Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
by Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A powerful memoir “about a difficult childhood . . . tough stuff, honest and real” (The Oregonian).
Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings...
by Henry Kurt Keppler
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
A prophetic call to repentance, The Lunch Bucket is about a deeply troubled and socially alienated family who struggle to make ends meet with little success until a respected member of the community intervenes to offer support. The result of an encounter with malicious intent, the heroine of the story,...
The Power of Showing Up
How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
What’s the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood.
One of the very best scientific predictors for...
The Intuitive Parent
Why the Best Thing for Your Child Is You
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
You already have everything you need to raise a healthy, happy, intelligent child
Parenting today is practically a competitive sport, and marketers are all too happy to cash in. Scare tactics and scientific-sounding jargon make it seem like parents are in constant danger of hard-wiring their...
by Michael Pearl,Debi Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
There is a troubling trend showing up among teenagers. They are discontent and rebellious, jumping ship as soon as they think they can survive without the family-- some as young as sixteen years old. Michael Pearl addressed this issue in a series of No Greater Joy Magazine articles in 2006. These have...
The Angry Child
Regaining Control When Your Child Is Out of Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Every child has an off day when nothing seems to go right, but for some, angry outbursts, frustration, and resentment are the norm. When a child's anger threatens to jeopardize his school and social life and introduces an element of strain into the family dynamics that affects every member, it's time...
The Difficult Child
Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How to help--and cope with--the difficult child
Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.
Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset...
Positive Discipline for Children with Special Needs
Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Over 2 Million Positive Discipline Books Sold!
A Positive Approach To Helping Children With Special Needs Realize Their Potential
Every child deserves to lead a happy and fulfilling life. For parents and teachers of children with special needs, helping their child to not only negotiate...
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
It’s not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand.
This book aims to help you experience the...
The New Puberty
How to Navigate Early Development in Today's Girls
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A generation ago, fewer than 5 percent of girls started puberty before the age of 8; today, that percentage has more than doubled. Early puberty is not just a matter of physical transformation—it’s also deeply psychological, with a myriad of effects that can put a girl at higher risk for behavioral...
Defiant Teens, Second Edition
A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This authoritative manual presents an accessible 18-step program widely used by clinicians working with challenging teens. Steps 1-9 comprise parent training strategies for managing a broad range of problem behaviors, including those linked to oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity...
Father Hunger
Explorations with Adults and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the clinical literature of psychoanalysis. We live in an era when a great many children grow up without a father,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research...
Unfinished Business
Pressure Points in the Lives of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
“An extraordinary panorama of women’s lives today.”—The New York Times Book Review
In detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women’s lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry...