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1-2-3 Magic

Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (3rd ed.)

Thomas W Phelan

Offers parents simple and effective discipline methods for children ages 2-12. A proven bestseller, the book addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience. Highly recommended by many professionals who work with children.

22x16cm

212 pages

$23.00

1-2-3 Magic for Kids

Helping Your Children Understand the New Rules

Thomas W Phelan & Tracy M Lewis

Presents the popular 1-2-3 Magic parenting program from a child's point of view, providing kids with a thorough understanding of the disciplinary system - from the counting and time-out methods parents will be using to how better behavior benefits the entire family and leaves more time for play. Storytelling portions are coupled with copious illustrations to help describe the basic tenets of 1-2-3 Magic.

22x16cm

97 pages

$15.95

Activities On The Go

One-On-One Fun for Kids and Adults

Kate Brielmaier

This compact, portable guide is packed with creative activities that are guaranteed to strengthen bonds between adult and child through simple, low-prep, low-cost suggestions designed to reinforce one-to-one relationships. The varied ideas include a trip to the local library for favorite books to share, learning how to ice skate, snowshoeing at a nearby park, volunteering at a soup kitchen, and writing a one-act play and performing it for family or neighbors. Intended for a parent who wants to mix things up, a mentor looking for fresh ideas, or a counselor needing to break the ice, this pocket resource offers quick and effective ideas for meaningful and enjoyable interaction with a child.

14x14cm

110 pages

$17.95

Ages & Stages

A Parent's Guide to Normal Childhood Development

Charles Schaefer & Theresa Roy DiGeronimo

In a parent's guide to normal childhood development, the founder of the Play Therapy Association presents tips and techniques to foster children's growth in five major areas of psychological health: emotional, cognitive, friendship/relationships, personal growth, and morality.

23x19cm

240 pages

$47.95

All Families Are Different

Sol Gordon

Is there such a thing as a "normal" family? Young people need to understand and appreciate that when it comes to families, they are all different.

22x22cm

50 pages

$26.00

Ask Me

Antje Damm

This is a little book with big ideas. Sometimes provocative, always interesting, every page can be the start of a new discussion. Reading the questions (verso of page)and looking at the pictures,(recto side) each child will have different answers to give and things to ask. This is an invitation for parents and chidren alike to open their minds.
Here are opportunities to build conversation and discussion skills, develop language and social skills. Pictures to interpret, questions to talk about - What are you afraid of? Have you ever mended something that was broken? Have you ever made your own toys? When do eat up everything on your plate? and heaps more.

15x15cm

230 pages

$24.95

Attachment Connection

Parenting a Secure & Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory

Ruth Newton

Studies in the 1950s revealed that young children hospitalized without their parents respond first by crying for them, then by showing signs of despair, and finally by emotionally detaching from the parents and acting indifferent to their absence. This detachment is hard to repair and highly detrimental to a child's development-most children who feel they cannot rely on their parents grow up to become more emotionally insecure and less self-assured than their peers. This book sorts out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child, particularly during the first five years of development, can help him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. You'll discover how your child's brain is developing at each stage of growth and learn to use reasonable, easy-to-implement guidelines based on sound science to foster secure attachment, healthy social skills, and emotional regulation in your child.

22x15cm

223 pages

$26.00

Baby on Board

Understanding what your baby needs

Howard Chilton

Provides essential advice and explanations for parents, from the day of birth through the first months of babyhood. Includes reassuring medical information, a discussion of important issues that require parents' decisions, and a fascinating description of the evolutionary background to the needs of babies.
Debunks common myths - explores significant issues such as breastfeeding, circumcision, colic, immunisation, SIDS, postnatal depression and sleeping with your baby provides insights into a baby's senses and what they can perceive - explains how babies lead their parents into becoming willing personal slaves - outlines a timetable of development for baby's first year - shows how everyone can get enough sleep! AUSTRALIAN

23x16cm

224 pages

$22.95

Becoming Parents

How to Strengthen Your Marriage as your Family Grows

Pamela Jordan, Stanley Scott and Howard Markm

Offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real life examples, this book challenges new parents to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship.

16x23cm

336 pages

$37.95

Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years

Laura Davis and Janis Key

Nine principles for the parenting journey - children's feelings, children's bodies, dealing with difficult behaviour, social learning and play, family relationships, growimg up, growing together.

24x19cm

448 pages

$36.00

Birth Order Book

Why You Are the Way You Are

Kevin Leman

Birth order powerfully influences who you are, who you marry, the job you choose, and the kind of parent you are. With insight and wit, this classic book will help you understand yourself, get along better with others, overcome ingrained tendencies you never thought you could get rid of, and be more successful in the workplace.

