General Parenting
The Basics For Raising Great Children
General Parenting
I can not over stress the importance of obtaining knowledge about how to be a good parent. This is not something we just learn from our parents. We need to make the effort to stay informed. A personal library of parenting books is a must. Look over this selection of books geared to making you a responsible parent and add a few to your library. We have many pages devoted to specific parenting issues as well as specific age groups. This page about general parenting is a good place to start the learning process. Make sure you have some of these books in your library.
Toilet Trained for Yale: Adventures in Twenty-First-Century Parenting
Citing a trend in child rearing by which parents attempt to rear "super kids" of unnatural aptitude, a volume on its humorous and disturbing practices
explores such topics as fetal education, preschool SAT training, honor student bumper stickers, and toddler yoga.
Raising Great Kids: A Comprehensive Guide to Parenting With Grace and Truth
Author(s): Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
The Privilege of Parenting: How to Raise Great Kids in the 21st Century
Author: Levine, James B., Ph.D.
Positive Parenting from A to Z
From fighting with siblings and fear of the dark to throwing tantrums and thumbsucking, this easy-to-use handbook features parent-tested strategies
for coping with more than 140 common child behaviors.
Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years
Has your sweet, innocent baby turned into a terrorizing toddler or pre-schooler? If your answer is a resounding "Yes", relief from your anxiety is
here! Beat the "terrible twos" and "precocious pre-schoolers" with the advice of internationally-recognized parenting experts Fay and Cline, M.D.
What Kids Wish Parents Knew About Parenting: What You Need to Know Before It's Too Late
Joe White tells parents how to give their children the everyday encouragement and unshakable conviction they need to live in today's world.
Common Sense Parenting: A Proven Step-By-Step Guide for Raising Responsible Kids and Creating Happy Families
To be a good parent today, you need a warm heart and a cool head. Along with unconditional love and respect for your child, you need a logical, workable
approach to discipline. This book gives you both. First, it offers suggestions on how to build a close relationship with your child. Second, you'll
learn how to reduce problem behavior.
Parenting Rule # 1: Mom Has Fun: A Guide to Responsive Parenting
Introduces a new learning method complete with charts and exercises that show parents how to develop a child's emotional intelligence.
Practical Parenting Tips: Over 1,500 Helpful Hints for the First Five Years
Lansky, a Family Circle columnist and bestselling author, has added over 400 practical, parent-tested ideas to this popular backlist bestseller to
make it the most complete and up-to-date book of its kind.
Parenting For Dummies
This complete handbook on becoming a good parent starts with the basics of proper parenting skills and effective communication. Everything a parent
needs to know is contained in this book without the overwhelming technical psychobabble often found in parenting books. Simple, easy-to-follow explanations
guide the reader through even the most complicated parenting situations.
Parenting: What Really Counts?
Author: Golombok, Susan
Quality Time Anytime: How to Make the Most of Every Moment With Your Child
Any parent can spend quality time with his or her child. All it takes is a little imagination, a minimum of supplies, and the hundreds of ideas
inside Quality Time Anytime. This book contains over 200 games and activities to help parents and their children turn moments spent in the
car, kitchen, bath, bedroom, outdoors, store--in short, anytime--into quality time! Parents can choose an activity from the book and enhance their
special bond with their child and teach social skills that will prove valuable the rest of the child's life.
But How'd I Get in There in the First Place: Talking to Your Young Child About Sex
A parent's guide to talking to a young child about sex offers reassuring and practical advice on how to discuss the mysteries of human
sexuality, conception, and birth with children ages three to six. Original. 30,000 first printing.
The Secret of Happy Children: Why Children Behave the Way They Do--And What You Can Do to Help Them to Be Optimistic, Loving, Capable, and Happy
A guide on parent-child communication from babyhood through the teenage years explains what occurs from a child's perspective and what to do
about it, covering such topics as tantrums, shyness, and the link between food and behavior.
