Winking, Deborah
Summary: "A guide for parents to raising children who have been diagnosed as 'different' - written by a parent and expert in educational psychology, with guidance on how to understand your child's strengths and challenges, set realistic and ambitious expectations and support and challenge them when needed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 WINSiegel, Daniel J.
Summary: "The authors of the Los Angeles Times bestselling The Whole-Brain Child team up again to offer parents of children aged 2-13 a practical roadmap to effective, productive, and more peaceful discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connectionbetween the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 SIEDato, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 DATBorba, Michele
Summary: "Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood--and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in thefuture. In our hyper-connected, social-media-saturated society, many of us (especially young people) are so obsessed with snapping "selfies"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BORPorges, Marisa
Summary: ""A powerful book about how we can raise girls to become bold, ambitious women." --Adam Grant A former White House strategist and fighter jet pilot now at the helm of one of the premier schools for girls in the country illuminates the ways parents and educators can support audacity and ambition in girls everywhere What do girls really need to succeed? As a student at the all-girls Baldwin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 PORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.2308 PORDyer, Wayne W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 DYEZiglar, Zig.
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 ZIGJaffe, Sarah W.
Summary: When privileged parents say that they "want what's best" for their child, they don't consciously add "and not for other children." Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pursuing their own child's interests is that other children are left behind. Author Sarah W. Jaffe interviewed dozens of parents who are resisting the cultural pressures to seek "the best" for only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 JAFGinsburg, Kenneth R.
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 GINIcard, Michelle
Summary: "Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these "fails" has in common for our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ICA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 ICA
Condrell, Kenneth N.
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649 CondrHill, Amanda
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 HILMcCready, Amy.
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MCCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MCCBronson, Po
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.231 BROCorwin, Donna G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.12 CORDelahooke, 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