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At the forefront of a parenting and education revolution, two early childhood experts introduce their proven Collaborative Emotional Processing (CEP) method that shows parents how to handle their children's outbursts while empowering their children to recognize and manage difficult feelings. ''The Future is Emotionally Intelligent From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their...

Backed by the most up-to-date scientific research, The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition provides evidence-based parenting advice about how you should care for your child, with practical strategies from birth to 12 years of age. Child psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland has more than 30 years' experience that she brings to this internationally-acclaimed guide, and she provides numerous case studies to relate the science to real life. From separations...

The author of 'The Highly Sensitive Person' and other bestselling books on the trait of high sensitivity has written an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children; who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids and have strong emotions, both positive and negative, in response; and who find parenting far more stressful than parents who are not highly sensitive. "Parenting is the most...

"In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like we've got to get everything exactly right the first time, Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need—and the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all with a handful of strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation,...

"Discover how Dutch parents raise The Happiest Kids in the World! Calling all stressed-out parents: Relax! Imagine a place where young children play unsupervised, don’t do homework, have few scheduled “activities” . . . and rank #1 worldwide in happiness and education. It’s not a fantasy—it’s the Netherlands! Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison—an American and a Brit, both married to Dutchmen and raising their kids in the Netherlands—report...

The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care makes the principles of traditional nutrition available to modern parents. The book provides holistic advice for pregnancy and newborn interventions, vaccinations, breastfeeding and child development, as well as a compendium of natural treatments for childhood illnesses, from autism to whooping cough. The work of Rudulf Steiner supports the book's emphasis on the child's spiritual requirement for...

"Practical, age-appropriate strategies every parent can employ to train kids capable of resisting leftist indoctrination and fight the raging culture war. In Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their children against Woke infection. In whichever zip code or tax bracket you dwell, there’s hope for parents...

"The New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself helps cut through our anxieties about being a “good parent” so we can take charge of our lives and show our kids how to take charge of their own. Gary John Bishop has helped millions of people break free of self-sabotaging behaviors. Yet we all seem to feel like we’re failing at this thing called parenting. Common wisdom isn’t working—our kids are struggling. Gary argues we don’t...

"Un manual de instrucciones para comprender a nuestros niños y educarlos para que desarrollen una autoestima sana y se conviertan en adultos asertivos. Conoce a María, Olaya, Carlos y Óscar, la Banda del Moco; cuatro niños a los que seguiremos, junto con sus padres y profesores, en su proceso de aprender a afrontar una situación de abuso en la escuela. Olga Castanyer, reconocida psicóloga experta en autoestima y asertividad, analiza en este...

"La revolucionaria guía para padres con hijos de entre 0 y 5 años «El libro más útil para los padres» - profesor Peter Fonagy, director ejecutivo del Anna Freud Centre. ¿Quieres conocer el secreto para lidiar con las rabietas y las lágrimas, acabar con las riñas en segundos y sentar las bases para la buena salud mental de tu hijo durante este proceso? En No hay niños «malos», Kate Silverton, que tiene dos hijos pequeños y es periodista...