Empowered Parenting

Advancements in food science, medicine, and technology has greatly improved our lives; however, these advancements have also complicated the job of raising healthy kids and keeping them safe. So it's no wonder that many parents feel overwhelmed and question if they are doing enough. During her years as a clinical social worker and investigator, Nikole Seals found that parents often struggled to find healthier and safer alternatives for their kids. She realized that what parents needed most was a reliable guide to help them get informed, discover their options, and learn powerful strategies for protecting their families. You won't get this type of insight from teachers or even from a family therapist. The invaluable information in this book comes from over fifteen years of interviewing and coaching thousands of parents and children. Empowered Parenting: Simple Strategies for Keeping Kids Healthy & Safe in a Complex World is the ultimate guide for helping parents to make informed decisions. - You'll learn the truth about the food your children eat, the medicines prescribed to them, and how these things affect their health, physical development, and emotional well-being. - You'll discover the ways that the food and drug industries have fooled you into buying their products, despite knowing that their products are hazardous to your child's health and development. You'll learn which companies and brands to avoid and which companies you can trust. - We'll discuss how our own government is failing to protect our kids and how your rights as a parent are slowly being eroded and ignored. - We'll examine the pros and cons of technology and discuss how it impacts your child's development, safety, and self-identity. You'll learn how to effectively manage and supervise your child's use of technology. - You'll get the tools you need to create a prevention and safety plan so that you can prevent or manage a problem or crisis. Each chapter gives you options and effective strategies that you can integrate with your own unique parenting style. Armed with this knowledge, you'll make smarter decisions, worry less, improve your family's diet and health, save money, and trust yourself more. That's the Empowered Parenting way.

The Art of Empowered Parenting provides a unique blend of sound advice with a healthy dose of information to educate parents on why they and their children do what they do. The Art of Empowered Parenting will help any parent become more vigilant of their impact on their children. Finally. Dr. Fisher's well-known perspectives on power and emotion are discussed to guide parents into a healthier pattern of parenting that fosters empowerment for all. Exercises, practical tips and organizational plans are placed throughout the book that bring the text to life to help parents apply what they have learned. Book jacket.

Love-Powered Parenting is written out of a love for parenting and a deep desire to encourage parents. Yes, there are experiences in parenting that can cause deep hurt. Yes, there are realities in parenting that certainly will cause you to feel inept. Yet at the core of it all there is a deep gratefulness for the gift that God gives in the opportunity to love a child. This book is a biblical guide to parenting. And by "biblical guide" we mean these pages are intended to take you on a journey through what the truth of God's Word has to say about parenting. The main goal is not to uncover psychological truths about your child--there are many good resources on psychological theory; nor does it include practical tips for everyday circumstances such as how to get your kids to eat their green beans. Here, we will explore the simple and profound principles of God's Word to distinguish psychological truth from error, educational reality from untested theory, and we'll be looking at these tips within the broader context of God's principles for parenting.

How parents can appreciate their autistic children prevent them from being pathologized, over-medicated, and marginalized In this groundbreaking book, William Stillman, an expert and passionate advocate on behalf of those with autism, offers a commonsense guide for parenting children with autism. He gives mothers and fathers, caregivers, and teachers the information they need to recognize the child with autism's unique personality, passions, and intellect and therefore liberate them from today's culture of fear. He shows why the current conventional incentive and reward systems send the wrong message to kids with autism and just don't work. This book offers a sensible ten-step guide for enriching relationships with kids with autism through a belief in their essential competence. Includes information that liberates parents from the culture of fear surrounding autism Explains how kids with autism are intelligent but may have unconventional methods of communication that need to be understood and appreciated Shows why your child doesn't need traditional therapy or medication to "treat" autism Written by an acclaimed expert on the topic of autism, who is himself an adult with Asperger's Syndrome

Do you find yourself struggling to parent the "right" way? Are you exhausted trying to be the good or perfect parent so you can have good and perfect kids? What if you don't have to give up who you are in order to parent? What if the key to empowering your kids is discovering and being more of who you are? This is the guide book for the parenting journey that will give you tools to step into your authentic self and explore the impact you will have as you raise your children in today's world.

Parenting today’s teens is not for cowards. Your teenager is facing unprecedented and confusing pressures, temptations, and challenges in today’s culture. Mark Gregston has helped teens and their parents through every struggle imaginable, and now he shares his biblical, practical insights with you in bite-size pieces. Punctuated with Scriptures, prayers, and penetrating questions, these one-page devotions will give you the wisdom and assurance you need to guide your teen through these years and reach the other side with relationships intact.

A different kind of parenting book that helps parents improve themselves first, so they can then be better parents to their kids. It's time for a fresh approach to parenting! Isn't it time for a parenting book that is practical and relatable? Destini Ann Davis is a working mom and parenting coach who read dozens of parenting books and made all the typical parenting mistakes before realizing that in order to have a peaceful, positive relationship with her children, she first needed to have a peaceful, positive relationship with herself. Very Intentional Parenting features a fresh, down-to-earth approach to parenting from someone you can relate to. Through real-life examples from her experiences as a mom and parenting coach, she gives readers actionable strategies for tackling many of today’s most challenging parenting scenarios using positive discipline techniques, effective communication, and emotional intelligence. She'll encourage you, coach you, and help you become the parent you’ve always desired to be. If you're a parent looking for more connection and collaboration in your relationship with your child, you've come to the right place. Here's what you'll find inside: A fresh, energetic take on parenting in today's world Practical tips for creating open and constructive dialogue with your kids Parent-focused insights to empower you to heal, so you can then avoid fear- and trauma-based parenting strategies Actionable steps to increase respect in your home, while still preserving the parent-child relationship