celiac Disease and how you don't have to sacrifice taste when gluten is erased from your diet. These recipes are bound to tempt anyone - regardless of their dietary needs or age, or whether they are picky eaters, vegans, or vegetarians, or allergic to dairy. It's all here in this guide and information conveyed visually with a dietary legend that can be followed easily by anyone. This book is your complete guide to eliminating gluten from your diet. It includes foods to shop for that are gluten-free, as well as what to avoid. It also includes quick and easy tips for going gluten free, gluten free vegan recipes, gluten free recipes for kids - as well as a guide for caregivers of these children that are unfamiliar with their specific dietary needs. It's the perfect reference guide for anyone wanting more guidance on gluten free foods - including some they might not have known existed - like unique flour types, as well as those people too busy to research that just want a quick and easy meal to prepare for dinner guests - guaranteed.

"Parenting: The Bottom Line" was born out of the never-ending controversy of whether or not spanking should be used as a disciplinary tool by parents. In response to this hot topic, author Ron Mackey examines the role of the parent as disciplinarian and the importance of raising children to understand the difference between good and bad behavior. Guiding and nurturing children with love and patience will establish a solid foundation allowing them to grow up to become responsible adults. All too often, parents in today's society postpone using any kind of discipline with their children until they are old enough to understand the reason for the punishment. But by postponing this critical part of the growth cycle, they discover that their children have developed behavior that has become so deeply ingrained that the habits can't be easily broken. "Parenting: The Bottom Line" provides insight and useful information that is designed to help parents overcome some of the difficulties that they may encounter, as they raise their bundles of joy from infancy to adulthood.

Uses the Japanese philosophy of Shokuiku to teach parents how to maximize nutrition in their children's diets. Eating the Shokuiku Way teaches parents how to raise their kids with the life-long health benefits of the Japanese way of eating. The Japanese culture is known for its longest life spans and lowest obesity rates. Every child can grow up with maximum intelligence, longevity, and quality of life using this method. Here, parents learn why it's essential to start these habits with their children (to prevent diabetes, allergies, and obesity), and get step-by-step instruction on not only what to feed their kids, but how. Including time-saving cooking tips, ready-to-go bento box recipes, and knowledge how to teach kids to make better food decisions - limiting carbs, maximizing whole foods, the importance of protein for cell growth and immunity-this work is your go-to guide for learning how to respect and honor food and its role in nourishing our bodies and minds. Anyone can learn to eat the Shokuiku way. With a focus on simple ingredients to improve the sensitivity of growing taste buds, and an emphasis on slowing down in order to aid digestion and brain function, the Shokuiku way helps children and families appreciate food and the act of eating. A comprehensive approach, the Shokuiku way also encourages mindful eating and making healthful choices that will last a lifetime. Not just for children, but for anyone hoping to change their eating habits and improve their overall health and wellbeing, Eating the Shokuiku Way will guide readers on a better path.

TANTRUM SURVIVAL KIT is a compendia of the latest empirically-based techniques documented for disruptive (tantrum, other) children ages preteen to teenage years. Simple-to-use manual provides rapid solutions facing professionals and parents. Especially for nontraditional parents (e.g., grandparents, foster parent, stepparent, adopted parent), user-friendly steps conveniently describe the logical way to control tantrums, classified into three categories. Category I is garden-variety verbal escalations universally present in most preteen to teenage households. Category II deals with more seriously aggressive tantrums in preteen children, from self-injurious to maliciously property destruction. Category III spells out a remedy for explosively violent tantrums in teenagers without parents falling into traps. Readers also get a privileged look at the reasons why commercially-favorite and even some research-favorite methods do not work and have nasty side-effects. Chapter on Impulsiveness and Attention Span provides succinct explanations for behavior problem and how to cure it. Steps show how to bypass labels of ADD, and ADHD, and deal directly with the child's behavior. Chapter on Tantrums in School guides parents and therapist on why programs fail, and how to liaison with teachers and personnel in repairing school behavior problems. No other book on the trade market comprehensively covers the inner workings of schools and how to navigate the maize. Unlike other tantrum manuals, this book is encyclopedic in its detailed review of tantrums, tantrum-related problems, and solutions to obstacles encountered during interventions

The Learning Solution is a practical guide for parents who want to improve their child's academic situation in school. It is written by a practicing school psychologist to give parents effective strategies for making the most helpful and realistic choices for children experiencing difficulty with their schoolwork. ""The Learning Solution"" will provide parents with the skills needed to negotiate the education maze and teach them how to advocate for their child. Parents will also learn how build an effective cooperative relationship with their child at home. ""The Learning Solution"" has been updated to include a chapter on mental health issues currently impacting on children's learning experiences in school. In addition, current information is provided on the medications used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Why doesn't our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children.Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

Through interviews with over 200 fathers, Will Glennon draws important lessons for men who often struggle, with little or no guidance, to find their fathering style. With suggestions for new fathers as well as for fathers of older children, this book provides advice ranging from practical ways to stay involved despite divorce, long work hours, and travel, to fathering with respect and emotional honesty, to creative ideas for strengthening the relationship between children and their dads. Will Glennon won the 2000 National Parenting Publications Award for 200 Ways to Raise a Boys Emotional Intelligence.

It's time to transform everyday life with a toddler for the better.

This delightfully easy-to-use book provides friendly and helpful advice to support parents and toddlers during their trickiest moments.

Dr Cathryn Tobin helps parents to see matters from their toddler's point of view, with examples illustrating their thought patterns. Interactive Q and As and practical tips throughout the book help parents to think about how best to handle a scenario, to reflect on their own parenting background, and how to communicate effectively and calmly to support their child through this key developmental stage.

This book helps parents and carers see that small changes can have a big impact in the lives of their little ones.

"The LA Nanny Book is a wonderful and long-overdo guide for nannies seeking employment in Los Angeles or anywhere else. Larissa Neilson's common-sense emphasis on the importance of respectfully and firmly setting boundaries with employers from the first interview is completely compatible with the respectful boundary-setting she so wisely uses with the babies in her charge. Ms. Neilson's sound advice, based on years of experience as a nanny, offers the essentials on how to maintain a healthy working employer/employee relationship. This book is a must-read for those in the profession of child-care industry."- Wendy Kronick, RIE facilitator.