child rearing

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.

Offers parents practical advice on how they can find the perfect balance between helping their children and overindulging them, explaining the dangers of giving children too much and overnurturing them and the best ways to provide them with the structure that will help them learn the skills needed to become happy, well-adjusted adults.

Describes how thinking of pleasant images and favorite things can help children deal with pain. Includes a section that advises parents how they can help their child manage their pain.