"From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity. When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. This is what New York Times bestselling authors Daniel J. Siegel...
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham's approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don't need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe-or even punish.This remarkable guide will help parents better understand their own emotions-and get them in check-so...
Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well as their toddler-to-school-age children, offering specific tools to stop policing and pleading with kids and start being the parents we want to be. Based on Dr. Bailey's more than twenty-five years of work with children,...
Rex Forehand, PhD, and Nicholas Long, PhD, have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your child's behavior, giving specific factors that cause or contribute to disruptive behavior, ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home, and strategies...
In Simple Happy Parenting, Denaye Barahona, Ph.D., provides a revolutionary approach to parenting, full of practical tips to help you step back from the system overload so common in modern family life and, instead, create more time to enjoy living and learning together. From easier meal planning to mindful shopping, worry batching to waste reduction, Simple Happy Parenting is an honest and practical roadmap for all families striving for balance.
Written for both biological parents and stepparents, this helpful guide provides the tools necessary to raising well-adjusted children after a stressful divorce. Innovative in its technique and co-written by a certified divorce and stepfamily expert and her own stepchildren's mother, this etiquette book provides an authentic guide for ex-spouses to interact on a civil and healthy level. Sample conversation for everyday scenarios help exes create a...
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham's approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don't need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe-or even punish. This remarkable guide will help parents better understand their own emotions-and get them in check-so...
"Jane Nelsen, coauthor of the popular Positive Discipline series, along with Positive Discipline Educators Joy Marchese and Kristina Bill, put forth a new volume for parents looking to make their overburdened lives a little easier. With the increasing pressure to excel at parenting, work, and personal relationships, it's easy to feel stressed and dissatisfied. This targeted Positive Discipline guide gives parents the tools to parent effectively without...
Including guidance on both the financial and educational aspects of running a home-based day-care program, Shari Steelsmith's book offers tips for successful business management as well as advice on caring for children. Suggestions for establishing and maintaining a home-based business, communicating effectively with children, and remediating potential problems are also included.
Today's busy families often race from one activity to the next with meals, homework, chores, and discipline somehow fitting between the cracks. For families wanting to inject some fun back into their daily routines, Silvana Clark comes to the rescue. Although she can't promise parents a good night's sleep or extra hours in the day, she can give them all the tools they need to help foster a feeling of family fun and togetherness based on solid biblical...
Guide your children with the power of positive parenting: a practical approach to discipline Discover how simple it is to regain peace in your home and help kids regulate their own behavior. Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting introduces the idea of empowering your children (and yourself), as well as using discipline as an effective teaching tool. Rooted in mindfulness--the practice of being present and self-regulating--this complete guide...
Are you feeling overwhelmed with raising your children? Are you struggling with connecting with your child? Are you yearning for an environment filled with love and understanding? Keep on reading… Going to bed without objections, no tantrums, a no-drama mealtime, anxiety-free potty training… Does this sound like a fairy tale? For the majority of parents, it does. Few people know the chaos and challenges that come with being a parent prior to becoming...
Guide your children with the power of positive parenting: a practical approach to disciplineDiscover how simple it is to regain peace in your home and help kids regulate their own behavior. Discipline Your Kids with Positive Parenting introduces the idea of empowering your children (and yourself), as well as using discipline as an effective teaching tool. Rooted in mindfulness--the practice of being present and self-regulating--this complete guide...
Discipline that you and your child will feel good about! At last, a positive discipline book that is chock-full of practical tips, strategies, skills, and ideas for parents of babies through teenagers, and tells you EXACTLY what to do "in the moment" for every type of behavior, from whining to web surfing. Parents and children today face very different challenges from those faced by the previous generation. Today's children play not only in the sandbox...
The positive discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn. Each tool is tailored specifically for the modern teacher, with examples and solutions to each and every roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative and student-centered learning. This comprehensive book also...
Child throwing a tantrum... again? Total chaos at bedtime? Your home doesn't have to be a battle zone. Learn the basics of positive discipline with tools and practices that you can use right away inside this guidebook on How To Get Your Kids To Cooperate. Your children need you to get equipped with some new tools and create peace at home. There's no "magic wand" that gets children to stop misbehaving. But the tips and tools inside this workbook might...
"From multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, Venus Williams, comes a book of wisdom -- in the tradition of Brian Kilmeade's THE GAMES DO COUNT and Denzel Washington's A HAND TO GUIDE ME -- on how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. Full of insight and knowledge from an A-list cast of politicians, CEOs and media figures, COME TO WIN is the book every aspiring professional should read"--Provided by...
Raise Healthy, Responsible, Well-Adjusted Kids Who Thrive in Your Household AND in the Real World Ditch the Drama, Disrespect, and Back Talk Many of today's kids are glued to their screens, focus on what they want to do versus what they need to do, and lack motivation. This causes unnecessary drama, conflict, and emotionally charged power struggles. Yet, despite a number of available tools, many parents are more stressed and frustrated than ever before....
Having children is no great achievement. Raising them is. But modern parenting gurus usually forget one important lesson: Parents don't have time to read a 250-page book, extrapolate the information that applies to the specific challenges they face and create a checklist to consult whenever a problem arises. As a professional who deals daily with children who often have never had much discipline in their lives, and as the father of four young children,...