Illustrates the different forms that childhood anxiety can take and offers practical solutions specific to each. This book emphasizes strategies for preventing episodes before they begin, demonstrates how to intervene when one is in progress, and offers tips on how to keep anxiety from worsening as a child matures.
Is your child ready for their first year of school? Settling Your Child in School: A Parent's Guide is a comprehensive guide to help your child cross the gap between pre-school and school. Learn what schools expect of children so your child can enjoy their first school experience.
An essential guide for parents and parent education groups, the authors of this volume use straightforward writing and an appealing format to help parents with the discipline of children. The book will help parents develop their activities to increase their child's productive behaviour - improved behaviour which then transfers to the classroom.
A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline
A parents journey through childhood will inevitably be filled with both precious moments and difficult situations. These unavoidable challenges will test us in ways that will either consume us or refine us. If we can see these events in advance, as they emerge on the horizon, we will be better prepared for parentings challenges.
Emphasizes the importance of a father's presence in a child's life, and then concentrates on what society can do to reverse the dangerous trend toward absentee fathers. This work includes case studies, discussion questions at the end of each chapter, an appendix of father's organizations and websites, and numerous references for further reading.
In this ethnographic study, Terry Arendell gives voice to a group of divorced fathers on topics including: their rights as fathers; their relationship with former spouses; the injustices perpetrated by the ex-spouse and the legal system; the inherent differences between men and women; and the fractured nature of the post-divorce family. The author differentiates between the strategies adopted by traditionalist divorced fathers and innovative ones, and suggests policy recommendations informed by this masculinist discourse.
This art therapy book helps children cherish their own unique qualities, respect other lifestyles and views, be sensitive of others' disabilities, overcome feelings of helplessness or isolation, and stand up for themselves and others.
This beautiful companion journal to the best-seller Remembering With Love provides the bereaved with a place to record and sort through their feelings and memories of the deceased, while offering insight via inspirational advice and quotations.
Parents' Survival Guide for Coping with Computers and TV
Children watch TV and use computers for five hours daily on average. But electronic media demands conflict with the needs of children. The result? Record levels of learning difficulties, obesity, eating disorders, sleep problems, language delay, aggressive behaviour, anxiety - and children on fast forward.However, Set Free Childhood shows how to ......
