The Parenting Manual

A no-nonsense, straightforward approach to answering parenting's most common questions, from preparing for a little one's arrival through higher education.

Basic Parenting 101 The Manual Your Child Should Have Been Born With is a realistic view of the importance of parenting. Dr. Phil focuses on showing parents how to solve problems with understanding, humor and love. Dr. Phil clearly explains how parents, step parents, teachers and counselors can raise honest, responsible, and caring children. Dr. Phil tells warm stories of how loving adults can help their children make clear life choices and take individual responsibility. A down to earth approach to being a wonderful parent. Dr. Phil makes psychology usable.

"How can we develop a family identity? ; How can we meet our children's deepest needs? ; How and where do we set the boundaries? ; How can we pass on our values to our children? Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. Full of valuable advice and practical tips. The parenting book is a resource for parents to come back to again and again"--Back cover.

A HeartMath System Title Shows the link between love and the development of intelligence. Explains the stages of perceptual and emotional growth, and gives practical techniques for increasing emotional balance and quality communication. Supports parents in finding ways to enhance family life, even with busy schedules and limited time.

If you're like most parents, you have developed your own parenting strategy—sometimes it seems to work, and other times—based on the way your child behaves—you wonder if it's working at all. There are countless ways to try to get a child's attention and to effect change—but here's the truth—unless you deal with a child through his or her heart, you are not likely to see lasting change. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, reveal how you can learn to truly reach your child's heart to teach, train, and build a tremendous relationship. Parenting is Heart Work gives you the practical tools an easy-to-follow steps that will revolutionize how you: Turn Correction times into learning experiences. Equip your children to accept responsibility for their mistakes and meditate on the right things. Influence and adjust the values and beliefs your children hold. Maintain relationship with your children through love and emotional connectedness.

The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents. He describes what to expect from the process, how to access help and how to ensure the best care for your child. He tackles thorny issues such as children's use of the Internet and social media, managing contact with birth parents and how to support your child at school. Most importantly, he provides advice designed to help your child feel safe, secure and loved. The Foster Parenting Manual offers seasoned, sympathetic advice that will be valued by foster parents and the professionals who support them.

The Truth about Parenting: A Universal Manual for Parenting is a parenting manual for present and future parents. Learning how to be a parent and about the importance of being a parent before we become one makes us less anxious and more enthusiastic about the most important job we will ever have. People often want to be good parents, but they are not sure of just how to achieve that. Most of us are unaware of the principles of life and parenting provided in the book of Proverbs. This well-written manual is a tool to serve as a step-by-step guide for learning how to practice effective parenting skills. Learning the truth about parenting is necessary. This manual addresses solutions to most of our present parenting dilemmas. In addition, this manual makes us realize the problem and speaks to proven solutions. Consequently, this truth is long awaited.

A perennial bestseller from a leading authority, this book provides an effective 10-step program for training parents in child behavior management skills (ages 2 to 12). Professionals get proven tools to help parents understand the causes of noncompliant, defiant, oppositional, or socially hostile behavior at home or in school; take systematic steps to reduce it; and reinforce positive change. Comprehensive assessment guidelines are included. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume features numerous reproducible parent handouts and two rating scales (the Home Situations Questionnaire and the School Situations Questionnaire). Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Reflects 15 years of research advances and the author's ongoing clinical experience. *Fully updated model of the nature and causes of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). *Revised assessment tools and recommendations. *The latest data on the program's effectiveness. *Spanish-language versions of the parent forms are available online for downloading and printing (www.guilford.com/p/barkley4). See also the related title for parents: Your Defiant Child, Second Edition: Eight Steps to Better Behavior. For a teen focus, see also Defiant Teens, Second Edition (for professionals), and Your Defiant Teen, Second Edition (for parents), by Russell A. Barkley and Arthur L. Robin.