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Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking : Practical Solutions to the Most Common Preschool Behavior Problems
Jerry Wychoff
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Current:
9.6 |
YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR CHILD'S BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS WITHOUT SHOUTING OR SPANKING Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking offers effective, practical, nonviolent options for correcting the most common behavior problems of preschooler
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Emotionally Intelligent Parenting : How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child
Maurice Elias
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Current:
9.5 |
If you think it's a difficult time to be a parent, consider how challenging it is to be a child in today's world. Recent studies show that children are more impulsive, disobedient, lonely, sad, irritable, and violent than ever before. The a
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Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
Joan Declaire
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Current:
9.4 |
In Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, psychology professor John Gottman explores the emotional relationship between parents and children. It's not enough to simply reject an authoritarian model of parenting, Gottman says. A pa
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Letting Go of Anger : The 10 Most Common Anger Styles and What to Do About Them
Ron Potter-Efron
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Current:
9.3 |
From the coauthors of Letting Go of Shame comes a clear, accessible book--containing revealing self-tests and real-life examples--that is designed to help readers better understand their "anger styles," and offering simple methods for recog
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Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns
Brenda Smith Myles, Jack Southwick
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Current:
9.3 |
Written for professionals and parents alike, Asperger Syndrome and Rage: Practical Solutions for a Difficult Moment offers practical solutions to the day-to-day challenges facing individuals with Asperger Syndrome and their families. With a
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Understanding Your Child's Temperament
Children's Hospital of philad
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Current:
9.2 |
The renowned Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has once again produced a remarkably wise and useful reference for parents. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is spot-on when he says in the foreword that the book "should revolutio
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Dr. Weisinger's Anger Work-Out Book
Hendrie Davis Weisinger
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Current:
9.1 |
In this helpful manual, Dr. Weisinger offers a collection of special tests to aid in determining the root of the anger problem, and a series of proven exercises to help vent anger in a more positive fashion and learn to use the emotion crea
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The Other Side of Love : Handling Anger in a Godly Way
Gary Chapman
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Current:
9.1 |
What do Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the abolition of slavery, and the civil rights movement have in common? They all began because of one universal human emotion: anger. When motivated by injustice and guided by love, anger is a cata
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How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
Albert Ellis, Raymond Chip Tafrate
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Current:
9.0 |
In their new approach to coping with anger, world famous psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis and Dr. Raymond Chip Tafrate present their thoroughly researched and proven technique designed to help understand the roots and nature of anger. Using si
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Facing the Fire : Experiencing and Expressing Anger Appropriately
John Lee, Bill Stott
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Current:
8.9 |
In the most important book on anger since The Dance of Anger, the author of The Flying Boy demonstrates how to transform this unpredictable emotion into a source of positive, productive energy and offers ways to vent anger that are safe and
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The Anger Workbook (Minirth-Meier Clinic Series)
Les Carter
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Current:
8.9 |
We all deal with anger in our lives--whether it be in a subtle or violent manner. Being angry can involve such emotional expressions as frustration, irritability, annoyance, aggravation, blowing off steam, or fretting. The good news is a
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Playground Politics : Understanding the Emotional Life of the School-Age Child
Stanley I., M.D. Greenspan, Jaqueline Salmon
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Current:
8.8 |
Named one of the 10 Best Parenting Books of 1993 by Child magazine, this book "not only gives parents a great understanding of children in the middle years, but gives them excellent advice on how to support them better."--Washington Post.
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Anger Is a Choice
Tim F. Lahaye, Bob Phillips
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Current:
8.7 |
Counsel and exercises to help us understand the causes of anger, how to control it, how lack of control affects us physically and spiritually. Read more
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Anger : The Misunderstood Emotion
Carol Tavris
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Current:
8.7 |
Tavris' "landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about anger and includes a brand-new chapter on strategies for specific anger scenarios. Read moremore]
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William S. Pollack
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Current:
8.6 |
Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has
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The Baby Book : Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
William Sears, Martha Sears
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Current:
8.6 |
In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddler
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Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (And Parents Sane)
Gavin De Becker
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Current:
8.5 |
Be warned: In many ways this is a terrifying book. It deals with a subject--violence against children--that most of us never want to consider. But, as Gavin de Becker stresses, such situations, though rare, can occur, so all parents must de
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Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Mary Bray Pipher
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Current:
8.5 |
At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned
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See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women
Sylvia B. Rimm
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Current:
8.5 |
See Jane Win is a parents' guide for turning girls into happy, successful women. Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters--a research psychologist and a pediatric-oncology researcher--spent three and a half years coll
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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child : Birth to Age 5
The American Academy of Pediatrics
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Current:
8.5 |
It's Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or acting strangely, and the doctor won't be in until tomorrow. How can you find out what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? You may only need to go as far as your book
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Baby Bargains : Secrets to Saving 20 Percent to 50 Percent on Baby Furniture, Equipment, Clothes, Toys, Maternity Wear and Much, Much More
Denise Fields, Alan Fields
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Current:
8.5 |
Congratulations, you're expecting a baby! What you may not be expecting is all of the requisite gear you "need" to look after your dear bundle. Fear not. Denise and Alan Fields, authors of Bridal B
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Raising Your Spirited Child : A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
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Current:
8.3 |
Recently, temperament traits have come to the forefront of child development theory. In Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's first contribution is to redefine the "difficult child" as the "spirited"
