BOOK: Solve Your Child's Sleep

Author:  Richard Ferber

Summary:

• Offers safe, sound ideas for helping your child fall and stay asleep at night and perform well during the day.
• Provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood.
• Topics covered in detail include:
• Bedtime difficulties and nighttime wakings
• Effective strategies for naps
• Sleep schedule abnormalities

 

BOOK: Good Parents, Tough Times How Your Catholic Faith Provides Hope
and Guidance in Times of Crisis
Author: Charlene C. Giannetti & Margaret Sagarese
Summary:

• Examines the rich Catholic spiritual tradition in this guide for parents of children in crisis.
• Focuses on the spiritual well-being of the parent as much as the behavior of the child. The authors draw parallels between the real-life struggles parents face today and those endured by the saints.
• Detailing how the qualities that enabled the saints to face great troubles—charity, knowledge, faith, hope, patience, serenity, truth, and humility—can sustain parents dealing with serious problems in their families.
• Explores how these virtues can strengthen resolve, temper anger, restore energy, and foster open and honest communication between parents and children.
  

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Charity
Chapter Two: Knowledge
Chapter Three: Faith
Chapter Four: Hope
Chapter Five: Patience
Chapter Six: Serenity
Chapter Seven: Truth
Chapter Eight: Humility
Appendix
Resources

 

BOOK: Parenting Without Pressure
Author: Teresa A. Langston
Summary:

• A whole-family workbook for resolving parent-child conflict and establishing order in the home
• Emphasizing communication, unconditional love, and a structured environment, the approach will involve your whole family in the parenting process.
• How to establish fair rules with workable consequences and motivating incentives.
• Remove the struggle but keep your authority with discussions about rules and consequences that prepare your children for the real world ahead.

BOOK: Parenting With Wit & Wisdom In Times of Chaos & Loss  
Author: Barbara Coloroso
Summary:

• Offers opportunities for parents to practice the keys to good parenting: treating kids with respect; giving them a sense of positive power in their own lives; giving them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their own actions, and learn from their own success and mistakes. 
• Reveals how daily routines get overshadowed by tragic or traumatic events, it is these same keys that can help children through the chaos and loss.
• Helps parents navigate family waters when they get turbulent. What do we tell out children when their grandfather or mother or sibling dies? How do we handle a serious illness or disability that affects the whole family? How do we break the news of a divorce? And how do we make room for our children’s feelings and needs when we are struggling with our own grief?

Table of Contents
Introduction
A Path Through Grief
Death: Helping Kids Mourn
A Journey of the Heart: Acute Illness, Chronic Illness, and Disability
Divorce
Families Born of Loss and Hope
Mistakes, Mischief, and Mayhem
Life Lessons
Index

 

BOOK: Little People – Guidelines for Common Sense Child Rearing
Author: Dr. Edward r. Christophersen
Summary:

• “Catch ‘em being good,” is one of Dr. Christophersen’s favorite pieces of advice.
• Built around guidelines that will help you to encourage your child’s positive behavior.
• Discusses the importance of touching to support a child’s emotional development and self-esteem.
• Advice is also given that comfort parents by discussing what is normal and acceptable behavior.

 

BOOK: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
Author: Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson & David J. Bredehoft
Summary:

• Explains how giving children too much, over-nurturing them, and providing them with soft structure will prevent them from learning many of the important life skills they need to become happy, healthy adults.
• Smart advice, real-life stories, and effective strategies you need to know to avoid—or repair—the damage overindulgence causes, including:
• • How to figure out if you’re being overindulgent and ways to act differently
  • How to teach your child what "enough" means
  • Tips on establishing firm rules and structure
  • How to instill responsibility and independence in your kids
  • What to do when friends or family overindulge your kids
  • How to break the cycle if you were overindulged as a child

 

BOOK: Stepparent's Survival Guide

Author: Suzen J. Ziegahn

Summary:

• Describes what to expect when creating a second family and how to prepare for specific challenges.
• Issues include overcoming alienation, competition, and defensiveness; disciplining children; and creating new stepfamily traditions.
• Assessment questions and exercises help readers develop their own family plans rather than adapt to existing models.
• Charts and worksheets are included.  
• Readers develop a personalized plan for blended family cohesion, and learn how to avoid feeling defensive, competitive, and alienated, build healthy relationships in the crucial first year, discipline the children, deal with the extended family, create new stepfamily traditions, and keep the marriage alive.

