Parent Child Marriage Dynamic: Toxic to Relationships
Recently Courtney Cox and David Arquette have been in the news announcing their separation. David went on the Howard Stern’s radio show to discuss the demise of his marriage. What came out of the interview is David admitting to taking on the child role in their marriage and Courtney becoming tired of being the mother.
This dynamic is unfortunately very common in marriages and becomes toxic overtime if behavior is not changed. To get a better idea about the dynamic watch some past episodes of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight”. In essence one spouse assumes the parent position while the other spouse assumes the child position. The “parent” partner typically nags, prods, controls, dictates, scolds, and makes most of the decisions. The “parent” can be emasculating at times and cause the “child” partner to harbour resentment. The “child” in turn can be rebellious, immature, passive-aggressive, and irresponsible. I work with many couples every week that portray this dysfunctional pattern.
Intimacy is the first thing to usually go because nobody wants to be intimate with their parent. Nagging and irresponsibility are not sexy traits. Second is communication on a mature intimate level ceases and instead gets replaced with more of a business language. One spouse asks another to do something and then follows up to see if it was done. The one assigned the task usually doesn’t complete the task on purpose and the cycle continues.
Tips:
First acknowledge your perspective roles and agree to change.
Second, the parent partner needs to enlist their partners help in the marriage. It looks like this, instead of assigning a chore discuss a situation with your partner and ask your partner for suggestions and advice on how to handle the issue. Compromise and give the child partner ownership of the task at hand.
Third, the child partner needs to become an active participant in The Relationship and not see themselves as the victim. Take charge of chores/situations and see what response you get from your partner.
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Dr Sadaqat Ali Talks about Parent-Child relationship (Part 2)
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Abstammungsrecht $20.31 Kapitel: Abstammung, Jüdischer Mischling, In-Vitro-Fertilisation, Abstammungsgutachten, Unehelichkeit, Ariernachweis, Vaterschaftsanfechtung, Leihmutter, Vaterschaftsanerkennung, Vaterschaftsfeststellung, Kuckuckskind, Findelkind, Blutsverwandtschaft, Pränataler Vaterschaftstest, Mater Semper Certa Est, Herkunftseltern, Vaterschaftsvermutung, Ehelichkeitserklärung, Empfängniszeit, Juristische Elternschaft, Mehrverkehr, Biologische Elternschaft, Genitor, Europäisches Übereinkommen Über Die Rechtsstellung Der Unehelichen Kinder, Europäisches Übereinkommen Über Die Legitimation Durch Nachfolgende Ehe. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Kinship terminology refers to specific systems of familial relationships. Kinship terminologies include the terms of address used in different languages or communities for different relatives and the terms of reference used to identify the relationship of these relatives to ego or to each other. Societies in different parts of the world and using different languages may share the same basic terminology patterns; in such cases, one can very easily translate the kinship terms of one language into another, although connotations may vary. But translators usually find it impossible to translate directly the kinship terms of a society that uses one system into the language of a society that uses a different system. Anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) performed the first survey of kinship terminologies in use around the world. Though much of his work is now considered dated, he argued that kinship terminologies reflect different sets of distinctions. For example, most kinship terminologies distinguish between sexes (the difference between a brother and a sister) and between generations (the difference between a child and a parent). Moreover, he argued, kinship terminologies distinguish between relatives by blood and marriage (although recently some anthropologists have |
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Acculturation and ParentChild Relationships Measurement and Development $80 Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of acculturation, and who study the impact of acculturation on families. The goals of the conference were to evaluate both the status of acculturation as a scientific construct and the roles of acculturation in parenting and human development. The goal of this volume is to advance the state-of-the-art.Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships: Measurement and Development is a must-read for researchers, students, and policymakers concerned with cultural factors that affect the lives of parents and children. |
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Activating Participation $70.33 This book collects together important research on parents’ and carers’ involvement in the education of their children. The contributors stress the importance of dialog and action between teachers and parents so that parents actively share in making the right decisions about their children’s educational experience. They explore the challenges this presents for both the teachers and the parents in achieving such partnerships. Participatory democracy at grass roots level is hugely complex, especially in diverse society. This book seeks to develop the empirical and theoretical understanding of parent-school relationships and participatory democracy. By researching aspects of this problematic dynamic, it provides approaches for constructive policy and practice. New research into home-school relations, for example, will support teachers in developing their strategies for securing parent participation. Key factors that affect parents’ participation are identified, such as the experiences of mothers, and issues relating to social class and race, and these are taken into account in discussing parents’ role in school. What is feasible, what is appropriate and what is desirable? Activating Participation offers some of the answers. The book is for teachers, policy makers, superintendants and for advisers counselors and practitioners. It is also of important reading for students of teaching, child development, social policy, sociology, and gender studies. The contributors include the editors and Miriam David, Jane Martin, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Barbara Walker and Maggie Maclure, Anne Phillips, and Heidi Safia Mirza. |
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Ad/Hd Generation $22.5 This holistic parenting book is aligned with current research and with the shifts that are apparent today in support of healthier living, a greener planet, and a peaceful world. It not only honors children’s individuality and wholeness; it is filled with safe, effective, and reliable facts and holistic parenting tools that honor all aspects of children’s being: their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic bodies. This easy-to-read guidebook also has step-by-step, do-able practices that can be used immediately to strengthen overall family relationships so that parents and kids can settle into an open, flowing, and more loving space with each other. In AD/HD Generation, Dr. Lopez Zuniga challenges modern society’s medical approach to children’s functioning, proposing that its heavy reliance on intrusive drugs is both insufficient and dangerous for developing youngsters. Given the risks of stimulants and other prescription drugs, it is time to recognize the value of a holistic approach that includes a nurturing parent-child relationship, healthy lifestyle choices, and full support for children to grow into well-balanced adults. BOOK SUMMARY: Part One of the AD/HD Generation guidebook: * sifts through the history, causes, treatment issues, and controversies surrounding the AD/HD diagnosis today; and* reviews the history and benefits of a more holistic approach to health and wellness. Part Two of the AD/HD Generation guidebook:* provides valid, practical facts and information about holistic options, PLUS easy-to-use tools, charts, tables, and guidance for better understanding holistic parenting and supporting ALL children’s wholeness and wellness.Here, you find answers to decide which tools and options might be supportive and do-able with your child right now. You get up-to-date, accurate information so you can make the best decisions for your family. Every chapter covers the history, safety, |
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Adult children of alcoholics: An exploration of heterogeneity utilizing childhood roles, family of origin health and adult attachment styles. $49.99 Research reports that an estimated forty-three percent of adults, or seventy-six million people, in the United States have relatives who are alcoholic. In addition, one in eight individuals, or an estimated 30 million adults, has an alcoholic parent. The literature suggests that the impact of growing up in an alcoholic family system may affect psychological functioning well into adulthood. Adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) are at increased risk for a myriad of psychological symptoms including substance abuse/dependency, problems in interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. However, research has also indicated that there may be more heterogeneity within this group than previously reported. It has been suggested that while patterns of maladjustment and increased risk for psychological distress may be evident, no clear “syndrome” related to this population was supported. This study explored whether an ACOA’s childhood family role (i.e. Hero, Scapegoat, Mascot and Lost Child) explained variance within this population, using adult attachment and family of origin health as outcome measures. Results did not support this hypothesis. This study also examined between group differences in adult attachment styles and family of origin health between a sample of ACOAs and Non-ACOAs. Analysis indicated that ACOAs reported significantly more Fearful attachment styles than Non-ACOAs. As well, post-hoc analyses indicated that ACOAs described their families of origin as promoting significantly less personal responsibility, as well as, having lower support for the expression of emotions and constructive conflict resolution than Non-ACOAs. This study provides information which may be utilized by clinicians working with this population. The impact of less secure attachment styles within the therapeutic relationship should be considered. As well, this study provides evidence that a specific pattern of maladjustment secondary to the dynamics created by the |
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Adult children of alcoholics: An exploration of heterogeneity utilizing childhood roles, family of origin health and adult attachment styles. $108 Research reports that an estimated forty-three percent of adults, or seventy-six million people, in the United States have relatives who are alcoholic. In addition, one in eight individuals, or an estimated 30 million adults, has an alcoholic parent. The literature suggests that the impact of growing up in an alcoholic family system may affect psychological functioning well into adulthood. Adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) are at increased risk for a myriad of psychological symptoms including substance abuse/dependency, problems in interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. However, research has also indicated that there may be more heterogeneity within this group than previously reported. It has been suggested that while patterns of maladjustment and increased risk for psychological distress may be evident, no clear “syndrome” related to this population was supported. This study explored whether an ACOA’s childhood family role (i.e. Hero, Scapegoat, Mascot and Lost Child) explained variance within this population, using adult attachment and family of origin health as outcome measures. Results did not support this hypothesis. This study also examined between group differences in adult attachment styles and family of origin health between a sample of ACOAs and Non-ACOAs. Analysis indicated that ACOAs reported significantly more Fearful attachment styles than Non-ACOAs. As well, post-hoc analyses indicated that ACOAs described their families of origin as promoting significantly less personal responsibility, as well as, having lower support for the expression of emotions and constructive conflict resolution than Non-ACOAs. This study provides information which may be utilized by clinicians working with this population. The impact of less secure attachment styles within the therapeutic relationship should be considered. As well, this study provides evidence that a specific pattern of maladjustment secondary to the dynamics created by the |
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Adult children of alcoholics: An exploration of heterogeneity utilizing childhood roles, family of origin health and adult attachment styles. $49.99 Research reports that an estimated forty-three percent of adults, or seventy-six million people, in the United States have relatives who are alcoholic. In addition, one in eight individuals, or an estimated 30 million adults, has an alcoholic parent. The literature suggests that the impact of growing up in an alcoholic family system may affect psychological functioning well into adulthood. Adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) are at increased risk for a myriad of psychological symptoms including substance abuse/dependency, problems in interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. However, research has also indicated that there may be more heterogeneity within this group than previously reported. It has been suggested that while patterns of maladjustment and increased risk for psychological distress may be evident, no clear “syndrome” related to this population was supported. This study explored whether an ACOA’s childhood family role (i.e. Hero, Scapegoat, Mascot and Lost Child) explained variance within this population, using adult attachment and family of origin health as outcome measures. Results did not support this hypothesis. This study also examined between group differences in adult attachment styles and family of origin health between a sample of ACOAs and Non-ACOAs. Analysis indicated that ACOAs reported significantly more Fearful attachment styles than Non-ACOAs. As well, post-hoc analyses indicated that ACOAs described their families of origin as promoting significantly less personal responsibility, as well as, having lower support for the expression of emotions and constructive conflict resolution than Non-ACOAs. This study provides information which may be utilized by clinicians working with this population. The impact of less secure attachment styles within the therapeutic relationship should be considered. As well, this study provides evidence that a specific pattern of maladjustment secondary to the dynamics created by the |
