Families & Parents
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My Family, My Journey: A Baby Book for Adoptive Families (Susie Ghahremani)
For the growing audience of adoptive families, Chronicle Books is proud to offer a baby book thatsuits the wide array of experiences and choices that bring a family and their new child together. This lovely keepsake album contains sections to record all the joyful milestones and cherished family moments that mark a new baby’s life, pages to chart the adopted child’s unique journey, as well as a sturdy pocket in which to store important documents and memorabilia. Inside the pocket are over 60 stickers you can use to customize the family tree pages. As the pages of the journal fill with memories,My Family, My Journey will stand as a lasting testament of love for the entire family.Read more
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Parenting with Theraplay®: Understanding Attachment and How to Nurture a Closer Relationship with Your Child (Theraplay® Books & Resources)
Theraplay® is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child. Based on a sequence of play activities that are rooted in neuroscience, Theraplay offers a fun and easy way for parents and children to connect. Theraplay is particularly effective with looked after and adopted children.
By providing an overview of Theraplay and the psychological principles that it is based on, parents and carers will gain an understanding of the basic theory of the model along with practical ideas for applying Theraplay to everyday family life. Through everyday case studies and easy language, parents will gain confidence and learn new skills for emotional bonding, empathy, and acceptance in the relationship with their child.
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Developing Child-Centred Practice for Safeguarding and Child Protection: Strategies for Every Early Years Setting (Little Minds Matter)
Placing children at the centre of safeguarding principles and practices is vital for ensuring the best child protection. This essential resource provides early years practitioners with all that they need to be confident and competent as they fulfil their roles and obligations to safeguard and protect children.
Exploring the main factors that impact on the lives of young children in the current safeguarding climate, this book is a starting point for understanding the risks and categories of abuse and neglect. Grounded in best practice, it gives practitioners encouragement and advice to help shape and drive practice forward with child-centred motives, practices and perspectives.
The book offers:
- Insights into the current safeguarding climate backed by practical examples
- An introduction to managing the different safeguarding challenges faced by early years professionals
- Methods for contextualising these for children in the early years
- Guidance on supporting vulnerable children, their families and other agencies working alongside them
- Reflections, case studies and a wide range of example scenarios
- Voices and insights from across the sector woven throughout for a holistic understanding of safeguarding
With accessible chapters drawing on best practice from across the sector at every level, this is a valuable resource for all those working in the early years, whether just starting out or highly experienced in the field.
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The Blissful Baby Expert
There are few life experiences more joyful than becoming a parent, but caring for a newborn can be daunting, particularly when you’re not sure whose advice to follow or what your baby really needs.
In The Blissful Baby Expert, Lisa Clegg draws on her own experience of motherhood and her professional life as a nanny and maternity nurse to share her essential, trusted advice. Gentle, reassuring and practical, her book guides you every step of the way from birth to two years. It includes:
– Equipment – what is essential and what is helpful
– Coming home – how to cope and bond in the early days
– Sleep – flexible plans to help your baby settle and sleep
– Feeding – guilt-free breast- and bottlefeeding
– Weaning – when to start and how to do it
– Q&As – common worries and what to do
– Development – what to expect and advice on toysEvery baby is different and this is why Lisa’s book isn’t a restrictive one-size-fits-all plan. Instead, she gives you the knowledge you need to trust your own instincts, build your confidence and learn to recognise what is best for your baby. With this knowledge, you’ll enjoy calm, happy parenting and a blissful, settled baby.
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Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a part of the family.
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister through Adoption is a comprehensive yet accessible guide that describes the adoption process and the impact of adoption on every member of the family, including the adopted child. It prepares families to have realistic expectations and equips them with knowledge to deal with a host of situations that may arise, addressing difficult questions head-on: ‘Did we make the right choice by adopting?’, ‘How is this affecting our ‘typical’ children?’, ‘Will our adopted son or daughter heal?’ are explored and solutions discussed in detail. All this is accompanied with real life stories and direct quotes from children, which make it a realistic and insightful resource.
This book is vital reading for adoptive families and professionals who work with them including social workers, counselors and psychologists.
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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.Read more
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The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions (Therapeutic Parenting Books)
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything you need to know in order to be able to effectively therapeutically parent.
Providing a model of intervention, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting gives parents or caregivers an easy to follow process to use when responding to issues with their children. The following A-Z covers 60 common problems parents face, from acting aggressively to difficulties with sleep, with advice on what might trigger these issues, and how to respond.
Easy to navigate and written in a straightforward style, this book is a ‘must have’ for all therapeutic parents.
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Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It
This book is all about the care system, and it’s written by people who have experienced it first-hand.
Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by nearly 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge the sliced-loaf mindset. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others.
Headlines written about care often entrench negative stereotypes and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it’s been chosen.
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption–The Workbook: Practical Tools, Skills, and Prompts for Affirming Your Adopted Child’s Cultural Identity
A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting.A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption offers a wealth of activities, templates, and questions for self-reflection. Melissa Guida-Richards, who learned at the age of 19 that she was adopted from Colombia as an infant, addresses the complexities of transracial adoption with insight, compassion, and the wisdom of lived experience. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, Guida-Richards guides you to:
- Consider the role of infant-mother bonding and understand developmental trauma in adoptees
- Understand the complex history of adoption; recognize illegal and unethical practices, such as trafficking operations and baby factories; and ask the important questions when working with adoption agencies
- Look more deeply at implicit bias, white saviorism, and white fragility
- Locate and utilize adoption-competent mental health care
- Offer culturally aligned education, community, and resources to your child
- Acknowledge the effects of racism and celebrate your child’s race and culture
Throughout the workbook, Guida-Richards guides you to break free from toxic positivity, understand and drop defenses, engage in difficult conversations, and learn to listen to your child’s experience. Whether you are a potential parent considering a transracial adoption, a parent of an adopted child, or a therapist or advocate working with adoptive families, this practical and engaging workbook will help you “do the work” of furthering anti-racist, child-centered, and trauma-informed parenting.
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Why Can’t My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families
Parenting a child who doesn’t know how to be parented is the most difficult job in the world’ This book provides friendly expert advice on how to respond to difficult behaviours and emotions for parents of children with developmental trauma. Each chapter focusses on the common difficulties faced by carers or parents and features quick, applicable ideas with exercises and illustrations. How do you react to a child’s difficult behaviour? How do you deal with your own negative emotions? How do you know when to be empathic? The book looks beyond the traditional punishment/reward strategies and aims to provide an explanation for such questions whilst helping the child in the process. This book will prove to be an invaluable resource for parents, foster carers, social workers and professionals working with children who are adopted or fostered.Read more
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The Montessori Book for Babies and Toddlers: 200 creative activities for at-home to help children from ages 0 to 3 – grow mindfully and playfully while supporting independence…
How to support your child’s development with Montessori education towards independence and self-confidence through playing with 200 practical exercises at home!
The foundation for your child’s later development lies in the baby and toddler ages. But without professional help, this can be difficult in stressful everyday life. As parents, we know this all too well.
This book offers the solution:
You can help your child learn coordination, build a large vocabulary, and develop tremendous confidence through selected Montessori activities. Your child will benefit from this for the rest of their life!
As the phase between the ages of 0 and 3 is incredibly important, this book starts right at birth. This allows you to sustainably aid your child’s development with creative Montessori activities.
Your child will learn autonomously and from their own experiences.
That way, your child’s autonomy, and confidence will grow immensely. They will then benefit from this independent way of learning at school and later in the work environment.
The activities are structured according to Montessori and designed in a modern way. They aim to support your child in exploring the world full of joy and in a playful fashion while being protected from over stimulation, stress, and pressure. This prevents severe mood swings or feeling overwhelmed in the long term.
This book also includes frequently asked questions (FAQs) from other parents and an introductory theoretical part. As parents, you will learn how to best support your child on their journey.
An overview of your advantages:
- Your child will learn coordination, language, shapes, colors, and much more through play with great Montessori activities and become independent and confident at an early age.
- Specialization: The book is precisely adapted to babies and toddlers and can thus promote your child’s development in the most targeted way. This maximizes the numerous benefits in terms of independence, confidence, and sensory development.
- The book trains all of your child’s senses, which promotes independence, and your child learns to explore the world more and more independently. You will be noticeably relieved by the increased independence your child will display daily.
- In addition to the activities, the book contains a collection of important FAQs about Montessori, including: How can I prepare my surroundings before giving birth? Are Montessori toys expensive? How can I implement Montessori in my stressful everyday life?
- Do you want to develop Montessori activities yourself? This book offers valuable suggestions: Which exercises are suitable for what age? Which materials should I choose? How can I present toys in an appealing and clear way?
Click “Buy Now” in the top-right corner and support your child in playfully discovering the world and realizing its potential!
Your child will thank you.
Suitable for parents, parents-to-be, childminders, and nurseries.
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Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.
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A Growth Mindset For Teens: Practical Lessons & Activities To Build Confidence, Problem Solve, Grow Skills, And Become Resilient in 31 Days (You Are Your Mindset)
Turn your setbacks to breakthroughs and fears to power with this guidebook on developing a growth mindset — become a responsible and resilient adult!
You are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. As a teen, you are in a period in your life where more is expected of you as adulthood draws near.
You might find yourself overwhelmed by the pressure from your parents, teachers, and others around you.
What if I fail? What if I don’t know how to be an adult? What if my parents are going to be disappointed in me? What if I don’t land a lucrative career?
Suffocating what-ifs flood your mind, affecting your peace of mind which manifests in difficulties at school and challenges with relationships.
The truth is, you’re not alone in this struggle. Millions of young people share the same dilemma, and even non-teens recognize the woes of emerging adulthood.
A 2021 survey revealed that more than 70 percent of Americans agree that adolescents today face a harder time than previous generations.
Fortunately, there is a solution to all your worries. By equipping yourself with a growth mindset, you’ll be able to discover your potential and bring out the best in you.
Even better, there are strategies to develop a mentality that cultivates and promotes growth, converting your fear of the future into faith in yourself in the process. And adopting these strategies is relatively easy, as long as you have a valuable guide.
This book is a safe space where you can find everything you need to develop persistence, resilience, and inner strength to help you face the exciting challenges ahead. Inside, you’ll discover:
- An in-depth understanding of the growth mindset, how it is developed, how it differs from a fixed mindset, and common misconceptions about it
- How to rewire the brain and cultivate growth — and effective strategies to boost neuroplasticity for brain health and resilience
- The importance of reframing your thoughts and ways to live with your inner critic and turn negative thinking into positivity
- Why you must find your strengths to help you break free from limiting beliefs — leave your comfort zone and traverse into the growth zone
- The role of self-compassion, empathy, and gratitude in your quest to bounce back from challenges
- Stress management skills: emotion regulation, problem-solving, and time management to reduce stress and help you become more productive anywhere
- 31-day growth mindset challenges to help you achieve your goals ASAP – fun to do with family, friends, or by yourself
And much more.
So much of what you can achieve stems not from your innate talent, intelligence, or skills, but from your mentality.
Your mindset will determine whether you choose to give up or try again, whether you rest on your laurels or push yourself further, or whether you continue forward or turn back.
So much of how your life will turn out depends on your mindset. Make sure you’re cultivating the right one.
If you’re ready to work on improving yourself, your mindset is a great place to start!
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Your Baby Week By Week: The ultimate guide to caring for your new baby – FULLY UPDATED JUNE 2018
UPDATED EDITION 2018
The first six months with a new baby is a special and exciting time full of milestones and new experiences. This updated edition of Your Baby Week by Week explains the changes that your baby will go through in their first six months. Each chapter covers a week of their development so you’ll know when your baby will start to recognize you, when they’ll smile and laugh for the first time and even when they’ll be old enough to prefer some people to others!
Paediatrician Dr Caroline Fertleman and health writer Simone Cave’s practical guide provides reassuring advice so you can be confident about your baby’s needs. Including:
– How to tell if your baby is getting enough milk
– Spotting when you need to take your baby to the doctor
– Identifying why your baby is crying
– How long your baby is likely to sleep and cry for
– Tips on breastfeeding and when to wean your babyFull of all the information and tips for every parent Your Baby Week by Week is the only guide you’ll need to starting life with your new arrival.
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The Angry Mom’s Guide to Self-Regulation: A Mind-Body Approach to Managing Your Emotions
Few adults learned how to regulate their emotions as children, and therefore, few mothers enter into their new role with the skill of self-regulation. The traditional approach to parenting has unintentionally taught generations of children to shut down their emotions and disconnect from their bodies. Those children have grown to become loving parents overwhelmed by dysregulated nervous systems, often finding themselves in a cycle of reactive behaviors, guilt and shame. In The Angry Mom’s Guide to Self-Regulation, Emilie provides mindful reflections and accessible action steps that help readers identify their individual triggers, increase body awareness, and create a personalized practice of nervous system regulation. Whether you’re a parent or not, If you are desperate to break free from your reactive default mode and begin living in alignment with your values, this is the book for you.Read more
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Teach Your Baby to Sign, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers – Includes 30 New Pages of Signs and Illustrations!
Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.
You may feel like you can’t possibly be any closer with your young child, but the truth is, you can–through sign language.
The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have the verbal ability to do so. Whether you have a young child who hasn’t started talking yet, or a child with special needs, signing can open the door to better understanding and connection.
In this revised and updated edition of the original Teach Your Baby to Sign, you’ll find more than 200 easy-to-learn signs–all beautifully illustrated!–that you and your child can use to enhance your communication and understand more fully what your little one wants and needs.
Parenting expert Monica Beyer provides you with 30 new pages of content, including new signs, photographs, and illustrations, as well as an improved layout (popular signs and opposites, such as on/off, listed first in each chapter). You’ll find it easy to navigate and begin signing right away. On top of that, you’ll find tips and activities to keep you and your child motivated, so that sign language becomes a welcome part of your daily life!
Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.