22x14cm

362 pages

$28.00

Boys of Few Words

Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect

Adam J. Cox

When parents feel separated from their sons by a curtain of silence or a wall of resistance, they're right to be concerned. Boys of few words--the ones who limit their expression to a timid shrug or an indifferent grunt--need our help. Whether the problem is rooted in "nature" or "nurture," boys who grow up unable to talk about their thoughts and feelings find it hard to connect with others at school, home, and eventually in business and personal relationships. Psychologist Adam J. Cox helps parents understand all the factors that may be limiting their son's ability or willingness to communicate--from social pressures to brain differences, from personality traits to a simple lack of vocabulary. Based on these insights, parents can choose specific strategies to help their son improve the language and social skills needed to express himself.

$29.95

Challenging Child

Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children

Stanley I Greenspan

Helps parents dealing with all types of difficult children. Reveals the parenting patterns to avoid and helps adults tailor their approach to a child's particular needs.

24x15cm

336 pages

$30.00

Children are People Too

A Parent's Guide to Young Children's Behaviour, 4th Edition

Louise Porter

Should we reward ‘good’ behaviour and punish the ‘bad’? Should we award children stars on a chart when they do as they are told but send them to a “naughty step” when they disobey?
Although popular and sometimes effective in the short term, this book explains why a controlling approach to children’s behaviour usually results in more work for parents and long-term problems for children. The child psychologist author advocates a guidance approach to raising children that will result in their being more confident, considerate, co-operative, and independent.

23x15cm

284 pages

$29.95

Creating Resilient Families

Andrew Fuller

a set of 40 illustrated advice sheets that offer parents practical solutions to the problems they deal with in raising children aged 10-18 years. From the everyday debate over pocket money, homework and bedrooms to the serious issues of relationships, depression and youth suicide, Creating Resilient Families offers parents practical solutions to common problems of parenting teenagers. Based on Andrew Fuller's popular book Raising Real People, each topic is a laminated blackline master, for use by schools, which can be reproduced and handed out to parents. Full of humour and insight, psychologists, counsellors, teachers and parent educators will also find these advice sheets indispensable.

28x22cm

40 pages

$39.95

Creative Parenting Now in 3

Your Three-Part Guide to a Great Family

Michael H Popkin

In just three chapters, shows how you can improve your family life and make the job of parenting easier.
Communication and Co-operation
Discipline and Responsibility
Power, Courage and Self-esteem

22x18cm

152 pages

$22.00

Daughters And Their Dads

Tips for fathers, women, husbands and father-figures

Bruce Robinson

discusses the importance of fathers and father-figures in a daughter's life. Topics include beauty, confidence, respect, drugs, peer pressure, curiosity, values, faith, dad dates, special trips, how women can resolve issues with their fathers and dealing with separation. It contains quotes from over 400 personal interviews with prominent men and women, including Test cricketers, Olympians, prime ministers, media personalities, Nobel laureates, Premiers and five Australians of the Year students as well as prostitutes, refugees, nurses, carpenters, convicts, musicians, authors and many others.

24x15cm

290 pages

$34.95

Dealing With Disappointment

Helping kids cope when things don't go their way

Elizabeth crary

Who's responsible for happiness? Is it your obligation as a parent to make your cAnd worse yet, if you put too much effort into preventing or reducing your child's dissatisfaction with homework, chores or other parts of our daily routine, your children do not develop the skills they need to handle frustration and disappointment. This practical, easy-to-read guide walks parents through the concept of emotional competency, which begins by teaching children to identify and acknowledge their feelings. Then it provides exercises and examples that demonstrate how children--even toddlers--can cope with their, emotions, using self-calming techniques (exercise or a few minutes with a favorite book, for example) and problem-solving tools. Parents who too often find themselves overwhelmed by frustrated children will appreciate the step-by-step recommendations. Crary's straightforward suggestions will help you survive emotional meltdowns--and think through how to prevent future problems. She also identifies how a parent's role changes as children grow and become better able to handle disappointments. hildren happy?

23x15cm

137 pages

$25.00

Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child

Maurice Elias and others

breaks the mold of traditional parenting books by taking into account the strong role of emotions -- those of parents and children -- in psychological development. With this book, parents will learn how to communicate with children on a deeper, more gratifying level and how to help them successfully navigate the intricacies of relating to others. The authors take the five basic principles of Daniel Goleman's best-seller, Emotional Intelligence, and explain how they can be applied to successful parenting. To this end, the book offers suggestions, stories, dialogues, activities, and a special section of Sound EQ Parenting Bites to help parents use their emotions in the most constructive ways, focusing on such everyday issues as sibling rivalry, fights with friends, school situations, homework, and peer pressure. In the authors' extensive experience, children respond quickly to these strategies, their self-confidence is strengthened, their curiosity is piqued, and they learn to assert their independence while developing their ability to make responsible choices.

