Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children (英语) 平装 内容简介 P.E.T., or Parent Effectiveness Training, began almost forty years ago as the first national parent-training program to teach parents how to communicate more effectively with kids and offer step-by-step advice to resolving family conflicts so everybody wins. This beloved classic is the most studied, highly praised, and proven parenting program in the world -- and it will work for you. Now revised for the first time since its initial publication, this groundbreaking guide will show you: How to avoid being a permissive parent How to listen so kids will talk to you and talk so kids will listen to you How to teach your children to "own" their problems and to solve them How to use the "No-Lose" method to resolve conflicts Using the timeless methods of P.E.T. will have immediate results: less fighting, fewer tantrums and lies, no need for punishment. Whethe

Stories in this book cover topics important to the 14 to 18-year-old range, including regrets and lessons learned, dating and sex, family relationships, applying to college, and preparing for life after high school. The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993, and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling eight million copies. Since then, more than 150 Chicken Soup titles have been published, selling more than 100 million copies. Chicken Soup for the Soul has won dozens of awards over the past 15 years, and its founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have become celebrity motivational speakers and authors. 作者简介：Jack Canfield is the cocreator of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, developing 40 New York Times bestsellers including 11 that went to #1. He is America's leading expert in creating peak performances for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, employees, and educators, who has helped hundreds of thou

AUTHORS’ DISCLAIMER: We are not in any way experts on parenting children withdisabilities. Our goal is simply to share strategies that haveworked for each of us in the event it may help those in a similarsituation. If you’re different from us (i.e., you are bright or ofthe perfect persuasion), we advise you not to try the following athome. On a “perfection-preoccupied planet,” sisters Gina and Patty dareto speak up about the frustrations, sadness, and stigmas they faceas parents of children with disabilities (one with Asperger’ssyndrome, the other with bipolar disorder). This refreshingly frank book, which will alternately make youwant to tear your hair out and laugh your head off, should berequired reading for parents of disabled children. Shut Up AboutYour Perfect Kid provides wise and funny advice about how to: ? Find a support group—either online or in yourcommunity ? Ensure that your child gets the right in-schoolsupport ? Deal with people—be they friends,

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to theirchildren's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what tobelieve, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In thisempowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert onpredicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestsellerThe Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children'ssafety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allowyour kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring andcompassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger andsafety and helps parents find some certainty about life'shighest-stakes questions: How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone whoharms my child? (see page 103) What should I ask child-care professionals when I interview t

In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in theHouse and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious andcontroversial book that every woman will have an opinion about,written by America’s most outrageous writer. In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers,and occasionally great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers. If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’resmothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on theshrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugsby seventh grade. If you buy organic, you’re spending their collegefund; if you don’t, you’re risking all sorts of allergies andillnesses. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time oranother as “a bad mother”? Ayelet Waldman says it’s time for womento get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to sparkthe same level of controversy as her now legendary “Modern Love”piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than