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How to Adopt a Child: Your step-by-step guide to adopting and parenting
From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.
Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works with a fostering and adoption agency that deals specifically with breakdowns, this book will teach you how to confidently navigate the system and build a strong and lasting relationship with your child.
Whilst very much being the unvarnished truth, this is an empowering guide that will ensure you feel in control and know where to turn to for help no matter what:
With a positive attitude and the right tools, adopting a child can be very rewarding – don’t try to overthink it, don’t try to love, just do right by them and as you learn about each other the love, kindness and acceptance will grow.
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How to plan a wedding without killing anyone
“Wedding planning made fun, straightforward and exciting” – Planning my own wedding, I soon realised that many of the books seemed to assume a basic level of wedding planning knowledge and terminology. I didn’t possess this at the time so felt like I ended up googling every other word and becoming increasingly confused. Most planners also seemed to set out a rigid 12-month planning time frame. With 8 months to plan our big day, this wasn’t at all what I needed and left me feeling confused and deflated at times! This book is completely unique, and like nothing I came across whilst wedding planning. It takes a much more relaxed approach than other wedding planning books – aiming to make the experience more enjoyable. I break the process down into easily digestible chapters with clear headings, allowing readers to dip in and out of chapters relevant to them. Written in a friendly style so that you, the reader, feels as if you are talking to a close friend, who is as excited about their special day as you are. Think of it as a YouTube informational video crossed with a book and a wedding planner. This book is set to become a wedding planning classic!Read more
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A Mind of their Own: Building Your Child’s Emotional Wellbeing in a Fast-changing World
Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty and low self-esteem. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easy-going children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and anxiety. How can we enable them to flourish in the infamously ‘unprecedented’ times? In A Mind of Their Own, Katharine Hill, UK Director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline. Backed by solid, up-to-the minute research and grounded in real life experience, she tackles everything from body confidence, dealing with disappointment to strong emotions, and gives steps to take when challenges come. Packed with encouragement and creative activities it will help families form good practices like listening well, setting consistent boundaries and establishing a growth mindset. Celebrating and affirming the family, A Mind of Their Own equips parents to build resilience and care well for their children’s mental wellbeing, from toddlerhood to teenage years.Read more
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition
* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?
* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?
* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?
* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?
* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you’ll do something wrong?SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.
Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It’s a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here — no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions — just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.
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50th Gold Wedding Anniversary Guest Book (Hardcover): A simple elegant 50th Wedding Anniversary Guest Book For Guests to sign and leave messages and words of love
Celebrating a 50th Wedding anniversary is a wonderful event to share with family and friends. You will be able to capture and keep those special memories forever with this beautiful Guest Book.
This elegant hardcover keepsake guest book is sure to be a lovely addition to celebrate your 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary.
A CLASSIC KEEPSAKE: Keep sweet memories, well wishes, and personalized notes safe in this premium hardbound guestbook to revisit for years to come. This guest book is a one-of-a-kind memento made for your special day.
- It features 100 pages for guests to leave their name and their thoughts or wishes.
- This Guest Book is a Hardcover which makes it easy to display on a table.
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Chosen: Living with adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Some are established writers, others are new and emerging whilst some have never been published before. They capture a broad range of perspectives: adoption within the extended family; late-discovery adopted adults; transracial and transnational adoption; those who have searched for birth family, and those who did not search but were found by a relative. The themes of identity and belonging, roots and searching and acceptance and healing permeate these accounts.Read more
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High Conflict People in Legal Disputes
People with high conflict personalities (HCPs) clog our courts as plaintiffs with inappropriate claims against their personal “targets of blame,” and as defendants who have harmed others and need to be stopped. Everybody knows someone with a High Conflict Personality. “How can he be so unreasonable?” “Why does she keep fighting? Can’t she see how destructive she is?” “Can you believe they’re going to court over ______?”
Some HCPs are more difficult than others, but they tend to share a similar preoccupation with blame that drives them into one dispute after anotherand keeps everyone perplexed about how to deal with them.
Using case examples and an analysis of the general litigation and negotiation behaviors of HCPs, this book helps make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits and complaints. It provides insight for containing their behavior while managing and/or resolving their disputes. Characteristics of the five “high-conflict” personality disorders are explored:
BorderlineNarcissistic Histrionic ParanoidAntisocial
Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator, and President of the High Conflict Institute. He developed the “High Conflict Personality” theory and is an international expert on the subject. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center. He has taught at the University of San Diego School of Law, is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College, and lectures at Monash University in Australia.
