parent and child

Describes strategies parents and teachers can use to help children develop the "executive skills" needed to be successful at home, school, and with friends, including getting organized, planning and initiating work, staying on task, controlling impulses, regulating emotions, and being adaptable and resilient.

Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.

Max, tired of being put off when asking to go to the fair, fishing, or other fun events, looks for "Someday" on the calendar, and not finding it, decides he needs the adults in his life to be a little more specific.

Seven-year-old Pinkie has mixed feelings about her divorced mother's wedding especially when she learns that her beloved father will be an attending guest.

Provides examples of the different ways in which love can be expressed, with an emphasis on the relationship between parent and child.

Provides practical advice for parents of toddlers and preschoolers, addressing child development, setting expectations, using consequences to change behavior, praise, social skills, time-out, teaching self-control, and other related topics.

Offers reassurance to children about the strength, depth, and endurance of the love their parents have for them.

Small, a little fox, seeks reassurance that Large will always provide love, no matter what.

Although they love each other, Old Bear and his little Cub have a tug of war over which one knows best in a variety of situations.

Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd.