Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours

Dr. Spock's baby and child care

Benjamin Spock, Michael B. Rothenberg M.D.

Generations of parents have relied on Dr Spock's bestselling guide to childcare. The text tackles all the commonplace issues that affect parents such as potty training, sleep problems, first aid and breast-feeding.

Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

Zig Ziglar

This book offers parents practical strategies rooted in Zig Ziglar's principles for cultivating a positive mindset and strong character in children, even amidst societal challenges. It focuses on equipping parents with tools to foster self-esteem, resilience, and a sense of responsibility in their children. The advice emphasizes building a nurturing home environment that reinforces positive values and empowers children to navigate a complex world with confidence.

Your child at play

Marilyn Segal, Betty Bardige

Packed with learning activities, games, poems, and recipes, as well as anecdotes and advice, the eight sections focus on: Individual Differences and Common Threads (distinguishing between real and pretend; concern with fairness; self-awareness) The Questions Children Ask (the physical world; the natural world; the social world) Friends (best friends; controversies and conflicts; sibling play) Active Play (contact and cuddling; physical feats; sports) Creative Play (music; art; crafts; storytelling and jokes) Pretend Play (actor play and dressing up; imaginary playmates; reemergence of pretending) School Play (reading; writing; arithmetic; collecting facts; science) Family (attachment and separation; family continuity; traditions)

The read-aloud handbook

D.P. Michaels

Since its initial publication in 1979, this highly acclaimed reference has informed parents and teachers across the nation and around the world of the importance of reading aloud to their children. This updated edition features lists of more than 12,000 titles, from picture books to novels, that are great for reading aloud.

Assertive discipline for parents

Lee Canter

"A proven, step-by-step approach to solving everyday behavior problems"--Cover.

A good enough parent

Bruno Bettelheim, Bruno Bettleheim

In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have, but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be.

Toughlove

Phyllis York

How do you love an “impossible” teenager? “An effective way of uniting parents to square off against the youngsters’ own powerful peer group that endorses drugtaking and rebelliousness.”—Time Thousands of parents are finding new hope in dealing with rebellious teenagers through Toughlove, a self-help program which has grown to over eight hundred groups throughout the United States and Canada in less than six years. Now, for the first time in book form, the founders tell how Toughlove works. “You need Toughlove if you feel helpless and unable to cope with your teenagers’ behavior or if you feel victimized by them, disappointed in yourself as a parent, guilty because you think you have done a rotten job and are frightened bythe potential for violence in yourself and your children. . . . Remember, you have the right to a night’s sleep without where your kid is—or being awakened by a phone call from the police or a hospital or a drunk teenager who’s stranded somewhere.”—Ann Landers

How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk

Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

'A BRILLIANT BOOK' - PHILIPPA PERRY, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK YOU WISH YOUR PARENTS HAD READ ***THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER***

What to expect the first year

Eisenberg

Now fully revised and updated, this comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring special sections on older siblings, travelling with a baby, adopted babies, and specific problems, as well as a first aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies.