Child category: 4509 books
The Potty Wars
Understanding and Helping Your Encopretic Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Encopresis and chronic constipation are distressing conditions that affect many children, and their families. When a child cannot master toilet training, it is upsetting for the child and parents alike. Children feel frustrated, embarrassed, and confused. Parents can feel angry, guilty, incompetent,...
by Gary Unruh
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Providing tried and tested steps that will instill unbounded self-confidence and joy within children, this book will also restore harmony between them and their parents. This guide provides professional advice to help raise a self-confident child, ensures that children will establish good friends...
Growing Ivy
From small town public school to Harvard University, two times in a row. One family’s story of how to bat a thousand in the Ivy League.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
100,000 to one: these are roughly the odds against your child getting into Harvard. But if you plan for this eventuality from the earliest years, you can beat these odds and send a child (or two, or even three) to Harvard or to one of the other prestigious Ivy institutions. I know; I sent both of my...
by C.S. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Children are sponges. They soak up all that the world has to offer—both good and bad. In a world flooded with insta-fun, insta-wrong, and lightning speed access; author C.S. Harrison has taken an unbiased approach to sort through practical methods for parents and educators for tools leading to...
by Pam Linke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides an overview of early childhood development from birth to eight. While all children develop differently according to inheritance and environment, there are patterns which help parents to know what milestones they might expect their children to reach physically, emotionally, socially...
Assessing and Communicating the Spiritual Needs of Children in Hospital
A new guide for healthcare professionals and chaplains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
What is meant by 'spiritual care'? How can we assess and communicate the needs of a child in hospital effectively if we each have conflicting interpretations of 'spiritual'? This book proposes that we use a language of 'connectedness', which can fully express a child's feelings about, and understanding...
An Independent Mind
Collected papers of Juliet Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
‘Juliet Hopkins has quietly encouraged and inspired generations of colleagues and students’ (Dilys Daws).
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins follows the professional journey and influence of an innovative figure in the history of child psychotherapy. Juliet Hopkins...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Research into child language development is being conducted more extensively, by more people, and in more countries throughout the world than at any point in the past. We now know more than we ever did before about the linguistic, cognitive, neurobio logical, and social capacities that children...
The First Steps to Reading
Teach your child through creative play.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language is an instinct, reading is not. A baby’s brain is all wired up and ready to go for sounds and speech, but not for letters and writing. The First Steps to Reading will guide you through the stages of your child’s development and show how to get your toddler ready for reading by focusing...
The Price of Privilege
How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this ground-breaking book on the children of affluence, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling America’s privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self.
In...
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline
The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation.
Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well...
by Katrina Kahler
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Every parent wants the best for their children. We all want them to grow up to be confident and positive adults. Raising a child to be resilient and able to deal with life's ups and downs is also something that most parents strive for. Confident Kids will give you practical strategies for shaping...
Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition
From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The celebrated Positive Discipline brand of parenting books presents the revised and updated third edition of their readable and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success.
Over the years millions of...
The Power of Mother Love
Strengthening the Bond Between You and Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The Power of Mother Love highlights the incredible--although sometimes unrealized--influence that a mother has on her children and her society.
Decades of scientific and psychological study provide overwhelming evidence for the idea that "mother love" has an enormous, permanent impact...