child rearing

A month-by-month guide on the well child, from birth to age five, covering all the important physical and behavioral issues.

Raising a child has never been more challenging. In his latest book, pastor Johann Christoph Arnold offers time-tested wisdom and common-sense advice on what children need most, what holds a family together, and how to rediscover the joy of parenting. With chapters on founding a family, the unborn child, birth, motherhood, fatherhood, teaching respect, building character, discipline, the role of grandparents, the special child, consideration for others, teenagers and more, Why Children Matter is a timely handbook for every parent and anyone who cares about children.

Offers advice and strategies to parents on how to get their children, ages one to six, to go to bed without struggles or tears, and addresses night waking and early rising, moving from crib to bed, nightmares, and other problems.

Explains how parents can develop custom-fit solutions for correcting their children's behavior by trusting their won intuition and wisdom.

Offers parents of multiracial children advice on how they can help their child understand their mixed racial background.

Examines the history of popular child rearing theories and theorists in twentieth-century America, such as G. Stanley Hall, John Broadus Watson, and Benjamin Spock, discussing the ways they effected and reflected changes in societal beliefs and priorities.

Series of essays written by mothers and teachers looking at how racism effects children and communities and offers ideas on how to end racial divisions and increase respect for diverse cultural perspectives.

Simple text and illustrations introduce the concept of sharing. Includes a tip sheet for parents and caregivers.

A comprehensive guide to the development of children from birth to age six that includes parenting techniques and activities to help a child maximize physical, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral development.

A guide for parents raising children in twenty-first-century society that focuses on deterring materialism, high risk behaviors, and jaded pseudo-adulthood; and details ten rules to raise geeky, healthy children.