Personal Development For Kids

When Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, author of Hunt, Gather, Parent, decided to address her family’s screen time and dependence on processed foods, she found that study after study refuted nearly all the claims she’d read in the media about dopamine and the supposed reasons we’re so inclined to pick up our phones or raid the pantry. She took this new neuroscience and psychology and merged it with practical experience, shifting the power dynamic back to families: instead of devices and foods controlling us, we control them, and both screens and the pantry become tools rather than burdens.

Packed with easy-to-follow tips and real-life advice, this book breaks down the challenges of ADHD into manageable steps. You'll find practical strategies for setting up routines, handling tricky behaviors, and working with schools—all delivered in a friendly, down-to-earth style. Whether you’re just starting out or looking for fresh ideas, this handbook is like having a chat with a knowledgeable friend who’s been there. Perfect for any parent wanting to make a positive impact on their child’s journey with ADHD.

Wits Guts Grit is inspired by the many what-if questions acclaimed science writer and mother of two Jena Pincott asked herself as research on the invisible forces that shape our minds and health has emerged and grown over the past decade. What if we identify the microbes that support stress resilience, find ways to expose our kids to them, and then test them?

Most children are born with the innate ability to eat the appropriate amount of food to satisfy their hunger and support appropriate growth. Despite this, parents are still anxious and confused about how much and what to feed their children. In her audiobook, Intuitive Eating for Children, Dr. Yami provides a fresh approach to feeding your child beginning at pregnancy and continuing through the teen years. As a board-certified pediatrician, mother, and health coach she aims to reassure, support, and guide parents by teaching the principles of intuitive eating for children.

In Rebel Well, coach and author Gary Lougher invites parents, mentors, and families to discover how breaking cycles of trauma and disconnection can become the foundation for deeper bonds. Drawing from science, story, and the Heroic Kids program, this guide shows how seven everyday habits—listening, rest, play, food, words, strength, and patience—can transform family life.

In Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-Down World, acclaimed Catholic psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi offers parents a roadmap through this difficult and sometimes frightening terrain. Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-Down World is a clarion call for strong, confident parenting in confusing times. More importantly, Dr. Ray gives you the resources to grow in that confidence: the knowledge of an expert, the insight of an experienced clinician, and the wisdom of decades of fatherhood. This is a book for parents who aim to form children who value the things of God, no matter the work and the effort.

With its practical advice and compassionate tone, The Myth of Laziness shows parents how to nurture their child's strengths and improve their classroom productivity. Most important, it shows how correcting these problems in childhood will help children live a fulfilling and productive adult life.

Anxious Kids offers parents a new perspective on their children's anxiety, encouraging them to view each episode as an opportunity to empower their kids with the skills to manage anxiety and thrive. Best-selling parenting author Michael Grose and well-being expert Dr Jodi Richardson explain why more children than ever before experience anxiety.

So When Are You Having Kids? is not your parents’ parenting book, nor is it a how-to for getting pregnant. It’s a nonjudgmental, inclusive guidebook for women, men, gender-nonconforming people, same-sex couples, and prospective single parents who want to make an informed decision regarding if and how they bring children into the world. Combining research with over 100 compelling real-life stories, the resources in this book are as diverse as the generations they’re meant to serve.

Did you know that children are at risk of sexual abuse, now more than ever? While your children are ‘playing on their laptops’ online grooming could be occurring? Would some tips on how to protect them be useful? Sexual abuse and grooming of children across the world are both frightening realities, and ways to manage this are desperately needed. This roadmap is for the parents, teachers, grandparents, and front-line staff everywhere. Resources are instrumental in combating these predators, and children need practical tools to use.

It can feel nearly impossible to raise good kids without reactive parenting; however, the good news is that it is possible! The change starts with you—developing a better understanding of your child’s needs and emotions while having the tools to respond as a more positive parent is key! Positive Parenting and Discipline Tools to Raise Good Kids has everything you need. This book lays out an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness. I

In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom. She moves beyond the black and white “mommy wars” over natural parenting, discipline, and work-life balance to explore a more nuanced reality: one filled with ambivalence, joy, guilt, and exhaustion. Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts.

Children aren’t being taught nonverbal skills in the same formalized way they are taught reading and writing. Instead, they are expected to simply absorb these skills at school, home, and on the playground. But between the steep rise in screen time and the social leaning lost to Covid quarantines and school closures, many kids haven’t had sufficient opportunity to learn all the rules of nonverbal behavior.

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Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to “fix” your “difficult” children, the hard truth is, they’re not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Therapist and parenting expert Sean Grover untangles the forces driving family dysfunction, and helps parents assume their leadership roles once again.

The transition from "married" to "married with children" can be tough. Before they know it, a once youthful and energetic married couple finds themselves in a minivan loaded with noisy kids and littered with Cheerios, crusty Sippy cups, banana peels, and missing library books. As much as you love your children and work hard to nurture and train them for the future, the challenges that come with parenthood can make the "for better or for worse" promise a hard one to honor.

While anger is a normal emotion that everyone experiences, including kids, the trick is to help them express their anger in healthier ways. Instead of suppressing anger and bottling everything up inside, working with them to accept and understand their anger leads to lifetime emotional well-being and healthy relationships. This guide uses simple language for you and your kid to listen to and discuss together, while building a strong bond and having fun doing it.

Dr. Kathy Koch (pronounced “cook”), author of Screens and Teens and 8 Great Smarts, will teach you proven strategies for training your child’s heart and parenting in a way that honors God. She’ll help you move your child from “I can’t, I won’t" to “I can, I will, and I did”.

This book is for the parent who wants to understand pediatric anxiety to its core. Written and narrated in a way that is digestible for anyone, the approach is realistic and easy to implement. Anxiety runs on a spectrum where various techniques work better than others - which is why this book is packed with coping strategies for different times, places, and situations suited to fit a range of children’s needs.

Niño Rico, Niño Listo le mostrará cómo despertar en sus pequeños el amor por el aprendizaje, utilizando los mismos métodos que el inteligente padre rico usó para que Kiyosaki continuara con sus estudios a pesar de que tenía malas calificaciones y pretendía abandonar la escuela. Además, esta obra abrirá a sus hijos puertas que usted ni siquiera sabía que existían, mismas que le permitirán comprender los mecanismos de las finanzas, el dinero y las inversiones, dándoles una ventaja competitiva para el resto de sus vidas.