 

BOOK: How to Help Your Child with Homework: The Complete Guide to Encouraging Good Study Habits and Ending the Homework Wars
Author Jeanne Shay Schumm
Summary

• Helps parents avoid homework battles and promote school success.
• Covers the basics: building solid study skills in reading, spelling, writing, math, science, social studies, and foreign languages.
• Also includes the latest information on phonics, the changing world of math curriculum, trends in parental involvement, "No Child Left Behind," educational standards, electronic planners, new teaching methods, multiple intelligences, learning styles, and much more.
• Sections on preparing for standardized tests and using technology.
• Tips on getting organized, current resources, and tried-and-true learning tools round out this essential title.
• Reproducible handout masters, parents of children ages 6-13. You will learn how to:
• • set up a homework schedule and a home study center
  • use technology wisely
  • help your child prepare for high-stakes standardized tests
  • communicate effectively with your child's teachers
  • help your child with reading, writing, phonics, fluency, comprehension, spelling, math, science, social studies, and foreign languages
  • promote responsibility and independence
  • help your child with projects, reports, papers, and thematic units

 

BOOK: Our Family Meeting Book
Fun and Easy Ways to Manage Time, Build Communications, and Share Responsibility Week by Week
Authors: Elaine Hightower & Betsy Riley
Summary:

• 52 simple, enjoyable agendas for weekly family meetings. Don't worry; they won't take long - as little as 15 minutes each week.
  Small commitment can bring big results and rewards, like deeper family communication, stronger family bonds, positive self-esteem in kids, mutual love and respect, character development, responsibility, and much, much more.
• Book also functions as a journal that includes places to record family members' accomplishments and expectations.
• Spaces for noting things you talk about, decide, or want to address next time.
• Weekly planners that help you track and coordinate family activities.
• Menu planners for jotting down ideas or assignments for the week's meals.
• Bonus pages to help you plan family vacations, celebrations, and summer fun.
• This book becomes a written history of your family's life together - and a treasured keepsake.

 

BOOK: A Chicken's Guide to Talking Turkey with Your Kids About Sex
Authors: Dr. Kevin Leman, Kathy Flores Bell
Summary:

• A straightforward guide for parents and educators about teaching young people about the first period, first nocturnal emission, dating relationships, STDs, molestation, and much more.
• Advice in down-to-earth terms concerning what needs to be taught, how to build a bond of trust and support, and how to sound fully credible when promoting abstinence in a culture that is media-soaked with sexual imagery.
• Basic tips concerning trials of puberty such as proper hair and skin care, oral hygiene, and more.
• Covers his or her development not just from the waist down, but also from the neck up, where the important decisions about sex are made.
• Illustrated with real life scenarios, this book is filled with practical knowledge and biblical wisdom. It is a book of firsts: first bra, first shave, first period, first nocturnal emission, first school dance, first discussion about relating to the opposite sex.
• Moms, discover how to buy that first athletic supporter for your son in Little League.
• Dads, learn how to navigate the feminine hygiene aisle at the supermarket for your daughter.
• Tools you need to help your kids not only understand their growing bodies, but cope with the temptations and social pressures that go with them.

 

BOOK: Changing Children's Behavior by Changing the People, Places and Activities
Author: Richard L. Munger, Ph.D.
Summary:

• Makes the case that the environments in which a child lives, plays, and studies are even more important than personality in shaping that child's behavior.
• Making changes in the people, places, and activities in a child's life can have profound effects on his or her behavior.
• Identifies ten "behavior settings" in which children and adolescents spend most of their time - home, neighborhood, school, after-school, electronic (TV, computer, and other media), friends, work, faith, recreation and leisure, and sports.
• Settings and the presence of interesting, challenging activities and adult mentors in them can make a big difference in helping children develop into motivated, compassionate, and competent adults.
• At the end of each chapter, he provides a quiz to help parents develop a profile of their child's environmental strengths and weaknesses and then makes suggestions to improve them.

BOOK: In Memorian
Author: Henri Nouwen
Summary:

• The author shares his intensely personal feelings at the time of a loved one's death.
• A moving account that deepens into the story of a life of faith in which we see the profound relationship between death and faith. 
• Covers a strength and comfort to the bereaved, and significant pastoral value to all who minister to the dying and their loved ones.

 

BOOK: Raising a Good Kid (chances are you’re doing just fine)

Author:  John F. Smith

Summary:

Despite all your worries, chances are you're doing just fine raising a good kid.Not a "how-to" or "what you're doing wrong" book, but rather a reassuring, confidence-builder which addresses the issues parents are most concerned about - character, achievement, school, sexuality, and faith. 128 pages

 

BOOK: The Power of Discernment:  Helping Your Teen Hear God’s Voice Within
Author: Maggie Pike, St. Mary’s Press, 2003
Summary:

• This book shows that it really is possible to make such a lofty principle as discernment understandable, practical, and useful to a ten-year-old, a fifteen-year-old, a young person on the brink of adulthood.
• Offers a method of spiritual discernment for dealing with issues such as peer pressure, friends, sexuality, change, and family well-being.
• A method of parenting centered in God.

