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Parenting can be a confusing and thankless job. Intended for every Parent, this work contains everything from practical answers to concerns about children's behaviour from infancy to late primary school.

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A timely and sensible challenge to the prevalent notion that computers necessarily enhance mental development and learning and a warning that computers might hinder a child's social development.

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A wise new guide from America's most trusted pediatrician

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Advises mothers on improving relationships with adult daughters through understanding their personality types, strengths, and weaknesses.

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For My Sons is a mother's poem of love to her two children. In the style of a personal message, it gives the reader a glimpse into a 24 year family relationship. Jeannette Eseberre takes the reader through the boy's growth from newborns to grown men. The bittersweet journey of a parent is captured in insightful, rhythmic poetry.

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A wise and inspiring guide to parenting through the extraordinary-and at times tumultuous-journey that is the adolescent and teenage years.

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Growing great families covers the following topics: being a parent in the world we now inhabit; building the foundations; what makes a family into a community; moulding big personalities into a family; life-defining values; two pillars of great families - fun and communication; and moving from dependence to interdependence.

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Other key issues he raises are:

- Don't push your child too hard in school
- High academic achievement has no correlation with happy adult life
- Put your efforts into helping your child become good at something that will become a passionate involvement
- Don't try to rush your child's development
- Teach manners

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Happy Children through Positive Parenting is a parenting book with a difference. No matter how difficult parenting may have seemed in the past, this book offers a clear and simple way forward in the most influential relationship of all - that between parent and child.

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Depression in children is recognised as a major health problem, both in the UK and internationally. This book helps to deal with this problem in a friendly and practical way. It offers explanations of what depression is and how kids get depressed, along with practical advice on managing the symptoms and nurturing the child.

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The bestselling author of Adult Children of Alcoholics provides compassionate, practical advice for adult children who are often overwhelmed by parenthood. Woititz discusses the impact a dysfunctional past has on current behavior and shows how to create an environment in which both parents and children feel safe, valued, and loved.

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A first person account of one parent's struggle to cope with her teenage son's alcohol and drug addiction.

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A family psychologist offers parents clear and simple techniques for siarming the strategies kids use to manipulate them.

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This original, insightful, and often compassionate book empowers parents to respond with understanding and support to the surprising challenges, the worry, and changes that occur when their young person becomes a vegetarian or vegan.

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Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health

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This practical resource tool and handbook for parents details thirty common teenage problems arranged alphabetically from abuse to suicide and including such hot topics as anger, depression, drugs and alcohol, homosexuality, loneliness, masturbation, peer pressure, pornography, and shyness.

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An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the New York TimesMotherlode blog.

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Part manual, part workbook, part journal, this book includes the results of extensive interviews and focus groups with men ages 25-70. It reveals what marriage means to them and tells what they are really looking for in a potential mates. This unique self-help/workbook is a funny and practical-minded guide for modern women.

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Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) that can facilitate the dangers lurking online.