When should my child stop using a pacifier? How can I stop my child from sucking his thumb? 
 When is a child too old to carry a teddy bear? 
 Young children seem to form unshakable attachments to various objects -- blankets, stuffed animals, toys, television, even computers -- leaving parents to wonder: are these habits healthy? Which should be broken and how? 
 Now, Mark L. Brenner, a family counselor and child therapist for more than twenty years, provides the answers to these questions. After reading Pacifiers, Blankets, Bottles, and Thumbs, parents will understand the critical role certain items -- called transitional objects -- play in the social development of a child. Parents will learn: 
<ul>
<li>What the different kinds of transitional objects children use are </li>
<li>What benefits are linked to healthy transitional objects </li>
<li>What side effects occur when an attachment is prematurely eliminated </li>
<li>How to recognize when an attachment has become obsessive </li>
<li>How to help a child feel and act "bigger" </li>
<li>When sleeping in the parents' bed is not healthy </li>
<li>What to do when an older child regresses to early habits </li>
</ul>
 This comprehensive guide will provide critical insight into a child's evolution from toddler to self-sufficient individual and will help children naturally make the transition beyond the objects they attach to.

Pacifiers, Blankets, Bottles, and Thumbs: What Every Parent Should Know About Starting and Stopping

Mark L. Brenner

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Touchstone

New Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Child Are you tired of saying "no"? This empowering book provides you with proven steps and principles for better communication that will help you turn misbehavior into an opportunity to build a stronger trust between you and your child. It's easy to learn, easy to stick to, and you'll be a better parent who raises a more well-adjusted child. With this successful approach, you'll learn how to: ·Motivate your child to listen better ·Teach basic reading skills ·Focus on behavioral solutions, not parent-child conflicts ·Help your child make connections between choices and consequences ·Learn how to set limits "Must reading! This book will enrich you relationship with you child in ways that will change you and your child forever." —Garry L. Landreth, Refents Professor and Director, Center for Play Therapy, University of North Texas "This book will help parents and caregivers socialize children without hurting their emotional well-being." —Psychologist Alice Ginott, Ph.D. "Important and practical!" —John Bradshaw, author of Homecoming and Healing the Shame That Binds You

When "No" Gets You Nowhere: Teaching Your Toddler and Child Self-Control (Revised 2nd Edition)

Prima Lifestyles

In every parent-child relationship, we find ourselves saying, Can we start over again? We need a reset. When we reach those conflict points, we often think, I wish there was a playbook of what to do? When we don t know how to master a moment, we can t master a relationship. RESET is the most successful parenting playbook based on five rules that delivers a powerful and permanent antidote to strengthen or repair all parenting relationships. It doesn t matter what difficulties or stage of life your child or teenager is going through. The playbook is indigenous to intact families, step-families, blended-families, single-parents, adoptive-families, or any other loving combina- tion. As a result, children will acquire five vital life-skills: Empathy, Self-Worth, Self-Awareness, Self-Control and Self-Confidence. RESET is an evolutionary parenting approach that requires wearing three different hats: One as the head coach, modeling unity, values and optimism; one as the the sports announcer giving a play-by-play description of what s happening in the moment; and one as the ref, making the call out-loud and saying the real truth when conflict arises. It is rooted in one unalterable axiom: When you change your response, you change your child s behavior. Want another reason to follow this playbook? Your child won t marry the wrong person. Why? Because they will have experienced what a satisfying and natural relationship really feels like. Now that s a playbook worth following!

Reset: The Playbook to Transform ALL Parenting Relationships

MFT PhD

BrenMark House Inc.

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Books by Mark L. Brenner

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Pacifiers, Blankets, Bottles, and Thumbs: What Every Parent Should Know About Starting and Stopping

When "No" Gets You Nowhere: Teaching Your Toddler and Child Self-Control (Revised 2nd Edition)

Reset: The Playbook to Transform ALL Parenting Relationships