Martha Moraghan Jablow

Nancy Samalin

In this now-classic, straightforward approach to childraising, Nancy Samalin shows parents how to set clear, concise guidelines to ensure positive and constructive discipline. Based on her extensive work with parents and children, she offers the most recent and invaluable advice on: Avoiding daily battles Using alternatives to punishment Dealing with anger Learning to let go Diminishing sibling rivalries and much, much more. Filled with practical solutions to everyday problems and thoughtful, useful information on opening up communication between the generations, Loving Your Child Is Not Enough will help parents to truly enjoy their child's growing years. Nancy Samalin is a contributing editor to Parents magazine with a regular column on discipline. Available on audiocassette from Penguin HighBridge Audio

Positive Discipline That Works

Loving Your Child Is Not Enough

Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Today's children face a great deal of stress -- academic performance, heavy scheduling, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, family tension. Without healthier solutions, they often cope by talking back, giving up, or indulging in unhealthy behaviors. This plan for resilience can help kids from 18 months to 18 years build the 7 Crucial Cs needed to bounce back from challenges and manage stress -- competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. In these pages, you'll find strategies to help children and teens make wise decisions, recognize and build on their natural strengths, deal effectively with stress, foster hope and optimism, develop skills to navigate a complex world, avoid risky behaviors, and take care of their emotions and their bodies. This book also includes chapters on perfectionism, the negative portrayal of teens and how it biases parents and damages you, special resilience strategies for military families, community-based resilience building, and when parents' resilience has reached its limits.

Giving Kids Roots and Wings

Building Resilience in Children and Teens

Today’s children face a great deal of stress — academic performance, heavy scheduling, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressures, family tension. Without healthier solutions, they often cope by talking back, giving up, or indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Show your child how to bounce back — and THRIVE — with coping strategies from one of the nation’s foremost experts in adolescent medicine. This 7-C plan for resilience that helps kids of all ages learn competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control to help them bounce back from challenges. You'll find effective strategies to help your children and teens: • Make wise decisions • Recognize and build on their natural strengths • Deal effectively with stress • Foster hope and optimism • Develop skills to navigate a complex world • Avoid risky behaviors • Take care of their emotions and their bodies Plus, two Personalized Stress Management Plans help your child create a customized strategy. It’s everything your child needs to face life’s challenges and bounce back with confidence!

Giving Your Child Roots and Wings

A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens

This book offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.

The author describes her experiences raising a mentally handicapped child and depicts the education and intellectual development of the child

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