The Mad Family Gets Their Mads Out

The Mad Family Gets Their Mads Out
Author: Lynne Namka
Publisher: Talk Trust & Feel Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1994-09
Genre: Anger
ISBN: 9780964216709

Help children and parents to deal with their anger with fifty things they can say and do to express their anger constructively. Children will respond to the large type and colorful illustrations.

Author: Jacqueline Golding
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1590771044

With over 500 hand-picked titles, Healing Stories recommends carefully selected books essential for any adult looking to help children cope with their growing pains through reading. Featuring the long-established children's classics and the most recent library sensations, these hand-picked stories address kids' struggles - from the everyday to life-changing - while offering adults the information they need to make the right choices for their kids. Also includes useful tips to make reading fun and helpful for both adults and children.

Healing Stories

Healing Stories
Author: Jacqueline Golding
Publisher: M. Evans
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006-08-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 146173388X

With over 500 hand-picked titles, Healing Stories recommends carefully selected books essential for any adult looking to help children cope with their growing pains through reading. Annotated with helpful commentary, these titles cover everything from kids' everyday trials (losing baby teeth, starting school, having a bad day) to more emotionally stressful events (death of a pet, moving, illness), giving adults all the information they need to choose the right books. Also features useful tips to make reading fun and helpful for both adults and children. For more information, visit the Healing Stories Web site.

No More Misbehavin'

No More Misbehavin'
Author: Michele Borba
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2003-10-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0787971820

"This will be the only discipline book you'll ever need to raise good kids." -from the Foreword by Jack Canfield, coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul "Michele Borba offers insightful, realistic, and straightforward advice that is sure to get immediate results." -Editor-in-Chief, Parents Magazine "A sensitive, thoughtful, eminently practical book that will help parents help their children change behaviors that will improve the child's, and the entire family's, well being and happiness. A wonderful contribution!" -Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., child psychiatrist and coauthor, Over-Scheduled Child Anger, Anxiety, Biting, Bossy, Bullied, Bullying, Chore Wars, Cynical, Defiant, Doesn't Listen, Fighting, Gives Up Easily, Hitting, Homework Battles, Hooked on Rewards, Impulsivity, Intolerant, Lying and Cheating, Materialistic, Mean, Negative Peer Pressure, No Friends, Over-Perfectionism, Poor Sportsmanship, Put-Downs, Rude, Selfish, Sibling Battles, Short Attention Span, Shy, Stealing, Swearing, Talking Back, Tattling, Teased, Temper Tantrums, Whining, Yelling. Parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba tackles the most common bad behaviors that kids ages 3 to 12 repeat over and over behaviors that drive parents crazy. In this enormously useful, simple-to-use book she shows how to change these behaviors for good. For each negative behavior Dr. Borba offers a series of key tips and guidelines and outlines a step-by-step plan for a customized makeover that really works! Using the steps outlined in No More Misbehavin' will give you the help you need to raise kids with strong values and good character.

Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand
Author: Betty Bedard-Bidwell
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781894263399

Don't Give Me That Attitude!

Don't Give Me That Attitude!
Author: Michele Borba
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2004-03-29
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0787973335

Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way? Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day? Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores? Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems? Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of a home? Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATM machine? What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me That Attitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude. If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

Kiss Number 8

Kiss Number 8
Author: Colleen AF Venable
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250252032

A 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist Selection A 2019 New York Public Library Best Books for Kids A 2020 Tayshas Reading List Selection A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be... until all of a sudden, it's not. Her dad is hiding something big—so big it could tear her family apart. And that’s just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting to figure out that she doesn't want to kiss Adam... because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat. Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel from writer Colleen AF Venable and illustrator Ellen T. Crenshaw, is a layered, funny, sharp-edged story of teen sexuality and family secrets.

Avoiding Relapse

Avoiding Relapse
Author: Lynne Namka
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2001-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0595196136

So Who Is This Con Anyway? You’ve made the sobriety priority. Now lets get practical. Let’s get real. Deep within the recesses of your mind lies the inner Con! Your Con specializes in seduction and self-sabotaging behavior. Your negative mind-set that caused your life to go out of control chasing addictions is very crafty. It is exacting, greedy and never satisfied, always wanting more and more alcohol or drugs. The Con is a group of fear-based characters who hound you until you weaken and give in and go back into those self-destructive behaviors. The Con is made up of the Big Lies that you tell yourself! It is your worst enemy who acts like your best buddy to get you to use. Cravings happen. Temptations to use again are always there. Get the ammunition you can get to live a life of sobriety. Catch your Con! Learn to: Identify when you are doing Con talk Break into your negative mind games Interrupt you denial, excuses, justifications, rationalizations, and lying to yourself Talk to yourself in positive ways to keep from going back to your addiction Take control of your life and create a happy future!

Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Children

Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Children
Author: Lynne Namka
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2014-08-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781500974473

Do you want your child to be happy, successful and emotional stable? Teach them! People in tune with their Emotional Intelligence interpret and use their feelings to think and act appropriately to meet the needs of the social situation. Emotional Intelligence is said to be more important than IQ in becoming successful in relationships, careers and life. Here are lesson Plans which will give them the skills that they will need: Regulating stress, anxiety and anger. Having empathy, understanding and being tolerant of others. Learning self-soothing and stress management techniques to handle emotional distress. Being conscientious and demonstrating self-discipline and hard work. Help your child learn these all important life skills with these easy activities that promote the skills necessary for happiness in life. Your investment in teaching your children how to get along with others will give him valuable life management skills!

12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know

12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know
Author: Michele Borba
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1118040929

Best-selling parenting guru Michele Borba, the mother of three, has surveyed 5,000 mothers for their experience and wisdom in raising happier, more confident kids by returning to a more natural, authentic kind of mothering. She shares 12 top secrets of successful moms culled from her research and shows how to apply them to your family. You’ll learn how to... Apply the 12 essential principles that child experts and 5,000 parents say matter most in good mothering Raise children with confidence, resilience, and character Create a customized mothering plan and use it so it leads to success with your child Cut the guilt and reduce the stress by sticking to what really counts in parenting good kids today Discover simple ways to make big differences in your family’s life