parent and child

When Sid tries to convince his doggy classmates that he flew to school, they do not believe him.

A young boy's fascination with everything he sees around him causes him to be late and upsets his parents, until they come to realize his special gift.

Rhyming bedtime conversation between a city full of parents and their children, who are much more interested in playing than sleeping.

Two friends who lose parents, one suddenly in an accident and one by illness, learn to deal with their grief.

Advises parents on how to handle children with quick tempers, explaining how to anticipate and lessen the behavior by teaching the child the skills necessary to handle frustration adaptively to become more flexible, socially and emotionally.

As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.

Sixteen-year-old Christy, living with her reformed hippy parents in Chicago, has her belief in astrology strongly reinforced when, on a visit to the plastic surgeon to have the tattooed name of her former boyfriend, Benjamin, removed from her chest, she meets the very attractive Ben, who is having a tattoo of the name "Christy" removed from his arm.

Argues that the over-involvement of parents in the lives of their children is resulting in a generation of wimps, looking at how parents in affluent nations around the world have become so intent on smoothing the paths of their kids that they are depriving young people of the opportunity to learn and develop coping strategies and delaying their entry into adulthood.

After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps.

Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former head mistress of the school.