21x14cm

272 pages

$24.00

Engage Every Parent

Encouraging Families to Sign On, Show Up, and Make a Difference [With CDROM]

Nancy Tellett-Royce

Offering indispensable advice, this authoritative guide explores how teachers, program leaders, coaches, and other youth workers can forge partnerships with families and encourage meaningful parental involvement. Inspirational stories and icebreaker suggestions are combined with fun activities and reproducible handouts, all designed to increase parental communication. Event planning, volunteer recruitment, and sustaining parental participation are concisely addressed as are the topics of appropriate conduct, helping young people through transitional periods, complimenting parents and children, and setting boundaries. This title includes a CD-ROM of more than 40 reproducible pages from the book.

27x21cm

125 pages

$60.00

Enneagram of Parenting

The 9 Types of Children and How to Raise Them Successfully

Elizabeth Wagele

Using her expertise in presenting the Enneagram in an accessible way, Wagele presents an encouraging and fun look at how the Enneagram can help parents work with children's personality traits and behavioral patterns in a more effective and creative manner.

23x19cm

165 pages

$30.00

Every Parent

A Positive Approach to Children's Behaviour - New ed

Matthew Sanders

Written by the founder of the Triple P Parenting Program, used throughout the world, this comprehensive parenting book is specifically useful on common behavioural and developmental problems in children. Advises when a child's behaviour signals more serious long term problems. Issues addressed include: infants and toddlers with a fear of strangers, whining, wandering, disobedience, sharing problems, tantrums, sleeping and bedtime problems; pre-schoolers who do not comply, constantly interrupt, have feeding problems, need guidance on how to behave at specific times; school-age children who have problems with homework, disruptive behaviour in school, swearing, lying, sportsmanship, bedwetting, bullying and much more. Australian

23x16cm

$35.00

Explosive Child

A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Ross Greene

A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviours, this book has recently been updated to include the most recent research.
Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. Most of these parents have tried everything – – reasoning, behaviour modification, therapy, medication – but to no avail. Greene shows explosive children suffer from a physiological deficiency in frustration tolerance and flexibility. He demonstrates why traditional treatments don't work and offers a new conceptual framework for understanding their behaviour, along with new language to describe it. He explains the latest neuroscience findings about the importance of flexibility, and, most important, he shows parents specific, practical ways they can recognize the signs of an impending explosion, defuse tension, and reduce frustration levels for the entire family.

21x16cm

298 pages

$26.00

Fathering From the Fast Lane

Practical ideas for busy dads

Bruce Robinson

This book presents practical and straightforward ways for fathers to improve this situation and rethink their priorities. In this collection of valuable fathering ideas, over 75 busy men (from pig farmers to the Prime Minister) speak about how they balance demanding jobs with being a good dad.
Some of the common questions addressed in the book are: How can I make better use of my limited time with my kids? - How can I know if I'm doing a good job of being a dad? - What do children need from their father? - What have other busy men done to be effective dads?

22x15cm

256 pages

$24.95

Five Love Languages of Children

Gary Chapman

Each child expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. A parent's love language may be totally different from that of his or her child, which causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings. With the help of this book, adults can discover their child's primary language and learn what they can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in their child's emotions and behavior.

23x15cm

224 pages

$28.00

Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids

Suzette Haden Elgin

Based on her proven techniques, Elgin gives parents, teachers, youth workers, law enforcement personnel, and anyone who needs to talk effectively with kids of all ages a revolutionary system of language behavior to make life easier. Easy-to-use instructions are clearly laid out for dealing with day-to-day issues.

23x15cm

208 pages

$24.95

Girls Will Be Girls

Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

Joann Deak

Mary Pipher told about the problems girls face in "Reviving Ophelia"; now in "Girls Will Be Girls, " Deak gives readers the solutions. Deak looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls.

20x12cm

287 pages

$24.95

Good Enough Child

How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied

Brad Sachs

A respected author and acclaimed psychologist helps parents come to terms with their unrealistic expectations for their children.

20x13cm

352 pages

$31.00

Happy Families

Insights into the art of parenting

Steve Bowkett and others

Young people are entering a world that requires more than straight ‘A’s (if it ever did) and yearns for the well rounded, multiply intelligent, creative and mature individual that can manage change and complexity without getting upset, petulant and stomping off in a huff. The focus in this informative, entertaining and ultimately practical book is very straight forward: to provide parents with practical skills, based on solid research, to assist their children to become, not only life long learners, but live a long and happy learned life.

