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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...
2) No-drama discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind
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"The authors of the Los Angeles Times bestselling The Whole-Brain Child team up again to offer parents of children aged 2-13 a practical roadmap to effective, productive, and more peaceful discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--
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"In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn't need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster kid, he was headed straight for trouble until he met the man who changed his life: Rodney, the foster parent who refused to quit on Shipp and got him to believe in himself. Now, in 'The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage...
4) The good news about bad behavior: why kids are less disciplined than ever--and what to do about it
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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...
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Self-discipline is the key to achievement. Whether you're learning an instrument, training as an athlete, advancing academically, or pursuing a healthy lifestyle, self-discipline is essential. This book introduces young readers to self-discipline as a way of cultivating wellness and success at any age. Primary sources highlight athletes and artists who have harnessed their motivation and excelled through self-discipline. Engaging photographs and text...
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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...
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This book has evolved from my many years of practicing Systemic Psychotherapy and Homeopathy to help people create a wider lens through which they view their lives. I believe the integration of these two powerful disciplines, plus years of teaching, provides a large enough sample for a scientific qualitative study, the results of which inform this book. Each commentary in A Wider Lens is followed by suggestions to help you see and experience your...
8) Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul
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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...
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From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic by...
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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...
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This book is to wake us up. How we treat one another, even down to our verbiage, is crucial and can affect someone's life drastically. In this book, you see how someone is affected through nature, nurture, society, upbringing, and all our associations and how that leads people in certain directions.
This book shows we are all human and we need to be mindful of how we treat one another.
It further extends to how we can heal the world internally,...
12) Pebbles
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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...
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If you've completed Campbell's first workbook of this pair, you know without a doubt that personal metaphors matter. Resourceful ones can empower and sustain clients. Problematic ones can prevent clients from making the internal shifts they desire. Is there more you can do to help your clients when they want to change such metaphors? Absolutely!
As a helping or healing professional, you will find this second workbook a welcome continuation of what...
14) Dare to Dream
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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...
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This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research over the past decade, and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was published in 1997, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a child's brain by preschool. The authors' groundbreaking...
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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...
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The Child and the World! There is nothing more wonderful to watch than a small child, 2 or 3 years old, speaking to its mother, holding a conversation with its mother. It seems miraculous that in such a short period a child can reach so far in its use of this most precious of human possessions, language. In this book I consider how it is possible that a child can acquire all the complexities of its parent language and amass a large lexicon to refer...
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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...
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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...
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