Parenting

Janette Manrara is the glamourous big sister we all need in our lives. In her first book – Tiny Dancer, BIG World (working title) – she shares a delightful blend of advice, inspirational stories and life lessons from her time on stage and screen.

Each chapter offers a tenet of wisdom alongside techniques of how to implement it, complete with actionable goals. The result is a highly readable, applicable, motivational narrative to inspire readers to live their best life. In addition Janette shares her own poignant stories, from her childhood in a large Cuban immigrant family in Florida and her decision to pursue a career in dance to her big break on So You Think You Can Dance and finally, Strictly Coming Dancing. Full of magic and glitter and joy, Tiny Dancer, BIG World is a fun and practical resource for learning to embrace self-love and ambition and be your best self in every aspect of your life.

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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!
~ WB – parent, life coach, former supervisor and counselor in children’s residential treatment

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Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counseling, life story work or direct work. Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to build connections with children aged 4 16 and support their recovery from trauma and stress. She illustrates the techniques with 21 stories adapted from her own clinical work with children and families, and explains how you can expand or adapt them to make them more relevant for a particular child. Advice and stories are arranged into sections dealing with common psychological issues, including looking back and moving on, lack of trust and need for attention. Golding also gives invaluable tips for planning stories and life story work, and for storymaking with children. She also describes how stories can be used therapeutically with parents of traumatized children and as a tool for self-reflection by counselors. Imaginative and practical, this book will be enormously useful for counselors, psychologists, therapists and social workers working with traumatized children, and will also be helpful for parents and carers involved in therapeutic parenting.

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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.

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‘The 21st-Century Girl’s Survival Pack’ – Caitlin Moran

‘I would recommend this brilliantly clear and informative book to every young girl…Tara writes with deep knowledge, warmth and humour about all the challenges young girls and all of us face, and she tells us how to overcome them’ – Julia Samuel

The Sunday Times bestseller

For girls and young women these are shifting times: never before have they had so much freedom and choice; but never before have they had so many demands placed upon them – by themselves as well as others.

Writing directly to girls and young women Dr Tara Porter draws on decades of experience to offer them insight into their own psychology. From exams to friendship, from families to love, Tara pulls together everything she has learnt to provide accessible explanations and suggestions for teenagers and young women everywhere. Like a warm letter from a wise friend or big sister, You Don’t Understand Me not only understands the young person’s perspectives but guides them through their challenges they face.

You Don’t Understand Me is uniquely written to teenagers and young women. But in explaining young women to themselves, it also provides an indispensable guide to their parents: a glimpse behind the rolled eyes and the protestations their daughter makes: ‘You Don’t Understand Me’.

‘If God were a mother, this is the Bible she would write for teenage girls and young women. This book is the greatest gift you could give your daughter’ – Caitlin Moran

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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 baby

Full 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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