books about children and parenting
Want to learn more about children and parenting? Consider these books. To learn more about each book, or purchase them online, click the image or text link to visit Amazon.ca. Links will open in a new browser window. |
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Childrens' fears and anxieties |
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Fears and anxieties |
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Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears: Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears and Phobias by Stephen W. Garber, Ph.D., Marianne D. Garber, and Robyn F. Spizman. ISBN: 0812992229 A step-by-step manual designed to help parents cope with children's fear. Discusses common fears, how to respond to childhood anxieties, and other ways to deal with frightened children. |
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Single parenting |
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The Complete Single Mother by Andrea Engber and Leah Klungness. ISBN: 1580623026 Encouraging practical advice on meeting the challenges of being a single mother. Includes information, advice, and checklists for maintaining and building self-esteem, raising good children during stressful times, and managing daily routines. |
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How to Succeed as a Single Parent, by Carole Baldock. ISBN: 085969805X A guide to the problems and challenges of bringing up children on your own. Issues include coping on your own, dealing with work pressures, feelings of guilt and responsibility, and more. |
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Positive Discipline for Single Parents: Nurturing, Cooperation, Respect and Joy in Your Single Parent Family by Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, and Carol Delzer. ISBN: 0761520112 A resource for building positive parenting skills. Provides solutions, solace, and communication techniques for single parents trying to raise their children on their own without losing their minds. |
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The Single Parent's Almanac: Real-World Answers to Your Everyday Questions by Linda Foust. ISBN: 0761503293 A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that tackles both the emotional and practical sides of single parenting. |
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Coping with divorce |
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Helping Children Cope with Divorce, Revised and Updated by Edward Teyber. ISBN: 078795554X A guide for helping children get through a divorce. Provides parents with guidelines that minimize stress, explain the divorce, customize custody and visitation, shield the children from conflicts, and more. |
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Helping Children Survive Divorce by Archibald D. Hart. ISBN: 0849939496 Provides specific strategies for helping children cope with the emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual effects of divorce. Addresses such children's issues as guilt, depression, anger, adapting to remarriage, and post-divorce development. |
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Parenting skills |
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Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence by Laura Sessions Stepp. ISBN: 1573228753 Blends real life stories with documented research to give parents an understanding of what is going on with their preteen and middle-school-age children. |
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Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding How Your Child Sees the World by Barbara F. Meltz. ISBN: 0440508231 Offers parents a way to see inside a child's world and help to make it safe and strong. Provides advice and information on a range of perplexing child-rearing issues. |
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Cliques: Eight Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese. ISBN: 0767906535 This guide offers parents a blueprint for understanding today's adolescent culture as well as tools to help their children fight the tyranny of cliques and bullies. |
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Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me: A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids by Hara Estroff Marano. ISBN: 068814960X Examines children's interactions and their ability to get along with their peers. Focuses on what parents can do to help their kids improve their social interactions and includes suggestions for dealing with bullies and assisting the aggressive child. |
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Pregnancy and childbirth |
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The Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy by Michele Issacs Gilksman, M.D., Theresa Foy Digeronimo, and James S. Dolgin. ISBN: 0028631048 A practical guide for expectant parents from conception to birth. Covers numerous aspects of pregnancy in easy-to-read sections, including tips on what you need to know in order to be an active participant in the development and birth of your baby. |
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The New Well Pregnancy Book, by Michael Samuels and Nancy H. Samuels. ISBN: 0684810573 Easy-to-use charts and checklists complete this guide for parents-to-be that covers every phase of pregnancy including prenatal care, hormonal changes, and birthing options. |
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer and Rhonda Wheeler. ISBN: 0399525173 A comprehensive list of experiences you may encounter during labor and how to make the best-informed decision for you and your baby. |
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Balancing career and family |
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Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family and Career by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D. ISBN: 0671041819 A guidebook of support and encouragement for working mothers, addressing the most common questions, such as how to cope with guilt, how to be a good mother and still be professional, whether being a working mother is the right choice, and how a partner fits into the equation. |
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families: Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World by Stephen R. Covey. ISBN: 0307440850 A sequel to the bestseller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , this book extends those principles to family life. It explains how and why to develop a family mission statement and hold family meetings, and how to balance individual and family needs. |
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