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The Out-Of-Sync Child : Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Carol Stock Kranowitz, Larry B. Silver (Foreword)
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Current:
8.3 |
Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold? Many pediatricians and other experts are beginning to recognize a link be
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On Becoming Baby Wise: Learn How over 500000 Babies Were Trained to Sleep Through the Night the Natural Way
Gary Ezzo(Preface), Robert Bucknam
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Current:
8.2 |
Theologian Gary Ezzo and pediatrician Dr. Robert Bucknam set off cries of alarm in their highly controversial 1995 publication On Becoming Baby Wise by arguing that some crying is natural and healthy for babies. In this updated editi
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The Explosive Child : A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, 'Chronically Inflexible' Children
Ross W. Greene(Preface)
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Current:
8.0 |
Flexibility and tolerance are learned skills, as any parent knows if they've seen an irascible 2-year-old grow into a pleasant, thoughtful, and considerate older child. Unfortunately, for reasons that are poorly understood, a few children d
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers : A Survival Manual to the 'Terrible Twos' (And Ones and Threes) from the First Step, the First Potty and the First
Vicki Iovine
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Current:
7.9 |
Beyond child development theory and experts, beyond the "shoulds" and the "don'ts" that guilt-ridden parents constantly hear echoing in their ears, there's Vicki Iovine, America's favorite "girlfriend" and mother-in-the-trenches. In The
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Children Are From Heaven
John Gray
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Current:
7.9 |
Psychologist John Gray (he of Men Are from Mars... fame) cites a need to shift from "fear-based parenting" (a punitive and oppressive approach to child rearing) to "love-based parenting" (w
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Giving the Love That Heals : A Guide for Parents
Harville Hendrix(Introduction), Helen Hunt (Introduction)
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Current:
7.9 |
Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he brin
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Touchpoints : Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
T. Berry, M.D. Brazelton
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Current:
7.9 |
T. Berry Brazelton is a knowledgeable physician with years of experience with thousands of children, and he brings that experience to bear on virtually every issue faced by families with kids, from birth through age 6. In this sterile age o
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Operating Instructions : A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott
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Current:
7.8 |
The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a
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The 7 Worst Things (good) Parents Do
John C. Friel, Linda D. Friel
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Current:
7.8 |
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 imm
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Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers
Michael Riera
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Current:
7.8 |
Michael Riera is the high school counselor many of us wish we'd had: he's smart, non-judgmental, and respectful of kids. This excellent book is chock full o' advice for parents that sometimes goes against the established grain but makes utt
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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? : A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager
Anthony E. Wolf
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Current:
7.7 |
This is a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. Area maps cover the obvious ground--there are chapters on school, sex, suicide, and so on--but it's the title of Ch
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Siblings Without Rivalry : How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
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Current:
7.7 |
With a title like this, it's no surprise that authors Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish had a monster bestseller on their hands when the
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families : Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World
Stephen R. Covey, Sandra Merrill Covey
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Current:
7.7 |
"What is 'effectiveness' in a family?" asks author Steven R. Covey. He promptly answers with four words: "a beautiful family culture." Building this culture is the primary theme of Covey's parenting guide, a manual based on concepts introdu
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood : Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping With Postpartum Mood Swings to salv
Vicki Iovine
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Current:
7.7 |
Just had a baby? Lie down, rest your weary womb, and muster up a rousing cheer! (Shh! Don't wake the baby!) Now, from the author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, comes the book all new moms have been waiting for, whether they
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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
Benjamin Spock
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Current:
7.5 |
No parenting library is complete without this childcare classic. Recently revised, the sixth edition still provides the sensible, compassionate advice and hard-core how-to-do-it tips that Dr. Spock has always been famous for. Whether it's m
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The Optimistic Child
Martin E. P. Seligman
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Current:
7.4 |
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Anger-Free : Ten Basic Steps to Managing Your Anger
W. Doyle Gentry
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Current:
7.4 |
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| 40
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How to Raise a Child With a High Eq : A Parent's Guide to Emotional Intelligence
Lawrence E. Shapiro
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Current:
7.3 |
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When Anger Hurts
McKay
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Current:
7.2 |
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When Anger Hurts : Quieting the Storm Within
Matthew McKay
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Expectant Father : Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-To-Be
Armin A. Brott, Jennifer Ash
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Current:
6.9 |
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Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility
Jim Fay, Foster W. MD Cline
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Current:
6.8 |
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Angry All the Time
Potter-Efron
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Current:
6.8 |
This concise, easy-to-read handbook offers genuine help and relief to people who frequently lose control of their tempers, as well as to their families and friends. The bestselling author of Letting Go of Shame divides his guide into two ma
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Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out : The Anger Management Book
Jerry Wilde
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Current:
6.8 |
This book offers a unique approach to one of the most pressing problems of our time. Child psychologist, Dr. Jerry Wilde, speaks directly to children and adolescents in a language they can easily understand. Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out
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Anger : Deal With It, Heal With It, Stop It from Killing You
Bill Defoore
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Current:
6.7 |
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The Angry Self : A Comprehensive Approach to Anger Management
Miriam M. Gottlieb
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Current:
6.7 |
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The Heart of Parenting : Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child [ABRIDGED]
John Mordechai Gottman
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Current:
6.6 |
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The Heart of Anger
Lou Priolo
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Current:
6.4 |
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