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If you're like many parents, you may wonder what's going on inside your child's mind when they throw a temper tantrum, refuse to cooperate, or become overly excited. Written by two experts in child development and education, The Emotionally Intelligent Child offers a groundbreaking approach for understanding your child's behavior in the context of their development, as well as tips for parenting with compassion, and strategies for helping your child build emotional intelligence—a key element of success in today's world.

Introducing Parenting Unstoppable Girls, a thoughtful guide packed with practical strategies and real-life examples to help you encourage your daughter to tap into her power and thrive during her challenging adolescent years, all while strengthening your connection! Psychotherapist, speaker, and mom, Laura Thomas, blends her extensive knowledge, experience, and expertise to guide you in parenting your daughter so she may grow up to be the sassy but level-headed queen you know she truly is!

Adolescents, especially those in their early teens, have daily anxiety-producing issues. Indeed, many youngsters are more prone to anxiety attacks than most adults. With the pressures of academic success, biological changes in the bodies, changes in their social life and the looming arrival of adulthood, adolescents often have a harder time dealing with many of the disturbing things presented to them in today’s world.

Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children.

Become a super dad-to-be and enjoy every minute of it without getting overwhelmed. There are more than 70 million dads in the United States, and soon you’ll be joining their ranks as a first-time father. However, becoming a new dad can be a roller coaster ride of joyful anticipation and fearful moments for most men. Do you worry about not knowing what to expect, let alone how to respond? In this timely audiobook for first-time fathers, you’ll uncover a wealth of practical wisdom.

Everyone has emotions and thoughts. These are not just confined to adults; kids also have such thoughts and emotions. They are new to everything, and they do not know how to express their emotions or overcome their negative thought process. As a parent, you must teach your kid about emotions.

The transition from teenager to young adult can sometimes be overwhelming and confusing. As a teenager, you must deal with stress and anxiety daily. But unfortunately, adults don’t always understand you. You are also still learning to do tasks such as cleaning, cooking, or keeping organized.

It can seem like your baby needs so much gear and so many toys! But when it comes to their health and development, less is more. In Retro Baby, pediatric occupational therapist and child development specialist Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR/L, shows you how bouncers, swings, and other baby holders, as well as electronic toys and screen time, can hinder your baby's development and delay milestones. Retro Baby will help you cultivate a back-to-basics parenting approach.

Kirklyn J. Berry has seen how youth’s attainment of their full potential necessitates one instrumental force guiding the way: motivation. With 10 years of mentoring experience, Kirk has crafted a practical system to teaching today’s adults how to foster the determination and, ultimately, the achievement of the adults of tomorrow. For the first time, Kirk presents his approach with 5 Powerful Tips for Motivating Youth.

When raising children without an involved romantic partner it can be emotionally and physically isolating and incredibly difficult. At times you receive more questions and interrogation than support. It is easy to feel small, alone, and sometimes lost in a world where kids are so often perceived as a burden than a blessing and where Mom’s are increasingly expected to do it all. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, coparenting in different homes, parenting alone, never married, or married with limited support, raising children when you are the only responsible adult at home is tough.

Fears and worries are very common among children, with around 15% thought to suffer from anxiety disorders, the most commonly identified emotional or behavioural problems among children. However, if left unchecked, they can cause more serious problems such as school avoidance, difficulties in making friends and long-term problems with anxiety and depression.

Inside A Mother’s Metamorphosis, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to juggle self-empowerment alongside the responsibilities of motherhood.

In this edition of the Montessori at Home Guide series, you'll find a wonderful parent or caregiver's guide to gently help your two- to six-year-old learn self-care. Written with the busy parent in mind, Rachel Peachey, a Montessori preschool teacher and parent, presents practical lessons that are easy enough for the very beginner, yet they will inspire the most seasoned of Montessori parents. This guide will help you jump-start your child's learning of proper hygiene, dressing, eating, safety, and manners.

Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. In these autobiographical pieces, Slater presents snapshots of domestic life, populating them with the gritty details and jarring realities of sharing home, life, and body in the curious institution called "family."

Listening to Shift Your Paradigm is a huge step in the right direction. This book is your path towards shifting your mindset to achieve a powerful perspective that will make you unstoppable. Your empowered paradigms will significantly increase your ability to achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a purposeful and fulfilling life.

Parenting is one of the most stressful fulltime jobs around. School, lessons, sports, homework, hormones, dinner, dishes...Parents want to know how to be calm and enjoy these wonder years. Dr. Ben Bernstein, celebrated performance coach for CEOs, professional athletes, and musicians, takes on parents this time around in his book Stressed Out! For Parents.

Are you one of the millions of moms who yearn for more me time, have lost your identity and passion for life, are feeling lonely in your marriage, or are a single mom like me? This happens so easily when we act on automatic pilot, trying to keep it together. I lose myself by being only in the role of mom, and I can’t reconnect to my inner priestess, sultry siren, or badass business diva, and then I struggle.

This focused hypnosis program was created by long-time hypnotist Maggie Staiger for those who wish to cultivate a positive attitude, and in this way achieve a more joyful life. By focusing one's attention onto the rewarding aspects of life, the same way you might choose where to focus a camera, any individual can overcome negative assumptions, and find inside themselves an optimistic outlook.

Step into a world where the hidden resilience and unwavering spirit of foster children take center stage, embarking on a transformative journey like no other. Here, amidst the echoes of forgotten voices, a path of empowerment unfolds—one paved with the profound tool of affirmations that kindle self-worth and inner strength.

Cutting. It’s become a buzzword lately, but very few books address it from the perspective of a youth worker or concerned friend. Marv Penner has lived in this world for the past few years, talking with teenagers online and meeting with them to understand what drives them and why they self-injure. In this timely and helpful book, youth workers, coaches, teachers, and others will get the information they need to begin to understand and help (or point to help) kids who cut.