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1) How to stop losing your sh*t with your kids: a practical guide to becoming a calmer, happier parent
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stop the yelling, lose the guilt, and become a calmer, happier parent. Drawing on evidence-based practices, here is an insight-packed and tip-filled plan for how to stop the parental meltdowns. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help readers feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it. "Using a powerful combination of humor and reality checks, Naumburg helps parents unpack their unique stressors...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 18 min. 49 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
What Mums and Dads have learned over the past 100 years! Why do parents do what they do? What has influenced parenting practices for the last 100 years? This video reviews events, government policies, and child development theorists who have shaped the way we parent our children. --Kanopy.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you'll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from 'reactive parenting' habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.
Whether you're running late for school, trying to get your child to eat their vegetables, or dealing with an epic meltdown in the checkout line at a grocery store'being a parent is hard work! And, as parents,...
4) The 3 Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting: Proven Tools to Help You Raise Smart and Savvy Online Kids
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
234 p.
Language
English
Description
Do you feel overwhelmed with technology in your home? Do headlines about this app or that website make you feel anxious and undecided as a parent? Do you get advice from many experts—but still feel unclear on what to do? This book unpacks the “3 Ms” of parenting in the digital age, a proven approach used with thousands of parents through the work of Digital Respons-Ability and its founder, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. When Carrie first started...
Author
Edition
5th ed.
Physical Desc
335 pages.
Language
English
Description
This reassuring month-by-month overview gives you the tools you need to support your partner and prepare for the joys and challenges of fatherhood. It concludes with two special sections: on on labor and delivery, and the other covering the first few months after your baby's arrival.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An NPR Science Desk correspondent challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are being used effectively throughout the modern world.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
xxvi, 424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Your child’s DNA is not destiny; you are at the helm, guiding their course.
The truth is, nature and nurture are in a delicate dance—if one goes too fast, the other one falls. Science tells us that early childhood experiences have the capacity to structure and alter the brain. That means you didn’t just supply your child’s DNA—you’re still shaping it. And it’s only by wielding this power that your child will activate their full potential....
11) Watch over me
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Benjamin Patil finds an infant abandoned in a field, he and his wife Abbi serve as the foster parents, but the baby's arrival opens wounds for Abbi and sheds light on how much Ben has changed since his tour in Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1980
Edition
20th anniversary ed., updated.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details a program for improving communication between parents and children, providing sample dialogues, role-playing exercises, and humorous yet illuminating cartoons.
16) Play
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 28 min., 37 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Play has been studied according to its social categories and content. Children's play is involving, child-directed and process-oriented. This program explores the contents and social dimensions of play and the important role of adults in facilitating childrens' play.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
vii, 257 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Building Boys offers tips and tools that parents can use to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes to full humanity. Understanding, acknowledging, and respecting male development is key to facilitating boys’ growth and making the world a safer place for humans of all genders.
18) No-drama discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears without causing a scene. Learn strategies that help you identify your own discipline philosophy and master the best methods to communicate the lessons you are trying to impart.
19) Big little lies
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.