23x16cm

152 pages

$32.00

Help Your Child Develop Emotional Literacy

The parents' guide to happy children

Betty Rudd

This book focuses on developing important qualities such as emotional awareness, confidence and self-motivation. It outlines simple steps to teach your child how to manage their feelings, behave appropriately and learn from their experiences. Packed full of tips, examples and fun activities, this easy-to-follow guide will give you the tools and confidence to nurture your child’s emotional and mental wellbeing right from the start. Perfect for parents and carers, this book will also be a source of inspiration to teachers, teaching assistants, counsellors, psychotherapists and anyone wanting to boost a child’s emotional wellbeing

22x15cm

128 pages

$39.95

Helping Your Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Step-By-Step Workbook for Families

Stephanie Lockshin, Jennifer Gillis & Raymond Romanczyk

This workbook teaches parents how to improve their children's functioning at home and increase their social function and independence while emphasizing the importance of taking care of the family as a whole.

28x22cm

227 pages

$36.00

How Much Is Enough?

Everything You Need to Know to Steer Clear of Overindulgence and Raise Likeable, Responsible, and Respectful Children

Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson & David Bredehoft

All parents, regardless of age, income, or marital status, have the same goal-to do the best possible for their child. But despite one's good intentions, the life-enhancing abundance heaped on our children often becomes more than they need or can handle, and the line is crossed into overindulgence.
Reveals the three different ways children are overindulged (giving too much, being over-nurturing, and providing soft structure), guide parents in determining whether they're doing something overindulgent, and show them how to do things differently. The truth is that overindulgence is not the badge of a bad parent; in fact, it comes directly from having a good and generous heart. Based on solid, groundbreaking research involving 1,200 parents and their children, How Much is Enough? gives parents the insight and advice they need to parent in an effective and loving way and put their children on track for a happy and successful life.

23x16cm

314 pages

$27.00

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk

20th anniversary edition

Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish

Looking for the parenting book we sell most of? This is it! Now in its 20th anniversary edition.
The down-to-earth, respectful approach outlined makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Full of practical, innovative ways to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.

20x14cm

286 pages

$28.00

Is Your Child Ready For School?

A Guide for Parents

Dr Ivan Beale, Dr Sandra Heriot

Shows parents how to prepare their child for school and how to nourish curiosity so that learning is a positive and pleasurable experience.
It will help parents understand how their child learns and what they can do to make learning happen as easily and effectively as possible, regardless of the child's natural strengths or weaknesses

20x15cm

$20.00

It's a Boy!

Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

Michael Thompson

This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide shows how a boy's inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
What do boys actually need? How does a healthy boy look and act? This book has the answers, providing expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years.

24x20cm

456 pages

$52.95

Kids Skills

Ben Furman

Primary and Pre-School Teachers, Early Childhood Workers, Psychologists and Parents: here are solution-focused approaches adapted especially for children. This radical book is based on the notion that practically all problems can be seen as skills that need to be developed. The book is buzzing with ideas, stories and suggestions to inspire adults and invite children to become active participants in skill-building and solution-finding.

24x16cm

245 pages

$31.95

Kids, Parents and Power Struggles

Mary Sheedy Kurkinka

Effective strategies that will help you stay connected with your child, bring down the intensity, understand why your child is misbehaving, stop the tantrums, and, win for a lifetime!

20x13cm

317 pages

$26.00

Lessons From My Child

Parents' experiences of life with a disabled child

Cindy Dowling, Neil Nicoll, & Bernadette Thomas

A collection of stories gathered from parents of special-needs children from around the world. In their own words, these parents speak openly and honestly about raising a child with intellectual or physical disabilities - the sleepless nights, the long periods of sadness, the tiny triumphs and the ongoing battle to ensure that their child assumes his or her rightful place in the world. The stories are grouped into chapters that reflect the main stages of many parents' journeys as they move from grief, denial and anger to a point where they can accept their situation, and perhaps see their child's disability as embodying a profound life lesson. Each chapter begins with an expert psychological commentary on what parents may be experiencing at that stage.

22x15cm

216 pages

$24.95

Liberated Parents, Liberated Children

Your Guide to a Happier Family

Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Brings to life the principles of famed child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, and shows how his theories inspired the changes they made in their relationships with their own children.
Provide moving and convincing testimony to the author's new approach and lays the foundation for the parenting workshops they subsequently created that have been used by thousands of groups worldwide to bring out the best in both children and parents.
Wisdom, humor, and practical advice are the hallmarks of this indispensable book that demonstrates the kind of communication that builds self-esteem, inspires confidence, encourages responsibility, and makes a major contribution to the stability of today's family.

20x14cm

272 pages

$29.95

Multicoloured Mayhem

Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescents and Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD

Jacquie Jackson

Jacqui Jackson has seven children. Luke (author of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome) has Asperger Syndrome, Joe has ADHD, and Ben has autism. Life is anything but straightforward, but the chaos of the Jacksons' lives is threaded through with humor and common sense. Full of anecdotes and lively thinking, the book explains vividly what it is like to parent young people with such a range of conditions, and provides a wealth of helpful and creative advice for other parents and carers. Anyone who has wondered what life in such a family might be like will be fascinated.

