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Redefining Aging: A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life

Ann Kaiser Stearns · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving. Even an elderly spouse, parent, or other family member who is significantly impaired or increasingly...
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When Kids Call the Shots: How to Seize Control from Your Darling Bully -- and Enjoy Being a Parent Again

Sean Grover · AMACOM/American Management Association
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Rebellious, entitled, disrespectful, many kids pummel their parents with demands, and boss them around with impunity. Experts might label them "difficult" and advise how to "fix" them. But parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile...
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When Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Hit Puberty: A Parents' Q&A Guide to Health, Sexuality and Relationships

Freddy Jackson Brown · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Puberty, personal hygiene and sex can be difficult topics to broach with your child, especially when they have an intellectual disability or autism. The authors of this guide provide honest answers to challenging questions and provide solutions to the dilemmas that many parents face on a daily...
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How to start, carry on and end conversations: Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

Paul James Jordan · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback

Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals...
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Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices

Jodi Gold MD · The Guilford Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr. Gold weaves together scientific knowledge and everyday practical advice to help you foster your child's healthy...
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New Old-Fashioned Parenting: A Guide to Help You Find the Balance Between Traditional and Modern Parenting

Liat Hughes Joshi · Summersdale
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

There's been a revolution in the family; it's now all about the kids. We've moved on from children being "seen and not heard," but we're now plagued with the worry of ending up with "that child" - the one who's running amok and is ill-prepared for life....
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Guardianships and the Elderly: The Perfect Crime

Sam Sugar, Dr. · Square One
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Imagine a system of justice in this country that strips its citizens of their Constitutional rights, voids their existing legal documents, gives others the right to spend their money and sell their assets, isolates them, and has the ability to limit the time they can spend with their loved...
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Why Can't We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy

Pam Lobley · Familius
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Facing summer with her two boys, ages ten and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: "Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy's...
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Adopting: Real Life Stories

Ann Morris · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other."With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption. These stories...
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits

Robin Berman · Harperwave
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers....
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The Secrets of Successful Adoptive Parenting: Practical Advice and Strategies to Help with Emotional and Behavioural Challenges

Sophie Ashton · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Are you in the process of adopting and feeling out of your depth? Do you already have an adopted child and are feeling overwhelmed? Sharing the secrets that will enable you to face the challenges of adoptive parenting with confidence, Sophie Ashton offers tips and strategies which have...
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Your Preschooler Bible: The most authoritative and up-to-date source book on caring for toddlers and young children

Richard C Woolfson · Hamlyn
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Sharing life with a child involves a great many challenges - particularly in our digital age. In addition to keeping your child safe and healthy, 21st-century parents have to contend with things unknown to previous generations, so have little to go on when it comes to making decisions...
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Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent's Guide to Navigating the Teen Years

KATIE NAFTZGER · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior. This guide describes the essential skills you need to help your adopted...
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Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

Amber Ankowski PhD · Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what's actually going on inside your little one's head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier - and a lot more fun. In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski...
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The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

Gayatri Devi · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. And imagine how that would change the outlook of the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, not to mention their families, loved ones, and caretakers. A neurologist who's been specializing...
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