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: This book offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Academy of Pediatrics 2015
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Summary: "Cure your kids of the entitlement epidemic so they develop happier, more productive attitudes that will carry them into a successful adulthood. Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks there are preschoolers who only behave in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: "Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing realities of social media to the fear that permeates our culture, to the generational expectations that are unconsciously placed on children, the pressures on parents and children have reached a critical moment. We feel it and our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Dato, Lara
Summary: "Help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life!Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? Be it chicken nuggets, pizza, pancakes, or French fries-if your child is only eating a few foods regularly, their diet may be seriously lacking in the nutrition and vitamins they need to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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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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Summary: Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously rewards stereotypical masculinity and is increasingly hostile to boys. Making the world safer for women and girls is not the only reason to rethink our boy raising practices: current culture harms our boys too. Fink offers rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: 'Mommy, where do babies come from?' It's the question every parent dreads - and, worse still, it's just the tip of the iceberg. Just wait for 'What's a blowjob?' or 'What's an orgasm?' With kids being so curious and the world being so full of sex, ignoring your child's questions just isn't going to cut it - and if you don't tell them, they'll (mis)inform themselves elsewhere: the internet,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sex Ed Rescue 2018
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Contents: Mismanaged divorces -- Depressed parents -- Children who feel like failures -- Peer rejection, peer cruelty -- Quarreling parents -- Parental favoritism -- Permissive parenting -- Stepfamilies -- Sibling abuse -- The angry parent -- What makes a child happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2006
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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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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: Discusses the author's experiences raising an effeminate son who may be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2001
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Summary: Raising positive, drug-free kids in a negative world is not easy, but in the long run it's easier than raising negative ones. Now, the bestselling motivational author reveals his simple prescription for success with children, step by positive step.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Nelson 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. Co. 1996
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2008
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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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