231x16cm

256 pages

$35.95

No More Misbehavin'

38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them

Michele Borba

In this much-needed book child-rearing expert Dr. Borba identifies the top 38 bad behaviors in children and shows how to change them. In a simple-to-use format, she reveals how to confront and solve these behaviors step-by-step.

22x14cm

352 pages

$23.95

On Their Own

Boys growing up underfathered

Rex McCann

In On Their Own, men in Australia and New Zealand relate how they were affected by the experience of growing up without the active involvement of a father. The book considers the needs of young men as they mature, the passage from boyhood to manhood, and the roles of fathers and mothers.
On Their Own looks at: The importance of fathers, Growing up without a father, Growing up underfathered, Mending father-son relationships, New ways of fathering.

21x14cm

240 pages

$24.95

Parent's Treasure Chest

Exploring the path to resilience

Constance Jenkin and Anne McGenniss

Parents can give their children many gifts that will help them lead satisfying, enjoyable and interesting lives. This charmingly presented book is a practical guide to help parents achieve this as they journey with their children along the pathway of life. Being a parent is challenging and demanding and how we tackle problemss, deal with adversity, celebrate success and enjoy life influences how our children live their lives. Written by two Australian authors this book explains how to build the emotional intelligence of children and families so that when things get tough they can bounce back from adversity and maintain close and loving relationships.

23x23cm

52 pages

$24.95

Parenting by Heart

How to Stay Connected to Your Child in a Disconnected World. Rev ed

Ron Taffel with Melinda Blau

Showing what actually works rather than what theoretically "should" work, here are hundreds of step-by-step, tested solutions that will help make parents feel more confident about how to instill values, be in charge, and stay connected with today's kids in these modern and often difficult times.

20x14cm

302 pages

$30.00

Parenting for a Peaceful World

Robin Grille

"Parenting for a Peaceful World" is a fascinating look at how child-rearing customs have shaped societies and major world events. It reveals how children adapt to and are influenced by different parenting styles and how safeguarding their emotional development is the key to creating a more peaceful, harmonious, and sustainable world. Practical advice for raising a well-adjusted child includes tips on: Supporting your child's developing emotional intelligenceUnderstanding how your childhood has influenced your own emotional make-upHelping you achieve your full parenting potential "Parenting for a Peaceful World" is for parents, child health professionals, teachers, and adults seeking to heal and grow. Robin Grille is an internationally renowned author, speaker, educator, psychologist, and psychotherapist specializing in child development, parenting issues, and family relationships

24x16cm

400 pages

$35.00

Parenting for Character

Equipping your child for life

Andrew Mullins

Argues that parents need to help build character: it does not just evolve. Explores how to encourage young people to think independently and make choices that are good for themselves and others. Young people are damaged by too readily accepting their peer group's values or messages from the media. They are able to take control of their lives once they acquire well-developed habits of thinking, decision-making and acting. The advice is clear and simple: lead by example, ensure that good habits are encouraged repeatedly, nurture the spiritual dimension in your life, and show love and affection to your partner and children.
The book draws on parenting principles from classical times to the present and offers advice from many sources including Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Confucius, Cicero, Goethe, Winston Churchill and John Paul II.

22x15cm

192 pages

$24.95

Parenting from the Inside Out

Daniel J Seigel

Drawing upon stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, Siegel and Hartzell explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent.

23x15cm

272 pages

$24.00

Parenting Skills Treatment Planner

Sarah Edison Knapp, Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr.

The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal review agencies. A critical tool for mental health professionals addressing today’s complex family structures and the increased pressures on children and adolescents from school, peers, and the general culture Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the freedom to develop customized treatment plans for parents and other caregivers Organized around 31 main presenting problems with a focus on giving parents the skills they need to effectively help their children navigate contemporary issues such as the trauma associated with divorce, school pressures, and sexual abuse Over 1,000 well-crafted, clear statements describe the behavioral manifestations of each relational problem, long-term goals, short-term objectives, and clinically tested treatment options Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem or DSM-IVTR™ diagnos

311 pages

$89.95

Parenting that Works

Building Skills That Last a Lifetime

Edward Christophersen, Susan Mortweet & Herbert Daughtry

Clinical psychologist Christophersen and child psychologist Mortweet show parents how to model and reward positive behaviors and avoid the need for ineffective, punitive discipline.

21x14cm

356 pages

$34.00

Parenting Tough Kids

Simple, Proven Strategies to Help Kids Succeed

Mark Le Messurier

Simple, proven strategies to improve the behavior, organization, learning, and emotional well-being of all children.Parents will find case studies and practical ideas to help youngsters improve memory and organization, complete homework and chores more easily, deal with school bullies, build emotional resilience, and create healthy friendships.