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The Montessori Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding: 1
Now it’s baby’s turn! Filled with the values, advice, and aesthetic that have made The Montessori Toddler a parenting bestseller, with over 200,000 copies in print, The Montessori Baby is here to help new parents find the support and peace they crave. Cowritten by Montessori Toddler author Simone Davies and fellow Montessori educator Junnifa Uzodike, The Montessori Baby draws on the child-led principles of the Montessori educational method to foster a first year defined by love, respect, understanding, and a surprising sense of calm. Maria Montessori observed that all children have what she called “an absorbent mind,” ready to drink it all in, and that the role of parents is to mindfully assist in their learning and development. With babies, that means less is more – a lot less stuff, for sure, but also less speed; slow way down, and avoid rushing through feeding, diaper changes, and the like. It means establishing a “yes” space – where baby can safely explore absolutely everything, whether with hands or mouth. It means setting up activities to help promote baby’s movement and language development, but then to step back – the parent’s role is to prepare the environment, not be the entertainer. There are tips on how to set clear and kind boundaries, how to create a secure sense of attachment, how best to speak to baby, and even what kind of toys to use (mobiles especially) – all through the Montessori lens. And like its predecessor, The Montessori Baby is that rare parenting book that’s a pleasure to look at – beautiful colour illustrations and a bright airy design reinforce the book’s direct and jargon-free approach. It may also inspire parents to look at their own homes in a different way and use the Montessori aesthetic to create an environment of uncluttered calm. The whole family will benefit.Read more
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Understanding Attachment Injuries in Children and How to Help: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers: Attachment-Based Parenting Addressing Developmental … Guardians, Kinship and…
Helping Parents Help their Children!
~ New, Innovative and Practical Strategies! ~A Must-Read for anyone parenting or caring for a child with a difficult or traumatic early history!
Children who have had difficulties or disruptions in their first, early relationship with their parent or primary caregiver often struggle with attachment injuries. These children frequently come to reject the very things they most need from their parents or caregivers: love and connection. This presents special challenges for parents.
If you are the parent or caregiver of a child with attachment injuries, the ideas in this book will bolster your role as an agent of healing and change for your child. You will find new and innovative concepts and attachment-based strategies to help you help your child. In this book, you will learn:
- The underlying dynamics and motivations of attachment-injured children.
- How to create safety and build connection with your child.
- How to help your child re-story their life in a healthy, adaptive way.
- What to look for and what to avoid in therapy for your child.
- Practical strategies to reduce and address challenging behavior.
- How to understand mental health diagnoses.
- Some commonly-used terms related to attachment and child trauma.
Within the pages of this book, you will find many practical and down-to-earth suggestions with examples and insights to guide you along the way. This book focuses on children with attachment injuries, but all parents are likely to find value within!
Discover attachment-based parenting to address mild to sever attachment injuries including developmental trauma and reactive attachment disorder (rad). Adoptive, biological, and foster parents, guardians, kinship, and other caregivers will find new ways of understanding their child, along with useful and revolutionary parenting strategies to heal relational wounds and help their child become emotionally and relationally connected.
They say kids don’t come with a manual, but this is the next best thing!
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Good Inside: The new Sunday Times bestselling gentle parenting guide for fans of Philippa Perry
‘The voice of reason for a generation of… mums and dads’ – The Guardian
Wildly popular parenting expert Dr Becky Kennedy shares her groundbreaking approach to raising kids in a way that feels good.
Over the past several years, Dr Becky Kennedy―known to her followers as ‘Dr Becky’―has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents, tired of following advice that either doesn’t work or simply doesn’t feel good, have embraced Dr Becky’s empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritises connecting with our kids over correcting them.
From reward charts to time-outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behaviour, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships with their own upbringings and it’s easy to see why so many of them feel lost, burned out, and worried they’re failing their kids.
In Good Inside, Dr Becky shares her parenting philosophy, complete with actionable strategies, that will help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership. Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios―including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more―Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.
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Learning WalkThrus: Students & Parents – better learning, step by step
LEARNING WALKTHRUs is a visual guide to key aspects of learning and studying at home and at school. It features 70+ five-step techniques devised by Tom Sherrington and illustrated by Oliver Caviglioli, with guest authors including Sarah Cottingham, Peps Mccrea, Sara Milne Rowe, Christopher Such, Emma Turner and Jennifer Webb.
Students: this book is for you. It’s a guide to how we learn and how to study effectively, to help you make the most of your time at school.
Parents: this book is also for you. We hope it will support you in the vital role you play in your children’s education.Sections include: How we learn; In the classroom; Feedback and improvement; Study habits and techniques; Reading and writing; Independent learning; Learning in subjects.