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An Introduction to GBLT Family Studies $110.49 Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT familiesIn terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies tackles a challenging research topic by presenting noted experts examining the latest information on the newest type of family studies—GLBT families. This groundbreaking text explores a wide range of unique problems faced by nontraditional families, as well as issues common to traditional families that need to be approached with a GLBT perspective.Though homophobia and heterosexism constantly influence GLBT families, these factors do not necessarily overwhelm the dynamic of their basic family unit. Issues present in many traditional families are found when researching GLBT families. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies spotlights the issues, research, and future trends that provide a foundation for the study of GLBT families. This breakthrough volume focuses not only on the obvious unique factors within GLBT families, but also on the elements encountered within families that are present regardless of sexual orientation and gender, such as physical and emotional abuse. Expert contributors present research findings on family pattern issues relating to parent-child relationships, child development, sibling relationships, family structure, intimate relationships, stepfamilies, alternative family structures, and extended family relationships. Each chapter is extensively referenced and offers possibilities for further research. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies discusses family studies topics such as: the impact of the family of origin life course perspective transgender identity issues and the family when a spouse comes out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual a study of lesbian couples adapting genogram |
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Answering the 8 Cries of the Spirited Child: Strong Children Need Confident Parents By David Arp and Claudia Arp $11.99 <p align=”left”>Besides feeling ready to pull their hair out, parents of spirited children are often convinced that their spirited child would behave better if only Mom or Dad were smarter, wiser or more patient! In their new book on”difficult” children, child development experts Claudia and David Arp remind readers that there’s no such thing as a Super Parent.</p><p align=”left”>Having a spirited child can make parenting more intense and sometimes overwhelming, but you can begin to recognize the eight most common cries for help and what they really mean: “Look at me!” “Did I do good?” “You’re not listening!” “Let me do it my way!” “You can’t make me anymore!” “I hate you!” “I can do it myself!” and “I am a big kid already!” The Arps — with humor, compassion, insights from Scripture, and the latest in research — show you ways to develop win-win strategies for nurturing your not-so-compliant child. Help just arrived.</p> |
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Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships $99.53 The growing presence of non-European cultures in America brings new challenges to as well as opportunities for parenting research. Whereas particular constructs of parent-child relationships were once considered universal, we now recognize distinct cultural variations. This is especially true in the case of Asian Americans, a population encompassing many diverse ethnicities.Informed by a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies including detailed surveys of teenagers and their parents, Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships focuses on Chinese and Filipino Americans—large populations with markedly different histories and cultural influences—giving readers a new lens into the nature and meaning of cultural differences in parenting. Synthesizing data on adolescent autonomy and dependence, parental support and control (both crucial to adolescents’ wellbeing), and the rarely-explored concept of parental sacrifice, this ambitious volume:Compares the parental belief systems of European Americans and immigrant Chinese and their influence on parenting styles.Discusses the role of measurement equivalence in understanding Asian American parenting practices.Examines sacrifice as a central concept in Asian American parenting and in immigrant parenting in general. Analyzes how Asian American teenagers understand the support and control provided by their parents.Explores the dynamics of parent and child gender in Asian American parenting.Places these findings in the context of previous parenting research and identifies new directions for the field.Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships is a uniquely informative reference for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students across multiple disciplines, including developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, sociology, and anthropology as well as ethnic |
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Attachment in the Preschool Years $42.5 This collection of original articles by leading specialists in child development brings together work from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to establish, for the first time, the importance of the preschool period (eighteen months to four years)for parent-child attachment relationships. Balancing theoretical, research-oriented, and clinical papers, Attachment in the Preschool Years provides valuable data and approaches for those working in a wide range of fields, including developmental psychology and psychopathology, child psychiatry, family therapy, pediatrics, nursing, and early childhood education. There is a wealth of information and thought in this book; it does not have a weak or uninteresting chapter, starting with the Preface by Emde, and as a whole, it forms a sort of seminar. –John E. Bates, Contemporary Psychology |
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Boost Your Baby’s Development $14.95 From helping a baby learn to balance to choosing the right books, everything a parent needs to know about giving their baby the best head start Detailing a child”s physical development (balance, learning to use the hands), emotional development (the effect of love on the brain, sibling relationships), and intellectual development (recognizing sounds, books for babies), this guide explains all the important milestones for newborns, with checklists for each stage and practical suggestions for things to do together. In an objective, reassuring tone, this manual covers such topics as newborn senses, how to calm babies, premature babies, twins, early emotional attachments, day care, single-parent families, parenting styles, play and toys, and gender differences, answering everything a parent needs to know in order to give their child a head start. |
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Broken Fathers/Broken Sons $12.82 This memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one¿s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person¿s life – but it relates to us all. ¿We are bound together, each of us,¿ the author writes, ¿in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another’s story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.¿¿Broken Fathers/Broken Sons is a rare combination of memoir and musing. Playful and wise, it is an ode to what is broken inside all of us, as well as to what seeks healing….it allows us to put back together both questions and quests, as we journey out of a decade of looking for a better father in God in a Carmelite monastery, into psychoanalytic practice. Out of one man¿s coming to terms with the damage of a painful father/son relationship, comes a poignant and fierce cry against inequality, be it between parent and child, or analyst and patient.¿Erika Duncan, Novelist Founder of Herstory Writers Workshop¿In this intensely personal and humane memoir Dr. Gargiulo plumbs the depths of relationships between a father and a son. Not since Turgenev¿s ¿Fathers and Sons¿ have these issues been so keenly examined and so directly held up to scrutiny. The precepts of psychoanalytic thought brought forward by Gargiulo speak to everyman in this book that merits a place onone¿s bookshelf next to the work of the great Russian novelist.¿Norman Itzkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University. |
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Building Self-Confidence With Encouraging Words $8.28 Self-Help / Personal Growth / ParentingWords can be deadly weapons or protective layers of love. They can bruise and batter a person, no matter how old, in the heart and spirit just like physical blows can cause damage to the outside of the body. Because these bruises to the spirit are not readily apparent, many think that the damage is easily repaired. However, while verbal abuse may be long forgotten or dismissed by the offender, the words and memory are lodged in the cells and memory of the child or person who was emotionally assaulted.The fear of rejection stops many very talented and skilled people from achieving their full potential in life. They become paralyzed by frustration, guilt and discouragement, hoping and praying that someone will have the key to open the potential that is being held captive in their mind. Building Self Confidence With Encouraging Words will unlock your potential and open the door of success, happiness and more nurturing relationships! You will learn: How to ask for what you wantHow your core belief system came to beWhy self-confidence is a learned skillHow to use positive self-talkWhy positive action follows positive thoughtHow to correct others in a supportive wayWhy communication is more than just wordsHow to set boundaries and build respectful relationshipsHow to appreciate and acknowledge successGrab a cup of tea and enjoy the next few minutes discovering ideas and tips that will bring an abundance of meaningful experiences and relationships into your life. Many of the suggestions and exercises are written for parents to use in building strongerrelationships with their child. They have been tested in years of parent education. Parents and caring adults will make sacrifices of time, treasure, and talent to insure happiness and well being for children, but will not do the same for themselves! They will persevere in a course of action if |
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By Love Possessed $1.33 Spanning forty-nine hours in the life of Arthur Winner, the leading lawyer in the small Pennsylvania town in the 1950′s, By Love Possessed portrays all the myriad aspects of love. Over the first two days, Cozzens masterfully lays out this community’s many interlinked relationships. There is the love between parent and child, brother and sister; there is the brotherly love between the law partners in Winner’s firm; and there is love in marriage and outside. Throughout, Arthur Winner is the man of the moment, but the revelations of the novel’s final hour force him to confront the deeper meaning of his world and of himself. |
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Carnival Glass $10.35 Carnival Glass, Bonnie Dunlop”s new fiction collection, is an examination of the infirmity of human relationships — marriages, brotherhood, friendships, parent-child relations hindered by negligence and death — and how strange providence can send a sane and settled person entirely off the rails. These stories honour how we love and take care of each other, and how, inevitably, we fail each other too.Dunlop”s settings — dusty ranches, near-ghost towns of Southwest Saskatchewan, infinite beaches of Tofino, BC, small prairie cities in the 60s and exotic locales of contemporary Mexico– are built with a quiet grace and familiarity and remain integral to her stories. It is with such detail that the assured writing in Carnival Glass situates award-winning author Bonnie Dunlop as a contending voice for women”s fiction. |
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Cellphone $8.54 A captivating look at the history of mobile communication. Although the Internet takes us everywhere in cyberspace, it usually requires us to be seated behind a desk. In contrast, the cellphone lets us walk through the world, fully connected. Cellphone explores the history of mobility in media–from books to cameras to transistor radios to laptops–and examines the unique impact of a device that sits in a pocket or palm, and lets us converse by voice or text. The impact cuts both ways, and obligates as well as liberates: the device that allows us to call anytime, anywhere allows us to be called anytime, anywhere. Cellphone considers how this new dual edge of accessibility has transformed journalism, restaurants, public transport, automobiles, romance, parent-child relationships, and indeed all walks of life, trivial and profound. Like an organic cell that moves, evolves, combines with other cells, and generates, the cellphone has become a complex sparkplug of human life. |
