Parenting and Families

Part 1
A Son Is a Gift
by Joanne Davis
A son is a gift. Whether those words have ever filtered through your mind or rolled off your tongue in a quiet moment of deep reflection, the truth is undeniable. A son is a gift of extraordinary value.

Part 1
A Daughter is a Gift
by Joanne Davis
Imagine, if you can, a tiny girl dressed in a pair of pink cotton pajamas who is getting ready to go to bed. Maybe she's a mommy girl who bathes her baby dolls in a little plastic tub before tucking each one into its cradle at night.

Helping Your Child Relate Well To Others
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends
by Natalie Madorsky Elman, Ph.D., Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D.
Children need friends. Friends are a source of fun and companionship. Building a fort in the backyard is more fun if you have a buddy to help. Friends also help children develop a sense of who they are

Why Children Need To Know the Unwritten Rules
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends
by Natalie Madorsky Elman, Ph.D., Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D.
The key factor that determines how smoothly children (and adults) get along with others is whether or not they understand and can follow the Unwritten Rules that guide social relationships. Some children pick up these rules automatically

Simple Strategies Every Child Needs to Know
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends
by Natalie Madorsky Elman, Ph.D., Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D.
It's happening again. Your child runs into the house and cries, Mommy, nobody wants to play with me, All the kids are picking on me. Nobody likes me. Remarks like these break a parent's heart. You see how crushed your child feels.

The Roots of Abuse in American Society
Saving Beauty from the Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter From an Unhealthy Relationship
by Vicki Crompton, Ellen Zelda Kessner
IN THE EARLY 1980s, as a prevention specialist in the movement to end violence against women and children, Barrie Levy spent a great deal of time in California classrooms defining rape, sexual abuse, and battering as crimes against women -as experiences

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.

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.

Beginning the Journey
When a Parent is Depressed: How to Protect Your Children from the Effects of Depression in the Family
by William R. Beardslee, M.D.
Breaking the silence as a family represents a commitment to doing things differently. In this chapter, I want to share with you the pathway to better family health we most often observe, and which we recommend.

Personality Type- A Way to Understand Every Child
Nurture by Nature : Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Sometimes, seeing our children in a fresh, new way is the first step to changing old and ineffective ways of relating to them. Personality Type is a powerful and respected method of identifying and understanding a person's true, inherent nature.

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

Being Accepted for Who You Are - The Key to Real Self-esteem
Nurture by Nature : Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Talking about self-esteem in the current political climate is difficult. These days, the term has come to be associated with social programs or attitudes that try to make excuses for poor or even outrageous behavior and then blame that behavior on

NURTURE By NATURE: A Matter of Style
Nurture by Nature : Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Imagine a child growing up amid constant reassurance about the way she sees the world, interacts with others, likes to play, makes decisions, uses her time, organizes her room and toys, expresses her feelings- that all are perfectly fine, normal

Part 2
What Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy: Tips for Parenting in a Commercial World
by Betsy Taylor
Back to those basketball shoes. My son loved them. He wore them every day, took meticulous care of them, played excellent basketball. So I guess there's a happy ending to the anecdote. But I'm still conflicted. I want my son to be happy.

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

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

The Real Meaning of Success
The Successful Child: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn Out Well
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D., Elizabeth Pantley
Every parent wants to raise a successful child. Yet many of us mean different things by success. When our two elder sons, Dr. Jim and Dr. Bob, joined the Sears Family Pediatric Practice, I gave them a little doctorly and fatherly advice

What's Success?
The Successful Child: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn Out Well
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D., Elizabeth Pantley
THE FIRST OF OUR EIGHT CHILDREN was born thirty-four years ago, about the time I began pediatric training. As new parents, we wanted to do everything we could to help our child become a success in life, but we weren't sure what was most important.

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

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