Kids Development

Ready to take the lead in your family and achieve your vision of ideal family life? Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning has helped redefine the mornings and the lives of millions of people since 2012. Since then, careers have been launched, goals have been met, and dreams have been realized, all through the power of the Miracle Morning Life S.A.V.E.R.S.

Good Inside meets Fair Play in this inspiring, real-world guide to fostering independent play in children—both as a vital skill for kids’ development and an essential act for modern parents’ well-being and sanity. “But I’m bored.” Parents constantly hear these three dreaded words...

In this invaluable audiobook, Amy McCready, founder of the popular online parenting course Positive Parenting Solutions, presents a nag-and-scream-free program for compassionately yet effectively, correcting your children's bad behavior. McCready draws on Adlerian psychology and Positive Discipline, which focuses on the central idea that every human being has a basic need to feel connected and empowered - children being no exception to the rule.

With humor and down-to-earth practicality, Karis shares stories of trial and triumph straight from the trenches of parenting. From the beginning, Karis gives desperate parents a reliable recipe for peace, boundaries, and effective discipline. Be at your best...even when your kids are at their worst. Grace Based Discipline will show you how!

"When people die, where do they go?" "Why is her skin darker than mine?" "But how does the baby get in there?" Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate, empathize, and answer their biggest queries, what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say, so we simply change the subject or give a quick, throwaway answer—and hope it doesn't come up again. In this book, Dr. Robyn Silverman takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions.

If you think your child is at risk for language difficulties, the last thing you want to do is wait around. But, it’s scary not to know how to approach such a delicate situation. And the truth is, your fear of the unknown can sometimes be worse than the situation itself. Luckily, the missing piece that will help you and your child overcome the challenges that a speech delay or disorder brings is closer than you think. Yasmin Akhtar, an SLT, is on a mission to help parents understand language development through the power of games.

No one wants to get rid of obsessive-compulsive disorder more than someone who has it. That's why Talking Back to OCD puts kids and teens in charge. Dr. John March's eight-step program has already helped thousands of young people show the disorder that it doesn't call the shots - they do. This uniquely designed volume is really two books in one. Each chapter begins with a section that helps kids and teens zero in on specific problems and develop skills they can use to tune out obsessions and resist compulsions.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled Dr. Lisa Damour worked as an expert collaborator on Pixar’s Inside Out 2! “An invaluable read for...

Can you teach your child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has lead the character education movement in schools for 40 years and now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to create a culture of kindness at home. Kindness doesn’t stand on its own. It needs a supporting cast of other essential virtues - like self-control, good judgment, courage, and gratitude.

Snuggle with the kids and listen to one story a night! Contains 15 children’s prayers to share, too. Christian parents will enjoy listening to these heartfelt, inspiring, and often humorous stories about the ups and downs of daily life in today’s contemporary Christian families, written by other Christian parents. Stories provide great lessons on faith, love, forgiveness, charity, and family.

Neste livro completo, inteligente e bem trabalhado, a renomada psicoterapeuta Philippa Perry revela o que realmente importa e quais comportamentos evitar – a cartilha essencial para pais. Todos os pais querem que seus filhos sejam felizes, sem errar na educação. Mas como atingir esses objetivos? Em vez de mapear um plano "perfeito", Philippa Perry oferece um olhar geral sobre como desenvolver relacionamentos de qualidade.

Raising positive, drug-free kids in a negative world is not easy, but in the long run, it's easier than raising negative ones. Now, the best-selling motivational author reveals his simple prescription for success with children, step by positive step. Drawing on the most comprehensive measurable results ever made available to an author-his "I CAN" course, taught in more than 5,000 schools with more than three million participants - and his own successes and failures as a parent - Zig Ziglar offers his sensible guidelines.

For parents who are concerned that their child is pulling away, following poor role models, or making choices that will lead to pain and difficulty, Mike Berry has good news: It's not too late. He offers parents six keys to maximizing and leveraging their influence to help their children through these difficult years and develop a relationship with them that can weather any storm.

For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered? In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today.

With The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, Dr. Harvey Karp - arguably the world’s foremost parenting expert and best-selling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block - offers invaluable tips on how to help your newborn, infant, or toddler get the rest they need, while debunking some of the most widely held myths about babies and sleep.

In the whirlwind of modern parenting, it's easy to lose sight of what our priorities should be. But at the end of the day, your primary job is to nurture an authentic faith in your kids. Addressing the unsettling trend of young adults abandoning their faith soon after leaving home, author and speaker Barrett Johnson offers a clear blueprint grounded in the model of Jesus and His twelve disciples.

In A Dad After God's Own Heart, best-selling author Jim George shares the basics for how to be a good dad with your kids, including letting your kids know you love and care for them; learning the keys to positive and effective communication; knowing the qualities kids need most in a dad; ways to encourage your children in their spiritual growth; and how to build healthy relationships that will last for a lifetime. As you commit to learning how to become the dad your kids need, you'll not only draw closer to your children, but you'll find incredible blessings in fatherhood.

In Parenting ADHD Now!, Diane and Elaine combine their practical know-how and professional expertise to offer immediate, actionable strategies you can use to guide and support your ADHD child compassionately and effectively.

Prevent and counteract the general anxiety and emotional fragility prevalent in children and teenagers today—a new parenting philosophy and strategies that give children the tools to flourish on their own. “A master synthesizer of attachment science, medical practice, and his own experience...

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in...