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Combining positive behavior support and functional assessment in a parent-training program: An evaluation of effectiveness and outcomes. $49.99 In recent years, a central focus in the field of prevention and early intervention has been on ways to effectively support young children with challenging behavior and their families. Interventions utilizing Functional Assessment (FA) and Positive behavior support (PBS) are some of the most promising evidence-based practices for this population. These approaches focus on reducing challenging behaviors that can have a negative impact on children while also helping children to develop and engage in socially desirable behaviors (Koegel, Koegel, & Dunlap, 1996).;Research documenting the utility and applicability of PBS with preschool-aged populations remain scarce, particularly within natural environments (e.g., Blair, Umbreit, & Eck, 2000). Several gaps in the research remain, including using parents as intervention agents and implementing the intervention in natural settings (i.e., the home). Positive Beginnings (Hanline, Wetherby, Woods, Fox & Lentini, 2004) is a training program that may prove successful at addressing these gaps. Within the program, knowledge and skills in four areas are emphasized: (a) early communication and social development; (b) the process of functional assessment; (c) the communicative message of challenging behavior; and, (d) elements of a positive behavior support plan.;The purpose of this study was to in evaluate change in both parent and child outcomes following parents’ participation in the 4-week Positive Beginnings program. Participants included nine parent-child dyads that were randomly assigned to one of three baseline conditions. Results indicated some decreases in challenging behavior throughout the intervention phase, despite the fact that clear functional relationships between the intervention and behavior were not attained. No evidence exists, however, indicating that participants appropriately modified their responding to their children’s challenging behavior. Participants demonstrated a self-reported increase of knowledge and |
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Combining positive behavior support and functional assessment in a parent-training program: An evaluation of effectiveness and outcomes. $49.99 In recent years, a central focus in the field of prevention and early intervention has been on ways to effectively support young children with challenging behavior and their families. Interventions utilizing Functional Assessment (FA) and Positive behavior support (PBS) are some of the most promising evidence-based practices for this population. These approaches focus on reducing challenging behaviors that can have a negative impact on children while also helping children to develop and engage in socially desirable behaviors (Koegel, Koegel, & Dunlap, 1996).;Research documenting the utility and applicability of PBS with preschool-aged populations remain scarce, particularly within natural environments (e.g., Blair, Umbreit, & Eck, 2000). Several gaps in the research remain, including using parents as intervention agents and implementing the intervention in natural settings (i.e., the home). Positive Beginnings (Hanline, Wetherby, Woods, Fox & Lentini, 2004) is a training program that may prove successful at addressing these gaps. Within the program, knowledge and skills in four areas are emphasized: (a) early communication and social development; (b) the process of functional assessment; (c) the communicative message of challenging behavior; and, (d) elements of a positive behavior support plan.;The purpose of this study was to in evaluate change in both parent and child outcomes following parents’ participation in the 4-week Positive Beginnings program. Participants included nine parent-child dyads that were randomly assigned to one of three baseline conditions. Results indicated some decreases in challenging behavior throughout the intervention phase, despite the fact that clear functional relationships between the intervention and behavior were not attained. No evidence exists, however, indicating that participants appropriately modified their responding to their children’s challenging behavior. Participants demonstrated a self-reported increase of knowledge and |
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Covenant and Commitments: Faith, Family and Economic Life $30 No idea shaped modern convictions about the moral structure of love, family life, and the role of the household in civil society more than the biblical idea of covenant. Yet these patterns are challenged today by socio-economic developments that alter the role of the family in civil society.Ethicist Max Stackhouse offers a fresh vision of how the family may best reconstitute the household. He challenges libertarian and liberationist arguments based on economic ideologies and sociobiological theories that distort the nature and character of love, sexuality, and commitment. Recognizing the inadequacy of current family values rhetoric, he seeks to recover a covenantal ethic for the family that accounts for new male-female, parent-child, production-consumption, and household-workplace relationships. |
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Crossroads at Midlife: Your Aging Parents, Your Emotions, and Your Self $0.99 With medical science, healthcare, and healthy lifestyles extending our lifespans as never before, more and more midlife adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents. This role can trigger not only logistical and financial challenges, but also great emotional upheaval. There is a reversal of roles as the child—often in the midst of raising his or her own adolescent or young adult offspring—becomes the caretaker of the parent. A parent’s aging and mortality elicits strong feelings of loss, and a stark realization of one’s own aging and mortality. Past, present, and future paths converge, and the caretaker is at the center of that crossroads. Psychologist Praver—a specialist working with such caretakers—shows us their inner worlds and how they used a difficult point in their lives to embark on a journey of self-understanding and self-transformation—a journey toward a more meaningful life for themselves.Readers can gain a better understanding of their own lives— and know they are not alone in their struggles to contend with and find powerful benefits from the emotional side of caring for an aging parent. Distress can become peace of mind, as we see in the stories of men and women who sought Praver’s help. Relationships that might be weakened by a caretaker role—relationships between caretakers and their children, spouses, and friends—can actually grow stronger with the experience. Profound issues affecting caretakers are shared in this evocative book, which is an enlightening and enjoyable read. |
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Culturally Diverse Parent-Child and Family Relationships: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Practitioners $65 This book investigates the culturally specific beliefs and child-rearing practices of five major racial/ethnic groups: African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans. Analyses of case vignettes illustrate the book´s dual focus on the practitioners´ own views in addition to those of their culturally d |
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Dear Mr. Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mr. Rogers $14 Every question a child or parent asks is important, and no one understands this better than the television Neighbor who has visited our homes for more than two decades. In this collection of letters and replies, Mister Rogers encourages parents, grandparents, and teachers to cherish the questions and comments that come from their children. With sincerity and sensitivity, real-life issues are addressed in chapters arranged by theme – the world, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, feelings and fears, television, family relationships, and death. Based on his lifelong studies in child development, Fred Rogers offers a thoughtful perspective on childhood and parenting. Dear Mister Rogers is an inspiration to parents and educators and a delight for all those interested in the unique way children see the world and wonder about it. |
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Developing Caring Relationships Among Parents, Children, Schools, and Communities $51 Developing Caring Relationships With Parents, Children, Schools, and Communities focuses on parents and teachers as adult learners, who should be growing and learning along with the children in their care. It is a strengths based approach to looking at parents, families and teachers. It synthesizes the latest theories and research on parent and adult-child relations and on adult learning and development, which focuses on a dynamic process, not a static role and on all the social-contextual factors affecting parents, teachers and children. This book lays out a theory of what parents and teachers need to care for children and themselves and then it shows how the author has assisted parents and teachers to put these theories into practice in pre K-12 schools. McDermott relies on stories and listening to the voices of parents, teachers and children to make her case. She weaves together the latest theories and research with these stories. She uses narratives of actual school meetings, workshops, parent planning and discussion groups, testimonies, newsletters, and research of others in the field, to demonstrate applications of theory and research. She fills a gap by focusing on parents from all socioeconomic background. She challenges components of current models of parent-involvement in light of what is now known about what teachers, parents and families need to grow and develop. Key Features: Focuses on parents and teachers as adult learnersFocuses on the dynamic process of parenting and teachingProvides a theory to practice model to support parents, families and teachers Provides a tool or guide for thinking through problems and finding solutions that take into considerationthe needs of all involved |
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Ducoboo 1 $6.75 The pupil Ducoboo is nice and a joker, but also a notorious dunce–a ”quality” that is no bed of roses…One must be awfully resourceful to avoid the humiliating dunce”s cap! But Ducoboo is brimming with imagination… . Through gags, some stranger than others, this series champions values such as friendship and the right to be different, and tackles subjects such as boy-girl and parent-child relationships. |
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Ducoboo 2 $6.75 It”s not by counting the flies on the ceiling that one becomes a star in math… And one must be really resourceful to avoid the beckoning finger of the teacher and the humiliation of the dunce cap! And Leonie, who still detests copiers… So, Ducoboo invents the answers that he can”t steal from his neighbour. He has cause to regret doing so because, although very fertile, his imagination plays tricks on him and he often ends up ”In the Corner”! The Series champions valuse such as friendship and the right to be different, and tackles subjects such as boy-girl and parent-child relationships. |
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Early socioemotional development in the context of family boundary ambiguity. $49.99 Early socioemotional development, in general, and self-regulation, in particular, develops in the context of early parenting relationships. This suggests there are important implications for young children's development when the boundaries circumscribing the parent-child relationship become ambiguous through parental psychological or physical absence. Boundary ambiguity, a theory which describes the basis for individual dysfunction in the context of diffuse family boundaries and is based on general systems theory, may be especially applicable to the study of early toddler emotion regulation. The two primary types of boundary ambiguity are defined as (a) parental psychological absence with physical presence or (b) parental psychological presence with physical absence. However, boundary ambiguity has not been applied, to date, in studies focusing on the relationships between very young children and their parents. The purposes of this study were to: (1) define the construct of psychological absence with physical presence in the early parent-child relationships, (2) explore the impact of psychological absence on the development of children's early self-regulation between 14 and 36 months of age, and (3) explore the impact of psychological presence with physical absence on toddlers' (14-36 months of age) regulatory outcomes. Results supported a proximal method for measuring psychological absence using a latent construct and further demonstrated that mothers' psychological absence significantly predicted children's emotion regulation related behaviors across toddlerhood; these results were consistent across racial/ethnic groups and did not differ for boys as compared to girls. Additionally, results demonstrated that fathers' consistent physical presence significantly predicted toddlers' emotion regulation related behaviors across toddlerhood; these results are discussed within the framework of boundary ambiguity, suggesting that |
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Encyclopedia Of Parenting Theory And Research $9.95 Gives a comprehensive summary of research on parents and parent-child relationships. |
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Every Story Has Two Sides: Happiness in the Ever After $10.99 Every Story Has Two Sides is a coming of age series of short stories. It illustrates lessons that take place in the life of many characters that touch on, or are part of, the life of Dallas Davis. The short stories intertwine the complex parent-child, boyfriend-girlfriend and sinner-convert relationships as the reader witness the young adult coming of age experience. Intended to provide lessons for both young adults and parents, Every Story Has Two Sides gives a unique perspective that affords an opportunity for all to think outside of the box. Poetic fluency coupled with scriptural references enhances the outside of the box experience where a different perspective of life?”s situations is exposed to the reader. The book welcomes multi-generational discussions to take place at the table in which God is the conversational centerpiece. |
