Personal Development For Kids

Many parents fall into one of three traps: too soft (just let them express their feelings), too rigid (discipline them into submission), or too busy to really engage. But real parenting? It's about raising kids who can think for themselves, handle their emotions, and take action without turning into fragile wrecks or entitled nightmares. This book gives you the no-BS playbook for doing exactly that.

Positive Affirmations for Black Families: Discover a world where every word touches the heart, every affirmation uplifts the soul, and every family member—kids, men, and women—feels seen, heard, and inspired.

Unlock the secrets to raising confident, compassionate kids with Parenting Without Punishment: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids with Positive Discipline. In a world where traditional discipline often leads to fear and disconnection, this empowering guide redefines parenting through empathy, understanding, and respect. Imagine a home where discipline fosters growth, not punishment. By adopting a Positive Parenting approach, you’ll strengthen the parent-child bond, boost emotional intelligence, and guide your child with compassion.

Life is hard - and our kids know it. They're fast learners and highly attuned to life's challenges. By around eight years of age, most children have developed their own habitual way of reacting to stress. So how do we help today's children be more resilient? Tim Curtis is a leading international resilience expert, co-author of the bestseller The Resilience Shield, former Special Forces officer, crisis management executive and father of three.

In today's tech-saturated world, parenting is more challenging than ever. Aliza Payne's "Parenting Glow Kids" offers a concise and practical guide to navigating the digital landscape and raising well-rounded, tech-savvy children. This essential resource equips parents with the tools and knowledge needed to foster healthy relationships with technology, ensuring their children grow into responsible and resilient individuals.

Most parenting books focus on changing a child's behaviour, but the truth is that children only change when their relationship with their parents changes. In Calm Parents, Happy Kids, Dr Laura Markham introduces an approach to parenting that eliminates threats, power struggles and manipulation, in favour of setting limits with empathy and communication.

Do you want to be the parent who listens to the unique needs of your child and gives them the support they truly need? Are you searching for a way to understand how your child’s mind really works so you can teach them how to process their emotions? It can feel like you’re being forced to walk through a minefield blindfolded when your kid thinks differently or struggles with their emotions. You just can’t get it right, feel like you’re constantly failing, and yet everywhere you look, other parents seem to be making parenting look effortlessly easy. But is that really the true reality?

In today's fast-paced ever-changing society, parents are hit with more controversial, pressure-packed decisions to make than ever before. With the Internet, cable television, and video games bombarding our children and attempting to make an assault on their minds daily, what are parents to do? In today's ever-changing economic and social climate, how do parents find the balance necessary to positively raise their children?

Give Them The Words is a must-listen for anyone who is seeking practical advice and actionable strategies to improve communication for exceptional kids. Written by Speech Language Pathologist and mother Kim Gallo, this thought-provoking, easy-to-follow, and pragmatic guide draws upon Gallo's expertise in early intervention and her previous published works.

In a culture obsessed with parenting formulas, it's easy to miss the fact that science and lived experience have proven that human development and thriving are a matter of relationship. Drawing on decades of psychological research, neuroscience, and their own experience as parents and people of faith, the Olricks present six relational needs for human growth that will transform the way you think about your child - and yourself. Together, the needs form a trustworthy compass to guide you and your child to a path of purpose and relational wholeness.

Shameless Parenting is the 21st-century book parents have been asking for! It highlights the trickiest parts of each age (birth to 18) that tend to trigger shame, and guides them on how-to provide emotionally for their children while helping them understand the shame that is emerging for them. Shame is what makes us reactive as parents. It is the hardest part of parenting. It is from our own places of shame that we over-react, repeating patterns from our parents that we might otherwise have resisted, and finding ourselves stuck, not knowing what to do.

Having a positive mindset will set your kids up for a more happy, healthy, and fulfilling life. In fact, having a positive mindset is one of the biggest keys to a happy life. Which is why it’s such a vital skill to teach your kids. This book shows you how.

"When people die, where do they go?" "Why is her skin darker than mine?" "But how does the baby get in there?" Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate, empathize, and answer their biggest queries, what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say, so we simply change the subject or give a quick, throwaway answer—and hope it doesn't come up again. In this book, Dr. Robyn Silverman takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions.

Imagine suddenly looking at behavior differently. When parents learn to replace rewards and punishment with problem solving, fairness, and logic, something amazing happens. Parenting gets easier and children become cooperative and respectful. In Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids: 8 Principles for Raising Kids You’ll Love to Live With (AdamsMedia, 2008), Bonnie Harris has distilled her groundbreaking work on understanding child behavior into eight key principles together with practical strategies parents can use to navigate through everyday challenges.

In The Impossible Kid, relationship coach and pastor's wife Lucille Williams writes an exceptionally honest and funny account of parenting a strong-willed child. Through 11 entertaining chapters, this book provides practical tools for parents to sow seeds of encouragement in their kids as they aspire to raise adults who reflect the nature and character of God.

A fresh and practical guide to successfully managing children's behaviour - from babies to young adults. Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during this time fostering more than 50 children, as well as bringing up three of own. Many of these children have had severe behavioural difficulties and have come to Cathy as a last resort, when their parents or carers were no longer able to cope. Drawing on a combination of years of training and extensive personal experience, in this comprehensive guide, Cathy passes on her tried and tested methods.

Today's children and teens are growing up more anxious, depressed, and fearful than previous generations. But if we help this generation, often called "Gen Z", to discover true God-confidence, instead of chasing the illusive self-confidence, we can empower them to embrace their uniqueness and find their purpose, passion, and peace as they grow into humble, compassionate, and resilient young people. Cyndie Claypool de Neve, an associate marriage and family therapist, shares her personal journey from feeling anxious and suicidal to learning God-confidence.

Please Don't Bite the Baby (and Please Don't Chase the Dogs) chronicles certified professional dog trainer Lisa Edwards' endearing and entertaining journey to ensure that her household survives and thrives when she introduces her son to her motley pack of animals. As Lisa knows all too well, the dog/child relationship is simultaneously treasured, misunderstood, and sometimes feared.

An unlikely author, Cooper the Pooper, is a dog with a nose for the hilarious, and he’s sniffed out the most cringe-worthy dad jokes on the planet and collected them all into one glorious volume of cringe. With more than 400 hilarious jokes, your family will have enough witty one-liners and side-splitting anecdotes to fill a box of Christmas crackers (and Dad won’t be the only one embarrassing your teens on their birthday).

Raising kids today is more challenging than it has ever been. Technology, social media, and the ever-shifting standards of what is right and wrong can make parenting in modern-day culture difficult to navigate. If we want to win the battle as parents, we need to have the desire to truly parent well.