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1) 1-2-3 magic: effective discipline for children 2-12

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"Being a parent is one of the most rewarding experiences in life, but every family faces challenges that can be frustrating and overwhelming. For more than twenty-five years, internationally renowned clinical psychologist Thomas W. Phelan's 1-2-3 Magic has helped millions of parents, teachers, and caregivers raise independent, emotionally intelligent children and build happier, healthier families-all through an easy-to-understand program that you'll...

2) 1-2-3 magic teen: communicate, connect, and guide your teen to adulthood

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Phelan, Thomas W

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From rule-breaking and risk-taking to defensive communication and disrespect, parenting a teenager can feel like modern warfare, but it doesn't have to be that way. In 1-2-3 Magic Teen, Thomas W. Phelan explains how to better understand your teenager, which problems are not worth fighting over, and why your child's behavior likely matches the definition of a normal adolescent. With helpful, straightforward advice backed up by research and parent-tested...

3) The gift of failure: how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed

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Lahey, Jessica

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In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level...

4) Mindful parent: strategies from peaceful cultures to raise compassionate, competent kids

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Peterson, Charlotte

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Brings together Dr. Peterson's village interviews, observations, research, and over thirty-five years of work as a psychologist to teach modern parents how to raise healthier, more well-balanced, and kinder children. It includes creative ideas from parents who are currently adopting these practices and balancing other aspects of their personal, career, and financial responsibilities to assure their children get the support they need to thrive. --Publisher's...

5) Not what I expected: help and hope for parents of atypical children

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Eichenstein, Rita

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As diagnosis rates continue to rise for autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and other developmental differences, parents face a maze of medical, psychological, and educational choices -- and a great deal of emotional stress. Many books address children's learning or behavior problems and advise parents what they can do to help their kids. This one instead explains what the parents are going through, as well as how they can cope with their own emotional...

6) The spiritual child: the new science on parenting for health and lifelong thriving

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Miller, Lisa

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Psychologist Lisa Miller presents the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances; are 60% less likely to be depressed as teenagers; are 80% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex; and have significantly more positive markers for thriving including...

7) Relax, it's just God: how and why to talk to your kids about religion when you're not religious

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Russell, Wendy Thomas

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A rapidly growing demographic cohort in America, non-religious parents are at the forefront of a major and unprecedented cultural shift. Unable to fall back on what they were taught as children, many of these parents are struggling--or simply failing--to address complicated religious questions and issues with their children in ways that promote curiosity, kindness, and independence. Author Wendy Thomas Russell sifts through hard data--including the...

8) The happy kid handbook: how to raise joyful children in a stressful world

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Hurley, Katie

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"With all the parenting information out there and the constant pressure to be the "perfect" parent, it seems as if many parents have lost track of one very important piece of the parenting puzzle: raising happy kids. Parenting today has gotten far too complicated. It's never been the easiest job in the world, but with all the "parenting advice" parents are met with at every corner, it's hard not to become bewildered. It seems that in the past it was...

9) The dolphin way: a parent's guide to raising healthy, happy, and motivated kids--without turning into a tiger

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Kang, Shimi K

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The author "...shows why pushy, hovering 'tiger parents' and permissive 'jellyfish parents' actually hinder self-motivation. She proposes a powerful new parenting model: the intelligent, playful, highly social dolphin. Dolphin parents focus on maintaining balance in their children's lives to gently, yet authoritatively guide them toward lasting health, happiness, and success"-- Front dust jacket flap.

10) No-drama discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind

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Siegel, Daniel J

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"[Offers] parents of children aged 2-13 a ... roadmap to ... discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--

11) The Danish way of parenting

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Alexander, Jessica

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Denmark, a small country famous for Hans Christian Andersen and the Little Mermaid, has consistently been voted as having the happiest people in the world for over 40 years in a row. In 2013 they were, again voted in first place by the World Happiness Report. What is the secret to their satisfied success? This deeply insightful book takes a look at the way Danish children are raised and offers a profound parenting theory that claims to be the at the...

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13) teach your children well parenting for authentic s

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14) easy to love but hard to raise real parents challe

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15) Duct tape parenting: a less is more approach to raising respectful, responsible, and resilient kids

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Hoefle, Vicki

16) That crumpled paper was due last week: helping disorganized and distracted boys master the skills they need for success in school and life

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Homayoun, Ana

17) kazdin method for parenting the defiant child with

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18) Beyond time-out: from chaos to calm

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Grosshans, Beth A

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The covers of such magazines as Time and Newsweek have described parents as living in “mayhem” and “madness” with their children. TV’s Supernanny regularly captures kids wildly, unbelievably out of control. How did our families get to such a state? Child psychologist Dr. Beth Grosshans has the answer. And mothers and fathers everywhere are listening. In what is sure to become a much-discussed blockbuster, Dr. Grosshans reveals why she believes...

19) How to talk so teens will listen-- & listen so teens will talk

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Faber, Adele

20) trouble with perfect how parents can avoid the ove

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