Tom and Oliver are the creators of the internationally successful Teaching WalkThrus series, comprising three volumes of five-step instructional coaching techniques and a range of online resources. For more information visit www.walkthrus.co.uk
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That Picture of You: A dramatic real-life story of adoption and reunion
Few adoption memoirs can be as moving as this! That Picture Of You tells the story of Susan finding herself pregnant at the age of fifteen, and sent two hundred miles away to give birth in secret. When her baby is forcibly taken for adoption after just eight days, Susan grows to womanhood with no idea if her daughter is even. When she goes on tragically to suffer a miscarriage, a hospital counsellor encourages the playwright to set her grief out on the page. Half A Million Women is the result. But when the play is by pure coincidence performed on her long-lost daughter’s twenty-first birthday, no-one could possibly have imagined the real-life drama about to unfold off-stage. The remarkable real-life story made national headlines. That will come as no surprise when you read the dramatic events of the heart-wrenching reunion of mother and daughter. A truly dramatic story capturing spirit of time and place, this deeply moving and warmly funny book is ultimately, above all, joyful.Read more
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The Science of Parenting Adopted Children: A Brain-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Cultivating Your Child’s Social, Emotional and Moral Development
Explaining how adoptive parents can help their traumatised child develop, it looks at the many different factors that can manifest in trauma, and how parents should respond to them.Read more
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Adoption After a Biological Child: A biological and adoptive mother’s story of attachment and unconditional love | adopting from foster care after … Kinship Care and Special…
From the author of award-winning children’s story books, Delly Duck, Room in the Nest, Adopting a Little Brother or Sister and other adoption and fostering children’s stories, comes an emotional and informative account of the unique challenges and joys of adopting after having a biological child.When Holly and Jon Marlow decided to adopt a child from foster care, they wondered how much having a birth child already would affect the adoption process, and how the process would affect their daughter. With warmth and vulnerability, Holly shares her personal experiences, delving into the approval and matching process, introductions, attachment issues, therapeutic life story work and navigating contact with her son’s birth family.
This book appeals to fans of Sally Donovan’s “No Matter What,” Lisa Faulkner’s “Meant to Be” and Sarah Naish’s series on therapeutic parenting. It makes an ideal gift for anyone adopting who already has a child in their family.
Please click on the author’s name to see more titles by Holly Marlow, about adoption, foster care, kinship care and special guardianship.Read more
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A Thriving Mind: A practical guide to developing resilience and positivity in young children
A Thriving Mind is a very practical guide to developing resilience, and positivity in young children, to prepare them for the challenges of life. It supports parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, and anyone working with young children, aged 2-8 years, in understanding and developing mental toughness, through exploring different dimensions of parenting.
The book contains a variety of very accessible, practical tools and development suggestions to support you in understanding and developing self-awareness, for yourself and your child. In conjunction with the remarkably well evidenced mental toughness concept, which explores how individual’s respond to events mentally, that (usually invisible) aspect of our personality.
The book addresses the issues commonly reported by parents, as being areas of concern or challenge in terms of understanding and supporting their children. These include dealing with children’s attitudes, psychological safety and emotional well-being, behaviours, peer relationships, co-regulation and escalation, as well as dealing with trauma, adversity and loss. It also responds to a demand from more enlightened educators, committed to providing a more holistic education, to those in their charge.
The contributing authors have brought together, their vast array of expertise and knowledge of early years development, to facilitate the learning and growth of parents, teachers and the like. Here we bring together their views, to present how these areas of concern relate to mental toughness, as well as how understanding your mental toughness as a parent, and your child’s, can help in addressing some of these issues.
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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
Turn your home into a Montessori home-and become a more mindful, attentive, and easy-going parent. It’s time to change the way we see toddlers.
Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery. With hundreds of practical ideas for every aspect of living with a toddler, here are five principles for feeding your child’s natural curiosity, from “Trust in the child” to “Fostering a sense of wonder.”
Step-by-step ways to cultivate daily routines with ease, like brushing teeth, toilet-training, dealing with siblings, losing the pacifier. Plus learn how to:
* Stay composed when your toddler is not and set limits with love and respect-without resorting to bribes or punishment
* Set up your home and get rid of the chaos
* Create Montessori activities that are just right for your one-to-three-year-old
* Raise an inquisitive learner who loves exploring the world around them
* See the world through your toddler’s eyes and be surprised and delighted by their perspective
* Be your child’s guide-and truly celebrate every stage
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Wean in 15: Up-to-date Advice and 100 Quick Recipes
Wean your baby with help from record-breaking cookbook author and proud dad Joe Wicks, the nation’s favourite PE teacher.
· All the reliable information you need to wean your baby from first foods to enjoying family mealtimes.
· Packed with simple and trustworthy ideas Joe has drawn from his experience of weaning his daughter, Indie, combined with expert guidance from leading registered nutritionist, Charlotte Stirling-Reed.
· Features one hundred delicious, healthy and balanced recipes, from finger foods and purées to adapting your own favourite meals.
