Parenting and Families

Children and Money
The First National Bank of Dad
by David Owen
Money is a handy tool if you use it wisely. Even very young children get the hang of it in a hurry. In the baby-blanket incident just described, my wife narrowly averted a family crisis by offering to swap an emotionally neutral symbol (money)

Treatise on Parents and Children
by George Bernard Shaw
Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained

Critical Issues for Parents with Mental Illness and their Families
by SAMHSA
Nearly half of the women and men in the United States report a lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorder, and 30% report the prevalence of at least one disorder in the previous 12 months. Two-thirds of these women, and over half of these men are parents

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
Home-making and the rearing of children is the fundamental business of this world. To make a success of this business we must understand it. The loving hearts of many parents are suffering for a multitude of mistakes that loving intelligence might have

The American Child
by Elizabeth McCracken
One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation and - worse still - no conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet an English woman who had spent approximately

Rule One
It's Not That Complicated: The Twelve Rules for Raising Happy, Self-Reliant Children
by Doug Peine
Raising Kids Today Is Complicated Business. Ever find yourself embarrassed for the exasperated mother ahead of you in line at the supermarket whose child is throwing a tantrum, or the frazzled father whose teen is making a scene?

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
There seems to be an indolent propensity in man to make prescription always take place of reason, and to place every duty on an arbitrary foundation. The rights of kings are deduced in a direct line from the King of kings; and that of parents

Successful Parenting: Guidance Based on Research
by National Institute of Health
Being a parent is an adventure. It's one of the most fulfilling and rewarding experiences in life - and one of the toughest. Even the most conscientious parent can feel overwhelmed when faced with unexpected challenges.

To Work Outside or Not
Dr. Spock On Parenting
by Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Whether a mother of a baby or preschool child should go back to an outside job (caring for a baby can be a full-time inside job) is a complicated matter, as everyone who has tried can tell you. There are many factors to be considered.

The Road Rage of Parenting
When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It
by Bonnie Harris
Molly is my teacher. She is also my daughter. She is a delightful young woman of twenty. We have a mutually nurturing relationship. But it wasn't always this way. When Molly started walking at eleven months, she began pushing my buttons.

Parents with Mental Illness : Family Relationships
by SAMHSA
Many children of parents with mental illness do not have abnormal difficulties. However, parents worry about the impact of their mental illness on their children, and may view children's normal behavior through the lens of their illness.

Our Children Get the Worst of Us
When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It
by Bonnie Harris
No one pushes our buttons like our children. No one knows our buttons as intimately as they do. No one can make us soar to our heights or bring us to our knees more quickly than they can. But when we are in a state of anger, hopelessness, or resentment

Children's Fears-Big and Small
Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child's Questions About the World We Live In
by Willow Bay
IF YOU WERE DESIGNING a world in which it was easy to raise kids, you wouldn't pick the one we're living in here in America. If you wanted certain material advantages you'd pick this one, but if you were trying to make it easy on parents you wouldn't.

What DO Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy?
What Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy: Tips for Parenting in a Commercial World
by Betsy Taylor
THIS BOOK is for any parent who has been asked-okay, begged-for the latest toy, item of clothing, electronic gadget, or junk food. It's for any moms or dads who have spent money they didn't really have to meet their kids' demands, or bought something they

Introduction
What Our Children Teach Us: Lessons in Joy, Love and Awareness
by Piero Ferrucci
Children: They have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and our sleep, to try our patience, and to elicit our most ferocious love. But children also have the power to teach us the greatest lessons we'll ever learn…

Nearly All Parents Yell at Their Kids
by SAMHSA
It's no secret that raising a child can be stressful. Yet, how parents handle it is crucial. Have you ever yelled at your child? Have you told him he's dumb or useless? Maybe you've threatened to hit him.

The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt
The argument of the pages that follow could scarcely be more controversial to many contemporary readers. Of all the explosive subjects in America today, none is as cordoned off, as surrounded by rhetorical land mines, as the question of whether

Edgar
Last Things
by Jenny Offill
Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep.

The common thread
The Family Dinner : A Celebration of Love, Laughter, and Leftovers
by Linda Sunshine, Mary Tiegreen
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it

Introducing the Seven Hypes
No More Push Parenting: How to Find Success and Balance in a Hypercompetitive World
by Elisabeth Guthrie, M.D., Kathy Matthews
When did you first feel it? Was it when your son was the last in his play group to learn to speak? When your daughter's pre-school interview was a screaming-dervish tantrum disaster? When your son's batting in T-ball was right out of Monty Python?