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The Playful Parent offers a new solution for parents and carers
looking for a calmer, happier and smarter way to parent the
under-fives. This activity-led parenting guide shows how to get
young children involved and learning, thinking and growing, helping
and cooperating without any need for 'the naughty step' or
punishment at all, but by making play the beating heart of family
life. Julia Deering offers support and advice to busy parents,
combining down-to-earth practicality with hundreds of simple
activities, tips, tricks and fixes, guidance, prompts and brilliant
ideas that show parents how to tap into their child's playful
instincts. You can use The Playful Parent to: Make your little
one's good behaviour become their normal behaviour Remove those
parent/child battle-of-will situations Help steer clear of the
flashpoint furies and melt-down moments of the 'terrible twos' Run
fuss-free errands with your toddlers in tow Tackle tricky
transitions such as bedtimes and car journeys with ease Develop
your child's independence and unleash their natural creativity Bond
with a child in the first language they know: play Whether you've
forgotten how to play or you're still a child at heart, The Playful
Parent equips you with all the know-how you need to make play work
for you and your family; transforming parenting during the early
years into a more enjoyable, rewarding and memorable experience.
Includes: A guide to the principles of play and how to use the 7
Ways to Play concept Advice on how to organise your home - and your
life - for maximum play with minimum stress Over a hundred
uncomplicated and irresistible activities for your 18 month - 5
year olds A Family Favourites chart so you can record favourite
activities and start building daily and weekly planners
Ten million children in the United States-two million of them
preschoolers-suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to
be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to
specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on
performing tasks such as brushing teeth or getting ready for bed in
a rigidly specific way. For many children these difficulties
interfere with doing well in school and making friends as well as
with daily activities like sleeping, eating, and bathing. Untreated
anxiety can have a devastating effect on a child's future
emotional, social, academic, and work life. And since most kids
don't naturally outgrow anxiety, parents need to know how to help.
In Calming Your Anxious Child, Dr. Kathleen Trainor builds on
cognitive behavioral therapy to provide practical steps for guiding
parents through the process of helping their children manage their
anxieties and gain control over their worry-based behaviors. Dr.
Trainor's method involves identifying the anxieties and the
behaviors, rating them, agreeing on what behaviors to work on
changing, identifying strategies for changing behaviors, noting and
charting progress, offering incentives, and reinforcing progress.
Combining family stories with practical advice and support, Calming
Your Anxious Child teaches parents and caregivers how to empower
their children to overcome their worried thoughts and behaviors.
Children who have generalized anxiety, OCD, social anxiety,
separation anxiety, phobias, or PTSD can all benefit from Dr.
Trainor's method, which also helps parents move from feeling
controlled by their child's anxiety to feeling that they are in
control of their family's future.
Children don t come with instructions It has never been more
challenging to be a parent -- or more hazardous to be a child. In
Five Needs Your Child Must Have Met at Home, Ron Hutchcraft
presents a practical roadmap for how to raise stable children in an
unstable world. No matter how far you are on the parenting road,
Hutchcraft can show you how to make the most of the days you have
left with your children. Five Needs Your Child Must Have Met at
Home details the five critical needs of every child: the need for a
secure self, honest sexual answers, satisfying love, stable
authority, and spiritual reality. You'll learn: how to identify and
affirm your children's strengths, how to look beyond you children's
deeds to meet their needs, and how to raise children of integrity."
Capture those magical first moments of your child's first year at
school. Our special Make a Memory Photo Card Props will help you to
capture those special moments and remember them forever. From the
day they put on their uniform, to their very first day at school
and all the exciting events they will encounter from first school
play, to their first parents evening, sports day, assembly and much
more. Features 23 removable cards, each printed on the reverse to
create 46 photo cards for you to pose and photograph. Some cards
are left blank so you can customise them for your own special
unique memory.
With over 50 great activities, "Block Play" is a must-have for
every teacher. Clear descriptions of what children learn by playing
with blocks accompany the activities. Each activity encourages
developmental skills such as problem-solving, math, science,
language, and social skills. Watch children experience the joy of
learning through blocks
Sharon MacDonaldis the best-selling author of "Squish, Sort,
Paint, & Build" and "Everyday Discoveries." She has been
involved in early childhood classrooms for 28 years, and now spends
her time training teachers and writing books and articles. She
lives in San Antonio, Texas.
With one out of eleven high school students in the past year
experiencing some form of physical abuse -- being hit, slapped, or
physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend -- young
adults need to know where they can turn for help. Even more teens
(as high as ninety-six percent) reported emotional and
psychological abuse in their relationships.
