child rearing

Dr. Kevin Leman offers a five-day program to help parents regain control of their children, stop problem behaviors, and raise a child who is respectful, pleasant, and well adjusted.

A practical guide for parents of an autistic child with advice on diagnosis; coexisting medical conditions; behaviors; communication; meltdowns; the disorder's effects on the parents' marriage, the single parent, siblings, and the extended family; dealing with society; school; adulthood; assistive techniques and technology; challenging obstacles; and other related topics.

Through a fictional story, the host of the HomeWord radio broadcast presents information and practical strategies on various aspects of good parenting, teaching how to create a warm, grace-filled home. Includes advice on proper discipline.

Offers parents advice on how they can help their children cope with stress, overcome challenges, and avoid conflict, with tips for stopping angry outbursts, reclaiming calmness, reducing anger, and resolving conflict.

Rafe Esquith draws on his twenty-four-year career as a teacher in Los Angeles to reveal how parents and teachers can help children build character and develop enriching lives that will help them succeed in school and throughout the rest of their lives.

Contains a practical guide to dealing with the daily problems of child rearing including developing basic communication skills, encouragement, effective discipline, and identifying some of the sources of anxiety in children.

Presents ways to reduce the antagonism between siblings, covering such topics as communication, comparisons, sibling roles, fights, the past, and times when the parents are not home.

Offers information and advice to parents on how to talk to their children about sex, with suggested conversation starters for discussing the body, the mind, the media, friends and influences, romantic relationships, sexual relationships, and safer sex, and includes tips on how to approach such topics from the perspective of personal values.