101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows
Author(s): BROWDER, WALTER & SUE ELLIN
The Encouraging Parent: How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids and Start Teaching Them Confidence, Self-Discipline, and Joy
Provides a Parent Test to help parents evaluate their effectiveness in providing discipline, fostering children's success, maintaining effective
communication, and having a positive parenting attitude.
Preventing Sibling Rivalry: 6 Strategies to Build a Jealous-Free Home
Examines emotions and temperment in infants to help parents prevent sibling rivalry and jealousy, discussing how parents can nurture friendship
between siblings by cultivating social skills and expressing physical affection.
Simplify Your Life With Kids: 100 Ways to Make Family Life Easier and More Fun
Author(s): St. James, Elaine; Cole, Vera
Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence
From the latest research on a child's growing mind comes a guide to enriching mental and emotional development during the first five years of life. of line drawings.
From One Child to Two: What to Expect, How to Cope, and How to Enjoy Your Growing Family
Judy Dunn, an internationally recognized authoritity on sibling relations, gives parents all the information, emotional support, and reassurance
they need to minimize the conflicts--and relish the joys--of raising two children. Dunn draws on a vast range of research, as well as extensive
interviews with parents, to give her expert guidance on issues important to parents.
Children: The Challenge
Author(s): Dreikurs, Rudopf; Soltz, Vicki
The 7 Worst Things Parents Do
This life-changing book contains concrete, easy-to-follow steps designed to help improve the lives of both adults and children.
The Dog Trainer's Guide to Parenting: Rewarding Good Behavior, Practicing Patience and Other Positive Techniques That Work
A dog trainer and stepfather offers parents a fresh and insightful approach to loving, compassionate and effective parenting techniques. Starting out with
why so many of the things parents try with their kids don't work, he offers strategies straight from the kennel that make perfect sense in the family room.
Stuffed Animals on the Ceiling Fan: And Other Off-The-Wall Parenting Techniques That Really Work
Real help from real parents, offered in a fun, easy-to-digest format, sets Stuffed Animals on the Ceiling Fan apart from the pack. With
two feet planted firmly in the realities of parenthood, Silvana Clark presents positive and creative ways to discipline, motivate, and
encourage children.Clark's tips, collected from seasoned moms and dads, hit all the "hot button" issues on the homefront.
Dr. Spock on Parenting: Sensible, Reassuring Advice for Contemporary Parents
Now in a new trade paperback edition, Dr. Spock's groundbreaking classic looks to the future and addresses the challenges today's parents face.
Parenting Your Superstar: How to Help Your Child Balance Achievement and Happiness
Whether their child is a budding Olympic champion or simply playing a sport for his or her personal enjoyment, parents of children
who make a serious commitment to sport face a difficult challenge. This guide shows parents how to cope with both the pleasures and
perils of raising a healthy, happy, child athlete. Photos & illustrations.
What Did I Just Say!?!: How New Insights into Childhood Thinking Can Help You Communicate More Effectively With Your Child
Based on clinical experience and original research, What Did I Just Say!?! shows how conventional communication styles prevent parents from saying
what they mean and cause children to hear something other than what was intended. By helping parents understand the different linguistic and experiential
world of children, What Did I Just Say!?! offers a foundation for parent-child communication that will last a lifetime.
How to Parent So Children Will Learn: Clear Strategies for Raising Happy Healthy Children
"Today" show child psychologist and author of "Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades" Dr. Sylvia Rimm offers effective, down-to-earth advice to
help parents raise their children to achieve their greatest potential, during and "after" the schools years.
Building Healthy Minds: The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence and Emotional Growth in Babies and Young Children
Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and
moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book Dr. Greenspan, the internationally admired child
psychiatrist, identifies the six key experiences that enable children to reach their full potential. In Building Healthy Minds, he draws upon discoveries
made in his research and practice as he describes the many ways in which games, fantasy play, and conversations with and without words encourage this
development. No one has looked so deeply into the very earliest stages of human development, and no other book makes such vital and effective information
available to every parent.
Hopefully some of these general parenting books are in, or will be soon, in your home library.
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