Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatment, with the least risk? From leading child psychiatrists Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness, this book has already ......
Saturday 14th August 2001: Today has been a horrible, hateful day. Daniel has pushed me to my absolute wits' end. Sometimes it really does feel like he is the original child from hell."
For Alison, life with her son Daniel sometimes seemed like an endless torrent of disobedience, backchat, rudeness, ......
The decision to have a child is seldom a simple one, often fraught with complexities regarding emotional readiness, finances, marital status, and compatibility with life and career goals. Rarely, though, do individuals consider the role of the law in facilitating or inhibiting their ability to have a child or to parent. For LGBT individuals, ......
How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive
Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide. Leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments--and harness his or her capabilities. Vivid stories and real-world examples illustrate ways to help kids with ......
Bite Sized is a mother's story of striving to nourish her child. It is about a monster that lurks close by all of us in the modern world - the monster of 'too much' and 'not enough'. It is about a ravenous illness and threads, between parents and children, that connect, entangle, unravel and stretch. Above all, it is ......
Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World
Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands of kids and teens who struggle with an ......
Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock
A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood. Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto, Selvaratnam recounts her emotional journey through multiple miscarriages ......
Childrens dental health involves much more than a toothbrush. Dental disease is the number one chronic childhood illness, and avoiding dental disease involves comprehensive dental care.In Your Childs Teeth, consumer health authors Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss team up with pediatric dental and oral health experts and the National ......
Stories of Appreciation for Mothers and Their Wisdom
This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup's library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring.There is a special bond between mothers and their sons and it never goes away. This new book contains the 101 best stories and poems from Chicken Soup's library honoring that lifelong relationship between ......
