child rearing

Presents teenage parents with strategies for encouraging the healthy physical, emotional, and mental development of their infants.

Compares and contrasts beliefs and practices around the world on approximately 100 topics related to children, including birth, naming, and language acquisition.

Shows that peer groups matter more than parents in determining the kinds of people children will turn out to be.

Discusses how children are suffering from the violence, drugs, poverty, and abuse afflicting society today and how parents and other adults can combat those influences.

Presents advice for parents on handling children with quick tempers, explaining how to anticipate and lessen the behavior and teach one's child the skills necessary to handle frustration adaptively and become more flexible, socially and emotionally.

A practical guide for parents with preteen children with advice on improving communication, dealing with rebellion and peer pressure, handling sibling rivalry, and encouraging academic success.

Presents the author's plan for better child rearing, calling for increased community participation in forty key areas of child development in order to help curb destructive behavior and promote good character, and includes samples of how the strategies worked.

A guidebook to ten basic moral values parents need to teach in order to provide children with a foundation upon which to build lives of goodness and decency, with suggestions, activities, questions, and anecdotes for reinforcing the ethics lessons.