28x22cm

153 pages

$46.95

Parenting with Love and Logic

Teaching Children Responsibility

Foster Cline & Jim Fay

advice to help parents raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the world by teaching them responsibility and the logic of life, thereby giving them the opportunity to solve their own problems from the earliest possible age.

24x16cm

271 pages

$39.95

Positive discipline A-Z

Jane Nelsen

Hundreds of solutions for almost every classroom behaviour problem. The 17 fundamental tools of positive discipline and suggestions for establishing and maintaining respectful, nurturing relationships with students.

127 pages

$34.00

Positive Discipline for Single Parents

Nurturing Cooperation, Respect, and Joy in Your Single-Parent Family

Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, Carol Delzer

Using everyday examples, the authors show how to redefine the parenting role and set the stage for teamwork.

23x19cm

272 pages

$34.00

Positive discipline: the first three years

The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child (Revised)

Jane Nelsen

With information on everything from communicating with infants to potty training toddlers, this classic title in the bestselling Positive Discipline series shows parents how to use kind but firm support to raise a child who is both capable and confident.

23x19cm

292 pages

$30.00

Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World

Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School

Katharine Beals

Does your child:

- Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
- Prefer to spend time with adults or alone rather than with other kids?
- Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
- Seem uncomfortable with unstructured play or social engagements?

If you answered "yes" to some or all of these questions, you may be raising a left-brain child. Bright, eccentric, and socially awkward, these are children whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche--what is commonly referred to as the "left brain"--as opposed to the "right brain" which is our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side. Left-brain kids are often found on the margins of the classroom and the playground, the ones who tend not to fit in with their peers but have rich interior and intellectual lives.
This book offers a new understanding of left-brain kids and practical strategies for nurturing and supporting them, both at school and at home.

23x15cm

232 pages

$30.00

Raising a Thinking Child

Help Your Young Child to Resolve Conflicts and Get Along with Others

Myrna Shure

Based on years of research, this unique childrearing guide--which has been featured on Oprah--offers the renowned I-Can-Problem-Solve (ICPS) program which teaches children as young as four how to think in order to solve problems and understand their own and others' feelings.

20x13cm

224 pages

$28.00

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

John Gottman

Gottman draws on his studies of more than 120 families to zero in on the parenting techniques that ensure a child's emotional health. He then translates his methods into an easy, five-step "emotional coaching" program designed to help parents enrich the bond between themselves and their children.

21x14cm

240 pages

$26.00

Raising Boys

Why boys are different - and how to help them become happy and well-balanced men, 2nd edition

Steve Biddulph

In Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph looks at the most important issues in boys' development from birth to manhood - and discusses the warm, strong parenting and guidance that boys need.
This updated edition features new information on boys and hearing, and includes a section on choosing a school that is a good one for boys. In Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph helps parents better understand what makes boys tick, and how to help them be happy, loving and capable. He brings his humour, honesty and practical knowledge of families to the vital task of raising our sons - and discusses: The three stages of boyhood, and how to make them go smoothly. How boys' brains are different. Understanding boys' vulnerabilities and how to overcome them. Testosterone! How it changes behaviour and what to do about it. How mothers teach boys about life and love. The five essentials that fathers provide (and what to do if you're a single mum). Common diseases of boys, such as 'kitchen blindness' and 'dyslaundria'. How to help boys learn a caring attitude to sex. How we can teach boys to be happy, confident and kind. Eight major changes schools must make to be good places for boys. Sport - encouraging the right values in boys. How adult communities can help boys become fine men.

23x16cm

220 pages

$24.95

Raising Girls

Understanding how girls are different - and what they need to grow up happy and strong

Preuschoff

In this straightforward and thought-provoking book, psychologist and parenting author Gisela Preuschoff considers the understandings that parents require to raise girls today. The book focusses on girls' emotional and physical development, their education, social conditioning and their relationships with parents and siblings. Raising Girls also discusses the emotional and behavioural differences between girls and boys, and helps parents to gain practical understandings of their daughter from birth through to the teenage years. Raising Girls includes a foreword by Steve Biddulph, who rates this the best book on parenting girls he has seen. Using a warm and conversational approach, similar to Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys, Gisela Preuschoff communicates in an accessible way to parents, injecting her own experiences as a mother. The book also includes stories from the experiences of Australian families. Her advice ranges from birth to late adolescence - and across issues to do with physical and sexual development, girls and learning, parent-child relationships and the daughter's emotional life. (See Contents list below.)

23x16cm

192 pages

$22.95

Raising Resilient Children

Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child

Robert Brooks, Sam Goldstein

The perfect book for parents who want their children to readily handle life's difficulties and see the world with an optimistic outlook. An excellent chapter on the school-parent-child partnership. These highly regarded authors discuss seeing strengths and solutions rather than focusing on deficits and hegatives. Excellent book!

