Parenting with Love and Logic
Effective Parenting without the Power Struggles; Dr. Foster Cline & Jim Fay
As a parent, you have only a few years to help your children develop responsibility and maturity to navigate a complicated world. So what do you do? Hover over your kids so they never make mistakes? Drill them so they’ll do the right thing? Tear your hair out as you wonder if teaching responsibility will ever make a difference?
According to Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay, responsibility―like anything else―has to be learned through practice. If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, learn to parent with Love and Logic. Put the fun back into parenting as you establish healthy boundaries without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles! You and your kids will discover that everyone wins as they learn responsibility and solve their own problems.
Now updated with parenting wisdom for today’s world, including new material on cyberbullying and technology.
The Five Love Languages of Children
The Secret to Loving Children Effectively; Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell
You know you love your child. But how can you make sure your child knows it?
The #1 New York Times bestselling The 5 Love Languages® has helped millions of couples learn the secret to building a love that lasts. Now discover how to speak your child’s love language in a way that he or she understands. Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell help you:
- Discover your child’s love language
- Assist your child in successful learning
- Use the love languages to correct and discipline more effectively
- Build a foundation of unconditional love for your child
- Plus: Find dozens of tips for practical ways to speak your child’s love language.
Discover your child’s primary language—then speak it—and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.
Baby Massage
The Calming Power of Touch; Alan Heath & Nicki Bainbridge
Baby Massage offers parents and caretakers safe and easy-to-learn massage techniques that reinforce bonding and all-around wellbeing. Step-by-step pictures show simple methods to soothe fretful babies, help them to get to sleep, and ease the pain of common ailments such as colic, and teething. Massage has been proven to enhance babies' and toddlers' brain development, encouraging brighter, happier children--and this beautifully illustrated guide makes it abundantly clear how easy it is to learn how.
*These techniques work well for older children, too!
Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
Deborah D. Gray & Megan Clarke
Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.
Brain Gym: Simple Activities for Whole Brain Learning
Paul E. Dennison & Gail E. Dennison
This book, in first-person story format, includes the 26 Brain Gym® movements & simple instructions for how to perform them correctly.
The book reaches out to all with the message that movement & learning are necessary companions. Every page contains high-energy illustrations of activities recommended for people of all ages. Included are specific routines of movement for specific skills such as reading comprehension and hand-eye coordination. If you know that you are your child have the ability or the information but can’t seem to call upon it at will, you’ll benefit from having a copy of Brain Gym®.
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