child rearing

Advises parents to let their children experience disappointment, frustration, and failure, giving them an opportunity to learn from mistakes, and grow up to become successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults.

Discusses the joys and challenges of African American motherhood.

"According to Michele Borba, the woman Dr. Drew calls "the most trusted parenting expert in America," there's an empthy crisis among today's youth, who she dubs the "selfie generation." But the good news is that empathy is a skill that can -- and must -- be taught, and in UNSELFIE (her first book for a general trade audience) Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood"--.

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers fifteen suggestions for empowering her daughter to become a strong woman, from encouraging her to choose helicopters over dolls to having open conversation with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality.

A guide to raising kind, well-mannered children, discussing how to teach respect for authority, the importance of praise, the bad habit of criticizing others, how to handle hostility and anger, and many other topics.

A guide to parenting that asks parents to empathize with their children to nurture their strengths, rather than discipline them in the traditional reward-punishment way.

Contains 244 entries that provide information on a variety of issues related to the nature of the relationship between parents and children.

Examines cultural practices and beliefs related to child rearing in seven societies through imagined infant care manuals from Bali, the Puritans of New England, the Beng of West Africa, Turkey, the Warlpiri of Australia, the Fulani of West Africa, and the Ifaluk of Micronesia.

Describes for teenage parents the development and special needs of children from one to three.