Download or read book Maximum Strength Parenting written by Andrew Vaughan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the town of Maximum Strength Parenting, a happy little place where youll have a lot to do, a lot to think about, and a lot of fun! Maximum Strength Parenting is the art of using all of your gifts and knowledge in the most important and influential job you will ever have, parenting. A Maximum Strength Parent helps foster the growth of a Maximum Strength Child, which is a child who enjoys the process of striving to his or her potential and acts with courage, consistency, responsibility, power, authority, flexibility, sound judgment, and humanity in his or her emotional, intellectual, spiritual, moral, and physical interactions with the world. Maximum Strength Parenting is the greatest gift you can give your child. In Maximum Strength Parenting we express our Freedom of Speech and our Freedom to Teach, but we stop well-short of the Freedom to Preach that is evident in so many parent-advice books of the day. Throughout Maximum Strength Parenting you will find rich information, balanced commentary, and consideration of nuanced points that will cause you to think more deeply about your positions (or perhaps re-think your positions) on countless topics of philosophical and practical importance in parenting. We also provide broad ranges of effective parenting strategies for you to choose from. Throughout these pages we have provided hundreds of little bits of insight, encouragement, strategy, inspiration, and solution options. From our hearts to yours, we hope you will find the ideas and strategies in Maximum Strength Parenting to be worthy companions on your lifelong journey of raising a Maximum Strength Child. Andrew Vaughan, Ph.D. Lauren Resnick, M.S., CCC, SLP, & Anne Long, M.S., Ed.

Download or read book Strengths Based Parenting written by Mary Reckmeyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengths Based Parenting doesn't prescribe one "right" way to parent. Instead, author Mary Reckmeyer empowers parents to embrace their individual parenting style by discovering and developing their own -- and their children's -- talents and strengths. With real-life stories, practical advice backed by Gallup data, and access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder and Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer assessments, Strengths Based Parenting builds the foundation for positive parenting. Strengths Based Parenting is grounded in decades of Gallup research on strengths psychology -- including assessments of nearly 1 million young people -- and highlighted in Gallup's national bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0. More than 14 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment to discover their unique combination of talents and strengths. Gallup knows that focusing on talents and strengths can improve the quality of people's lives. Now, in Strengths Based Parenting, Gallup extends strengths psychology to the most important operating system in the world -- the family. How can you discover your children's unique talents? And how can you use your own talents and strengths to be the most effective and supportive parent possible? Strengths Based Parenting addresses these and other questions on parents' minds. But unlike many parenting books, Strengths Based Parenting focuses on identifying and understanding what your children are naturally good at and where they thrive -- not on their weaknesses. The book also helps you uncover your own innate talents and effectively apply them to your individual parenting style. Raising a child truly takes a village. Strengths Based Parenting can help parents learn how to partner with teachers, coaches and other adults in their kids' lives to create a positive, supportive environment to develop their talents into strengths and instill confidence.

Download or read book Grace Based Parenting written by Tim Kimmel and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a parenting style that nurtures a healthy family and displaces fear as a motivator for behavior. Learn how to meet your child's three driving inner needs for security, significance and strength with the invaluable gifts of love, purpose and hope. Modern parents are stressed out and tired. They’ve tried countless parenting books on the market, many of which are harsh, fear-based books that loving parents instinctively reject. As Christians, we frequently believe that the battle for a child's heart and soul is fought on the outside with rigid rules and boundaries, when in fact the opposite is true. Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries, offers a timeless look at parenting. Rejecting rigidity and checklists that don't work, Dr. Kimmel recommends a parenting style that is the opposite, emphasizing the importance of communicating the unconditional love that Christ offers and affirming this timeless message of grace to one's family. In Grace-Based Parenting, you’ll learn: A parenting style that mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator Why fear-based parenting is a guaranteed method to set children up for failure How to provide a safe space for children to develop into functional adults with purpose, security, and inner strength As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it—creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children. This revolutionary book presents a whole new way to nurture your family.

Download or read book The Strength Switch written by Lea Waters and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock your child’s potential by helping them build their strengths. As a strengths-based scientist for more than 20 years, Dr Lea Waters has witnessed first-hand how focusing on our children’s strengths, rather than correcting their weaknesses, can help build resilience and optimism, and offer protection from depression and anxiety. In this game-changing book, she argues that by throwing the ‘strength switch’ parents can encourage creativity, develop their children’s self-esteem and energy, and enhance achievement — and she offers easy-to-follow steps to teach parents how. With specific tips for interacting with your kids and your teens, The Strength Switch offers all the tools parents need to discover talents in their children, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, and deal with problem behaviours and difficult emotions. This essential book will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.

Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Download or read book Strength Switch The written by Lea Waters and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This game-changing book reveals the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. By showing us how to throw the 'strength switch', Dr Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism and achievement. As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers - and how parents find it an exciting and rewarding way to raise them. With many suggestions for specific techniques to interact with your children, Waters demonstrates how to discover their strengths and talents, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, and even how to deal with problem behaviour and talk about difficult situations and emotions.

Download or read book Parenting While Working from Home written by Karissa Tunis and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting in December is very different from parenting in July―especially while working from home! As more parents work from home than ever before, there are unique challenges when it comes to meeting the demands of their job, helping their kids thrive, and finding even five minutes to take care of themselves. Parenting While Working from Home offers tips, strategies, and reflections to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids, and establish their inner strength over the course of a year. Parenting experts and founders of the popular website, Adore Them Parenting, Karissa Tunis and Shari Medini share actionable tips, heartfelt insight, and planning strategies to help you enjoy your own parenting journey while working from home. Building on the authors’ own experiences and the most common challenges they hear parents voicing today, Parenting While Working from Home encourages parents to make intentional changes that will result in happier families and thriving careers. This practical guide will teach you how to: Manage your time so that both your kids and your job get the attention they need Build a professional network and maintain your productivity from home Create a kid-friendly environment that encourages independence and strong sibling bonds Consistently tune in to your own needs so that you can meet your true potential And so much more While it isn’t always easy, working from home while raising a family can (and should) be an incredible experience. Parenting While Working from Home offers comfort in shared struggles, new solutions, and calmer days ahead!

Download or read book Parenting Beyond Power written by Jen Lumanlan, MS, MEd and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kids—and ourselves.” —Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, author of Raising Good Humans Parenting is hard. But when we replace conventional parent-child power dynamics with collaboration, family life gets easier today—and we create a better world for all of us in the future. When we see our children stalling, resisting, having tantrums, using mean words, and hitting, we want to just make it stop. But conventional discipline methods like time-outs, countdowns, and “consequences” teach children that it’s OK for more powerful people to control others—a lesson they take out into the world. This is how we learned White supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism from our parents—and we will replicate this with our children unless we make a different choice. Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan offers a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationships with children. This new approach helps us to look beneath challenging behaviors to find and meet children’s needs, and ours too—perhaps for the first time in our lives. It involves empathetic listening, understanding feelings and underlying needs, and problem-solving with our children to find solutions to conflicts that work for everyone. Family life becomes radically easier in the short term because behavior problems tend to melt away. In the long term, we’ll raise children who confidently advocate for themselves and treat others with profound respect. Includes sample scripts, flowcharts, and resources to help parents learn and implement this new approach. —"The compassionate guidance will be a boon to parents eager to move away from punitive child-rearing strategies."—Publisher's Weekly

Download or read book Strength for Their Journey written by Dr. Robert L. Johnson and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and their parents cope with the myriad of social challenges they confront each day. Now making this special prescription available to all parents, Strength for Their Journey offers insight into five interconnected areas: • Traditional Discipline: The Strength to Embrace Parental Boundaries • Racial Discipline: The Strength to Negotiate the Realities of Being a Racial Minority • Emotional Discipline: The Strength to Resist Negative Peer Pressure and Temptation • Practical Discipline: The Strength to Excel in School, Career, and Financial Pursuits • Mind-Body Discipline: The Strength to Maintain Positive Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health In a culture that often grants fewer safety nets to nonwhite children, Strength for Their Journey is a crucial book that African-American parents can turn to again and again, paving a path of confidence and joy for future generations.

Download or read book John Rosemond s New Parent Power written by John Rosemond and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining John Rosemond's most popular works "Parent Power" and "The Six Point Plan" in one volume, this is the complete parenting philosophy of one of America's foremost experts in the field. This new edition contains updated and revised material and joins the content of both of the original books.

Download or read book Incredible Parent written by Brandon Miller and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong Moms and Super Dads Wanted If you’re reading this, chances are you are already a good parent. How can you take the next step from good to incredible? By shifting your focus to what you do well as a parent instead of dwelling on your weaknesses. Inside you’ll discover how to get a special online access code to the groundbreaking IncredibleParent strengths assessment, a powerful tool to help you identify your core strengths as a parent. Using the practical advice and proven strategies in the book, you can grow and leverage those areas of strength to bring joy and success to your daily parenting interactions. This innovative strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware, and energized as a parent, allowing you the freedom to do what you do well and bring out the best in your kids.

