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Building Healthy Minds

The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence and Emotional Growth in Babies and Young Children

Stanley Greenspan and Nancy Breslau Lewis

An internationally admired child psychiatrist identifies the six key experiences that enable children to reach their full potential. Drawing on discoveries made in his research and practice, he describes the many ways in which games, fantasy play, and conversations aid intellectual and emotional development.

24x16cm

416 pages

$35.00

Children and Babies with Mood Swings

New Insights for Parents and Professionals

Stanley Greenspan

Addressing the challenges of living with a child whose moods are extreme and unpredictable, this book transcends traditional tendencies and diagnoses by discussing mood swings in terms of how they develop, instead of presenting the reader with the usual list of symptoms and treatments. The complex interplay between children's emotional states and the various developmental milestones that lie along the pathway to adulthood are described, offering hope to parents by giving them a whole new way of looking at an old problem that paradoxically seems to be increasing in modern times.

21x15cm

150 pages

$40.00

Discipline

The Brazelton Way

T Berry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow

For each problem--defiance, lying, stealing, fighting, biting, and foul language--the doctors offer both understanding and practical solutions.

18x13cm

176 pages

$17.95

Heart to Heart Parenting

Nurturing your child's emotional intelligence from conception to school age

Robin Grille

Develop a joyous connection with our growing babies, toddlers and children in the precious early years of their developing personality and emotional make-up.
A very different how to book for parents, this book aims to encourage parents create a lasting relationship with their children. Helps parents to trust their in built parenting wisdom; gain insights into how they can use their own experiences of childhood (both painful and happy) in their parenting; develop an understanding of their babies and toddlers needs; and how to set boundaries with their children without resorting to shaming, manipulation or punishment. Australian

24x16cm

308 pages

$35.00

Is This a Phase?

What do new parents do more than anything else? W-O-R-R-Y.

Helen F Neville

Written with concise descriptions and dozens of charts and graphs that will make it quick and easy to use for both fathers and mothers, this reassuring guide explains what to expect at every developmental stage between birth and age 6. Then it walks parents and caregivers through three dozen topics common in the first six years of life: everything from attention span and impulse control to death, divorce, and the red flags that signal reading readiness issues

24x20cm

215 pages

$45.00

Learning To Love

Lorraine Rose

Explores the evolving relationship between mother, father, and baby. Focusing on the first year of life, it looks at the emotional dimension of becoming a parent, and offers an understanding of the baby’s emotional needs. Also examined are: -key mental and emotional milestones in the first 12 months -parents changing relationship with each other as well as their baby; -growth of both the traditional and non-traditional and non-traditional family unit; and -case studies of common parenting dilemmas Based on infant observation, psychodynamic theory, and personal experience, LEARNING TO LOVE is an informative, warm, and engaging book for the prospective and new parent.

22x15cm

140 pages

$24.95

Little Volcanoes

Young Children's Anger and Happiness

Éliane Whitehouse, Warwick Pudney

Little Volcanoes is a practical book that helps teach children to handle their anger in a constructive way. It does this by looking at the causes of anger such as hurt, loss and fear. It helps parents and other caregivers to help children under 5 to deal more positively with their angry thoughts and feelings. Little Volcano features colourful stories to illustrate anger management skills in an engaging way. It is a “must have” for all parents, caregivers, teachers, and counsellors of children aged 0-5 years.

21x29cm

130 pages

$33.00

Magic Years

Understanding and Handling the Problems Of Early Childhood

Selma H. Fraiberg

50th Anniversary Edition
Takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualities -- above all, the quality of understanding -- that can provide the right answer at critical moments.

22x14cm

296 pages

$24.95

Making Mummy Better

A Child’s experience of postnatal depression.

Denise Scott

When the mother of a family is anxious and depressed everyone in the family is affected. Knowing how to explain the sutuatio to children and to the current baby later in its life is a considerable dilemma. Picture story books often create opportunities for conversations, especially about more difficult issues. This story is about changes in Sally's family. Her Mum is different after Ben is born, and Sally is worried that she is responsible.

