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The Conscious Parent: transforming ourselves, empowering our children
Stating “The time has come for parenting to become what it was always meant to be-about the parent.” Dr. Tsabary details how children can be raised as conscious adults only when parents allow themselves to be raised to a higher state of consciousness.
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Smart Parenting For African Americans: helping your kids thrive in a difficult world
A practical guide for today’s African American parents focuses on problems their children face. Chapters include-It’s Never Too Soon to Get Smart; Education Begins at Home, Black and Blue: Kids & Police; Teen Rebellion; Racism: A Lifelong Challenge.
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How to talk so teens will listen-- & listen so teens will talk
“Presents straightforward advice for parents and teens on how to build the foundation for healthy relationships, in a guide that covers such topics as curfews, peer pressure, and drugs.”
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Dad to dad: parenting like a pro: expert advice, guidance and insight from a pediatrician-dad
Pediatrician Dr. Hill gives practical yet humorous insight to dads and dads-to-be on such topics as infant & child development; baby basics-crying, sleeping, pooping and eating, everyday illnesses and what to look for; sound advice to cope with toddlerhood and beyond.
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The Gift of Failure: how to best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed
Lahey’s book focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience disappointment, frustration and other situations life brings so they can grow up to be successful, resilient and self-reliant adults. Lahey points out that over parenting has the potential to ruin a child’s confidence and undermine their education. (Overdrive)
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Parenting from the Inside Out
By understanding your own childhood experiences and how it directly influences the way you parent, the author guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.
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“The Attachment Connection sorts out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child, particularly during the first five years of development, can help him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. “
“Based on her forty-plus years of experience, behavioral specialist Noël Janis-Norton outlines a clear, step-by-step plan that will help any parent raise a child to be cooperative and considerate, confident and self-reliant.”
“In this guide, Palladino doesn't demonize technology; instead she gives parents the tools to help children understand and control their attention—and to recognize and resist when their attention is being "snatched." Palladino's straightforward, evidence-based approach applies to kids of all ages. Parents will also learn the critical difference between voluntary and involuntary attention, new findings about brain development, and what puts children at risk for attention disorders.”