Joe Wicks is responsible for getting the nation moving with his incredible record-breaking family-friendly workouts. Now he’s turned his attention to making weaning – a daunting prospect for all parents – a happy and enjoyable time for the whole family.
Whether you’re a first-time parent or not, Wean in 15 guides you towards getting the best for your little one, from figuring out when to start weaning and how much food your child needs, to adapting your own meals for your child. Joe knows how difficult it can be to manage your time, so he also shows you how to prep like a boss with shopping lists and freezable items.
With one hundred tasty recipes split into age stages, expert help with nutrients, allergies, supplements and fussy eaters, as well as knowing how to understand your child’s signals, this is the only weaning guide you will ever need to lay the foundation for a lifetime of healthy, happy eating.
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Baby Sign Language: A Fun and Simple Guide to Early Communication
Start signing with your baby today! This comprehensive book makes signing easy with photos of real kids using 100+ signs, plus expert advice on teaching your baby to communicate early.
In Baby Sign Language, Mary Smith—ASL interpreter and founder of popular sign language education business Sign ’n Grow—shares everything you need for learning how to sign with your 0–3-year-old.
Maybe you’ve seen it online or remember a friend and their baby signing MILK or MORE. No matter why you’re interested, what you’ve heard is true: signing is one of the best ways to kickstart communication. When your baby can sign, they’ll get frustrated less—and you will be able to bond more closely.
At the heart of the book are a broad array of photographed signs that are easy to understand thanks to the real kids signing them. You’ll find everything your baby wants to tell you, including:
- Mealtime Signs: Milk, Food, More, All Done, Drink, Water, Please, Thank You, Yes, No, Hungry, Thirsty
- Daytime Signs: Help, Open, Up, Pacifier, Light, Bath, Diaper, Blanket, Bed, Sleep, Morning, Night, Potty, Poop, and A Variety of Clothing Signs
- Playtime Signs: Again, Read, Book, Play, Toy, Dance, Music, Ball, Try, Friend, Take Turns, Gentle, Dog, Cat
- Family Signs: Love, Mommy, Daddy, Baby, Sister, Brother, Grandma, Grandpa,
- How Baby Feels Signs: Feel, Happy, Silly, Sad, Angry, Scared, Frustrated, Sleepy, Hurt
- Outdoors Signs: House, Walk, Outside, Playground, Grass, Tree, Car, Airplane, Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain, Snow
- …And many more!
With songs, stories, and games to encourage learning, and insider tips to boost your baby’s language development, this is truly an all-in-one guide for helping your baby tell you their wants and needs before they start to talk.
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Parenting For Jannah: Mommy’s Dua Book
The Mommy’s Dua Book was created with much love using the most beautiful 99 names of Allah and provides everything you need to pray for your children and develop a regular prayer habit for your kids daily.Read more
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The Adoption Constellation: New Ways of Thinking About and Practicing Adoption
Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of personal experience, research and clinical practice, he challenges conventional ways of thinking about adoption. The limitations of attachment theory as an explanation of adoption outcome are presented. In its place, he suggests a narrative understanding of adoption. Core themes of identity, grief, mattering and trust, permeate these narratives and shape the experience of members of the constellation. As a passionate advocate for openness, Grand explores the psychological costs of denying identifying information to adopted individuals and their birth kin. Parallels are also drawn to an impending crisis as offspring of assisted reproduction seek answers to their identity questions. The book concludes with a consideration of alternative permanency arrangements and a primer for opening closed adoption records. This book will change how we approach adoption in all of its manifestations. Adoptees, birth and adoptive kin, social workers, clergy, teachers, therapists, and legislators alike will find meaning within these pages.Read more
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52 Modern Manners for Today’s Teens
THE ONLY THING HARDER THAN PARENTING A TEEN IS BEING A TEEN
THIS 52 WEEK CALENDAR OF CREATIVE AND CRUCIAL TIPS FOR TEENS WILL HELP BOTH PARENTS AND TEENAGERS NAVIGATE OUR MODERN WORLD WITH CONFIDENCE.