16x23cm

336 pages

$29.95

Real Wired Child

What parents need to know about kids online

Michael Carr-Gregg

Few parents would let their children wander the streets at all hours or meet with strangers, but kids do that and more on the internet without even leaving their bedrooms.
Do you know the people your daughter chats with online every night? Is your son being cyberbullied? Have you seen the videos your kids are downloading?
This book explains what kids get up to, provides guidelines for family internet safety and advises how to minimise the risks without limiting your children's freedom to learn, explore and communicate online. Encourages parents to venture online and get in touch with their children's day to day online lives.

16x14cm

188 pages

$19.95

Rewards for Kids!

Ready-To-Use Charts and Activities for Positive Parenting

Virginia M Shiller

With positive advice and guidance, this book provides parents with a variety of exercises and activities to improve their parenting skills, along with a selection of ready-to-use charts.

28x22cm

176 pages

$39.95

Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child

Eliminating Conflict by Establishing CLEAR, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries.

Robert MacKenzie

Inside are proven techniques and procedures that provide a refreshing alternative to the ineffective extremes of punishment and permissiveness. Parents and teachers alike will discover how to effectively motivate the strong-willed child and achieve cooperation.

21x14cm

288 pages

$30.00

Seven Common Sins of Parenting an Only Child

A Guide for Parents and Families

Carolyn White

As the parent of an only child, are you frustrated because you find yourself overindulging and overcompensating? Do you treat your child like an adult, overpraise, or overprotect him? Have you expected perfection from your child yet failed to make rules and implement them consistently? If you are not a perfect parent of an only child, you are not alone. Based on the real-life experiences of Carolyn White--editor of "Only Child," parent, and educator--and hundreds of interviews with only children and parents of only children, "The Seven Common Sins of Parenting an Only Child" celebrates the special rewards and opportunities of the single-child family and offers a practical (and often humorous) guide for overcoming the most common errors parents can make when rearing an only child.

22x15cm

190 pages

$22.95

Siblings Without Rivalry

Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Just the most popular book on sibling rivalry, this book challenges the idea that constant, unpleasant conflict among siblings is natural and unavoidable and uses action-oriented, accessible anecdotes and stories to show parents the many ways to teach children to get along.

20x14cm

272 pages

$24.00

Thriving at School

A practical guide to help your child enjoy the crucial school years. Second Edition

John Irvine and John Stewart

This easy-to-read, practical guide is designed to help parents develop their children's attitudes, values and good habits and so help them become happy and effective learners. Chapters on choosing a school, is your child ready for school, managing in the classroom and playground, getting on well with others, nutrition and homework are all considered in this very useful book for parents.

22x15cm

224 pages

$24.95

Towards Parenthood

Preparing for the Changes and Challenges of a New Baby

Jeannette Milgrom and others

This guidebook aims to assist parents manage the complex demands of parenting. An additional aim is to strengthen the couple relationship and the relationship between parents and infants. Skills in coping, problem-solving, enhancing self-esteem, assertive communication, bonding with your baby and understanding your baby's cues are presented.
The program has been extensively piloted with Australian families. Focus groups have been conducted and the program has been revised to incorporate their feedback. Overall, parents who were involved in the program told us they both enjoyed and gained from it.
Prof. Jeannette Milgrom, Jennifer Ericksen, Dr Brownyn Leigh, Yolanda Romeo, Elizabeth Loughlin, Bella Saunders and Rachael McCarthy are current and past members of the Parent–Infant Research Institute (PIRI) team at Austin Health, Victoria.

30x22cm

144 pages

$34.95

Trauma-Proofing Your Kids

A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

Peter Levine

The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive, and withdrawn children is staggering--and still growing. "Trauma-Proofing Your Kids" sends a lifeline to parents who wonder how they can help their worried and troubled children. This work offers simple but powerful tools to keep children safe.

22x15cm

235 pages

$34.00

Tricky Kids

Transforming conflict and freeing their potential

Andrew Fuller

Every day, many parents and teachers struggle with challenging (and lovable) children who have willful personalities. These are often kids who are stubborn, defiant, determined, free-spirited or just plain difficult. Yet while they may be hard work, they are often the movers and shakers of the future. Many of history's great achievers, political leaders and national figures were forceful children.
How can parents and teachers learn to manage these kids, and help them to change and develop the positive life habits - including an awareness of others, dealing with anger, staying focused and forming true friendships - that they sorely need?
The book explains how to view the stages of these children's development and so understand their moods.
In this book he helps parents and teachers recognise the needs of children who are the manipulators, the negotiators, the debaters, the competitors, the dare devils and the passive resisters of this world. He shows how parents can create change in the family and how teachers can create change in the classroom (so that these children do not dominate). Parents may have to live with their one headstrong child, but teachers often face dozens of them every day! So, to assist them, Andrew Fuller has also included a special supplement focusing on their particular needs.

