parenting

Offers guidance to parents on how to create personalized books with their children as a way to help youngsters communicate their feelings about events that are going on in their lives, such as moving to a new home, or dealing with a death in the family.

Provides a guide for parenting strong-willed children that is based on a clinical treatment program intended to discover strategies that manage specific behavior problems.

Offers parents a step-by-step plan designed to help children develop strong social skills and learn how to cope with teasing, join in with other children, read social cues, feel better about themselves, and express their emotions appropriately.

Explains how to parent a strong-willed child without being too easy or too hard, showing how to set boundaries and keep them while staying empathetic, and how to make the child want to cooperate.

Presents information for parents on raising independent, self-sufficient children, and discusses the role of media, and the negative messages that engender an epidemic of helplessness, and provides advice for recognizing greatness in all children.

Describes the characteristics of the highly sensitive child, and offers advice to parents on how to deal with the challenges of raising children with sensitive temperaments, from infancy to young adulthood.

Presents a comprehensive guide to working around the system and getting help for children with ADHD in the areas of healthcare, education, insurance, and advocacy sources.

Child psychiatrist Katharina Manassis offers parents advice on how to deal with anxious children and the many emotional and social issues they can face in everyday life.