Parenting and Families

On the Garage
Fathers, Sons, & Brothers
by Bret Lott
This is the last room: the garage. We've been in the new house more than a month already, each day thus far filled with putting away all we own, each day filled with trying to find order in chaos.

Getting Started on Living Simply with Children
Living Simply with Children : A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the Bliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting
by Marie Sherlock
For most American families, living simply with children is the ultimate oxymoron. Between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, the kids being shuttled from day care to lessons to sports-wolfing down fast food along the way-and the never-ending need to buy

The Blessing of Acceptance: Discovering Your Unique and Ordinary Child
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
by Wendy Mogel, Ph.D.
I recently read a third-grade school newsletter that used the word special five times on two pages. The Thanksgiving Sing was special. So was the Spellathon. The Emerging Artists exhibition was special.

Attention
What Our Children Teach Us: Lessons in Joy, Love and Awareness
by Piero Ferrucci
Emilio, three years old, has been doing lots of jumps. He must have done a hundred of them. Daddy, Daddy, look, how do you like this jump look, he says every time. It's a new jump! He is very proud of his jumps. I like the first three or four.

Introduction
Don't You Dare Have Kids Until You Read This! The Book of Questions for Parents-to-Be
by Corey Donaldson
Why Is This Book Necessary? One of the greatest things about shopping for food on a day when it's one hundred degrees outside is that moment when you walk through the doors of the supermarket and first feel that charge of icy air wrap around your entire

Going on Automatic
When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It
by Bonnie Harris
When we snap at behaviors we don't like, say and do things we regret get our buttons pushed-we go on automatic. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, refers to automatics as emotional hijacking. He describes one's normally rational mind being

Parents with Mental Illness : The Scope of the Issue
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

Dailiness
Under the Chinaberry Tree : Books and Inspirations for Mindful Parenting
by Ann Ruethling, Patti Pitcher
When I first became pregnant, I was young and rather naive. I didn't think at all about the changes a child would bring to my day-to-day life. I only knew deep in my heart that I wanted a child and I wanted her now.

Prevent Your Child From Choking : The Dangers of Choking
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Candy, popcorn, and even hot dogs can pose a danger to young eaters. Find out what you can do to reduce the risk. Peanuts and popcorn, hot dogs, candy, carrots, and sunflower seeds. Ayal Willner, M.D., has seen them all stuck in children's throats

Anxieties in Our Lives
Dr. Spock On Parenting
by Benjamin Spock, M.D.
I believe ours is the most stressful country in the world, though this doesn't need to be. We aren't more conscious of our distress because a majority of us are still financially more comfortable than the people of other countries

Honesty
Character Is Destiny : Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
by John McCain, Mark Salter
Thomas More: He surrendered everything for the truth as he saw it,and shamed a king with the courage of his conscience. Such a scene it must have been, that it broke the hardest heart that witnessed it.

Introduction, Part 2
Always My Child
by Kevin Jennings, Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro, M.S.W.
It's important for parents to recognize cultural myths so that they don't perpetuate stereotypes in raising their families. That's not always easy to do, however, because many parents actually want their children to fit the traditional mold.

Parents with Mental Illness : The Needs of Parents
by SAMHSA
Parents with mental illness have needs common to all parents, as well as needs specific to their illnesses. The stigma of mental illness and the pervasive assumption that parents with mental illness will fail keep many parents from seeking help.

The Experiences of Parents with Mental Illness
by SAMHSA
Most of what we have learned in the past decade in the U.S. about the experiences of parents with mental illness is based on research with small samples of mothers in the public sector with severe mental illness and multiple stressors such as poverty

Your Conflict Style
How to Negotiate With Kids Even When You Think You Shouldn't: 7 Essential Skills to End Conflict and Bring More Joy into Your Family
by Scott Brown
Proven skills, expert strategies and practical advice to give moms and dads a new and effective approach to ending family conflict. Scott Brown, a founding member of Harvard Negotiation Project, has found that parents face the same dilemmas as negotiators

Family Matters
Family First
by Dr. Phil McGraw
Trying to understand a child's behavior without interviewing the rest of the family just won't cut it, and any therapist worth their salt knows it. I want to be sure you know it too.

A World of Connections: The Child at the Center
Giving The Love That Heals
by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
In anticipation and wonder humankind approaches the new millennium and begins to look at our old world with new eyes. Everywhere there is evidence that we are seeing our lives differently.

Crisis of Competence
Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child's Questions About the World We Live In
by Willow Bay
The time we spend on our careers enriches us intellectually, socially, emotionally, and financially. But we do spend less time with our children, and as a result we are less familiar with the world of our children.

The Boy Left Behind
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
The boy does not understand. His mother is not talking to him. She will not even look at him. Enrique has no hint of what she is going to do. Lourdes knows. She understands, as only a mother can, the terror she is about to inflict

Introduction
The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children
by Eden Ross Lipson
This book is for people who care about honest-to-goodness children and who want to instill in them a love of reading. It is for adults who understand that reading is the key to the future-indeed, to the preservation of civilization-but who also read for