parenting

Provides suggestions for parents of teenagers for dealing with the problems of sexuality, drug use, and violence.

When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video of their five-year-old son Ryland's transition from girl to boy, it instantly went viral and has been seen by more than a million viewers since its posting. Telling their story in full led to this book. After Ryland became deaf at age one and needed cochlear implants, they spent nearly four years successfully teaching her to speak. Then it was their turn to listen to Ryland as she insisted she was a boy. Hillary and Jeff share their experiences as they try to erase the stigma surrounding the word transgender.

Dr. Phelan explains how to get your children to do the good things you want them to do, such as getting up and out in the morning, eating, going to bed and picking up after themselves. The tape teaches strategies for encouraging your children's independence and healthy self-esteem.

Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.

A guide to help parents bring about positive change in communicating with the middle-school child.

Intends to help children develop problem-solving skills in the age of instant gratification and over-dependence on parents.

"When little monkey's curiosity causes her to slip and fall to the shadowy forest floor, she must evade a series of animals looking for lunch before she can return to her home in the trees."--OCLC.