A Roadmap to End Power Struggles, Increase Cooperation, and Find Joy in
Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. Through stories from her practice, Claire Lerner shows parents how making critical mindshifts--seeing their children's behaviors through a new lens --empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. This ......
When students with disabilities make the shift to college, they'll encounter a number of changes. Seven Steps to College Success identifies these changes and how parents and professionals can prepare students for a confident, successful transition. The book also shows how students can find colleges that are a good fit and what accommodations might ......
Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren
Be Love. Be Patience. Be Curiosity. Be Approachable. Be Supported. Being a grandparent to a trans child can feel isolating. Generational differences can make it challenging for you to understand what they're going through, and you might not have the vocabulary to discuss it with them, or have found peers who are experiencing something similar. At ......
The 12 Habits Every Parent Needs Regardless of their Child's Label or Challenge
Many children are labelled different - by doctors, psychologists, educators, or even peers- and as parents, this label can limit our hopes and expectations for them. Although the challenges that come with these labels are very real, and can be daunting, all of our children can be raised to be strong, capable, curious humans.
How to Raise Children of Character in a World That Sorely Needs Them
A practical guide that encourages families to return to the basics of parenting in order to raise happy, respectful, and loving children. The rules and guidelines for raising families in our crisis-oriented, communication overloaded, high-pressure culture are changing by the minute. Yet, the fundamental principles of effective parenting remain. ......
Parenting can be chaos, a flurry of trial and error, problem-solving, and tears (of difficulty but also of joy!). Katy Elphinstone, an autistic parent who's experienced herself the wonders and the challenges of raising two children, one of whom is autistic, has taken notes on the 'do's' and 'dont's' of parenting when it comes to neurodivergent ......
How to Protect and Support Your Child's Mental Health
A groundbreaking guide for parents to help protect the mental health of children aged four to twenty-one. Young people's mental health has never been so important. In the last few years, there has been an unprecedented increase in the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem, from anxiety to depression to behavioral issues. ......
Every Parent's Guide to Preventing and Managing Medical Trauma
Provides parents with the tools to support children who experience medical trauma Afraid of the Doctor is the first book written for parents to equip them with the knowledge and skills to support their children through medical challenges on a day-to-day basis, and specifically with medical trauma-experiences in healthcare that can profoundly ......