Family Help

Ways to Help Your Lonely Teen is a direct response to the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2023 Advisory on loneliness, to help parents know how to combat loneliness in young people and foster well-being to prevent mental health problems down the road. Dr. Beresin elaborates on each Surgeon General recommendation for parents with actionable, practical advice to help families embrace these recommendations in everyday life.

This essential guide helps in preparing your children with techniques for an awesome tomorrow. Essential Life Skills Every 12 Year Old Needs to Know is a crucial book for parents focused to their children's education. This guide grants 10-12 year old boys and girls the tools required to grasp practical techniques, promote independence, and encourage successful decision making.

This essential book will help prepare your children with techniques for an amazing tomorrow. Essential Life Skills Every 9 Year Old Needs to Know is an indispensable book for parents dedicated to their children's development. This guide equips 8-10 year old boys and girls with the tools required to grasp practical techniques, foster independence, and enable successful decision making.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your anger? If so, you're not alone. Unfortunately, anger is one of the most common emotions experienced by parents these days. While there are many ways for parents to manage their feelings, this book shares a few that work. This book is a great option to teach you how to manage your anger, so it doesn't destroy your family or interfere with responsibilities such as work and play.

Betsy Brown Braun blends humor with her expertise as a child development specialist, popular parent educator, and mother of triplets. Whatever your dilemma or child's question - from "How did the baby get in your tummy?" to "What does 'dead' mean?" to "It's not fair!" - Betsy offers the tools and confidence you need to explain the world to your growing child.

Having a pet dragon is very fun! He can sit, roll over, and play.... He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or do so many other cool things.... Having a pet dragon is the greatest thing you can ever dream of.... Until he has a little sister...that’s when things will turn upside down! One dragon living in your house is tough, but now there are two! Your dragon doesn’t like his little sister. Not even one tiny bit.... He doesn’t want to share his toys. He’d taunt and tease his little sister. He’d be jealous and afraid that you love the little sister more.

Bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and podcaster Allison Carmen's new audiobook, Maybe Everything is Okay: A Parent's Guide to Less Stress and Worry (September 17, 2024; Tantor Audio Original; narrated by Kim Niemi), is both important and timely. It offers parents a powerful and uplifting tool called the "Maybe mindset" to help them navigate the unknown with greater ease and renewed hope.

As a parent myself, I know what it feels like to be at the end of your rope. Looking after three energetic boys can be a handful. But we are the window to the world for our children. How you interact with them in their early years determines the course of their lives. 101 Ways of Speaking to Your Child is a parenting manual that teaches you how to create a loving and nurturing relationship with your children.

Estudios demuestran que cuanto más grites a tus hijos, peor será su comportamiento. Es un ciclo terrible que provoca estrés en los padres y menos esfuerzo en los niños. Sin embargo, ¡tienes el poder de romperlo de una vez por todas! Todos sabíamos que criar a un adolescente no sería fácil, pero ¿se supone que tiene que ser tan difícil? ¿Eres un padre al que poco a poco se le está acabando la paciencia y te gustaría utilizar las habilidades de la crianza paciente para transformar y fortalecer la relación con tus hijos? ¡Pues bien, este libro te responderá a estas preguntas!

This book is a roadmap for making sure the 30,000 words you use each day count and the impact they make is positive instead of negative, inspiring rather than hurting, and bringing light rather than darkness.

Eating Disorders, depression, gender confusion - these sound like problems for other people, but the reality is your students are dealing with them every day. The issues that girls face are growing in complexity and number. Written with the end user in mind, this resource will be one that won't leave a youth worker's hands.

Sadie Wynn doesn't want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they'll be better off in Texas. Sadie hates this strange new place, where even children must work at the cannery to help make ends meet and people are rude to her disabled father. Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps the family make it through.

Although he holds a doctorate in depression, author Greg L. Russ chose to create this audiobook from a patient's point of view. Having suffered five clinical bouts, Russ offers a graphic look inside the dark abyss while chronicling the insights he learned when his depression intersected God's mercy. The audiobook extends an invitation to families, friends, churches, and their pastors to become part of the comforting process.

Divorce can undeniably get strenuous and there’s also no denying your whole family will be affected. However, tending to your children remains a priority, and learning how to help them cope is a must....

With Help from My Sister follows Amanda as she tries to come to terms with the diagnosis of her older sister Katelyn, in the wake of her father’s recent death. Unsure of what to think and how to react, Amanda finds herself lying to everyone around her, including her best friend Grace. Awful impressions of British accents, Shakespeare, and peach cobbler come together in this novel as hilarious misunderstandings occur and Amanda is forced to tell the truth, but not before she finds help and solace in the most surprising of places.

Students with dyslexia already have unique skills and talents outside of reading, writing, and spelling. These skills and talents are similar to successful and famous CEOs, engineers, surgeons, artists, musicians, dancers, athletes, architects, and others with dyslexia. Confirming this are the dyslexia assessments and interviews of 88 school-age and adult students conducted by the author. She provides a description and explanation of the dyslexic brain and how people with dyslexia process print.

"Different Than Your Parents" is the ultimate guide to embracing self-discovery, unpacking your emotional baggage, and reclaiming your role as an H.E.R.O. parent. When you heal emotionally and reconnect oneness with yourself, your children, and the world at-large, your parenting journey becomes the beacon of connection and fulfillment it was always meant to be. It’s time to cultivate the tools you need to respond to your children in healthy ways. It’s time to reconnect with your authentic self so your children can do the same. It’s time to find joy in parenting again.

A lo largo de sus 25 años de experiencia como terapeutas familiares, Mark Beyebach y Marga Herrero de Vega han comprobado una y otra vez hasta qué punto los padres se esfuerzan por educar bien a los hijos, por criar personas cariñosas y honestas, ciudadanos responsables y solidarios. Pero también han observado que a menudo esas mismas buenas intenciones terminan llevando a patrones de interacción contraproducentes, que en realidad contribuyen a que esos hijos e hijas se conviertan primero en niños caprichosos, después en adolescentes déspotas y finalmente en verdaderos tiranos.

If you are starting the process of finding your child's first school - or if you want to choose a new learning environment - The School Choice Roadmap is for you. This first-of-its-kind audiobook offers a practical, jargon-free overview of school-choice policies, from public-school open enrollment to private-school scholarships and more.

Fighting with your spouse? Scolding the children? Conflicting with your siblings? Linguist Deborah Tannen explains what's actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control. For more on understanding communication, we recommend Difficult Conversations.