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Families as Relationships $81.95 The field of family studies has recently seen the development of a more specialized focus on the character of particular relationships. The nature of these relationships may take many forms but typically involves individuals who view themselves as a unit with a long-term commitment to continue their relationship. Traditionally, at least in western societies, families are defined in terms of two parents living together with responsibility for rearing their children. However, these so-called nuclear families are becoming a rarer phenomenon. Single-parent families, childless couples, lesbian or gay male couples are also all represented in the broad mix of relations referred to as families. Each of the chapters in this book deals with a primary relationship issue. These include: issues of early marriagehow young relationships become enduring relationshipsparent and child relationsconflict between partnersthe interface between work and family lifemarital quality and maintenancedivorce and its impact on the familyaging and older familiesThis volume provides a useful reference for professionals whose research and/or clinical practice focuses on family relationship issues. This book is also intended for advanced students in the areas of sociology, close relationships and family sciences. Families as Relationships is one of a series of paperbacks dedicated to the study and application of processes by which individuals relate to each other in social and family settings. Each book provides an expanded and up-to-date version of a section in the original Handbook of Personal Relationships (second edition) edited by Steve Duck. |
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Family Desk Reference to Psychology: Practical, Expert Counseling Advice at Your Fingertips! $25 Family Desk Reference to Psychology, is endorsed by five major psychology organizations. It covers over 100 personal problems, negative emotions, crises, life skills, and decisions, including judging love and relationships, detecting lies, 33 areas of raising children, addictions, obesity, stress, attention deficit disorder, and eating disorders. The National Mental Health Association calls it an easy-to-read reference … enlightened and comprehensive … very interesting and informative, and says it has terrific understanding, compassion, and clinical knowledge. The National Self-Help Clearinghouse says a bountiful source of information … no-nonsense solutions to problems. Use it as a guide to better emotional health. The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy describes it as highly recommended … immensely beneficial … child rearing is discussed with utmost sensitivity and know-how. Science Books & Films, the reviewing organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, describes the book as an ideal gift for young adults, newlyweds, young parents, or anyone facing change in their life … Parental concerns from infancy throughout adolescence are addressed with clarity. … provides a balanced presentation of controversial and sensitive issues. The American Mental Health Counselors Association recommends it for everyone and says it is particularly telling about the dangerously wide range of actual expertise and effectiveness of treatments.The book describes the behaviors linked to happiness and explains exactly what love is, in actions. It shows how to overcome depression, a bad temper, grief over a loss, anxieties or worries, fears or phobias, lowself-esteem, nervous habits, insomnia, and sexual problems. It helps you decide if a friend or romance is good for you, if your partner would make a compatible husband or wife, if you are ready to become a parent, if you should get a divorce, or if you need professional help for your problems. I |
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Family Ties $20.6 Relying on a decade-long participant observation study, this book focuses on the salience of parent-child relationships for home schooling. Those experiences with traditional schools emerge as a major motive for home schooling. The quality of the relationships that develop between parents and children are the major predictor of a successful home schooling experience. Comparing the socialization between traditional schooling and home schools, Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization and Home Schooling investigates significant controversies in these two separate environments. Professor Gary Wyatt is able to represent a parent with both experiences and contends to dispel the typical home schooling critiques. The efforts of home schooling parents to negotiate favorable identities with others and the techniques used to manage the anxiety associated with this unconventional lifestyle are explored. |
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Family Violence From A Communication Perspective $3.25 Going beyond the traditional psychological and sociological approaches, this ground-breaking volume presents a new theoretical framework for understanding and resolving abusive family interactions: it takes a communication perspective to examine the interactional processes at the core of domestic abuse, aggression and violence.Covering spouse, child, elderly parent and courtship abuse, the contributors explore both commonalities and differences in emotional, psychological, verbal and sexual abuse. They illustrate how these different types of abuse stem from problematic communication patterns integral to the power imbalance inherent in abusive relationships. The contributors also suggest ways of modifying these patterns. |
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Family Violence from a Communication Perspective $62.95 Going beyond the traditional psychological and sociological approaches, this ground-breaking volume presents a new theoretical framework for understanding and resolving abusive family interactions: it takes a communication perspective to examine the interactional processes at the core of domestic abuse, aggression and violence. Covering spouse, child, elderly parent and courtship abuse, the contributors explore both commonalities and differences in emotional, psychological, verbal and sexual abuse. They illustrate how these different types of abuse stem from problematic communication patterns integral to the power imbalance inherent in abusive relationships. The contributors also suggest ways of modifying these patterns. |
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Family and Society in American History $33.48 The internal dynamics of families have altered dramatically as the family has gradually shifted from a unit of economic production to a collection of individuals in pursuit of different goals. Taking examples from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, this eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families.Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, Family and Society in American History considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts. For example, new legal attitudes toward divorce emerged as marriage came to be seen as a site for individual satisfaction. Marital fertility declined as pregnancy and childbirth came to be seen as medical rather than family issues. In the twentieth century, a new domestic role for men — Mr. Do-It-Yourself — developed in the wake of suburbanization.Contributors also consider the experiences of ethnic and immigrant families. Among other case studies, they show how Chinese immigrant women targeted for rescue by Presbyterian mission workers took advantage of the gap between Chinese and American culture to increase their leverage in family and marital relationships.A diverse compendium of family life, Family and Society in American History provides an intriguing commentary on the permeability of social structures and interpersonal behavior. |
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Family at Risk $15 Family At Risk will provide much needed perspective to help you make the right choices toward healthy loving family relationships through the blending process. This guidebook of shared experiences will help you take responsibility for past failure, move forward, and learn success principles for the his, mine and ours blended family and marriage by answering questions such as: How do I deal with the guilt? Who should discipline my children when they visit? Should they have responsibilities in my home, or is it a vacation with an unlimited spending budget? Why does my wife seem distant from me with my children? How can I have an amicable relationship with the ex-wife as a co-parent? How important are reliability, visitation, child support and communication? |
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Filial Therapy: Strengthening Parent-Child Relationships through Play $13.95 Rise VanFleet,Paperback – New Edition, Edition: 2,Series: Practitioner’s Resource Ser., English-language edition,Pub by Professional Resource Exchange, Incorporated |
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For the Love of Marriage $9.95 From the Backcover What makes a marriage work? What makes a marriage last? Why am I attracted to my opposite? How can we learn to talk about what really matters? Gentle advice from a well-known pastor who has counseled many couples through the years. Drescher’s writings have been excerpted in Reader’s Digest/ and many other magazines. His books have sold more than 400,000 copies and have been translated into more than 10 languages. Now he brings together into one book his insights about marriage after many years of experience and counseling. His helpful advice and practical anecdotes fill this attractive book with warmth and encouragement. John M. Drescher, Harrisonburg, Virginia, has been a writer, editor, pastor, and seminary teacher. He is married to Betty Keener. They have five married children and twelve grandchildren. Drescher has authored 35 books, of which more than a dozen relate to husband and wife, and parent and child relationships. Seven Things Children Need is now printed in a dozen languages. If I Were Starting My Family Again was condensed in Reader’s Digest./ Other books include When Your Child is 6 to 12, Meditations For the Newly Married, Doing What Comes Spiritually, If I Were Starting My Ministry Again, and Now Is The Time To Love. Drescher has written for more than 100 different magazines. He has spoken widely at conventions, retreats, and seminary, often on the subject of family renewal. |
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Genetic Ties And The Family $34.81 Experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology explore the tension between biological and social conceptions of parentage. These essays reflect the changing concepts of parenthood, along with social factors that heighten conflict, such as single-parent adoption, gay and lesbian parents, child support laws, and new reproductive technologies. The contributors consider the effect of DNA-based paternity testing on family relationships and discuss the ethical, legal, and social implications. |
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Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children $22.61 Experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology explore the tension between biological and social conceptions of parentage. These essays reflect the changing concepts of parenthood, along with social factors that heighten conflict, such as single-parent adoption, gay and lesbian parents, child support laws, and new reproductive technologies. The contributors consider the effect of DNA-based paternity testing on family relationships and discuss the ethical, legal, and social implications. |
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Growing Up With a Schizophrenic Mother $36.94 An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the isolation their family felt, their chaotic home environments, their present relationships with their mothers, and the lost potential of mother and child are covered. Their stories are fascinating and provide important information to both the mental health community and the lay public. The offspring have been described as having higher rates of increased aggressivity and sibling conflict, but often their circumstances strengthened these children and contributed to artistic and creative talents, resiliency, and high achievements. The authors provide an overview of schizophrenia, behaviors of the affected parent, and the marital relationship of the patient and her non-schizophrenic spouse. As adults, the respondents now share their grievances about the psychological community–what they needed and did not get. Brown and Roberts then present suggestions for treatment of affected children aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and health care providers. |
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Hayes School Publishing BR728 Lets Learn Spanish Gr 8- 40 page 8.5 X 11 Workbook $16.78 Students learn basic Spanish vocabulary and structures, while being exposed to cultural differences and other elements of the Spanish-speaking world. Format adaptable for use at home or in the classroom. Fun, entertaining and didactic materials for all levels. Teacher/Parent guide, Answer Key, Glossary and National Foreign Language Standards included. Topics include numbers up to one million, family relationships, people in history, gender and number differences, opposites and a cultural lesson on the celebration of El quinceanero, a traditional Spanish celebration when a child turns fifteen. |
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Health and Well-being in Early Childhood $9.9 The true wealth of a nation can be measured by the health of its youngest citizens and in the twenty-first century, children’s health and well-being is largely determined by social, environmental and economic influences.This book explores how factors such as parent-child relationships, family networks and social support, housing, poverty and the safety of the environment impact on children’s early experiences and have consequences for their later health and well-being.Topics include: Promoting infant mental health Family transitions Poverty, relative poverty and health inequalities Growth and nutrition Young children under stress Child public health Young children’s involvement in health Research with young children and familiesUnderpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and an ecological systems framework, this book takes difference and diversity into account to celebrate the rights of every individual child.Young Children’s Health and Well-Being is a comprehensive health text for students of early childhood. It is also important reading for student teachers, community practitioner nurses, social work students and others who work with young children and their families. |
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Healthy Teens, Body and Soul: A Parent’s Complete Guide $11.99 This breakthrough book covers the head-to-toe, outside-inside health needs of today’s 10- to 21-year-olds. Written by experts in adolescent medicine and parent-child relationships, this comprehensive reference gives no-nonsense, straightforward guidance on how to talk with teens in a way that will help them take charge of their own health.Andrea Marks, M.D., and Betty Rothbart, M.S.W., take a unique approach — they focus on the interplay of physical, mental, emotional, and social issues that make these years such a challenging time. They show how physical health concerns must be considered within the context of the three main goals of adolescence:gaining independenceclarifying sexual identityFinding a realistic, satisfying place in societyCombining authoritative information with sound advice on communicating with teens, who really do want and need their parents’ help (even though at times it may seem otherwise), Healthy Teens, Body and Soul will teach parents how to open the lines of communication that will result in healthier, happier teens (and parents!). |
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How to Keep Your Kids From Driving You Crazy: A Proven Program for Improving Your Child’s Behavior and Regaining Control of Your Family $0.99 When you and your child play the “Behavior Game,”everyone wins!If you’re feeling like one more temper tantrum, bedtime battle, or sibling slugfest will put you right over the edge, take heart. Help is at hand. For more than twenty years, clinical psychologist and mother of two Dr. Paula Stone Bender has been helping families discover parenting techniques that produce immediate results.Dr. Bender’s “Behavior Game” is hands-on and extensively tested. It lets you use positive reinforcement to achieve the changes you want. Easy-to-use charts, checklists, and worksheets enable you to tailor the program to meet your family’s specific needs. Best of all, your child takes an active role in improving his or her own behavior. Complete with the success stories of real families who used these powerful techniques, this essential guide can help your entire family get along harmoniously the whole day, every day.”Finally, a practical rule book for parents! Dr. Bender has captured the most tried-and-true research findings and put them into an easy-to-understand guide. She takes the mystery out of being a good parent.”—Mary Arredondo, Ph.D. National School Psychologist of the Year, 1995″A gem of a parenting guide. In step-by-step fashion, it shows you how to combine love and discipline in a way that accentuates the positive and minimizes the negative in parent-child relationships.”—Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., M.P.H. Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of Psychiatry University of Connecticut Health Center |
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How to Keep Your Kids from Driving You Crazy: A Proven Program for Improving Your Child’s Behavior and Regaining Control of Your Family $18.95 When you and your child play the Behavior Game, everyone wins! If you’re feeling like one more temper tantrum, bedtime battle, or sibling slugfest will put you right over the edge, take heart. Help is at hand. For more than twenty years, clinical psychologist and mother of two Dr. Paula Stone Bender has been helping families discover parenting techniques that produce immediate results. Dr. Bender’s Behavior Game is hands-on and extensively tested. It lets you use positive reinforcement to achieve the changes you want. Easy-to-use charts, checklists, and worksheets enable you to tailor the program to meet your family’s specific needs. Best of all, your child takes an active role in improving his or her own behavior. Complete with the success stories of real families who used these powerful techniques, this essential guide can help your entire family get along harmoniously the whole day, every day. Finally, a practical rule book for parents! Dr. Bender has captured the most tried-and-true research findings and put them into an easy-to-understand guide. She takes the mystery out of being a good parent. Mary Arredondo, Ph.D. National School Psychologist of the Year, 1995 A gem of a parenting guide. In step-by-step fashion, it shows you how to combine love and discipline in a way that accentuates the positive and minimizes the negative in parent-child relationships. Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., M.P.H. Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of Psychiatry University of Connecticut Health Center |
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I Love You Rituals $14.99 More than 70 fun, easy, brain-building activities are included in this guidebook for parents to dramatically improve children’s behavior, build emotional intelligence, and transform adult-child relationships. Line art. From the Publisher Following the instant acclaim for her book, Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, parenting authority Dr. Becky Bailey helps families take the next step toward harmony at home. Winner of a 1999 Parent’s Guide Children’s Media Award, this guide to fostering loving, stimulating relationships with children presents activities adults can play with children from infancy through age eight. I Love You Rituals are designed to foster four essential goals: — Optimize a child’s brain for school and life success — Increase a child’s cooperation — Hold families together through tough times — Strengthen the adult/child bond that insulates kids from drugs, violence, and peer pressure. Also including important new information on the link between nurturing interaction and brain development, I Love You Rituals includes positive nursery rhymes, interactive finger play, and both soothing and active games. Successful especially with difficult or hard-to-reach children, these rituals provide parents, grandparents, babysitters, and teachers with an inspiring tool to help raise truly great kids. |
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In Short $31.25 with 15 short stories by AviT. A. BarronJoan BauerLarry BogradJoseph Bruchac Donna GamacheKendall HavenRoy Hoffman Trish Holland C. S. PerryessNeal Shusterman Gloria SkurzynskiGene Twaronite Vivian Vande VeldeAngel Vigil While there are many collections of short stories available for young adults, precious few contain instructional support for their teachers. In Short does. With fifteen stories from award-winning authors, such as Avi, Joan Bauer, and T. A. Barron, and teaching suggestions for you, it’s the ideal resource for offering students an entry point into the genre. From parent-child relationships to the hardships of war, the broad scope of these pieces and the practicality of their associated teaching tools provide opportunities to sample the stories for one or two class periods or to fully immerse students over a semester by studying a story a week. Suzanne Barchers introduces each story with a plot summary and information about the author, then presents discussion topics for before, during, and after reading, as well as specific questions to ask your classes and book lists and websites for further information. In Short can be used to study the form of the short story, introduce novels, tackle teen issues, link content across the curriculum, and teach literary elements such as theme, setting, character, and tone. And with its contemporary, diverse stories and powerful teaching tools, it’s bound to be a hit with you and your students. |
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Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia $61 For both ancient Egypt and Iran, as a cultural feature, incestuous relationships are usually dismissed on the grounds that they are only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as representatives for the divine on earth, or that the evidence for such relationships are unreliable. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. This work examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings, and between a parent and child, in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. The book restricts its examination to incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth arguments against the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon. |
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Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context $89.95 It was once assumed that the bedrock concepts of psychology held true for all the world’s peoples. More recently, post-modern approaches to research have expanded on these Western models, building a psychology that takes into account the sociopolitical, historical, religious, ecological, and other indigenous factors that make every culture, as well as every person as agents of their own actions.Indigenous and Cultural Psychology surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with particular focus on Asia. An international team of 28 experts clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), models integrative methods of study, and dispels typical misconceptions about the field and its goals. The results reflect culturally sound frames of reference while remaining rigorous, systematic, and verifiable. These approaches provide a basis for the discovery of true psychological universals.Among the topics featured:Scientific and philosophical bases of indigenous psychologyComparisons of indigenous, cultural, and cross-cultural psychologiesSocialization, parent-child relationship, and familyThe private and public self: concepts from East Asia, Europe, and the AmericasInterpersonal relationships: concepts from East Asia, Europe,, and the U.S.Factors promoting educational achievement and organizational effectiveness in AsiaThe growth and indigenization of psychology in developing and developed countriesAre any values, attitudes, beliefs and traits universal? Cross-national comparisons The potential for indigenous psychology to lead to a global psychologyWith this book, the editors have captured a growing field at a crucial stage in its evolution. Indigenous and Cultural Psychology benefits students and researchers on |
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Instilling The Right Values $5 Are You Frustrated With The Way Your Kid Is Growing Up? Trying To Instill Some Values In Him And Failing? Fret Not! Discover Some Of The Most Effective Ways In Which Your Kid Can Be Set Right…!Learn How You Can Make Your Child Take The Path Of Righteousness… Finally! A Complete Guide That Gives You The Best Tips For Raising Your Child…Make Him Realize His Responsibility And Help Him Be A Smarter Kid! Instilling The Right ValuesIntroducing! A New Parent’s Guide On How To Instill Right Values To Their Child!”Instilling The Right Values”Morethan 41 Pages Of Valuable Information About Everything You Want To Know Instilling The Right Values To Your Child. From  arenting need not be a trying task; in fact, it is meant to be a joy. But how do you control your kids without hurting them or making them feel suppressed? The powerful 40 pages of the eBook, “Parental Control – How To Check Your Kids,” reveals effective parenting technique that will not only enhance your understanding of your children, but will also better your relationships with them.These Are Some Of The Tips You Will Find In The Book : * What Is Parental Control? * Parental Control: Protect Your Child And Computer * Parental Control: Is It Enough? * Using Parental Control Wisely * Online Timers And Parental Control * Parental Control That Extends Beyond Your Internet Service Provider * Parental Control: Should I Create A Screen Name For My Child? * Parental Control: A Child’s View * Parental Control: Different Levels Of Protection * What Can Parental Control Limit? * Parental Control: Online Activity Reports * Parental Control Through Website Browsing * Parental Control And Chat * Parental Control And Email * Parental Control And
