Delahooke, Mona
Summary: From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children's behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children. Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 649.1 WOJBronson, Po
Summary: Argues that popular nurture-based parenting techniques are proving unsuccessful because they fail to include key aspects of scientific research, in an analysis that covers such topics as aggression, intelligence, and moral behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books 2001
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Summary: Raising kids is hard, and the rules, behaviors, and patterns seem to change as they get older. It’s enough to make any parent feel irritated, overwhelmed, or exasperated―and that’s okay. Growing Pains brings you age- and stage-specific strategies to keep you from feeling helpless. Tantrums, sulking, rule enforcement―this book will assist you in navigating the ups and downs of child development...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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Summary: Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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Summary: "A clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient people...who just might save the world one day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MOYBrazelton, T. Berry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 BRARolland, Rebecca Givens
Summary: A Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist provides adults with evidence-based tools and techniques to help them have productive and meaningful conversations with children of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ROLAmes, Louise Bates.
Summary: Discusses the behavior, health, intellectual development, and personal relationships of seven-year-old children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMESax, Leonard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1980
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Summary: Describes typical characteristics of nine-year-olds and suggests solutions to behavior problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Trade Paperback 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMERotbart, Harley A.
Summary: In quick hits, small bites, and short lists of essential, commonsense and occasionally creative advice, pediatrician Rotbart answers a parents three most commonly asked questions: what do my kids need from me? what must I do to be a good parent? how can I avoid feeling guilty for not doing everything? His aim is to help parents maximize and optimize time spent with their kids and realize that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2012
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Summary: "Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Contents: Prologue: Starting on the right foot -- A child in his environment -- Play -- Social emotional development and managing behavior -- Speech and language development -- Motor development -- Sensory processing -- Life at home -- Life away from home -- Siblings and playmates -- Parks and playgrounds -- Holidays, celebrations, and birthday parties -- Out and about -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Quick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.64 EGAStamm, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2008
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Summary: "Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call 'parenting' is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and thereby a particular kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 GOPCavell, Timothy A.
Summary: "To build healthy and lasting parent-child relationships, parents need practical strategies that meet their child's needs and address the circumstances that affect their families. Written for parents of children from toddlers to teens, this book gives parents a science-based plan to help their children grow up to be emotionally healthy adults. A parent's job unfolds and shifts over time....
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Publisher / Publication Date: APA LifeTools 2022