Parenting and Families

Part 1
What's Happening to Grandpa?
by Maria Shriver
From New York Times bestselling author Maria Shriver comes a poignant and compassionate story about one family coping with Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling-but lately he's been repeating the same

Second Mothers
Aunties : Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother
by Ingrid Sturgis
My great aunt Irene is the oldest living relative in our family, the only link to a past that began in a tiny shtetl in Lithuania over a century ago. A petite Clairol blonde nearing ninety, Irene is visiting my home on Long Island for the weekend.

Parents with Mental Illness : Pregnancy, Victimization and Trauma
by SAMHSA
Pregnancy brings a unique set of challenges to adults living with mental illness. The percent of unplanned pregnancies among women with serious mental illness is high. Mothers with schizophrenia have higher rates of spontaneous miscarriages, stillbirths

What Do I Really Want For My Children?
The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Think of your children. Bring their faces to your mind. Then ask yourself, 'What do I really want for them in their lives?' Don't assume you know. Before you spend another day as a parent (or as a teacher or a coach or anyone else involved with children)

The Search for Certainty
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
by Gavin de Becker
Friday was the one evening each week that Holly spent entirely with Kate, usually along with other mothers and their daughters met through Kate's school. This particular Friday, the plan was an early meal at a restaurant, followed by a movie.

The New Traditional Family
Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only
by Susan Newman, Ph.D.
Is it a factor of economic restraints, more complex lives, increased infertility, pure good sense, or something else that is changing the makeup of the family unit? When you were growing up, you probably knew or knew of a family with four or five

The Fall Flurry
The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life
by Laura S. Kastner, Ph.D., Jennifer Wyatt, Ph.D.
There's an uncanny resemblance between parents-to-be in a childbirthing class and parents at a college-information night, preparing for their high schooler's launch from home. Throughout the challenges of the adolescent years, differences among families

How Can I Make A Change For The Better In My Parenting?
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
Once again thank you for helping to save my marriage by sharing the incredible tools you do. My question is about kids though. How can I make a change for the better in my parenting? I stay home with my 3 boys and homeschool the oldest two.

The Century of the Child
Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children
by Ann Hulbert
Blizzards are famously conducive to conceiving babies. During a huge snowstorm that blanketed the East Coast in mid-February of 1899, a particular group of American women and a few men certainly had babies on the brain.

Celebrations
Come to the Table: A Celebration of Family Life
by Doris Christopher
Like most people my age, I have a hard time remembering what it was like to be six. I have an equally tough time recalling how it felt to be four, or eleven, for that matter. But ask me what it was like to turn six, and it's a whole other story.

Individualized Parenting - a Return to the Garden
Nurture by Nature : Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Every generation seems to have its own theory about parenting. Conventional wisdom has run the gamut from Children should be seen but not heard and Spare the rod and spoil the child to employing the more contemporary and more reasonable techniques of time

Teaching Black Children to Love Themselves
Strength for Their Journey: 5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
by Robert L. Johnson, M.D., Paulette Stanford, M.D.
In this opening chapter, we talk about the importance of fostering self-love in children. We explore the special challenges parents who raise black boys and girls face, and show you how to construct the towers of self-love: resilience and self-esteem.

Not So Great Expectations
Coping with a Picky Eater
by William G. Wilkoff, M.D.
One of the biggest problems that we have as parents is that we are prone to unrealistic expectations when it comes to our children. Some of this delusion comes from our natural inclination to want what we think is best for our children.

Parenting and the Gift of Spirit
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
The deepest desire in a parent's heart is to see one's child achieve success in life, yet how many of us realize that the most direct way to success is through spirit? In our society we don't usually make that connection—quite the opposite.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is the aim of this volume to elevate both the honor and the remuneration of all employments that sustain the many difficult and varied duties of the family state and therefore to render each department of woman's profession as much desired and respecte

Quit Your Worrying!
by George Wharton James
A worrying parent is at once an exasperating and a pathetic figure. She - for it is generally the mother - is so undeniably influenced by her love that one can sympathize with her anxiety, yet the confidant of her child, or the unconcerned observer

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
This book is based upon three theses - namely, first, that the monogamic, private, family is a priceless inheritance from the past and should be preserved; second, that in order to preserve it many of its inherited customs and mechanisms must be modified

Turning Out Well -But With a Struggle
The Successful Child: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn Out Well
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D., Elizabeth Pantley
Although many kids do bounce back from less than ideal childhoods and turn out well, they carry emotional baggage into adulthood and spend many years trying to unload it. How much easier it would be for kids to grow up well and then be free to spend their

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
by Jacob Abbott
It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority, as the basis of the parental government

Introduction, 7 Promises
100 Promises to My Baby
by Mallika Chopra
100 Promises to My Baby is that gift-one that reflects her deep awareness of the sacred responsibilities of parenthood. Here the author shares the vows she made to help her child-and all children-grow up feeling cherished and secure, look at the world