Offers suggestions for coping with the death of a child, including the funeral, marriage, siblings, religion, and pleasure, and describes how parents have survived after outliving their child.
Argues that the ability to make good decisions is the key to high self-esteem in girls, and describes strategies and life skills parents may use to teach their daughters how to deal with life's problems effectively.
Argues that genetic and societal causes of delinquency are excuses used to avoid blaming parents, and explains how effective parenting can prevent such problems as teen pregnancy and crime.
A family decides to try contingency contracting in an attempt to improve parent-child relations. Contains material for the reader to use such as sample task and reward lists and contracts.
When he and his younger sister agree to help their wealthy, elderly neighbor care for the capuchin monkey that keeps getting away from her, Jimmy also helps the woman's troublesome granddaughter deal with secrets from her family's past.
To help her deal with her separation from her family, worry about her mother's serious operation, and suspicions about a new friend's abusive father, twelve-year-old Dawn creates an imaginary world while spending the summer of 1958 with her great-aunt and uncle in rural North Carolina.
After getting separated from his parents, a young lion begins to wonder what is wrong with him because he is so different from the gazelles he has joined. Presented in both English and Spanish.
