child rearing

The author draws on his own personal experiences with his daughter to provide practical advice to parents of troubled teens.

Offers parents of teenage girls advice on how to begin meaningful conversations, explaining why words are so important to girls and how they can help build a positive relationship between parents and children.

Provides information for the teenage single mother including support systems, parenting tips, and child development.

Bill Cosby writes humorous stories of his childhood as well as stories about children today.

Text and accompanying photographs provide a guide for teenage fathers who want to develop their parenting skills, with an emphasis on dealing with children from birth to the age of three.

Dr. Bettelheim presents the results of his lifelong effort to understand what is most clearly and crucially involved in successful child-rearing.

Humorist Dave Barry presents more than one hundred musings on parenting teenagers, discussing such topics as his son's choices of music, his daughter's choices of clothing, driving lessons, and college orientation.

Offers realistic advice on how parents can deal with thirty-eight types of difficult behavior, including anger, biting, defiance, hitting, stealing, tantrums, whining, and more.

Provides parents with a variety of practical, hands-on suggestions to curb their child's attitude problems, including tips for preventing arrogance, bad manners, temper tantrums, greed, impatience, jealousy, and selfishness.

Shows parents how to help children find a way through grief and sorrow during the difficult times of death, illness, divorce, and other upheavals.