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Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mick Brannigan, a construction worker, loses a good-paying job because of some freak accident, sort of his fault but not his fault. Adding insult to injury, he finds himself playing nursemaid to his three kids. "Mick's whole life felt like an accident..." Even more flustered is his wife, Layne, now forced to get a job to keep a paycheck coming in. Mick isn't the stay-at-home-dad type, she's sure. He's a good dad--when she is there to supervise it...
4) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a nanny, Millicent Fairweather poured her energy and talents into the two young charges under her care--only to have them suddenly and without explanation sent to a boarding school. Bereft and unsure of where life will lead her, she agrees to accompany her sister and brother-in-law to America. They board the Opportunity, confident a better life awaits. Widower Daniel Clark determines to begin life anew in Gooding, Texas, operating a mercantile....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo/Lifelong
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A licensed clinical psychologist presents this guide for exasperated parents, offering creative solutions for persistent parenting problems from messy rooms to homework procrastination and from sibling combat to cell phone abuse.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Draws on the author's Positive Parenting Solutions online course to explain how to correct negative behaviors in children, introducing the psychological theories of Alfred Adler on using empowerment to promote healthy child development.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need-and the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all with a handful of strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair. The Five Principles of Parenting doesn't presume to tell you how to parent with "my way is right" advice...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on views of success and child rearing, a renowned psychologist combines cutting-edge research with thirty years of clinical experience to explain how to shift focus to a parenting style that promotes academic success, a sense of purpose, and meaning in life.
Author
Publisher
Cardinal Rule Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny side upbringing is a simple parenting toolkit designed to make your life easier and more fulfilled by keeping your family values on the forefront of daily life. Parent educator Maria Dismondy took her greatest advice, research, ideas, activities, and educational resources from over the last 20 years and put them down on paper for us all to benefit from. The result is a month-by-month parenting resource (kind of like "a parent's best friend")...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Filled with practical solutions to everyday problems and thoughtful, useful information on opening up communication between the generations, Loving Your Child is Not Enough will help parents to truly enjoy their child's growing years.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on nearly twenty years' experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that's aligned to their own values and their children's unique temperaments.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Offers honest, from-the-trenches parenting advice that will make life calmer, happier, and more fulfilling for you and your toddler. Empowers parents to trust their instincts. The author's methods will help give your three-to-five-year-old the freedom to grow at their own pace.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
It's not just a one-word answer, it's a parenting strategy. By saying No when you need to, you help your children develop self-reliance, self-discipline, respect, integrity, the ability to delay gratification, and a host of other crucial character traits they need. Although the importance of using No should be obvious, many parents have a hard time saying it--even when they know they should--when other parents and the culture around them are being...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent message for all sleep-deprived parents: You don't have to suffer through stressful strategies such as "cry-it-out" to get your child's sleep schedule on track. There's another way! Parents spend a great deal of energy coaxing, singing, and swinging their children to sleep. Yet over time, all that cajoling can actually have the opposite of its desired effect. Most parents do what works today but don't notice when it's no longer needed tomorrow,...
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