23x28cm

32 pages

$15.00

Mastering Anger and Aggression

The Brazelton Way

T Berry Brazelton, Joshua Sparrow

How should parents react when their toddler bites his playmate or their kindergartner confronts a bully? Drs. Brazelton and Sparrow bring their much-admired insight and support to this crucial, and ever-more-timely, childrearing challenge.

17x13cm

171 pages

$17.95

No-Cry Sleep Solution

Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

Elizabeth Pantley

"At long last, I've found a book that I can hand to weary parents with the confidence that they can learn to help their baby sleep through the night--without the baby crying it out."--William Sears, M.D., Author of "The Baby Book." Illustrations.

20x14cm

208 pages

$30.00

Parenting the Strong-Willed Child

Revised and Updated Edition: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- To Six-Year-Olds (Rev and (2ND ed.)

Rex Forehand

Now in a revised and updated edition, this book outlines a self-guided, five-week protocol for managing disruptive young children based on a clinical treatment program.

23x14cm

272 pages

$29.95

Positive Discipline for Childcare Providers

A Practical and Effective Plan for Every Preschool and Daycare Program

Jane Nelsen & Cheryl Erwin

offers a thorough, practical program that is easily adaptable to any childcare situation. Based on proven methods and written by two renowned parenting experts, inside are workable solutions to many of today's toughest childcare issues.
You'll learn how to: -Create a setting where children can laugh, learn, and grow -Support healthy physical, emotional, and cognitive development in all children, including those with special needs -Encourage parents to establish a partnership with you and provide the same kind, firm limits and respectful environment at home -Uncover support and learning opportunities for yourself and fellow childcare providers

23x19cm

368 pages

$32.00

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

For Their Early Years--Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful 3rd ed

Jane Nelsen, cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Duffy

This classic title in the bestselling Positive Discipline series guides parents in helping their young children learn valuable social skills both in and outside the classroom while avoiding the power struggles that often come with the challenges of learning and growing.

23x19cm

356 pages

$30.00

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 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

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

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

What's the Hurry?

Reclaiming childhood in an overscheduled world: a guide for parents, teachers and the community.

Kathy Walker

Are well-meaning parents over-scheduling their children's activities with the possible effect of robbing young people of the joys of childhood? Education consultant and early childhood expert, Ms Kathy Walker, author of the new book, What's The Hurry? argues that parents who enrol their children in up to three, four or more extra curricula activities a week are contributing to the US-dubbed phenomena, the over-scheduled child - a trend that is rapidly growing in Australia. Ms Walker, who has witnessed children arriving at preschool or school exhausted from over-scheduling, believes it's time to reclaim Childhood in an over-scheduled world. What's The Hurry?, helps parents understand that raising children is about: nurturing, not training; encouraging, not controlling or forcing; modelling and setting appropriate limits; and rules at times in a child's life when they are ready and mature enough to understand them. Other valuable information addressed in the book includes: the importance of play in children's lives; understanding children's behaviour; choosing a school; self-esteem and resilience; school readiness; children's learning and children at school. What's The Hurry? is a book that gives permission for parents to relax and not over-schedule their child, as well as providing appropriate information about a range of early childhood and school-related issues.

22x24cm

110 pages

$22.00

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

You Are My World

How a Parent's Love Shapes a Baby's Mind

Amy Hatkoff

Lovely black-and-white photographs of infants are paired with captions that celebrate the continually miraculous interaction that occurs between babies and their mothers and fathers.

19x16cm

92 pages

$19.50

Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development

2nd ed

Marion Dowling

Young children's personal, social, and emotional development is an area of ever-increasing interest to the educational community. This second edition of Marion Dowling's highly acclaimed and influential guide to the subject includes an expanded chapter on children's spiritual development and two new chapters on young children's behavior and the use of the outdoors as an educational resource for young children.

24x17cm

202 pages

$59.95

Young Childrens Behaviour

Practical approaches for caregivers and teachers

Lousie Porter

A caring relationship is the mostpowerful tool for guiding young children’s behaviour. This is the messagethat underpins the second edition of Young Children’s Behaviour – PracticalApproaches for Caregivers and Teachers. In a clear and accessible style,Louise Porter advocates a ‘guidance approach’ and shows how sensitive,child-centred communication can foster behaviour that is thoughtful andconsiderate in young children.

17x24cm

252 pages

$47.50


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