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Unstructured play is too often replaced in modern times by organized activities, academics or passive leisure activities such as watching television and playing video games. Elkind explains how even toys have changed: "toys once served to socialize children into social roles, vocations, and academic tool skills.
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Publisher
Word Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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Being a parent isn't always easy. Kids don't come with operating instructions, and it's a simple fact that some kids are easier to raise than others. This classic confidence-builder for parents is designed to help bring the joy parenthood was intended to bring.
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Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are--these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and other neurodifferences. Their challenges are many. But for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as hard--struggling to find the right school, the right...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
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A guide for parents to raise mentally strong and resilient children offers advice for providing appropriate support, guidance, and encouragement to help children deal with challenges and flourish in their everyday lives.
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Northfield Pub
Pub. Date
c2012.
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English
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Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved?
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Experiment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this comprehensive resource, Dr. Ehrensaft explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture, and culture to explore why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over three decades of pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen to each child, learn their particular needs, and support their quest for a true gender self."...
10) How to stop losing your sh*t with your kids: a practical guide to becoming a calmer, happier parent
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on evidence-based practices, here is an insight-packed and tip-filled plan for how to stop the parental meltdowns. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help readers feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it."--Amazon.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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"In this look at privileged families, Levine offers thoughtful, practical advice as she explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies parenting practices that are toxic to healthy self-development and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place - the affluent family."--BOOK JACKET
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Namaste Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"The time has come for parenting to become what it was always meant to be - about the parent. Dr Shefali Tsabary details how our children can be raised as conscious adults only when we as parents allow ourselves to be raised into a higher state of consciousness."--Back cover.
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Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When it comes to family rules around video games, most parents are at a loss. How much should I let them play? is always a parent's first question, but when their child becomes irritable, rude, or seemingly directionless, the question becomes more urgent: Help! How do I get them to be interested in anything else?! Known as "Dr. K" to his millions of followers, the former Harvard Medical School instructor and founder of the unique gamer's support...
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English
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"Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In asking what the effects are of children on their parents, journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's...
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New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"A mother's memoir of parenting a daughter with Asperger's syndrome. Describes the challenges and joys of understanding emotional and behavioral differences, advocating for and seeking proper educational support, helping with homework and friendships, and self-care, which included training for the London Marathon"--Provided by publisher.
19) Meeting the challenge: using love and logic to help children develop attention and behavior skills
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Love and Logic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Some kids can challenge even the most patient parent or teacher. This book will help you: Develop attention skills in children; Learn to gain teaching time by delaying the consequence; Discover how empathy leads to stress-free evenings; Learn powerful techniques to gain cooperation at home and school. - Publisher.
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Topple Books/Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less...