child rearing

Doctor Kenneth R. Ginsburg provides strategies and advice on building resilience in children and adolescence, discussing competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control.

"Offering essential tips on fostering resilience, this book helps parents to understand how they can balance unconditional love yet still set high expectations for their children, as well as recognize when to set boundaries and when to get out of kids' ways so they can learn lessons firsthand"--Back cover.

The author suggests that the parent-child relationship would be better served if changed from a parent-to-child focus to a parent-with-child focus, allowing the parent to learn along with the child and achieve spiritual awakening.

A guide to attachment parenting, covering co-sleeping, breastfeeding, baby wearing, and gentle discipline.

A clinical psychologist and a test-prep expert combine cutting-edge brain science with insights from their work with families to outline a case for giving children more freedom to unleash their full potential.

Offers parents advice on how to deal with a variety of situations where consideration counts, but is sometimes forgotten and discusses the best ways to teach children proper manners.

"...offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood-and explains why developing a healthy senseof empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future..."--Provided by publisher.

"The brain is either in a reactive (no) state, which makes us rigid and self-conscious, putting us on high alert for rules and consequences; or in a receptive (yes) state, which is what enables curiosity and creativity, and fosters resilience. Most traditional learning environments--and many parenting approaches--necessarily trigger the 'no' state in children (allowing teachers and school systems to assess and manage them), but parents can nurture the mindset that leads to authentic happiness and success by supplying children with neurological counterbalancing 'yes brain' experiences and interactions. [The authors] . . . explain the underpinnings of this neurological dichotomy, and give parents the scripts, ideas and activities for igniting and wiring the 'yes' state in kids of all ages"--Provided by publisher.

Presents guidelines for parents on how to use findings of neuroscience to raise their children in ways that best work with child psychology at each stage of development.