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Parents raising a child with special needs want to equip their
child with the skills and abilities necessary to live the most
independent life possible. But actually accomplishing this can be
difficult. Learning to empower a child with strength, dignity,
responsibility, and independence is a daunting task for parents
struggling to understand and cope with the special needs of their
child. In Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs, Debbie
Goodwin helps parents identify enabling or guilt-based attitudes
and actions that trap the child and themselves in unhealthy
co-dependencies. As the mother of a daughter with special needs,
she understands first-hand the struggles and frustration that come
with this unexpected responsibility. Based on the belief that God's
truth is a freeing reality, Goodwin develops empowering strategies
to help parents actualize God's plan for them and their child.
Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs invites the parents of
children with special challenges to make the journey to discover
how God's plan will 'give you hope and a future.'
Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first
book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs, parents loved
its clarity and warm insights into their sons' inner world. But
today, things have changed. It's girls that are in trouble. There
has been a sudden and universal deterioration in girls' mental
health, starting in primary school and devastating the teen years.
Raising Girls in the 21st Century is both a guidebook and a
call-to-arms for parents. The five key stages of girlhood are laid
out so that you know exactly what matters at which age, and how to
build strength and connectedness into your daughter from infancy
onwards. Raising Girls in the 21st Century is both fierce and
tender in its mission to help girls more at every age. It's a book
for parents who love their daughters deeply, whether they are
newborns, teenagers, young women - or anywhere in between. Feeling
secure, becoming an explorer, getting along with others, finding
her soul, and becoming a woman - at last, there is a clear map of
girls' minds that accepts no limitations, narrow roles or
selling-out of your daughter's potential or uniqueness. All the
hazards are signposted - bullying, eating disorders, body image and
depression, social media harms and helps - as are concrete and
simple measures for both mums and dads to help prevent their
daughters from becoming victims. Parenthood is restored to an
exciting journey, not one worry after another, as it's so often
portrayed. Steve talks to the world's leading voices on girls'
needs and makes their ideas clear and simple, adding his own humour
and experience through stories that you will never forget. Even the
illustrations, by Kimio Kubo, provide unique and moving glimpses
into the inner lives of girls. Along with his fellow psychologists
worldwide, Steve is angry at the exploitation and harm being done
to girls today. With Raising Girls in the 21st Century he strives
to spark a movement to end the trashing of girlhood; equipping
parents to deal with the modern world, and getting the media off
the backs of our daughters. Raising Girls in the 21st Century is
powerful, practical and positive. Your heart, head and hands will
be strengthened by its message.
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