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Practical Guidance Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in the Preschool - SIXTH ED

Eva Essa1

This book comes highly recommended by a number of preschool field officers who alerted us to this publication. It begins with a series of chapters that provide developmentally appropriate guidelines for working with challenging behaviours. Each chapter presents a step-by-step approach to working with children who have a specific challenging behaviour. Now included in the new edition is a CD-ROM that contains additional resources including guidelines for careful observation and record keeping, scenarios for use in practising applying the techniques presented in the book, and a listing of books, articles, and web sites for further study.
More than 40 behaviours are addressed including biting, clinging, disrupting group time, hurting others, non participation in activities and social play, seeking attention, stealing, throwing tantrums, whining.

429 pages

$92.95

Dad Factor

How father-baby bonding helps a child for life

Richard Fletcher

Fathering studies and family issues affirm the positive valuing of fathering. New research into child development is producing some surprising findings. One is that in the first hours after birth a baby can be looking for its father. Another is that when fathers create a bond with their child from the earliest days this boosts the way their child's brain develops.
This book provides the hard evidence and practical guidance for fathering that builds children's brains and capabilities. Fathers are told that they should be 'involved' with their baby but not how to go about building the connection. This book provides the nuts and bolts of bonding, showing how the effect of a dad simply 'playing around' with his child can alter the pathways formed by the neurons in the brain of that growing infant. (So fathers playing 'peek-a-boo' are not wasting time but doing the real stuff of parenting!) Also addresses - How do fathers encourage development through rough and tumble play? How is father-bonding different to mother-bonding? Should fathers treat boys and girls the same? In his view, socialisation does not explain differences between the sexes, particularly between male and female brains. Without diminishing the importance of mothers Richard offers practical strategies for fathers to bond with their baby and child and shows the crucial role that fathers play in children's risk taking, motivation and social development.

21x15cm

211 pages

$29.95

From Birth to Five Years

Children's Developmental Progress

Mary Sheridan

The main section consists of illustrated charts that cover each stage of development in young children, in chronological order.These charts are divided into four key areas: posture and large movements, vision and fine movements, hearing and speech, and social behaviour and play.
The charts are used to recognise both the abilities and the needs of children in relation to development. It is important to appreciate the range of normal development in order to identify developmental differences and to permit early intervention, especially in children with special needs.
From Birth to Five Years also looks at the patterns of development, which are important for understanding developmental differences, and provides age-appropriate checks for identifying disorders.

25x17cm

62 pages

$19.95

Natural Child

Parenting from the Heart

Jan Hunt

Makes a compelling case for a return to attachment parenting, a child-rearing approach that has come naturally for parents throughout most of human history. This insightful guide links together attachment parenting principles with child advocacy and home-schooling philosophies, offering a consistent approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child. "The Natural Child" dispels the myths of "tough love" - building baby's self-reliance by ignoring its cries, and the necessity of spanking to enforce discipline. Instead, the book explains the value of extended breast-feeding, family co-sleeping, and minimal child-parent separation. Homeschooling, like attachment parenting, nurtures feelings of self-worth, confidence, and trust. The author draws on respected leaders of the homeschool movement such as John Taylor Gatto and John Holt, guiding the reader through homeschool approaches that support attachment parenting principles. Being an ally to children is spontaneous for caring adults, but intervening on behalf of a child can be awkward and surrounded by social taboo. "The Natural Child" shows how to stand up for a child's rights effectively and sensitively in many difficult situations. The role of caring adults, points out Hunt, is not to give children "lessons in life" but to employ a variation of The Golden Rule, and treat children as we would like to have been treated in childhhood.

23x15cm

175 pages

$27.00

Parenting with Reason

Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas

Esther Yoder Strahan, Wallace Dixon, Burton Banks

Written by a clinical psychologist, a developmental psychologist and a doctor of family medicine, the book looks at pressing questions such as: 'What should I do when my child acts up?', 'How can I get my baby to sleep through the night?' and 'How do I begin to toilet-train my child?' The authors, who are also parents themselves, debunk common myths about parenting, such as the notion that a healthy baby needs to be able to breastfeed at will throughout the night, or the idea that children who are adopted need specialized counselling. They also cover issues such as how children might be affected by seeing violence on television, how a parent's psychological health can affect their child, what the scientific evidence is for and against circumcision, and how divorce and adoption affect a child's development. The end of each chapter gives you 'The Bottom Line', a handy summary of the key points of each issue.
This book is ideal for new or prospective parents, and paediatricians, family health providers and anyone who works with children and their parents will also find the book's objective, scientific approach useful in their work.

20x13cm

357 pages

$27.00

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

$42.95

Why Love Matters

How affection shapes a baby's brain

Sue Gerhardt

"Why Love Matters "explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. The way that we respond to stress, in particular, depends on how our brains are set up to deal with it in early life. Gerhardt shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being, and goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behavior. Early experience leaves its mark, not only in our degree of confidence in other people, but also in the structure and functioning of the brain. "Why Love Matters" is a lively and very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis and biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, parents and all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties.

20x13cm

232 pages

$31.00


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