Child category: 4509 books
Attachment Parenting
Developing Connections and Healing Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child. Grounded in attachment theory, Attachment Parenting gives...
Aspects of Playwork
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using...
I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Child
Encourage Excellence, Set Limits, And Lighten Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
With myriad parenting books available today, it's no wonder parents are confused by the range of opinions and quick fixes these books offer. I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Child leaves theories behind and gives parents of school-age children practical approaches for handling fundamental child-rearing...
by Penelope Leach
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Penelope Leach, the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, diagnoses the state of child care in America and the world today.
Who is caring for today’s children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? Leach answers...
by Scott M. Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Understanding child health and wellness through a holistic lens.
Complementing his book for professionals, here Scott Shannon equips parents and caregivers with a better way to understand the mental health challenges their children face, including how cutting-edge scientific concepts like epigenetics...
Child's Play
Sport in Kids' Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People
An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.
This book provides a model of care for traumatized children and young people, based on theory and practice experience pioneered...
Tired of Nagging?
30 Days to Positive Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
What do parents do when the child they adore won't listen? They end up nagging, issuing orders, shouting, and sometimes even spanking. But there is a better way, and Virginia K. Stowe, a parent-child educator for more than twenty-five years, shows how to minimize friction and fighting within the household...
by Janet Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created...
by Mina Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
As a parent, you are probably wondering why most children are ready for potty training at the same time that they enter the “terrible two’s.” At a time when you so want them to say yes to potty training, they have fallen in love with the word “No!” and with exercising free will. Your funny...
by gregory spence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
With the birth of a child begins what every responsible parent would refer to as a twenty-year project. Caring for a child or children until it reaches adulthood is one of the most difficult but rewarding task any person could undertake. It is impossible to calculate all the time, money and...
The First Three Years and Beyond
Brain Development and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How much do children’s early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent’s role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
How Brain Friendly Learning Can Release Your Child's Infinite Potential!
Such minds should be exposed to enchanted learning experiences where learning becomes the magical natural process nature intended it to be.
The more we discover about the universe around us the more we realize how...
Daycare Diaries
Unlocking the Secrets and Dispelling Myths Through TRUE STORIES of Daycare Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
We all know that what goes on behind closed doors can often be very different from the image we see on the outside. The same can be true for your child’s daycare. How much do you know about what truly goes on during the day before your child greets you with a clean face and a smile? How do you find...