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Interparental conflict and adolescent physiological functioning, health, and adjustment. $49.99 The goal of this dissertation was to explore theoretically suggested but previously untested links among parental marital conflict and offspring physiological functioning, adjustment, and physical health. These associations were examined in late adolescence, a developmental period neglected in the relevant literatures. Specifically, this dissertation examined whether marital conflict is associated with dysregulated physiological stress responses to both conflict- and non-conflict-specific stressors, as well as whether marital conflict is associated with greater mental and physical health problems. Additionally tested was whether adolescent conflict appraisals, parent-adolescent relationships, and physiological functioning mediate or moderate the association between marital conflict and adolescent outcomes, and whether these associations vary based on parent and adolescent gender. To achieve these goals, a multi-method, follow-up study was conducted involving families (n = 42) who previously participated in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Parent and adolescent report, observer ratings of marital conflict, adolescent participation in two stressors, and assessment of cortisol and cardiovascular functioning were included.;Results suggest that marital conflict is associated with dysregulated adolescent stress responses and support the habituation hypothesis that marital conflict is associated with dampened physiological stress responses. There was only limited evidence that marital conflict was associated with physical and mental health. In addition, results consistently indicated that conflict appraisals, parent-adolescent relationships, and physiological functioning operated as moderators of the association between marital conflict and adolescent outcomes rather than mediators. There was evidence that conflict appraisals and parent-adolescent relationship quality may buffer the negative effects of marital conflict on adolescents, but also |
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Intricacies Of Manhood $11.95 My ultimate goal when creating “Intricacies of Manhood”, was to try and help preserve the family structure, by offering some insight on some of the most important variables necessary to maintain relationships. There are so many single parent families now a days that it is almost frightening. The family structure has diminished to a dream, in comparison to what was once an entity. Many single mothers, are doing a good job raising children, but they can only offer certain elements of the family structure. It is priceless for a child to be able witness the interaction between his mother and father daily around the house. The way a man respects his woman and vise versa. Or, even when respect isn’t present in the household, it can be as a guide to what is necessary to show respect. There are many single mothers today that are raising there young boys graciously and stern. Showing all that is needed to make it in society, but they have to learn about being a man using bits and pieces of the men that come in and out of their lives, from experiences in their lives, or mentors whom they see on a regular basis. The trouble with that is, they spend most of their time at home with their mom. Now its great to want to be like your mom, because she is hard working, respectable and strong, but its a whole other thing to want to be your mom!Society, as a whole, here in America, is a beautiful place. Full of all of our hopes and dreams, full of are wants and desires and they are all but just a finger tip away from us. We can obtain all of the financial gain we desire if we just work hard. We are taught from an early age to achieve, achieve, achieve and obtain the things that we desire, so that we can become independent. All of this sounds wonderful! Its like a dream or something from a fairytale. I sometimes wonder, is our dream constructive to our inner being, or is it a curse to our morality as people.Some of us have become so independent, that we are consumed by |
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Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century $53.31 In this highly provocative and informed work, Byron L. Sherwin, one of the leading Jewish ethicists of our time, demonstrates how the wisdom of the past — found in classical texts that form Jewish religious tradition — can forcefully address the moral perplexities of the present.In setting out a contemporary agenda for Jewish ethics, Sherwin debunks common misconceptions about Jewish ethics and distinguishes between the ethics of Judaism and various forms of secular and religious ethics. He shows, for example, how the ethics of Judaism and the ethics of Jews often are at odds, how the Judeo-Christian ethic is an obsolete myth, and how Jewish and Christian ethics radically differ both in terms of their theological assumptions and in their applied methodologies.Sherwin delineates a methodology for Jewish ethics, which he applies to a wide variety of issues such as health and healing, euthanasia, reproductive biotechnology, cloning, parent-child relationships, economic justice, repentance or moral rehabilitation, and the relationship between humans and machines.Drawing on a wide range of biblical, rabbinical, Jewish philosophical and kabbalistic sources, Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century links the biblical term image of God to moral freedom, human creativity and the challenge of becoming God’s partner in creation and a coauthor of the Torah. |
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Jigsaw $29.95 Jigsaw is an emotionally charged story of one man”s trek from that of a lost child of the 1960”s to that of a happy healthy grandparent in the new millennium. His journey boomerangs him from Washington, DC to the west and then east coasts of Florida and back and recounts his wayward path and eclectic life and career. The journey leads him through a gamut of social issues and life experiences that are entwined with abuse, alcoholism, marriage, parenting, homosexuality, and relationships, care-giving for an aging parent, career building and personal growth. At 56 years of age the collective experience ultimately delivers the author to a place where he finds peace, and he gives thanks for each of the loving and caring mentors who he had the good fortune to encounter all along the way. |
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Jigsaw $16.95 Jigsaw is an emotionally charged story of one man’s trek from that of a lost child of the 1960′s to that of a happy healthy grandparent in the new millennium. His journey boomerangs him from Washington, DC to the west and then east coasts of Florida and back and recounts his wayward path and eclectic life and career. The journey leads him through a gamut of social issues and life experiences that are entwined with abuse, alcoholism, marriage, parenting, homosexuality, and relationships, care-giving for an aging parent, career building and personal growth. At 56 years of age the collective experience ultimately delivers the author to a place where he finds peace, and he gives thanks for each of the loving and caring mentors who he had the good fortune to encounter all along the way. |
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Know What Your Child Knows $11.24 Know What Your Child Knows unlocks the mystery behind standardized testing and traditional curricula in elementary school reading, math, and language instruction, ultimately helping parents better understand educational jargon and maintain positive and constructive relationships with their child’s teachers.C.E. Crutcher, Ed.D. is a retired teacher who taught in both an elementary school classroom as well as a university environment and acted as a special education consultant for parents of children with special needs. Dr. Crutcher includes specific grade level concepts and expectations, reflects on basic elementary school curriculum, and answers common parents’ questions such as:How do I decide what instruction methods are best for my child?How can I identify and track my child’s progress in core subjects?How can I prepare for parent/teacher conferences?How do I decide when, how, and who to ask for help for my struggling child?Every parent has the power to improve their child’s school experience. The expert advice and guidance offered in Know What Your Child Knows will ensure that every child, no matter what their personal challenges, is successful in school. |
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LEARNING COMPANY 2002 READER RABBIT PER PRESCHOOL DELUXE 2 CD $8.5 Platform: WINDOWS MACINTOSH (CLASSIC) Publisher: LEARNING COMPANY Packaging: JEWEL CASE Rating: AGES: 3-5 With the Personalized Learning Center disc you can check each player s progress on any program that uses the Learning Company s A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology. You can also print out workbooks activities and reward certificates that are customized for each individual player based on his or her progress information. Join Reader Rabbit and his friends on a wonder-filled ride to new and exciting places. This educational play world is filled with letters numbers shapes and more! These activities keep your child engaged and entertained for hours. Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool is an excellent way to prepare your child for Preschool and beyond! Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool features A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology a dynamic system that continually adjusts the program to match your child s growing abilities. A. Assesses AbilitiesD. Develop SkillsA. Adjusts LevelsP. Provides HelpT. Track Progress Learning is always stimulating and never frustrating. A.D.A.P.T is the most effective way to build skills confidence and a life-long love of learning.Skills Learned: Letter Names amp; Sounds Phonics amp; Early Reading Numbers amp; Counting Matching amp; Sequencing Spatial Relationships Simple Arithmetic Shapes amp; Colors Memory amp; Listening Patterns amp; Classifications Logic amp; Prediction Listening Skills Vocabulary Building Creativity Music amp; Songs Features: 60 Interactive amp; Printable Activities More than 35 Skills Covered Sing-along Songs Four Skill Levels Automatic Help Parent s Progress Reports Customized Workbooks amp; Rewards It s perfect for ages 3-5! Windows System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/XP 486/66 MHz or better (Pentium recommended) 15MB free hard drive space 16MB of RAM 2X CD-ROM drive or faster SVGA display and 256 colors Windows compatible sound device and speakers Macintosh System Requirements: |
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Less Stress, More Success $14.95 Co-written by a top college admissions dean and a leading pediatrician, this first-of-its-kind book delivers strategies for surviving the admissions process while strengthening parent-child relationships, managing the stress of applying to college, and building resilience to meet challenges today and in the future. |
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Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com $11.99 “…these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don’t want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life…is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life.” — Jane Smiley, from the foreword The nuclear family peaked in 1960 with 45 percent of the American population. Many decades later, the tidy ensemble is rare. Relationships, baby making, sex, dating, divorce — they aren’t what they used to be. But the mainstream media keeps the reality of American life a secret, only leaking the occasional tidbit to remind us that those in “unconventional” configurations are a sad anomaly to be pitied or ignored. Life As We Know It offers proof in its most engaging form — the personal essay — that the big guys have got it wrong. This collection of blunt, lyrical, and often very funny work from award-winning Salon.com tells the true stories about how we live — of hustling fertility drugs, losing a child, hating dad, and coming to terms with a parent who was the voice of “Frosty the Snowman” on TV. First-time writers and critically acclaimed authors like Amy Bloom, Kathryn Harrison, Susan Straight, and Benjamin Cheever, plumb the familiar to deliver portraits of moments, seasons, and eras that we recognize or long to understand. |
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Love You to Pieces $16 The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome and more. Here, poets, memoirists, and fiction writers paint beautiful, wrenchingly honest portraits of caring for their children, laying bare the moments of rage, disappointment, and guilt that can color their relationships. Parent-child communication can be a challenge at the best of times, but in this collection we witness the struggles and triumphs of those who speak their own language-or don”t speak at all-and those who love them deeply. |
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Magical Parent, Magical Child $17.95 This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today”s turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight. With the goal of raising happy, healthy, intelligent young people, the book adopts proven strategies that allow top athletes and others to perform at high levels, called variously zone, flow, and play. Using these concepts, parents and other caregivers will learn how to create and maintain Optimum Learning Relationships with children of any age. |
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Maintaining LongDistance and CrossResidential Relationships $65.29 This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance.By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties.With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies. |
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Managing Children’s Disruptive Behaviour: A Guide for Practitioners Working with Parents and Foster Parents $111.83 Managing Children’s Disruptive Behaviour is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals and parents who care for children whose behaviour problems are beyond those encountered normally. Arranged in three parts, the book opens by setting out the theoretical background to conduct disorders in a range of settings. Part Two discusses issues in assessment and treatment and explains the background to the ‘Child-Wise’ programmes devised by the authors. Four versions of the Child-Wise programme follow, complete with useful materials for evaluation and homework purposes. This flexible set of resources has been designed for use with children aged between 2 and 10 years and includes versions for use: in group settings; at home; in the classroom; with typical and special needs children. Devised for use by a wide range of professionals, the programmes reduce fraught interactions and restore mutually enjoyable relationships between the carer/parent and the child. There are also further resources available to download from a supporting website Managing Children’s Disruptive Behaviour is an invaluab le tool for psychologists, health visitors, social workers, teachers, and all those whose work involves children and their carers. |
