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The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish

Lea Waters · Avery
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths.This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from...
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On Becoming a Mother: Welcoming Your New Baby and Your New Life with Wisdom from Around the World

Brigid McConville · Oneworld Publications
Format: Print book

Having a baby is a private miracle, yet it is also the source of much shared joy. For this reason, women and families in every country and every culture have customs to ensure that the journey into motherhood is marked and remembered. From the Mexican rebozo used to rock the belly and ease...
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Hero: Being the Strong Father Your Children Need

MEG MEEKER · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Your go-to gift for new fathers." - Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker, and radio hostWhether you know it or not, if you're a dad, you're a hero - that's the message of bestselling author and pediatrician Meg Meeker. Even if you're...
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The Motherhood Diaries 2: Humorous and Heartwarming Musings on Motherhood

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Brown Girls Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

THE MOTHERHOOD DIARIES 2 In The Motherhood Diaries, ReShonda Tate Billingsley and other mothers shared the good, the bad, and the ugly of raising kids in the new millennium. Now, they're back with more hilarious and heartwarming musings on motherhood. Motherhood can be the toughest...
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iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing up

Janell Burley Hofmann · Rodale Books
Pages: 261
Format: Paperback

As Janell Burley Hofmann, mother of five, wrapped her 13-year-old's iPhone on Christmas Eve, she was overwhelmed by questions: "Will my children learn to sit and wonder without Googling? Should I know their passwords for online accounts? Will they experience the value of personal connection...
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The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress

GINA M BIEGEL · Instant Help
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

Between school, friends, and planning for the future, it's easy to feel stressed out. Written by a psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and featuring brand new exercises, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, Second Edition shows how mindfulness...
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Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits

Jocelyn Elise Crowley · University of California Press
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover

After 20, 30, or even 40 years of marriage, countless vacations, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances, what could go wrong? Gray Divorce is a provocative look at the rising rate of marital splits after the age of 50. Renowned author and researcher Jocelyn...
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Positive Parenting 101: A Handbook for Parents Undergoing Divorce

James A Baker · Bayou Pub
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step resource guide written at basic high school reading level for divorcing parents, POSITIVE PARENTING 101 helps moms and dads anticipate the needs of their children during the trauma of divorce. This book, along with its companion online course, fulfills the parent education...
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W Greene · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover

In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important...
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Be With: Letter to a Caregiver

Mike Barnes · Biblioasis
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback

Drawing on the author's seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that castmfresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes...
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Motherhood Is a B#tch: 10 Steps to Regaining Your Sanity, Sexiness, and Inner Diva

Lyss Stern · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

You've had a kid or two . . . or three. Now, every time you look in the mirror you ask yourself, "Who the hell is that tired, washed out woman looking back at me?" What happened to the stylish, stiletto-wearing woman who prided herself on living the fabulous life? It's...
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Raising Cooperative Kids: Proven Practices for a Connected, Happy Family

Marion Forgatch · Conari Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

What's the recipe for a happy family? A spirit of cooperation. Instilling a spirit of cooperation in children is the real secret to providing the gift of a happy childhood, being a "good" parent, and building the family you've always wanted.In Raising Cooperative Kids,...
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Parenting Kids With OCD: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Your Child With OCD

Bonnie Zucker · Prufrock Press
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Parenting Kids With OCD provides parents with a comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, its symptoms, types, and presentation in children and teens. The treatment of OCD is explained, and guidelines on how to both find appropriate help and best support one's child...
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Untying Parent Anxiety

Lisa Sugarman · Familius
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

Raising the perfect child . . . it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular...
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