When did the kid who strolled the wooded path, trolled the stream, played pick-up ball in the back forty turn into the child confined to the mall and the computer screen?
In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.
"e;The coolest--and easiest--book for new parents"e; --Parents magazineYou could read 34 parenting books on sleep, eating, potty training, discipline, and brain development.
Counterpredators is a modern solution to an ancient problem: Parents face the overwhelming responsibility of training their children to navigate the threat environment and safely molding them into powerful, self-aware, authentic adults.
Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David Engelstad and Catherine Malotky have learned since the day in 1984 when their eight-week-old daughter Erin died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
According to experts in the field of psychology, more than half of parents experience some sort of separation anxiety when their child leaves for college.
The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by beloved poet William Stafford, is about young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression.
A hybrid of prescriptive how-to guidebook and intimate diary, Twinspiration recounts with unabashed personal detail the tribulations and triumphs of a twin pregnancy and first year of life with twins.
Send your teenager out into the dating world equipped with the knowledge, strength, and communication skills to walk away from abusive relationships--and to develop healthy ones.
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma.
Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior.
Parents will learn how to set the stage, recognize readiness, choose a potty seat, dress their child for success, deal with an uncooperative child, find productscloth or disposable, handle accidents, understand the issues, use rewardsor not, cope when traveling, and deal with bed-wetting.
In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of lifestraight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptiveexplore the challenges and rewards of parenthood.
Krovitz-Neren's innovative step-by-step program teaches parents how to reconnect with the entire family in the wake of addiction and how to be in charge again.