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Mental Health Consultation in Child Care: Transforming Relationships with Directors, Staff, and Families $39.95 Mental Health Consultation in Infant?Toddler Child Care addresses the impact of the caregiver?child relationship on the mental health of young children. As young children spend more and more time in child care programs, those programs have an increasingly significant effect on their healthy social and emotional development. Kadija Johnston and Charles Brinnamen review current theory and offer practical suggestions for improving relationships between program directors, staff, parents, children, and mental-health consultants to help identify and remove obstacles to quality care. The authors also offer real-life examples of effective programmatic functioning, interstaff and parent?staff relationships, and direct child interventions. Mental health professionals at all levels, early childhood educators and trainers, and policy makers will find this book useful guide to making positive changes in the childcare environment. |
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Mental Health Practice for Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model $32.5 Use a strengths perspective for working with your younger clients! Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. This book explores the continuum of children’s needs and challenges from early childhood through adolescence. This text also supports child-centered and strengths-oriented approaches to intervention with children and introduces specific strategies for maximizing pro-social behaviors, self-concept, learning, and positive peer relationships in children at home, at school, and in the community. Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children’s rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children’s status as property in the 1600s to the twentieth-century innovations that give a child a specific legal status with a certain amount of freedom and self-determination. By emphasizing the self-concept and self-esteem guidelines outlined by this book, social workers, mental health specialists, and childcare professionals can help children transition into healthy adults, despite hardships, disabilities, or parent negligence. Chapters highlighting interview and assessment techniques as well as media-directed, creative child therapies will enhance your counseling and intervention practices. Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth provides you with insight on: the relationships between children and family environment—from two-parent families to foster families child socialization and peer relationships—in school and around the community adolescence—gender roles, ethnic and racial diversity, sexual orientation, and adult transitioning educational needs—teacher expectations, special education, diversity, home schooling and more! The strengths perspective is not always included in traditional child |
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Model Practices in Service Delivery in Child and Family Mental Health $59.95 This volume is the product of a combined effort to find programs of service delivery that demonstrably treat the varieties of mental health problems of children and their families. The Section on Clinical Child Psychology (APA, Clinical Psychology Section I) and the Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services (APA, Division 37) established a task force whose mission was to identify, provide recognition for, and disseminate information on such programs.Their findings are presented here. The opening chapter and each section overview chapter provide orientations to the program descriptions and examine characteristics of exemplary interventions. The targeted problems include: child abuse and neglect, school adjustment problems, social problem-solving problems, autism and developmental disabilities, conduct disorders and severe emotional problems, children affected by disasters and trauma, children whose parents are divorced, children of teenage parents, family dysfunction and parent-child relationships, oppositional defiant disorder, and attention deficit disorder. Settings for interventions in the model programs include: schools, mental health centers and family guidance clinics, hospitals and pediatric practices, group homes and sheltered workshops, community centers, family homes, summer camps, and coordinated systems of care. The 18 programs described demonstrate the rationale for their interventions, their targeted populations, the type of staff and personnel, various programmatic interventions, aspects of the problems, implementation of interventions, and how the programs have been evaluated. The needs for improved mental health services remain strong. The supporting organizations and the members of the Task Force intend for the product of this project to be helpful in providing models for meeting those needs. |
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Money and the People You Love: A New Approach to Financial Planning Based on What Matters to You Most $16.95 As a financial adviser, one of the simple truths Bruce Helmer has learned is that relationships are the single greatest influence on how people use their money and plan for the future. When people talk about their hopes and dreams, they talk about the people they love. Their future, the life they wish to live, is always full of the people most important to them. They don?t talk first about dollars and cents, Dow Jones averages, or bond yields. They talk about a spouse, a parent, a child. When imagining their financial futures, even those without family often focus on others, such as employees, friends, faith communities, and charities. In Money and the People You Love Helmer outlines a new way to approach financial planning based on this important and nearly universal principle. |
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Mordecai: An Early American Family $27 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America’s First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront of a new way of exploring our past, one that follows the course of national events through the relationships that speak most immediately to us-between parent and child, sibling and sibling, husband and wife. In Emily Bingham’s sure hands, this family of southern Jews becomes a remarkable window on the struggles all Americans were engaged in during the early years of the republic.Following Washington’s victory at Yorktown, Jacob and Judy Mordecai settled in North Carolina. Here began a three generational effort to match ambitions to accomplishments. Against the national backdrop of the Great Awakenings, Nat Turner’s revolt, the free-love experiments of the 1840s, and the devastation of the Civil War, we witness the efforts of each generation’s members to define themselves as Jews, patriots, southerners, and most fundamentally, middle-class Americans. As with the nation’s, their successes are often partial and painfully realized, cause for forging and rending the ties that bind child to parent, sister to brother, husband to wife. And through it all, the Mordecais wrote-letters, diaries, newspaper articles, books. Out of these rich archives, Bingham re-creates one family’s first century in the United States and gives this nation’s early history a uniquely personal face. |
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Mothering Through Domestic Violence $36.95 Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving positive support to a non-abusive parent for effective child protection. But what exactly does positive support involve? Based on findings from six primary research studies carried out by the authors themselves, as well as other published research, this book reveals how undermining mothering ? specifically, family courts and social work agencies blaming mothers for their own victimization ? plays a key role in locking women into abusive relationships and exacerbating the damage done by domestic violence. It explores the principle message drawn from the research: that the needs of individual victims should inform risk assessment and safety planning by welfare practitioners. Case studies are used to explore key issues that should be considered during assessment and planning, such as the psychological impact on children of living in an abusive household. |
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My Life With Asperger’s $16.95 This book is written to help families and sufferers understand what it is to live with Aspergers Syndrome. Megan Hammond writes from firsthand experience and covers everything from her initial diagnosis to love, family relationships and living as an adult. Includes a chapter from her parent”s point of view in coping with a child who is suffering from Aspergers. |
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My Trip to the Zoo: Interactive Book about Me $13.95 These interactive books will take parents and young children on a reading and writing adventure together. They relive the fun of a special event—a visit to Grandmother’s house, a trip to the zoo, their birthday, or a family holiday—by recording it in these books. Children become the books’ authors as they finish the sentences using their own words and paste photographs or draw pictures to illustrate them. Completing a book helps young and beginning readers improve their vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. Each book also introduces other skills kids can work on such as measuring, comparing, counting, understanding family relationships, expressing emotions, and learning family traditions. Each Interactive Book about Me will bring repeated enjoyment and skill development as children share reading the book aloud with parents, family members, and friends. And when a child’s reading progresses beyond the level of the book, parent and child will have a keepsake that captures a wonderful childhood event. Features • Every book individualized to each young reader • Book about themselves gives kids added motivation to read and write • Engaging reading for children with learning, developmental, or behavioral challenges • Shared activity for parent and child • Resource for teachers, families, child care providers, child therapists What parents and others are saying about the Interactive Book About Me series: “She loved it! Because she helped complete it by drawing pictures and filling in the blanks, it was easy for her to read the pages without having to ask for help.”—Cassandra J., mother of6-year-old “We had a lot of fun doing this together. He really likes to share it with other people.”—Jennifer M., grandmother of 7-year-old “I love the fact that he takes initiative in reading the book to himself, initiating spontaneous speech, and sitting down for |
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Nona: A Different Kind of Motherhood $14.95 Even though Ellen Boneparth had made no place in her life for children, she became in her fifties a different kind of mother-a Nona, a godmother to a Greek young woman. For close to five years, she willingly shared herself and her life with Katerina. Together they learned about American college life, travel, relationships, living in foreign cultures, but mostly they learned about themselves and each other. As they traveled back and forth from California to Greece, they discovered that for a parent and child, growing up means growing apart. This story is not only about a godmother and goddaughter. It’s about families, friends and teachers who helped Katerina build a home away from home. It’s about living on Greek islands, traveling in Europe and Asia, and launching a career after college. It’s about risk-taking and comfort-giving, openness and privacy. Most of all, it’s about mothers and daughters finding their way to an honest and loving relationship. |
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On Their Own $24.95 An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading activist and parent of an adult child with LD. In 2003 Anne Ford (great-granddaughter of Henry Ford) published Laughing Allegra, about the struggles of raising her learning-disabled daughter, and received a flood of letters from parents of children with LD, ADD, and ADHD, many expressing concerns about what to do as their children age. On Their Own is an invaluable road map to ease these parents’ fears and answer their questions, especially the one that haunts them daily: Will or can their child be on their own, and how? In a candid, sympathetic style, laced with real-life stories, the book covers such topics as: – Social skills and dating- Staying healthy- Sibling relationships- Interaction with employers and co-workers- Job hunting- Finding the right college or trade school- Estate planning Also included are a comprehensive resource guide and exclusive interviews with prominent professionals who have surmounted their learning disabilities: CEO’s Sir Richard Branson, John Chambers, David Neeleman, and Charles Schwab, and former governor Gaston Caperton. |
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Only-Child Experience and Adulthood $89 This book presents stories of adult only-childrens’ experience and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face particularly in interpersonal relationships and self-image. The focus is on revealing and making sense of adult only-child experience for only-children and those who live, parent, or work with them professionally. |
