As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...

Today's parents live with an exhausting reality: persistent defiance from children. About half of the current generation of children will develop a mood or behavioral disorder or a substance addiction by age eighteen. And many parents feel increasingly unable to exert any influence over their children. In our highly connected age, the all-powerful parent is largely a thing of the past. Parents often take the blame for their child's misbehavior, but...

If you're a therapist, counselor, coach, or other healing professional, you can make a quantum leap in your ability to assess, clarify, clear blocks and encourage transformative change by learning to use your client's internal metaphors to full advantage with Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling. Used as a self-study tool or a course text, this workbook will empower you with effective and flexible new tools to use alone or integrate with what you...

What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place over a long time? It's happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That's why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people looking for a sane and healthy spiritual pathway in our increasingly confusing world. Traditional spiritual models are giving seekers...

En México habitan más de 30 millones de niños en contextos urbanos, rurales o indígenas, con niveles socieconómicos diferentes, que comparten múltiples aspectos de una historia milenaria que dio fruto a un país que es una rica mezcla de culturas, etnias y lenguas. Su situación solo se puede estudiar a partir de esta realidad multifacética. Este libro aspira a mejorar la comprensión de los diversos aspectos socioculturales que afectan el...

Pebbles is a bracing stroll along the shore, where your discoveries unearth personal possibilities, where you look, think and wade in deeply, or just laugh at the breeze. Through Pebbles, Author Julie Ann Smith brings together a wide-ranging selection of topics, delivered through a diversity of messages: practical, thought-provoking, humorous and even poetic. As we tackle daily life, the stumbling blocks of Procrastination, Despair and even Communication...

Dare to Dream is a manual for soaring high in life. It analyses the condition of our present society. Growth is slowed down by corruption and violence which is the upshot of our trite and hackneyed system of education that has underscored so much on 'being smart' rather than 'being good'. Amidst this situation, we need a new generation of people, who will dare to dream and change the status quo. The crème de la crème of this book can be put in one...

Black Muslim youth stand at the cross section of anti-Black racism and anti-Muslim sentiments. What is it like to identify with both of these uniquely marginalized groups? How are young Black Muslims thriving in these conditions? What can adults do to ensure optimal development? Following 10 years of work from the authors who have pioneered research on American Muslim youth and counseling Muslims, this groundbreaking book explores the complex factors...

This delightful book presents a selection of D. W. Winnicott's best writing about children. The remarkable, enduring essays from Babies and Their Mothers and Talking to Parents are here combined with several hard-to-find gems of insight into the world of the child. Each piece was written for a wide audience of parents, childcare professionals, and teachers. In his empathic and witty way, Winnicott ranges over such timeless topics as the mother/infant...

I did come to Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1947. My mother woke my brother and me one night and said, "We are running far away from your father." He was very, abusive and would beat, her black and blue many, times. Mom was afraid that he would, kill her one day, when he, would come home drunk. She saved us all. To all you boys, please remember that a good man will never strike a woman or hurt her in any way! Many of these experiences are, taken from...