Parenting by Heart is an empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and practical, compassionate solutions. Filled with specific advice tried by thousands of families, this authoritative guide shows what actually works rather than what theoretically should” work. Here is the step-by-step guide with hundreds of tested solutions that will help make you feel more confident about how to instill your values, be in charge, and stay connected with today's kids in these modern and often difficult times.

Parenting By Heart: How To Be In Charge, Stay Connected, And Instill Your Values, When It Feels Like You've Got Only 15 Minutes A Day

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Taffel, Ron

Blau, Melinda

With *

Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Lifelong Books

If you have a teen or pre-teen, you recognize the phenomenon already-perhaps without even knowing it has a name. "The second family," as uncompromisingly described by renowned therapist Dr. Ron Taffel is the immense collective power of the peer group and pop culture-a force so pervasive, it threatens to, and often succeeds in, overwhelming the first family of adults at home and in school. Derived from thousands of interviews with kids and adults, The Second Family uses real-life, sometimes graphic examples to bare the truth about the world of adolescence today and to illuminate the new set of rules by which kids operate. The second family can be scary to adults. While many parents bury their heads, insisting "not my child," Taffel reveals that even "good" children: - Chronically lie without a trace of guilt - Have sex at astonishingly early ages - Do drugs and alcohol not to be bad but simply because they are there Yet there are healthy aspects to the second family that often go unrecognized: - A secret moral code of peer support that will surprise you - Boys and girls as best friends - Boys taking care of friends in emotional need - Girls becoming powerful group leaders - A social structure for teens that provides a type of intimacy, support, communication and honesty he or she can't find anywhere else. It is impossible to understand today's teens or preteens without understanding the Second Family. Taffel opens a window into a closed world of frightening dangers and equally uplifting possibilities.

The Second Family: How Adolescent Power is Challenging the American Family

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

St.Martin's Press

Nurturing Good Children Now: 10 Basic Skills to Protect and Strengthen Your Child's Core Self

In these difficult, sometimes violent, times, how can we nurture children who are both good and happy? How can we help them stay safe, be respectful, and reach their full potential? Nurturing Good Children Now outlines precisely what is important to foster in our kids, and how to raise children who have a deep sense of values and an enthusiastic spirit. The most essential traits that children need to thrive in today's world are: mood mastery, expressiveness, peer smarts, body comfort, team intelligence, respect, passion, focus, caution, gratitude.
This compassionate book offers unflinching social commentary, the latest research on child development, and practical advice. We can protect our children's sense of integrity. We can teach them to love learning; to hold onto their passion; to be comfortable with their bodies; to get along with their peers without succumbing to peer pressure; and to manage their emotions. We can nurture good children now, and, for a better future, we must.

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

If you have a teen or pre-teen, you recognize the phenomenon already-perhaps without even knowing it has a name. "The second family," as uncompromisingly described by renowned therapist Dr. Ron Taffel is the immense collective power of the peer group and pop culture-a force so pervasive, it threatens to, and often succeeds in, overwhelming the first family of adults at home and in school. Derived from thousands of interviews with kids and adults, The Second Family uses real-life, sometimes graphic examples to bare the truth about the world of adolescence today and to illuminate the new set of rules by which kids operate. 
The second family can be scary to adults. While many parents bury their heads, insisting "not my child," Taffel reveals that even "good" children: - Chronically lie without a trace of guilt - Have sex at astonishingly early ages - Do drugs and alcohol not to be bad but simply because they are there
Yet there are healthy aspects to the second family that often go unrecognized: - A secret moral code of peer support that will surprise you - Boys and girls as best friends - Boys taking care of friends in emotional need - Girls becoming powerful group leaders - A social structure for teens that provides a type of intimacy, support, communication and honesty he or she can't find anywhere else. 
It is impossible to understand today's teens or preteens without understanding the Second Family. Taffel opens a window into a closed world of frightening dangers and equally uplifting possibilities.

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence -- and Other Challenges of Raising Today's Teens

St. Martin's: Griffin

Men and women often approach the hot spots of child rearing--participation, discipline, communication, spoiling, siblings--from entirely different perspectives. In this book, Dr. Taffel explains common differences and then offers concrete solutions designed to help parents raise their children as partners, not adversaries.

Why Parents Disagree & What You Can Do About It: How to Raise Great Kids While You Strengthen Your Marriage

Israeloff, Roberta

Avon/Books

Argues that women and men still approach child-rearing from different perspectives, views family disagreements through a gender lens, and provides numerous solutions to the tricky problems of parental conflict. First serials, Parenting &amp; McCalls.

Why Parents Disagree: How Women and Men Parent Differently and How We Can Work Together

Family Relationships

William Morrow & Co.

How do you help your child open up to you? With so little time in a busy day, how can a parent find that elusive "quality" time? What discipline techniques work for young children, and why?An empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and practical, compassionate solutions, Parenting by Heart is filled with specific advice tried by thousands of families. Showing what actually works rather than what theoretically "should" work, here are hundreds of step-by-step, tested solutions that will help make parents feel more confident about how to instill values, be in charge, and stay connected with today's kids in these modern and often difficult times.

Parenting by Heart: How to Stay Connected to Your Child in a Disconnected World

Melinda Blau

Ron Taffel, Ph.D.

Balance

Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents: Uncommon Sense for Child Professionals

From experienced therapist Ron Taffel--widely known for his popular parenting guides--this is a commonsense handbook for any mental health, education, or medical professional working with challenging kids and parents. Provided are concrete strategies for building rapport with stressed-out families, getting children and adolescents to talk about what really matters, spotting developmental and psychiatric problems before a crisis develops, and developing skills to strengthen kids' self-esteem and parents' effectiveness in setting limits. Illustrative case vignettes get to the heart of what is going wrong between youngsters and their parents and show how simple, concrete interventions can make a big difference. Also covered in depth are ways for professionals to handle their own emotional responses in highly charged situations.

Mental Health

The Guilford Press

This rewarding guide helps men and women understand the different perspectives each brings to parenting, resolve conflicts more effectively, and discover the joys of raising kids together as a team. Dr. Ron Taffel brings his rare blend of astute insight and common sense to illuminate the gender issues that underlie typical parental battles. Engaging examples and vignettes bring to life the recurring conflicts that many Moms and Dads experience around making rules and setting limits; managing mealtimes and bedtimes; spending quality time with kids; providing emotional support and nurturance; and handling the juggling act of school, playdates, and extracurricular activities. Parents learn proven ways to redistribute responsibilities more equally; avoid undermining each other's authority; and grow closer and more accepting both as parents and partners.

When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It

Taffel PhD, Ron

A trusted family psychologist identifies and then shows parents how to reinforce the ten things that will help children build a strong inner-self--mood mastery, body comfort, passion, friendliness, focus, collaboration, gratitude, clarity, peer smarts, and expressiveness.

Golden Books

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Parenting By Heart: How To Be In Charge, Stay Connected, And Instill Your Values, When It Feels Like You've Got Only 15 Minutes A Day

The Second Family: How Adolescent Power is Challenging the American Family

Nurturing Good Children Now: 10 Basic Skills to Protect and Strengthen Your Child's Core Self

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence -- and Other Challenges of Raising Today's Teens

Why Parents Disagree & What You Can Do About It: How to Raise Great Kids While You Strengthen Your Marriage

Why Parents Disagree: How Women and Men Parent Differently and How We Can Work Together

Parenting by Heart: How to Stay Connected to Your Child in a Disconnected World

Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents: Uncommon Sense for Child Professionals

When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It

Nurturing Good Children Now: 10 Basic Skills to Protect and Strengthen Your Child's Core Self