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Opening and Operating a Successful Child Care Center $69.95 PERFECT FOR CHILD CARE ADMINISTRATORS AND PROFESSIONALS ALIKE this is an ideal resource for anyone working in the child care industry. With a focus on positive relationships and interactions, this book provides all of the information professionals need to open and operate a successful child care center. Includes how to incorporate computer technology into business, new information on health and nutrition issues, and an expanded section on parent involvement. |
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Painting Butterflies in the Nude $16.99 This collection is an array of stories ranging in topics from a child experiencing the effects of their parent’s alcoholism to the differences that often render sibling relationships estranged to visitations from spirits. The author invites readers to experience the life of nine year old Camille, who struggles with a weight problem and dive into a conversation at a luncheon with five women who identify themselves by the kind of anti-depressant pills they’re prescribed. As Celexa would say, it’s time to stop being numb and really start to deal with life. And these stories do just that…deal with the many issues of life. |
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Parent-child relationships as predictors of change in teacher-child relationships and school connectedness during early adolescence. $102 Corrina A Falkenstein,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by BiblioLabsII |
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Parenting Young Children $85.99 A volume in Lifespan Learning Series Editors: Paris Strom, Auburn University, and Robert D. Strom Arizona State University Parents feel that a fast-paced lifestyle requires constant hurry to complete the next task and causes them to lose control over how time is spent. This environment makes it more difficult to build relationships with their children and teach them to honor priorities, care about others, maintain health, manage conflicts,and achieve balance.Our cross-cultural studies of families have found that the most important gift parents can give their children is spending time together. Being together without multitasking or other interruptions increases sharing, in depth conversations, learning, and closeness. This book shows how to prepare children for school by providing the following experiences.• Parents have a new obligation, introducing their children to the Internet. Parent and child Internet visits are presented for each chapter with guidelines for teaching online. Information about child development stages are provided for parents on additional Web sites. You can link to these Web sites at Information Age Publishing http://www.infoagepub.com/stromyoung-children• Parents and children spend more time watching television together than doing other things. Conversation questions are provided as a tool that parents can use to find out how children interpret events they see and detect learning needs.• Children will more likely become creative adults if they receive support for imagination and curiosity. Examples illustrate the merits of playing alone, playing with friends, and pretending with parents.• Boys and girls like bedtime stories and are motivated to read when they see parents read for pleasure. Children’s books that are recommended for discussion reinforce values parents hope to convey.• Parents are responsible for teaching foundation lessons about socialization. Methods are |
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Parenting an Adult with Disabilities or Special Needs: Everything You Need to Know to Plan for and Protect Your Child’s Future $17.95 Letting your child leave the nest is never easy. If you’re the parent of a child with disabilities or special needs, letting go is even harder. You worry about whether he will be able to make it on his own, and most important, get the help he needs if something goes wrong. How will she perform in her first job? Will she be able to make friends? Many parents are tempted to keep their children at home, believing the children will be safer and happier under their care. But adults with special needs deserve the same chance at a happy life as everyone else. As the mother of an adult child with disabilities, Peggy Lou Morgan has years of expe­rience dealing with the challenges you face every day. She believes the most loving thing parents can do is to prepare their children to leave home in a way that works best for them. In Parenting an Adult with Disabilities or Special Needs, she gives you invaluable advice on: —    teaching your adult child to be a self-advocate —    helping your child cope with relationships —    helping your child find a good vocational program —    finding an apartment and a roommate —    understanding government programs that can help children while they become more independent Compassionate and thorough, this guide will help you make sure that your children leave home with confidence and joy. “Peggy Lou Morgan has tackled that big question—‘Who will love my child after I am gone?’ She sends a dart through the belief that parents can or should rely on the service system to look after their child. While professionals can be helpful, she reminds us of the critical importance of helping our children to connect with family and the larger community.” —    David Pitonyak, Ph.D., founder, Imagine, www.dimagine.com |
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Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach $25 This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups can be an effective medium for early intervention during a period which is critical for the negotiation of a child’s central emotional issues. Parents and Toddlers in Groups demonstrates the particular challenges of the toddler phase and its contribution to an individual’s future development and relationships. Focusing on an approach developed by the Anna Freud Centre and comprising chapters from a range of expert contributors, topics include:the history, theory and practice of parent-toddler groups at the Anna Freud Centrehow this approach has been adapted and applied across a wide range of settings and cultures the findings of research projects carried out on parent-toddler groups. This book will be a valuable resource for practitioners wanting to reach parents and young children in community, educational and a variety of other settings. It will also appeal to child psychotherapists and psychologists working in CAMHS teams. |
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Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach $99 This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups can be an effective medium for early intervention during a period which is critical for the negotiation of a child’s central emotional issues. Parents and Toddlers in Groups demonstrates the particular challenges of the toddler phase and its contribution to an individual’s future development and relationships. Focusing on an approach developed by the Anna Freud Centre and comprising chapters from a range of expert contributors, topics include:the history, theory and practice of parent-toddler groups at the Anna Freud Centrehow this approach has been adapted and applied across a wide range of settings and cultures the findings of research projects carried out on parent-toddler groups. This book will be a valuable resource for practitioners wanting to reach parents and young children in community, educational and a variety of other settings. It will also appeal to child psychotherapists and psychologists working in CAMHS teams. |
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Personal Computers and the Family $24.47 A pioneering volume that explores the new phenomenon of the personal computer and its impact on the family. Family theorists express queries and concerns about the significance of the personal computer upon the organization, values, ideologies, and behavioral practices of family systems. The rich selection of ideas discussed in this groundbreaking book include the impact of computers on family dynamics and development; the family’s response to this new technology; the potential benefits or harm to marital, parent-child relationships, and quality of family life; the use of microcomputers in family therapeutic processes; and the role of personal computers in the delivery of services to families. |
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Puerto Rican kindergarteners’ representation of the self within family relationships: Are they related to their self-worth, child-mother relationship and behavioral adjustment? $49.99 This dissertation is based on children’s narratives in response to the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT; Bretherton and Ridgeway, 1990), conceptualized as an expression of their sense of self-worth in the context of family relationships and coded with the Overall Meaning Segment Based system (OMSB; Gullon-Rivera and Bretherton, 2005). The current study aims to provide additional validation for this coding system by testing three hypotheses grounded in assumptions from attachment theory by: (1) comparing the quality of Puerto Rican children’s self-representations as reflected in their ASCT narratives to their responses of self-worth as expressed in answers to both indirect and direct questions about the self; (2) examining links between children’s ASCT self-representation and their mothers’ perception of the parent-child relationship; and (3) examining whether ASCT self-representations predict children’s socioemotional behavioral adjustment as rated by teachers and mothers. One hundred and five children (51 girls and 54 boys) from 11 kindergarten classrooms located in Lares, Puerto Rico participated in this study. Children were interviewed at their school to assess their sense of self-worth. Parents and teachers evaluated children’s socio-emotional behavioral adjustment. Correlational analyses provided highly significant support for the convergent validity of the ASCT (coded with the OSMB system) as an assessment of young children’s perception of self-worth. Also, the highly significant correlations between maternal ratings of the child’s behavior toward her/his mother and the ASCT self-representation scores were consistent with Bowlby’s (1988) assumption that children’s internal working model of the self reflects the quality of their attachment relationship with the primary caregiver. Furthermore, regression analyses provided strong support for the predictive validity of the ASCT Self-Representation derived from the OSMB coding system. The results of this |
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Raining Stethoscopes and Other Stories $15.73 Although the 9 linked stories of Raining Stethoscopes feature a doctor-narrator and a cast of eccentric patients, the main character is the quirky small town that all these people call home. A rowdy giant, a hermit, runners, gardeners, dreamers, and a heat-emitting truck driver are just a few of the peculiar residents of this extraordinary community. The dynamism of human relationships – parent & child, husband & wife, priest & sinner, doctor & patient – is highlighted. In these tales, twists abound. It’s hard to know the truth. Intuition is treacherous. Miracles are in short supply. Hope saves the day. |
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Raising Athletic Stars $9 Learn how student athletes can become an Athletic Star.improve your child’s play on and off of the field or court… Learn how two brothers with very awkward beginnings grew up the be the nations most sought after athletes, earning Division 1 scholarships. Learn how professional athletes and Olympians grew up to become Athletic Stars with little athletic ability.As a single parent who raised two boys into remarkable men, Ted calls upon first-hand experience to help you stress what is really important to raising your athlete to become an Athletic Star: i.e., developing attitudes and habits, skills and strength that build confidence and diminish diffidence, that develop a healthy love and respect that starts within and includes one’s self. Parents appreciate Ted’s advice on nutrition, proper training techniques that will improve your athletes skill levels, successful marketing tips for college recruiting and much more!Even if your child doesn’t envision a sports career, Raising Athletic Stars is a great tool. It’s chapters on learning. Playing, Teamwork, and Competing provide an easy framework that applies equally to non-sports related relationships. |
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Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy $16 Naomi Aldort PhD,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Naomi Aldort, PhD |
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Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy $18 Naomi Aldort,Paperback – New Edition, English-language edition,Pub by Naomi Aldort |
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Raising Young Children Well $11.64 Recipes for success with early childhood’s most difficult issues, from the experts at the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center. Ever wonder how to keep your cool when your child is all steamed up? What to do to support your child in the face of divorce and loss? How to get a toddler to go to sleep? This collection of the best articles from the award-winning Parent & preschooler Newsletter offers specific advice, respected research, and simple real-life examples to guide parents and professionals through the trials and tribulations of early childhood. Expert contributors discuss a wide variety of topics, including how to deal with a stubborn child; how to face the hair-raising moments of parenthood; and why good sibling relationships can improve your child’s attitude in preschool and beyond. Written in an intelligent and supportive style, this book helps readers gain a practical understanding of complex developmental and family issues. Developed by the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, an organization that is nationally recognized for its commitment to children and families, this collection is an invaluable tool for parents and professionals. |