Safe Kids, Smart Parents

Author: Rebecca Bailey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670046X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Leading family psychologist and personal therapist to Jaycee Dugard, Rebecca Bailey tells parents how to keep their children safe in this accessible, must-have guidebook, with a foreword by Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mother. Whether their children are toddlers or teens, six years old or sixteen, whether they live in a rural town, suburb, or a bustling city, all parents worry about threats—from cyber-bullying to exploitation and abduction. What should they tell their children and when? What practical steps can they take to reduce the risks and keep their kids safe? Dr. Rebecca Bailey, with the assistance of her sister and registered nurse, Elizabeth, gives easily understood, easily followed answers. Safe Kids, Smart Parents builds on Dr. Bailey’s years of experience as a family psychologist helping real families deal with real situations. From abduction to abuse, Bailey explains how parents can speak to their kids about troubling topics while building their self-esteem and teaching them how to protect themselves. A smart, comprehensive, and easy-to-read resource, Safe Kids, Smart Parents is the most important book a parent can own.

Parenting Matters

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309388570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

Book Description
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

What Parents Need to Know About Children

Author: Stan Ferguson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781450568913
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Stan Ferguson, an experienced family therapist and parenting consultant, shares information, techniques, and skills he believes to be essential for parents who want to connect with their children in deep personal ways and to effectively nurture and guide them. Parents are more concerned than ever about their children's safety, emotional well being, and success. Yet parental worry and concern can lead to counterproductive behaviors that produce anxiety in children and diminish their confidence, abilities, and self esteem. What Parents Need to Know About Children focuses on the basic and most important information all parents need to reach their overall goals of happiness and success for their children. Each chapter includes practical information, at least one highlighted story that illustrates and illuminates important concepts, a "Review" section, and a "How to put into Practice" section. This format makes it ideal for individuals, couples, or groups to learn parenting skills. "It is obvious this book was born in Stan's heart. It is very practical and the examples of specific responses he includes will be really helpful to parents. The stories he shares present graphic pictures so that the ideas they illustrate are easily remembered. I hope this book does well because of the lives it will help change." Garry Landreth - Regents Professor, University of North Texas and author of Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship. "It's a pleasure to endorse this wonderfully practical and entertaining guide for parents. It's reflective of Stan's love for children, his extraordinary wisdom where they are concerned, and his unique gifts as a teacher and counselor. I heartily recommend What Parents Need To Know About Children to everyone who has a child or has ever been one." Richard D. Carson - Author of Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide To Enjoying Yourself

The Ten Things Every Parent Needs to Know

Author: Kim Paleg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572240650
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
In ten warm, straightforward chapters, Paleg describes in detail the skills parents most need to learn, including advice on how to nurture a child emotionally as well as physically, how to listen to a child and foster self-esteem, how to solve problems, handle discipline issues, cope with anger, and take care of themselves as well as the child.

101 Things Parents Need to Know, Do and Teach

Author: michael dennis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781987498080
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 162

Book Description
This book is everything a parent needs to know to help their children growing up to be successful in school and life. This is advice from a teacher of 30 years to parents about their children that they need to know. The advice is realistic and practical and easy to use. This book will give parents information about how to prepare their children for today's schools as well as how to get alone with others students. As well as which students to stay away from. The book is written in English and Spanish and shows the common experiences both the African American and Latino cultures share. The lessons taught, shared and learned are for the benefit of all parents and their children

I Want My Mommy

Author: Cameron Kidston
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450270859
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
A veteran child care center proprietor delivers an investigative study of the child care and educational industry in the United States that every parent should read. I want my mommy is a universal phrase, used by children from around the world spoken throughout infinite time. This guidebook of the same name provides the tools necessary to make the best choices for your childs care and education. We know that learning begins naturally at the time of birth. Parents need to understand the diversity of child care and schools in the United States. This guides intentions are to bring parents and others up to date on the child care industry in the United States that is being driven by demands from our modern day culture. I Want My Mommy is a parents real guide to child care and education written by an insider who understands the system inside and out. I Want My MommyI really enjoyed reading itI like the idea of an educational system designed to nurture and protect children as individuals, while helping them grow and develop into adults who challenge racism, sexism, and patriarchy. Barbara Seaman, Author of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth

What Every Parent Needs to Know

Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744093430
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
An expert guide to parenting with a new chapter on mental health and a refreshed illustrative style Understand key stages in your child’s development and discover effective parenting strategies from experts in education and neuroscience. What Every Parent Needs to Know delves into the latest research on child brain development and then applies it to real-life scenarios that all parents face. What’s key is that this isn’t one person’s opinion or experience of parenting. Director of Education at the Centre for Child Mental Health Margot Sunderland, together with research from Professor Jaak Panksepp, who has studied the emotional brain for over 30 years, presents evidence-based strategies for parents looking for trusted information and guidance on how best to raise their family. Alongside detailed information on how the child’s brain is working, anatomical illustrations present the science visually, while case studies and Q&As apply the science to everyday situations. Parenting strategies span from sleep training your newborn right through to 12 years old, addressing separation, seeking, social development, and more. Importantly, this book not only focuses on your child’s needs but also yours as a parent, with advice on looking after yourself, too. New material on child mental health completes this new edition, making it the ultimate parenting tome.

A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning

Author: Edward Watson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000427757
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Supporting parents in the quest to help their children learn as effectively and efficiently as possible, A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning translates 77 of the most important and influential studies on student learning into easily digestible overviews. This book will develop parents’ understanding of crucial psychological research so that they can help their children improve how they think, feel and behave in school (and, indeed, in life). Each overview summarises the key findings from the research and offers tips, hints and strategies for how you can use them in your home. Covering important areas such as memory, motivation, thinking biases and parental attitudes, this book makes complicated research simple, accessible and practical. From large- to small-scale studies, from the quirky to the iconic, this book breaks down key research to provide parents with the need-to-know facts. Essentially, it is a one-stop shop that offers guidance on how to parent even better. A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning answers the sort of questions that every parent wants to know but doesn’t know where to find the answers. This includes the small, everyday questions through to the big, life-changing ones. Some of the questions answered in this book include: How much sleep does your child need? Should I actually help them with their homework? Why does my child forget what they have just learnt? How much screen time is too much? What can I do to help them do better at school? Is it really that important that we all eat meals together? How can I help my child learn to better manage their emotions? How can I encourage them to be a better independent learner? A hugely accessible resource, this unique book will provide parents with the knowledge they need to best support their children’s learning and development.

All About Children – Questions Parents Ask

Author: Tony Humphreys
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717160998
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Being a parent is more challenging today than it's ever been. In All About Children, this thoroughly reliable and effective handbook, clinical psychologist Dr Tony Humphreys outlines effective ways of parenting and positive responses to difficult behaviour by children. Sometimes the task of parenting seems overwhelming. At others it provides great fulfilment and joy. It is always unpredictable; the challenges are forever changing and much of what we might have learned from our own parents seems quite irrelevant now. Parenting is not learned by instinct; it requires many complex skills. Parents have responsibility for the physical, emotional, social, sexual, behavioural, educational, creative and spiritual development of their children, and at the same time they must love them unconditionally. Tony Humphreys recognises the many and varied challenges faced by parents today. In All About Children, he provides an invaluable resource for parents by taking the questions they most frequently ask and providing thoughtful and comprehensive answers. He begins by pointing out that in order to develop parenting skills, each parent must first understand themselves and be prepared to continually update their knowledge as the needs of their children alter as they grow older. He goes on to deal with the practical aspects of everyday parenting skills and then looks at different aspects of challenging behaviour, both by children and parents. The book concludes with a chapter on learning and education, two core concerns of every parent. In a helpful question-and-answer format, All About Children provides today's parents with not only the vital information they require but also points out the skills they need to carry out their demanding task effectively. All About Children: Table of Contents Introduction - Where does parenting begin? - What roles do parents need to play? - What are the skills needed for everyday parenting? - How can parents best respond to children's challenging behaviours? - How can parents resolve their own challenging behaviours? - How can parents prepare children for living their lives fully?

What Parents Need to Know

Author: Teresa Wooten
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781492155324
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
What Parents Need to Know is a parenting handbook. This book is a guide for young parents that may have questions or concerns about how to guide their children. Some of the topics discussed are: love, discipline, education and health. The author shares insights from her experiences of being a parent and also from teaching children and talking with parents. She also includes scripture references for some of the topics. This book is a must have for every parent.