 

 

BOOK: Common Sense Parenting, 3rd Edition
Author: R Ray Burke, Ph.D., Ron Herron, and Bridget Barnes
Summary:

• Here's a great guidebook for parents of children ages 6 to 16 facing a myriad of family challenges: a teen who's defiant; siblings who constantly bicker; a child having trouble in school, or parents and kids who occupy the same house but don't communicate or have fun together anymore.
• Provides parents with a menu of proven techniques that will aid them in building good family relationships, preventing and correcting misbehavior, using consequences to improve behavior, teaching self-control, and staying calm.
• Approaching discipline as positive teaching rather than punishment of their children.
• Encouraging children by recognizing their good behavior and teaching before problems occur are as important as correcting children's negative behavior.
• Parents also learn how to help children solve problems, reach goals by using charts and contracts, and practice new social skills.
• As each new parenting technique is introduced, the authors explain each step, provide many clear examples, and give parents an action plan for implementing it in their home.

BOOK: Common Sense Parenting Learn at Home Workbook and DVD (DVD)
VIDEO/DVD: Common Sense Parenting Learn at Home Workbook and DVD (DVD)
Author: Ray Burke (Author), Ronald W. Herron (Author), Linda Schuchmann
Summary:

• Two videotapes with three hours of content, allowing viewers to sit in on actual parenting classes and watch a skilled trainer explain parenting techniques.
• Hear answers to questions asked by participants, watch taped vignettes of problem situations and see how the skills are implemented.
• Exercises are also included to test viewer's comprehension of the concepts.
• A workbook accompanies the tapes to reinforce and expand on key points made by the trainer and to outline the steps of each parenting technique presented. Written copies of the exercises are included.
• Topics of the six class sessions: EACH ABOUT ONE, HALF HOUR LONG
• • parents as teachers
  • encouraging positive behavior
  • preventing misbehavior
  • correcting problem behavior
  • handling emotionally intense situations
  • helping children succeed in school

 

VIDEO/DVD: Teaching Children Self-Control Vol 2 DVD
Author: Produced by the Common Sense Parenting Program at Girls and Boys Town
Summary:

• Features scenes that demonstrate the steps of each parenting skill, commentary from Common Sense Parenting experts, as well as graphics and music to engage and inform parents looking for ways to solve discipline problems and improve family life.
• Teaching children how to stay in control when they are frustrated or angry is a difficult parenting challenge. This video gives you the tools to handle emotionally intense situations with your child.
• DVD/video demonstrates how you can calm the child down and, once he or she is in control again, do follow-up teaching.
• Teaching self-control gives both of you the time and space to calm down and to work toward fewer angry outbursts in the future.
• Format: DVD   Duration: approx. 25 minutes

 

 

VIDEO/DVD: Building Relationships Vol 1 DVD
Author: Produced by the Common Sense Parenting Program at Girls and Boys Town
Summary:

• Inform parents looking for ways to solve discipline problems and improve family life.
• Love, trust, and good feelings between parent and child are like a bank account you can draw on when you must discipline or correct a child's misbehavior.
• The more positive your relationship is, the more likely it is that your child will listen to you and try harder to please you.
• Explores several ways to build a better relationship: Catch your children being good and reward them with your praise and attention.
• Hold short but regular family meetings and have fun with them.
• Give your children a voice in family rules and decisions.
• Create predictable family routines that help children feel secure, and establish meaningful traditions that they will want to carry on into the next generation.  
• Format: DVD  Duration: approx. 25 minutes

 

BOOK: How to Help Your Child with Homework: The Complete Guide to Encouraging Good Study Habits and Ending the Homework Wars
Author: Jeanne Shay Schumm
Summary:

• Helps parents avoid homework battles and promote school success.
• Covers the basics: building solid study skills in reading, spelling, writing, math, science, social studies, and foreign languages.
• Also includes the latest information on phonics, the changing world of math curriculum, trends in parental involvement, "No Child Left Behind," educational standards, electronic planners, new teaching methods, multiple intelligences, learning styles, and much more.
• Sections on preparing for standardized tests and using technology.
• Tips on getting organized, current resources, and tried-and-true learning tools round out this essential title.
• Reproducible handout masters, parents of children ages 6-13. You will learn how to:

  *set up a homework schedule and a home study center
  *use technology wisely
  *help your child prepare for high-stakes standardized tests
  *communicate effectively with your child's teachers
  *help your child with reading, writing, phonics, fluency, comprehension, spelling, math,
    science, social studies, and foreign languages
  *promote responsibility and independence
  *help your child with projects, reports, papers, and thematic units