BOOKS FOR PARENTS: EDITOR'S CHOICE!Below is my personal short list of the most practical and useful books on raising responsible, emotionally healthy, well adjusted children... without going crazy in the process.These book share a common thread of humanity, practicality and respect for both parent and child. Books like Children: The Challenge and Between Parent and Child, are classics. They have remained in print for decades because they are filled with timeless wisdom. While some aspects of family life change with the times, the basic nature of a healthy parent-child relationship does not change.Raising Children One Day at a Time! contains 365 meditative readings that a parent can review in a few minutes and put to work immediately with impact that could last a lifetime. This is perfect for the conscientious parent, grandparent, teacher, pastor, rabbi or coach who seeks to have a positive influence on a child. Thomas Wright, family therapist, educator and author, draws on his extensive experience to provide a full year's worth of affirming commentaries on this most important relationship. Children: The Challenge is based on a lifetime of experience with children. Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists, presents an easy-to-follow program that teaches parents step-by-step how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This is the most widely published parenting book in the world, having been translated into dozens of languages. Between Parent and Child may be the best parenting book ever written. Since it was first published in 1965 it has sold millions of copies. It is on the short list of all-time great self-help books in The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Books. What is it so popular? In a time when many parent advisors recommended therapy for parents, Haim Ginott believed that most parents merely needed better information. So, based on his experience working with troubled children, he taught parents how to talk with their children.As a parent educator for over thirty years, I have not only examined hundreds of books for parents, I have also written two myself. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers is one of the best parenting book to be published in the past 30 years! Neufeld and Mate not only show us in detail how we are losing contact with our children, they offer tools for parents and educators to reconnect. Using the best of psychology, anthropology, neurology - and their own experiences - they examine the 'context' of this crisis and offer examples and suggestions for parents. For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to positive discipline is not punishment, she tells us, but mutual respect. Nelsen coaches parents and teachers to be both firm and kind, so that any child–from a three-year-old toddler to a rebellious teenager–can learn creative cooperation and self-discipline with no loss of dignity.Jane Nelson applies her Positive Discipline philosopy to the challenges of raising kids while recoverying from addictions in this book, Positive Discipline For Parenting in Recovery. While parenting is challenging enough for sober adults, it is doubly challening for parents who are in the early stages of recovery from alcoholism or other addicions. This book provides encouragement as strategies. Part of the reason 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 is so polished and Phelan's methods so precise is that over years of developing his program parents have taught him how to handle tricky situations so that he now has it all covered. All effective methods rely first and foremost on how they guide us away from reactive and emotionally-based behaviors and keep us on the proper path. Parent are taught that "Too Much Talking" and "Too Much Emotion" by the parent will lead to failure. Understanding why this is so is the key to understanding why Phelan's method is so effective.Learning to Listen, Learning to Care was designed for children with moderate to severe behavioral problems. The author, Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, is considered an expert on helping children learn better behavior through play. In this book you will find art activities, stories, projects, games, and more. Each activity is designed to teach a specific positive behavioral skill, including, cooperativeness, empathy, respecting rules, and much more.
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