Parenting and Families

Body Image Blues
Real Kids Come in All Sizes : Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Body Esteem
by Kathy Kater
Too many American children, particularly girls, are afraid to gain weight. The compelling wish to be thin or stay thin at all costs provides the seeds for a lifetime of intense, unrelenting, counterproductive conflict between hunger and eating, or between

The Everyday Lives of Children
Mom, They're Teasing Me : Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Catherine O'Neill Grace
Every morning when the buses pull up in front of an elementary, middle, or high school building, an extraordinary social drama unfolds. Most adults miss the importance of this opening act of the school day, because it is a daily theater

Chapter 1
Keeping Katherine : A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
by Susan Zimmermann
Our stories shape us. They give us our songs and our silence. When they are full of joy, they allow us to soar. When they are full of pain, they allow us to journey into the darkness of our souls where we meet ourselves, sometimes for the first time.

Avocado Dip
Brain Foods for Kids : Over 100 Recipes to Boost Your Child's Intelligence
by Nicola Graimes
BRAIN FOODS FOR KIDS includes: A clear and easy-to-follow introduction to the principles of good childhood nutrition and information on all the latest science on brain-boosting foods. Practical, kid-tested advice on incorporating the essential foods into

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

Planting the Garden Alone, Split Strawberries
Teen Ink: Friends and Family
by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer
In the third volume of the incredibly popular Teen Ink series, teens share their thoughts on the emotional peaks and valleys of dealing with friends and family. The joys and challenges, highlights and sorrows are all exposed in this diverse collection.

We Are All Daughters
Daughters and Mothers: Making It Work
by Julie Firman, Dorothy Firman
Empowering and nurturing or destructive and dispiriting, the mother/daughter relationship is life's most profound bond. Whether your relationship is fortified with love and encouragement or weakened by hurt and shame, this book will change your life

Straight Talk about Addiction and Recovery
Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
by Claudia A. Black, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Talking with your kids about alcohol use, drug use, and addiction can be difficult for any parent. For recovering parents, conversations with your children about drug use and abuse are even more complex, urgent, and personal.

A 9-1-1 for 9/11
Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable World: A Physician's Guide to Dealing With Childhood Stress
by David Ryan Marks, M.D.
Knowing what to do or say to your children after a traumatic event is not always easy. Let's face it, this territory is new for most of us. Terrorism, threats and safety concerns used to be something that happened to them in some faraway country.

A New World Disorder
Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable World: A Physician's Guide to Dealing With Childhood Stress
by David Ryan Marks, M.D.
A book that couldn't have been written at a better time-children experience stresses from an overload of organized activities, excessive pressure to succeed, ongoing exposure to violence, and perhaps the most stressful event of all: the catastrophic day

My Son
Raising Cole : Developing Life's Greatest Relationship, Embracing Life's Greatest Tragedy: A Father's Story
by Marc Pittman, Mark Wangrin
Marc Pittman was raised rough. He was a builder by trade; he got in bar fights; he wrestled bears. But that didn't stop him from becoming the kind of father he had always wanted. People said he was lucky, but Marc Pittman knew the truth: he worked hard

Why Teens Begin Using Marijuana
Marijuana - What's a Parent to Believe?
by Timmen L. Cermak
As a parent, if you're not sure what to believe about marijuana, how will you handle the subject with your child? Maybe you smoked pot as a teen, or you use marijuana today. Maybe you never tried pot, or you don't even know what it looks like.

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?

Why Do Some Kids Refrain from Drinking?
Alcohol - Whats a Parent to Believe? (The Informed Parent)
by Stephen Biddulph
Some kids don't use alcohol. If the statistics are correct, about 30 percent of high school seniors don't use alcohol, and an even higher percentage of younger kids are abstinent. Some of the kids in this category may try alcohol, use a few times

Why Do Kids Use Alcohol? A Look at High-Risk Teens
Alcohol - Whats a Parent to Believe? (The Informed Parent)
by Stephen Biddulph
It is unfair and often untrue to paint a high-risk kid as a drug or alcohol abuser or a troubled kid who goes around hating and fighting and causing trouble. Many high-risk teens—even those who are addicted or involved with serious abuse of alcohol

Adolescence and Alcohol: What's the Attraction?
Alcohol - Whats a Parent to Believe? (The Informed Parent)
by Stephen Biddulph
Any discussion of alcohol abuse and alcoholism is incomplete and almost meaningless without discussing the potential victims: the teens. This section looks at the nature of teens as developing adults and the reasons why some teens are at higher risk for

Chapter 1
The 7 Worst Things (Good) Parents Do
by John Friel, Ph.D., Linda Friel
Psychologists John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that explores some of the worst mistakes we can make as parents, and guides us through examples and ideas on how change can be effected immediately.

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

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
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…