Download or read book Team Spirited Parenting written by Darlene Powell Hopson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Dr. Darlene Powell Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson "Team-Spirited Parenting is a practical, positive guide. The Hopsons offer concrete advice to help parents work together to raise healthy, happy children. This is valuable reading for every parent."-Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Discover the Power of Team Spirit and Share the Success that Comes When You: * Know that the past does not control you * Accept your child's other parent for the person he/she is * Learn to communicate your feelings openly * Know when and how to reach out for help * Become clear, firm, and consistent in directing your child's behavior * Love each of your children as individuals * Get to know your children's friends * Open your life to joy each day

Download or read book Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance written by Christopher McCurry and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a chaotic and often unpredictable world, so it's only natural for you and your child to have anxieties. But seeing your child cry, cling to you, or even use aggression to avoid his or her own fears and worries may cause you to worry even more, trapping both of you in a cycle of anxiety and fear. You can interrupt this cycle with the proven-effective mindfulness and acceptance skills taught in this book. Drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy, Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance offers a new way to think about your child's anxiety, as well as a set of techniques used by child psychologists to help children as young as four let go of anxious feelings and focus instead on relationships with friends, learning new things in school, and having fun. You'll learn these techniques, use them when you feel anxious, and teach them to your child. With practice, you both will let go of anxious feelings and your child will find the confidence to enjoy being a kid.

Download or read book The Courage To Parent written by Rosemary Strembicki Lcsw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine...walking into your baby's nursery; looking in your toddler's toy chest; rummaging through your child's backpack; or moving the pile of clothes on your teenager's bedroom floor and discovering your very own, personalized instruction manual on how to raise your child! Imagine...a parenting handbook created just for you. In it are the keys to increasing your confidence as a parent; creating a parenting plan you and your co-parent can agree upon; discovering your child's unique personality, talents and gifts; developing tools that will help you know yourself better and assist your child in the process of self-discovery; establishing skills to develop a strong, loving, and respectful relationship with your child. Can you imagine the benefits such a book would bring to you, your child, and your family? Children may never be born with instructions, but this book is the next best thing! The chapters and exercises included in it are designed to help you create a parenting handbook that can guide you through the parenting process, no matter what stage you're in. Jan Cloninger & Rosemary Strembicki, LCSW have joined efforts to create this easy-to-understand and easy-to-use workbook that will be an invaluable tool for moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and anyone else who is actively (or thinking about becoming) a parent. Being a parent is one of the toughest and most important jobs we do! Each family is a unique blend of beliefs, values, culture tradition and histories. What works for one family may not work for another. But as parents, it's up to each of us to explore and discover the parenting path that works best for us. More often than not, you instinctively know what's best for you and your child. But with all the conflicting studies, opinions posted on the web, well meaning input from family and friends, and your children trying to convince you that they know better (especially as they move into adolescence!) - it's easy to have your confidence shaken. It takes courage to parent - courage to look inside yourself; courage to honor and accept your children for what they are; courage to change and grow as a person and a parent; and on some days, the courage to do what you know is right, even when your child isn't happy about it. www.thecouragetoparent.com

Download or read book The Dynamics of Powerful Parenting written by Raymond Messer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynamics of Powerful Parenting is a book about power, the power held by a parent to shape the development of a child, and the power of a child to either accept or reject those efforts. Often, when things are not working well for parents with their children, they will continue doing the same things, yet with ever more vigor. Usually, the result will be more of the same, only worse. A secret to understanding the dynamics of many human behaviors lies in the paradox of the Chinese Finger Puzzle (aka: Chinese Handcuff). The Chinese finger puzzle is a tube woven from bamboo shoots that is several inches long and about the diameter of a person's fingers; true to its nature, the tube will narrow as its ends are pulled. Thus, when the tube is slipped over the ends of fingers or thumbs on opposing hands, the subject's efforts to pull his or her fingers apart are met with increasing resistance from the device. So it is with much of being human. The thing that people wish to avoid most is the very thing that results from their efforts to do so. Dynamics is a book written with this paradox in mind. It is a book of insights about parenting that turns upside down many of the things that are currently held dear in "traditional" parenting efforts. It is a book that downplays the use of punishment, but never overlooks the need for discipline and responsibility. Dynamics encourages parents to think about what they are doing, how they are doing it, and what are they are experiencing as a result, then provides useful tools for changing undesired outcomes. It is a book that can produce positive results that will benefit generations yet unborn.

Download or read book Kid friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children written by Daria J. Medwid and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide for parents of children ages 3-12.

Download or read book Raising Resilient Children written by Robert Brooks and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the importance of fostering the qualities of resilience in children, and offers specific ideas and strategies designed to help parents raise strong, hopeful, optimistic children.