A few useful tips you’ll find inside…NOTHING ONLINE IS PRIVATE
If you would not be ok with your parents, their parents, the entire school, or a future employer seeing or reading it, keep it to yourself. Nothing online ever really goes away, and in our digital world, nothing is private.KNOW YOURSELF
When someone asks what you like to do or what you are into, have an answer ready. There is no “right answer” to this question, but “I don’t know” or “nothing” is the wrong answer. You don’t have to be awesome at something to be interested in it. You don’t have to be on a team or in a club to have a hobby. What you love doesn’t have to be loved by everyone else. If you don’t know what to say, take some time to think about it. If no answer comes, try more things.DON’T LEAVE ONE PERSON OUT
Inviting all except one is cruel. Be someone who includes and makes room. If you have a problem with someone, talk to them; don’t just ghost them. Put yourself in that person’s shoes because chances are, you will be left out someday. Remember: there is always room for one more.RESPECT PEOPLE’S HOMES
Ask about their shoe policy. Never put your feet on furniture. Don’t lie on decorative pillows. Ask permission before eating. Keep your food and drinks in the kitchen. Stay in common areas and out of bedrooms. If you mess it up, clean it up. Keep your volume at an appropriate level. If you break something, take responsibility and replace it.Read more
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How Does She Do It?: The Kids, Tyson & Me
Alongside the number-one 2023 Netflix series At Home with the Furys, bestselling author of Love and Fury Paris Fury reveals the answers to the question she’s always asked. How does she manage life as a hands-on mother to seven children, as well as supporting World Heavyweight husband Tyson, while still looking amazing and finding time for herself?
Paris Fury can pack a week into everyone else’s day. Now she tells us how she does it.
Looking after seven children, keeping house, looking amazing, being there for her World Heavyweight husband Tyson, and finding time for herself: this is just a shortlist of what Paris manages.
A lot can go wrong, and often does, but Paris takes it all in her stride.
She learned her great homemaking skills in her Gypsy childhood and here she shares all about daily life with the big Fury family and what works to keep life running – from shopping, mealtimes and big celebrations, to being ready for the unexpected, handling a crisis, and her tricks for keeping their home clean and uncluttered, as well as warm and welcoming.
Balancing day-to-day parenting with Tyson alongside his boxing career, she is open about the stresses that go along with all the travel, fun and excitement.
On top of all this, Paris manages to find time for herself, too – her incredible can-do, ready-for-anything attitude is a real inspiration to us all.
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Gordon Ramsay, Hausmannskost: Alles, was Sie wissen müssen, um fabelhaftes Essen zuzubereiten
Basierend auf einer neuen Kochshow gibt dieses Buch sowohl erfahrenen als auch unerfahrenen Köchen Lust, Selbstvertrauen und Inspiration zum Kochen. Ramsay wird einfache, zugängliche Rezepte mit einem „Wow“-Faktor anbieten. Gordon hat die Welt von Indien und dem Fernen Osten bis nach LA und Europa bereist, und die Rezepte in diesem Buch werden all diese kulinarischen Einflüsse zusammenbringen, um uns einfache, lebendige und köstliche Rezepte zu zeigen, die die Art und Weise widerspiegeln, wie wir heute essen. Zum Beispiel: Miso-geschmortes Lachsfilet mit asiatischem Gemüse, Schweinefleisch und Bacon Slider mit hausgemachter BBQ-Sauce, Curry-Zuckermaissuppe, Wildpilz-Risotto Arrancini und gebackener Zitronen-Käsekuchen mit Himbeeren.Jedes Kapitel konzentriert sich auf einen anderen Bereich des Kochens – von den Klassikern bis hin zum Geheimnis des Kochens mit Chili und Gewürzen, über Braten, Backen und hilfreiche Abschnitte zum Kochen von gutem Essen für weniger Geld und Kochen für eine Menge. In das Buch sind nützliche Tricks und Tipps eingewebt – von Möglichkeiten, Zeit und Geld zu sparen, über das Reinigen und Vorbereiten von Zutaten bis hin zum Braten in der Pfanne wie ein Profi.
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Gordon Ramsay , Cuisine maison: Tout ce que vous devez savoir pour faire de la nourriture fabuleuse
Basé sur une nouvelle émission de cuisine, ce livre donnera aux cuisiniers expérimentés et novices le désir, la confiance et l’inspiration nécessaires pour cuisiner. Ramsay proposera des recettes simples et accessibles avec un facteur “wow”. Gordon a parcouru le monde de l’Inde et de l’Extrême-Orient à Los Angeles et en Europe, et les recettes de ce livre rassembleront toutes ces influences culinaires pour nous montrer des recettes simples, vibrantes et délicieuses qui reflètent la façon dont nous mangeons aujourd’hui. Par exemple : Filet de saumon braisé au miso avec légumes asiatiques, Mini-burger de porc et bacon avec sauce barbecue maison, Soupe de maïs doux au cari, Risotto aux champignons sauvages Arrancini et Cheesecake au citron cuit au four avec framboises.Chaque chapitre se concentrera sur un domaine différent de la cuisine – des classiques au secret de la cuisine avec du piment et des épices, en passant par la torréfaction, la cuisson et des sections utiles sur la cuisson de bons plats à moindre coût et la cuisine pour une foule. Le livre contiendra des trucs et astuces utiles – des moyens d’économiser du temps et de l’argent, au nettoyage et à la préparation des ingrédients, en passant par la poêle à frire comme un pro.
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