Heidi's Irresistible Hat

Heidi's Irresistible Hat
Author: Elizabeth Crary
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781884734557

Illustrates problem-solving skills for children by presenting real-life situations involving teasing, offering several alternative solutions, and discussing which are most appropriate.

Mommy, Don't Go

Mommy, Don't Go
Author: Elizabeth Crary
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1996
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781884734205

Matthew's mom is going on a trip. He feels sad and scared. You can help Matthew decide how to solve his problem. If you don't like what happens, you can make a different choice.

What Angry Kids Need

What Angry Kids Need
Author: Jennifer Anne Brown
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781884734847

What Angry Kids Need is a short, practical guide that- Helps you understand why your child might be angry, Gives you a number of effective ways to help your child, Shows you how to improve the quality of life in your home, Angry kids need support to deal with their feelings. They also need to be taught how to manage their behavior. By teaching them feelings language and coping skills, you improve the quality of their lives and yours as parents or care givers. Even if you decide your child or family needs professional help, there is much you can do to improve the situation right now! This book shows you the path to take. Book jacket.

The Big Book of Parenting Solutions

The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Author: Michele Borba
Publisher: Wiley + ORM
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0470488107

The Today show expert “tackles 101 issues ranging from sibling rivalry, lying and peer pressure to cell-phone use and TV addiction . . . Indispensable” (Publishers Weekly). A recommended read for moms by Working Mother magazine. In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children’s difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens. Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges Written by Today’s resident parenting expert Michele Borba Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results Author has written outstanding parenting books including Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin’, Don’t Give Me that Attitude, and more Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate. “Moms and dads have come to rely on Dr. Borba for advice on issues large and small. The Big Book of Parenting Solutions is an indispensable, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the wonderful and sometimes wacky world of parenthood. You’ll find yourself dipping into it for answers again and again.” —Dana Points, Editor-in-Chief, Parents Magazine “The easy-to-use problem/solution format will have you battling your biggest parenting crises with confidence.” —Working Mother

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.

I Want It

I Want It
Author: Elizabeth Crary
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781884734144

A little girl considers seven different ways to get the toy she wants from her playmate. Includes questions about feelings and making choices as each alternative in the story is considered.

Time-in

Time-in
Author: Jean Illsley Clarke
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781884734281

This book will appeal to parents who have felt frustrated, helpless, or angry when traditional parenting tools didn't work. The Time-In process is an overall approach that teaches children to be competent, to think, and to succeed using four tools-ask, act, attend, and amend. Parents can use Time-In when they want children to listen and think (ask), change behaviour (act), pay attention to the needs of others (attend), or to right a wrong they have done (amend).

Go to Your Room!

Go to Your Room!
Author: Shari Steelsmith
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780965047722

Understanding consequences is critical to a child's development of character, conscience, and responsibility. Go to Your Room! is not simply a general collection of techniques for discipline but rather a model of "Logical Consequence Possibilities" for each of 59 specific misbehaviours. In preparing this book, Steelsmith polled hundreds of parents and educators to discover the issues that most concerned them.