parenting

Presents a comprehensive study on the effects of family violence on the emotional stability of children, and offers suggestions as to how to help them recover and go on to live normal, healthy lives.

Offers a clear, step-by-step procedure for parents to use to get children to do household chores.

Demonstrates how to hold family meetings that enhance family communication and planning, develop children's social skills, and help reach family decisions.

Teaches parents to use charts, contracts and written agreements both to help children overcome problem behavior and to reach goals children set for themselves.

Helps parents to understand the three components of self-esteem and what they can do to bolster their children's chances of being successful, confident, and loved.

Presents a step-by-step program for improving parenting skills, based on the Common Sense philosophy practiced at Girls and Boys Town, covering punishment, communication, consequences, praise, self-control, family meetings, peer pressure, and other topics.

A practical guide for raising boys with advice on helping them to develop the social and personal skills necessary to become a successful and independent adult.

Offers questions and answers to common parenting problems, including struggles with bedtime, consistent discipline, making routines, picky eating, and much more.

Offers parents of gifted children practical advice and strategies to help their child develop their full potential and self-esteem without applying pressure, plan their child's education, work with schools and teachers, solve family conflicts over parenting, and more.