Child Development category: 2058 books
Scientific Parenting
What Science Reveals About Parental Influence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Combining the expertise of its author -- a celebrated expert in parent-infant mental health and mother of two -- with the latest findings in gene-by-environment interactions, epigenetics, behavioural science, and attachment theory, Scientific Parenting describes how children's genes determine their...
by Michael Gurian
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
"THE WONDER OF BOYS is a provocative book that electrifies the debate over how this nation raises sons."
— USA Today
In this insightful and practical book, Michael Gurian describes what boys need to become strong, responsible, sensitive men. Instead of encouraging us to stifle boys' natural...
Teach Your Children Well
Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes"
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Boys
From Diapers to Dating—a Stage-By-Stage Guide to Bringing Up Boys
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
A positive look at parenting sons.
Here's a hands-on parenting guide that takes readers from the birth of their sons to the day they head off to college. In warm, wise words, the husband-and-wife team who are parents of two sons themselves, explore all that is different and the same, precious...
Raising Boys by Design
What the Bible and Brain Science Reveal About What Your Son Needs to Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Help your son grow into the strong, loving man God created him to be with Raising Boys by Design.
Packed with doable strategies and eye-opening examples of what’s really going on inside a boy’s brain, Raising Boys by Design offers a practical blueprint to help you build a HERO—one who...
by Danielle Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
My Sister, My Friend is an endearing tale of two sisters, one who has Williams syndrome and one who does not. It is meant to be used as a tool for parents/teachers to read with their children. It will take you on a journey through the youngest child’s questions about why her older sister is a little...
Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person...
Ready or Not
Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future—and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting...
Born for Love
Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
“Bruce Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist.”
—Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
Born for Love is the definitive book on empathy. Renowned psychiatrist Bruce Perry has appeared on Oprah, CNN, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered,...
by Barbara C. Unell, Jerry Wyckoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking became a best-seller by proving practical, effective advice on common behavioral problems to parents of children under six. Here the authors adapt their winning formula for older youngsters.
Coloring Outside Autism's Lines
50+ Activities, Adventures, and Celebrations for Families with Children with Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Your Road Map to Rediscovering Joy, Fun, and Togetherness
Having a child with an autism spectrum disorder may mean that you have to change your life. It can seem as though there are so many things you just can't do. But there are adventures-large and small-that kids with autism love, and they...
by Herb Marlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder create havoc in families and classrooms in our society today. In this book, Dr. Marlow addresses these problems in a case study format, outlining therapy techniques and problem solutions for children, teachers and parents. The case studies are taken...
We Generation
Raising Socially Responsible Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Engaging and timely, this book is an invaluable resource for parents who want their children to become socially responsible and globally aware adults
As youth culture seems to grow more self-centred and obsessed with "Me,"Michael Ungar shows us that, in fact, children today are as...
Childhood Disrupted
How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A “courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person’s guide” (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted...