This book looks at what it means to be an autistic parent, offering practical advice about how to overcome the challenges of parenting when you are autistic and the advantages that being autistic brings to raising children.
A guide to the parents who often know little about their child's chosen sport. It illustrates how to prevent and treat sports-related injuries. It explains the physical and psychological readiness of children for certain sports at different ages. It lists sport-specific injuries, from baseball through wrestling.
A richly twined, multi-generational memoir that explores the complexity of family, the hidden forces of mental illness and trauma, and our struggle as human beings to help the people we love without losing ourselves. Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas opens in the spring of 2016, days before Julie Fingersh's fiftieth birthday as she ......
This illustrated book introduces wise ways for children to recognize and cope with anxiety, anger, frustration, and other difficult emotions. Using everything from yoga poses and pressure holds, to deep breathing and relaxing coloring activities, the Keep-Calm Guru shows kids how to take back control and feel cool, calm, and just right.
How to Raise Children of Character in a World That Sorely Needs Them
A practical guide that encourages families to return to the basics of parenting in order to raise happy, respectful, and loving children. The rules and guidelines for raising families in our crisis-oriented, communication overloaded, high-pressure culture are changing by the minute. Yet, the fundamental principles of effective parenting remain. ......
Every year more American women become stepmothers, just as Dorothy Bass did. In Stepmother, Bass explores the complicated, and oft-maligned, role. Brimming with practical insights from sociology, history, and clinical studies, Stepmother points readers to the central necessary work--the work done in our own heart--so we can find grace and peace.
Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs
This work gives parents of children from age three through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible. It covers getting ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home care, and information gathering skills.
Stickley the frog has the gift of "stick-to-it-ness". His sticky toes help him stick to windows, ceilings, and surfboards - even under plates! But Stickley's toes aren't the only way he sticks to things. His attitude helps him stick with projects so he can reach his goals. Read about Stickley and learn how he makes a plan, sticks to it, and gets ......
A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities
This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation. Stories and words have healing potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. Included are stories for: the loss of a loved one such as a death in the family of a baby, child, sibling, parent, ......