15x22cm

216 pages

$24.95

Tuning in to Kids

Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - Program Manual

Sophie Havinghurst & Ann Harley

The Tuning In To Kids program manual is a complete kit for use in community settings. It contains comprehensive background information, session plans, session notes, printed and electronic versions of parent handouts, and a specially produced DVD.
the ideas and techniques taught in the program will be useful for parents of children of all ages, but are particularly relevant for parents of preschoolers.
Every person has the capacity for a huge range of emotional experience and expression. Parenting or caring for a child is a particular kind of emotional journey, bringing it's own special reqards and challenges. For many parents, connecting with children during emotional moments is one of the most rewarding, but also most challenging aspects of parenting.

32x26cm

$145.00

Understanding Sibling Rivalry

The Brazelton Way

T Berry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow

In this absolutely indispensable addition to the Brazelton Way series, the authors show how parents can defuse much of children's bickering, while helping to strengthen warm sibling relationships.

17x13cm

161 pages

$17.95

Way of Boys

Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys

Anthony Rao

Boys will be boys . . . It's time we stopped trying to "fix" them.
Boys today are being bombarded with a slew of diagnoses--ADHD, Asperger's, bipolar disorder--at an alarming rate and at younger ages. "The Way of Boys" urges parents, educators, pediatricians, psychologists, and other developmental experts to reevaluate and significantly change how we deal with our youngest boys. When parents understand the wide spectrum for "normal boy development," they can successfully communicate with their son--and everyone in their son's life--and help him grow into a healthy and smart young man.
Dr Rao challenges some of the potentially harmful assumptions, attitudes, and behaviors we've developed toward young boyhood over the last few decades. "The Way of Boys" is a celebration of natural, constructive boyhood development and an expert, definitive handbook on what to look for and expect in normal growth.

20x16cm

291 pages

$27.95

What Happy Parents Do

Ninety-Three Cents and a Little "Humpty Dumpty" - The Loving Rituals of a Child-Proof Marriage

Carol J Bruess and Anna D H Kudak

In this charming book, more than 50 couples show how they kept the romance and passion in their marriages following the birth of their children. The authors then explain how these couples' playful rituals help form enduring bonds between two life partners. With its full-color interior, playful typography and decorative marker ribbon, this book makes the perfect baby shower gift for new parents.

19x19cm

116 pages

$26.95

What's Happening to Our Girls?

Too Much Too Soon. How Our Kids Are Overstimulated, Oversold and Oversexed

Maggie Hamilton

Why are girls as young as five years old concerned about their looks and addicted to shopping?
Why are young teenage girls having sex and binge-drinking, responding to chat-room predators, and bullying their peers via email and text messages?
Why are depression, cutting and eating disorders on the rise, and why, with so much choice when it comes to careers, do so many just want to marry young and have babies?
Over two years Maggie Hamilton interviewed girls, teachers, school counsellors, psychologists, and law enforcement and medical personnel to get an insider's view on what girls are experiencing at present, from birth to the teenage years.

20x13cm

292 pages

$26.95

Why Do I Have To?

A Book for Children Who Find Themselves Frustrated by Everyday Rules

Laurie Leventhal-Belfer

Why do I have to? looks at a set of everyday situations that provide challenges for children at home, with their friends and at school. Empathizes with children's wish to do things their way, explaining clearly why their way does not work and provides a list of practical suggestions for how to cope with these challenges and avoid feelings of frustration. This is the ideal book for children who have difficulty coping with the expectations of daily living, as well as for their parents and the professionals who work with them.

25x17cm

78 pages

$17.00

Why Do We Need Another Baby?

Helping Your Child Welcome a New Arrival, with Love and Illustrations

Cynthia MacGregor, illus David Clark

Sometimes, with a new baby on the way, older brothers and sisters don't feel as special as they once did. This charming, wise, and helpful book tells you how you can comfort and reassure your child.
designed to be read aloud to youngsters, this full-colour book provides forthright information and answers all the questions a child could possibly ask.

24x24cm

32 pages

$26.00

Your Child's Emotional Needs

What they are and how to meet them

Vicky Flory

For today's parents there is no shortage of advice about how to deal with their child's behaviour. But children's emotional needs are rarely discussed. Even though parents know that emotions matter, most would struggle to name their child's key emotional needs. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Vicky Flory explores the emotional needs of children from birth to age 12, explaining what all children need in terms of a secure attachment to a parent, as well as detailing the specific needs at particular stages in a child's development. She also discusses common emotional disorders and difficulties such as depression and anxiety. Drawing extensively on the latest research, Dr Flory shows how children who have a secure parental attachment are far better equipped to enjoy healthy, connected relationships throughout their life than children who do not. Her message is profound and simple: once you understand and meet children's emotional needs, you can help set them up for a happy life. In this straightforward book she shows parents how.

22x14cm

224 pages

$26.95


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