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| 1-2-3 Magic |
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Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D. |
| Who's in charge at your house? It's not easy being a parent--and handling the disrespectful outbursts of children in a reasonable, unemotional manner when they're acting like "little monsters." With 1-2-3 Magic you will learn: how to get your kids to STOP doing what you don't want them to do (arguing, whining, tantrums, sibling rivalry, etc.); how to encourage your kids to START doing what you want them to do (cleaning rooms, going to bed, homework, etc.); how to avoid the Talk-Persuade-Argue-Yell-Hit Syndrome; how to handle misbehavior in public; how to deal with the six kinds of testing and manipulation; tens steps for building self-esteem and for teachers -- how to maintain control in your classroom. |
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| A Mind At A Time |
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Mel Levine |
| Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure. |
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| Boundaries With Kids: When to Say YES and When to Say NO |
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Henry Cloud, John Townsend and Lisa Guest |
Dr. Cloud and John Townsend take you through the ins and outs of establishing boundaries in your parenting and of instilling the kind of character in your children that will help them lead balanced, productive, and fufilling adult lives. Learn how to: set limits and still be a loving parent, bring control to an out-of-control family life, apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting, and define appropriate boundaries and consequences for your kids
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| Growing Strong Daughters. Encouraging Girls to Become All They're Meant to Be. |
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Lisa Graham McMinn |
How can readers shape their daughters to be strong and gracious, empowered to respond confidently to God's call in their lives? Lisa Graham McMinn believes the answer is found in Scripture, where every person's true identity is revealed. In contrast to the confusing messages of our culture--and even sometimes the church--Scripture shows how raising daughters to be image-bearers of the Lord enables them to become all God created them to be.
This intelligent, well-researched book is filled with strategies and personal insights to guide readers in growing strong, capable daughters. |
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| Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility |
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Jim Fay and Foster Cline, M.D. |
. . .kids learn the best lessons when they're given a task and allowed to make their own choices--and to fail--while the cost of failure is still small.
So if you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of this win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control--without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles. |
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| Raising Great Kids: Parenting with Grace and Truth |
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Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend |
| Drs. Cloud and Townsend show how you can help your child cultivate six necessary character traits: attachment, responsibility, reality, competence, morality, and worship/spiritual life. At last, here is an effective middle ground for raising children who will handle life with maturity and wisdom. |
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| Raising Sons and Loving It! |
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Gary and Carrie Oliver |
| Drawing from their extensive clinical and personal experience, Gary and Carrie Oliver show you--How boys really are different from girls--Five keys to raising "emotionally intelligent" sons--What your boys need from your marriage--and from you--How to help your sons cultivate a heart for God--How to cultivate your sons' ability to deal with failure, loss and grief...and much more. |
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| Reviving Ophelia -- Saving the selves of adolsecent girls |
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Mary Pipher, Ph.D. |
Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? . . escalating levels of sexism and violence--from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment -- stifle their creative spirit with natural impulses. . .
Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self. |
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| Taking Charge of ADHD |
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Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. |
| Features of this revised edition include: A step-by-step plan for behavior management that has helped thousands of children with ADHD; hard data that clears up current controversies about increased diagnosis and stimulant use; new strategies that give children greater chances of success at school and in social situations; advances in genetic and neurological research that enhances understanding of what causes ADHD; practical advice for parents on managing stress and keeping peace in the family; and, updated descriptions of books, organizations, and Internet resources that families can trust. |
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| The Five Love Languages of Children |
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Gary D. Chapman and Ross Campbell |
Are you expressing love in a language your child understands?
You can learn to speak your child's love language--fluently. Discover your child's primary language: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, actions of service, and physical touch. Learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's soul. |
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| The New Dare to Discipline |
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Dr. James C. Dobson |
This is an updated version of Dr. Dobson's Dare to Discipline originally written in the 1970's.
Dr. James Dobson is a licensed psychologist and the president of Focus on the Family. He holds a Ph.D. in child development and 12 honorary doctorates. He has two grown children and resides in Colorado Springs with his wife of thirty-seven years, Shirley. |
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| Unraveling The ADD/ADHD Fiasco |
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David B. Stein, Ph.D. |
| Dr. David Stein. . .offers treatment alternatives that really work. With . . .Dave's Caregivers' Skills Program and a lot of hard work, you will begin to see improvement within two weeks,and DRAMATIC--improvement in four. All accomplished without drugs. |
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