This revised and updated edition for teenagers who have questions
about abusive dating relationships helps them understand the causes
and consequences of their situation, learn what they can do about
it, find help from parents and other adults, and discover how to
build healthier relationships. "In Love and in Danger" is one of
the only books available on dating violence and abusive
relationships that addresses young adults directly in a
straightforward and non-condescending manner. Included are facts
about dating violence, tips for how to tell if your relationship is
abusive, information on why dating abuse happens, and what you can
do if you are being abused by (or are abusing) someone you love.
Packed with practical advice and compelling interviews with teens,
this edition features updated information and statistics, an
expanded resource section, and a new afterword by the author.
The perfect gift for baby showers and for those already in the
throes of parenting, Fowl Language: Children are a Gift is here to
let you know that you're not alone. Parenting is hard and often
gross. Laughing about it helps. Everyone's favorite parenting
cartoon featuring ducks presents a comprehensive view of the early
parenting years in all of their maddening cuteness and
sanity-depriving chaos. The new collection will include fifty
comics that have appeared on the website and will feature fifty
never-before-seen cartoons. Fowl Language: Children are a Gift is
organized into 10 thematic chapters-including Babies: Oh Dear God,
What Have we Done?; Pooping: Get Your S*** Together; and Holidays:
Magic Traditions and Tragic Overeating-each of which begins with a
hilarious, illustrated 500-word essay.
No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's
may be, they are going to have trouble with their sensory issues.
Enter Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie at Large Co-author of the
groundbreaking book "Asperger's and Girls," Jennifer's personal
experience with Asperger's Syndrome and SPD makes her perspective
doubly insightful. Jennifer's straightforward and humorous delivery
will keep caregivers turning the page for the next creative
solution
In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers
that look nothing like those their parents and grandparents knew.
Even the definition of ""career"" and ""job"" are changing as more
people build their own teams to create new businesses, apps, and
services. Although these changes are well underway, most systems
lag behind. Most education systems still subscribe to the idea that
content is king. The exclusive focus on content is reflected in
what is tested and taught, and even in the toys that we offer our
children at home. Employers want to hire excellent communicators,
critical thinkers, and innovators - in short, they want brilliant
people. But they are often disappointed. So what can we do, as
parents, to help our children be brilliant and successful? Stories
about the failures of our educational systems abound, but most of
them stop after pointing out the problems. Becoming Brilliant goes
beyond complaining to offer solutions that parents can apply right
now. Authors Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
provide a science-based framework for how we should be educating
children in and outside school. Parents become agents of change for
children's success when they nurture six critical skills.
Constructed from the latest scientific evidence and presented in an
accessible way rich with examples, this book introduces the 6Cs -
collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative
innovation, and confidence - along with tips to optimise children's
development in each area. Taken together, these are the skills that
will make up the straight-A report card for success in the 21st
century.
Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on
neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research
means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt. As
experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive parents
themselves, Caroline Archer and Christine Gordon explain how this
knowledge can help parents to better understand and care for their
child. They explain why conventional parenting techniques are often
not helpful for the child who has experienced early trauma and
explore why therapeutic reparenting is the only way to help repair
the unhealthy neurobiological and behavioural patterns which affect
the child's development. They do not shy away from how difficult
reparenting is, acknowledging how hard it can be to recognise our
own fallibility as parents and to change our own parenting
patterns. The authors also offer hard-won advice on a range of
common parenting flashpoints - from defusing arguments and
aggression to negotiating bedtimes and breaks in routine, and
making sure that special occasions are remembered for all the right
reasons. Reparenting the Child Who Hurts is a humane, no-nonsense
survival guide for any parent caring for a child with developmental
trauma or attachment difficulties, and will also provide
information and insights for social workers, teachers, counsellors
and other professionals involved in supporting adoptive and foster
families.
This text helps those who went through the adoption process, or
experienced early childhood trauma, re-examine their life and
realise who they are. It is a book about becoming aware of the
reasons for certain attitudes and behaviours.
Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still
arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how
moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has
changed and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the
completely revised third edition of What to Expect the First Year.
With over 10.5 million copies in print, First Year is the world s
best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies don
t come with, but should. And now, it s better than ever. Every
parent s must-have/go-to is completely updated. Keeping the
trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the
potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year
is easier-to-read, faster-to-flip-through, and
new-family-friendlier than ever packed with even more practical
tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than
before. Illustrations are new, too. Among the changes: Baby care
fundamentals crib and sleep safety, feeding, vitamin supplements
are revised to reflect the most recent guidelines. Breastfeeding
gets more coverage, too, from getting started to keeping it going.
Hot-button topics and trends are tackled: attachment parenting,
sleep training, early potty learning (elimination communication),
baby-led weaning, and green parenting (from cloth diapers to
non-toxic furniture). An all-new chapter on buying for baby helps
parents navigate through today s dizzying gamut of baby products,
nursery items, and gear. Also new: tips on preparing homemade baby
food, the latest recommendations on starting solids, research on
the impact of screen time (TVs, tablets, apps, computers), and For
Parents boxes that focus on mom s and dad s needs. Throughout,
topics are organized more intuitively than ever, for the best user
experience possible."
In today's fast-paced, overscheduled, multitasking society, parents
who are fighting potty battles need training tools that are as fast
as they are effective - particularly for the often-difficult
process of toilet training. Now parent educator Teri Crane provides
mothers and fathers with invaluable tips and techniques for solving
the problems of potty training in a single day. POTTY TRAIN YOUR
CHILD IN JUST ONE DAY offers parents a solid potty training
approach, information, advice, and tools - including how to choose
and use a potty chair, adapter seat, or toilet and how to carefully
but effectively reinforce potty usage. The aim of the book's
technique is to condense a sometimes stressful period and make it
easy, fun and rewarding for both parents and children. Thus, the
secret weapon in Teri's method is the potty party - a proven
process for giving children the incentive to become potty trained
almost immediately. Teri outlines twelve themed potty party
programmes that are carefully designed to encourage a child's
natural learning abilities and include recommendations based on the
child's personality preferences and address the concerns and fears
the child has about using the toilet. Potty parties make the
training a tear-free event to be shared happily with friends and
family. Full of helpful hints and anecdotal wisdom, POTTY TRAIN
YOUR CHILD IN JUST ONE DAY brings a friendly, intimate,
conversational tone to a parents' survival guide for one of the
most important lessons of young life.
This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting
brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked
in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of
parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent
research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent,
professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a
perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has
been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents
themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to"
parenting books, and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports
overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However,
almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting
is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed
in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the
topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of
classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions
of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the Handbook
cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting,
Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied
Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 3, Being and
Becoming a Parent, considers a large cast of characters responsible
for parenting, each with her or his own customs and agenda, and
examines what the psychological characteristics and social
interests of those individuals reveal about what parenting is.
Chapters in Part I, on The Parent, show just how rich and
multifaceted is the constellation of children's caregivers.
Considered first are family systems and then successively mothers
and fathers, coparenting and gatekeeping between parents,
adolescent parenting, grandparenting, and single parenthood,
divorced and remarried parenting, lesbian and gay parents and,
finally, sibling caregivers and nonparental caregiving. Parenting
also draws on transient and enduring physical, personality, and
intellectual characteristics of the individual. The chapters in
Part II, on Becoming and Being a Parent, consider the
intergenerational transmission of parenting, parenting and
contemporary reproductive technologies, the transition to
parenthood, and stages of parental development, and then chapters
turn to parents' well-being, emotions, self-efficacy, cognitions,
and attributions as well as socialization, personality in
parenting, and psychoanalytic theory. These features of parents
serve many functions: they generate and shape parental practices,
mediate the effectiveness of parenting, and help to organize
parenting.
This valuable volume in the You and Your ChildSeries discusses what
it is like to have a child with a learning disability. It looks at
the physical, mental, and emotional development of children with
varying degrees of learning disabilities. The volume takes into
consideration the emotional as well as the practical consequences
of having a child with a learning disability, and looks at the
relationships these young adults have formed with their parents,
siblings, grandparents, friends, and the rest of the social circle
around them. The chapters are built around case material based on
the lives of six young adults. The volume traces their development
from childhood to the adults they are today, and the case studies
are presented in the form of illuminating commentary from the
parents and provide extra insight into the everyday lives of the
children. In addition, each chapter looks at education and
schooling in detail, and the importance of support outside the
family nucleus is readily acknowledged. This inspiring book will be
of great help to parents, as well as people working with, living
with, and taking care of children with learning disabilities. It
encourages parents and other caretakers to observe their children
and give them the opportunities they need to develop at their own
pace; to understand how the children relate to the world around
them and how they see themselves in it.
Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and
challenging life events. This book is set within the background of
the reality of many parents' return-to-work experience, the task of
re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the
difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a
new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this
reality, give voice to new parents, and offer relief in the
knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and, most
importantly, how we can start to address them. The book brings
together a number of internationally recognized experts from
research, practice, and policy to explore the issues and offer
evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having
children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to
cover topics such as equality, stereotypes, work-family conflict,
training and development, and workplace culture, among others,
whilst integrating research and policy, and illustrating learnings
with case studies from parents and examples from countries that
lead the way. It will appeal to parents, researchers, and employers
in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately, it will help
develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully
while maintaining their work-family well-being.
Parenthood can be the most pleasurable and worthwhile task in the
world. But how can we be sure we are doing it right? 'Understanding
Your Child' is an A-Z guide to the psychology of parenting. It
covers over 175 key topics, from adolescence and working mums to
thumbsucking, dyslexia and discipline, in an easily accessible and
reassuring way. Also included are overviews of the important issues
for each developmental stage: birth to six months, six months to a
year, one to three years, three to six, six to twelve, twelve to
sixteen and over.
This book is based on questions that all parents have about their
children and that they might want to ask a childcare professional,
if they were given the chance. Children s relationships with their
parents, their relationship with siblings and outside world are
discussed in detail as well as questions on what is normal
behaviour and when help should be sought. There are no set rules
for raising children but certain situations might be better
resolved after learning about other similar cases and hearing a
professional s advice. Drawing from his extensive experience as a
child psychoanalyst (and a father), Dr. Brafman offers his thoughts
on some most common problems faced when raising children. Questions
tackled in the book include: Is it possible to "baby" your child
too much? How important is "quality time"? When does "making
allowances" for a child become "spoiling" or
"inappropriate"?Discipline -- how to --without physical means.When
is a child "too naughty?"How to deal with sibling rivalry -- when
is it normal? When does it become inappropriate? How to be fair to
both kids?My child has been accused of bullying, what should I
do?How do marital conflicts affect the way parents relate to their
child?"There are so many books available telling parents how to
bring up their children that the question arises: why another one?
I want to believe that the present text offers two features that
put it in a small minority of the books found in the bookstores.
First, it tries to focus on situations as perceived by the child,
rather than the usual observer s view of the child s behaviour.
Second, it offers only a minimal number of answers. Instead, I have
tried to discuss each question in such a way as to open up various
possible solutions and leaving the final choice to the parents.
This is because I have come to believe that finding an answer to a
problem is much easier when one understands what relevant issues
are involved. Because no two children are completely equal and the
circumstances in which parents bring up each child are always
changing, I think that an outsider can only give valid advice if he
actually meets that particular set of parents and children. My
intention, therefore, was to stimulate thought, rather than offer
answers that, however plausible, might be of no actual relevance to
the problems of the individual reader." --From the Introduction"
Overnutrition? Undernutrition? Cutting through current anxiety and
hype, Small Bites answers key questions about child nutrition and
eating by exploring their biological and sociocultural
determinants. Are children naturally picky eaters? How can school
meals help to address food insecurity and malnutrition? How has the
industrial food system commodified children's food and shaped
children's bodies? Tina Moffat investigates the feeding of children
in school and at home around the world, revealing the influence of
varied cultural approaches to childhood and food. This important
work sets a course for food policy, schools, communities, and
caregivers to improve children's food and nutrition.
What's the biggest challenge facing teachers today? Behavior. And
which students present the most baffling and unique behavior
problems? Our awesome kids on the autism spectrum. We love them,
but it can be difficult to understand and deal with their
challenging behaviors. But behavior analysts aren't in the
classroom; teachers are. And most teachers can't call a behavior
analyst every time a behavior problem crops up. Even when they do
call in a behavior analyst, they might not understand all that talk
about the "discriminative stimulus" and the "conditioned
reinforcer." It's all so dry and confusing. Teachers don't have
time to wade through all that jargon, they're too busy teaching. So
what's a teacher to do when a student throws a chair, or bites her
hand, or refuses to work? It's up to teachers to figure out
solutions before the behavior gets worse. They need help. The ABCs
of Autism in the Classroom: Setting the Stage for Success was
written by a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst who was also a
teacher for many years, as well as an autism mom. Here you will
find evidence-based, research-supported behavioral tools presented
in teacher-friendly language. You'll meet a virtual village of
students with problem behaviors you might find in your own
classroom. You'll also read stories shared by kids and adults on
the autism spectrum, in their own words.
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