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Author

Brief Description

Subject

Taking Charge of ADHD (Paperback)

Barkley, Russel A

Contains science-based information you need about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment.

ADHD

The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep (Paperback)

DeMocker, Mary

Lays out a lively, empowering, and doable blueprint for engaging families in the urgent endeavor of climate revolution. Learn how to embrace simplicity parenting, free yourself from dead-end science debates, teach kids about the power of creative protest, change your lifestyle in ways that deepen family bonds, improve moods, and reduce your impact on the Earth.

Climate Change

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (Paperback)

Faber, Adele

Includes fresh insights and suggestions to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships, including innovative ways to cope with your child's negative feelings, express your strong feelings without being hurtful, engage your child's willing cooperation, set firm limits and maintain goodwill, use alternatives to punishment that promote self-discipline, understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful praise, and resolve family conflicts peacefully

Relationships

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Paperback)

Gray, Deborah D.

A comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.

Adoption

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children (Paperback)

Green, Ross W.

Screaming, swearing, crying, hitting, kicking, spitting, biting...these are some of the challenging behaviors we see in kids who are having difficulty meeting our expectations. These behaviors often leave parents feeling frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, and desperate for answers. In this fully revised and updated book, Dr. Ross Greene helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are non-punitive, non-adversarial, humane, and effective.

Social and emotional regulation

Lost at School-Why our Kids with Behavioural Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How we Can Help Them (Paperback)

Green, Ross W.

Offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Includes (a) tools to identify the problems and lagging skills causing challenging behavior; (b) explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions with challenging kids and reduce challenging episodes—along with many examples showing how it’s done; and (c) practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration among educators, parents, and kids.

Social and emotional regulation

All birds have anxiety (Hardcover)

Hoopmann, Kathy

Explores the symptoms of anxiety disorder and their impact on day-to-day life with reference to the avian world. Its humorous yet gentle approach recognizes the stress that anxiety can cause, giving hope to people with the condition, and helping those without it to better understand how it feels to have anxiety.

Anxiety

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Paperback)

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. The awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Indiginous teachings

Raising Your Spirited Child (Paperback)

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy

This book offers ALL parents a glimpse into what makes their children behave the way they do. Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, this invaluable guide offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling the toughest times.

Social and emotional regulation

No bad kids: Toddler discipline without shame (Paperback)

Lansbury, Janet

A collection of articles pertaining to common toddler behaviors and how respectful parenting practices can be applied to benefit both parents and children. It covers such common topics as punishment, cooperation, boundaries, testing, tantrums, hitting, and more.

Social and emotional regulation

Imagine (Hardcover)

Lennon, John

Join one little pigeon as she sets out on a journey to spread a message of tolerance around the world. Featuring the lyrics of John Lennon's iconic song and illustrations by the award-winning artist Jean Jullien, this poignant and timely picture book dares to imagine a world at peace.

Diversity and inclusion

Parenting Scripts: When What You're Saying Isn't Working, Say Something New (Paperback)

Lia, Amber

Helps parents to craft intentional and well thought out and prayed over words. Leads parents to a calm place where they can pinpoint their family's bad habits and choose better ways of dealing with immature behavior — theirs and their children's.

Social and emotional regulation

The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids (Paperback)

Mackenzie, Sarah

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s challenges. Reading aloud long after kids are able to read to themselves can deepen relationships in a powerful way.

Relationships

Nourish Your Tribe: Empowering Parents to Grow Strong, Smart, Successful Kids (Paperback)

Magryta, Nicole

Includes nutrition recommendations proven to strengthen your child’s immune system and improve brain function, sleep, mood, and concentration. Contains information about how food and nourishment link to common childhood conditions like mood swings, ADHD, anxiety, headaches, stomachaches, eczema, asthma, and other developmental problems. Provides guidelines to wisely navigate today’s complex food culture and so much more!

Nutrition

One Without the Other- Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion (Paperback)

Moore, Shelley

Tackles such things as inclusion as a philosophy and practice, the difference between integration and inclusion, and how inclusion can work with a variety of students and abilities. Explorations of differentiation, the role of special education teachers and others, and universal design for learning all illustrate the evolving discussion on special education and teaching to all learners. This book will be of interest to all educators, from special ed teachers, educational assistants and resource teachers, to classroom teachers, administrators, and superintendents.

Diversity and inclusion

A Student’s Brain: The Parent/Teacher Manual

Nunley, Kathy F.

This book puts the complex research findings and workings of the brain into plain, easy-to-understand terms. Find out why the adolescent brain challenges the adult brain, what is ADD and how does it differ from ADHD, how can you influence attention, learning and complex memory? The books answers your most popular questions such as: How can I increase my child's IQ? What is the new research on Autism and how does it differ from Asperger syndrome? A must-have for any educator or parent.

ADHD

Simplicity Parenting: : Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids (Paperback)

Payne, Kim John

Today’s busier, faster society is waging an undeclared war on childhood. With too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time, children can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with behavioral problems. Now internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne helps parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all kids need for their attention to deepen and their individuality to flourish.

Relationships

You raising your Child: The Owner’s Manual from First Breath to First Grade (Hardcover)

Roizen, Michael F.

Helps you navigate the often tricky journey of parenting with the ultimate guide to raising a happy, healthy child.

Relationships

Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool (Paperback)

Runkel, Hal Edward

ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It’s about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids’ behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our biggest enemy is our own emotional reactivity. When we say we “lost it” with our kids, the “it” in that sentence is our own adulthood. And then we wonder why our kids have so little respect for us, why our kids seem to have all the power in the family.

Social and emotional regulation

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Paperback)

Siegal, Dan

Shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.

Mental health

Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids and Their Parents (Paperback)

Snel, Eline

Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions.

Mindfullness

Bouncy and the any Kind at all Fish (Paperback)

Warner, Jody Nyasha

Many people can be negatively affected by a bullying situation, even if they are not being targeted directly.  This book shows how we can all work together to foster an atmosphere that nurtures and encourages a culture of compassion, both at home and at school.

Bullying

Raising World Changers in a Changing World (Paperback)

Welch, Kristen

Shows parents how to discover for themselves and instill in their kids the profound joy that comes from sharing what we have been given--our time, our talents, and even what's in our wallets--with those who have less.

Sharing

A Hug From Heaven (Hardcover)

Whiston-Donaldson, Anna

It's challenging to know how to support and comfort a child who is grieving. This book reminds children - and adults alike - that it is okay to hurt, to live a positive life, and to find special ways to honor the ones we love. Delivers a simple and comforting message: love is stronger than death, and hugs from heaven are waiting for you.

Grieving