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Robert J. MackenzieSetting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child
Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests for proper behavior? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.

Greg BaerReal Love in Parenting
Despite our best intentions, most of us are woefully unprepared to become parents. In Real Love in Parenting, you will learn why children are so often angry, rebellious, disobedient, and otherwise difficult; what the real reason is for why you get angry at your children; how you can teach your children to be loving, responsible and happy; what you should teach your children about sex; what your children are trying to tell you and why you are not hearing it; and what you should do when children quarrel with one another. You will discover that parenting can be deeply rewarding, instead of tedious and frustrating.

Foster ClineParenting With Love And Logic
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.

Gary ChapmanThe 5 Love Languages of Teenagers (New Edition)
Socially, mentally, and spiritually, teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these peer pressures; it is still parents who can influence teens the most. Get equipped to be a better parent as The Five Love Languages of Teenagers explores the world in which teenagers live, explains the developmental changes, and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teen's love language. Get practical tips on loving your teen effectively and explore key issues in your teen's life including anger and independence. Finally, learn how to set boundaries that are enforced with discipline and consequences, and discover useful ways for the difficult task of loving when your teen fails. Get ready to discover how the principles of the five love languages can really work in the lives of your teens and family. Over 400,000 copies sold!

Trudy LudwigConfessions of a Former Bully
After Katie gets caught teasing a schoolmate, she's told to meet with Mrs. Petrowski, the school counselor, so she can make right her wrong and learn to be a better friend. Bothered at first, it doesn't take long before Katie realizes that bullying has hurt not only the people around her, but her, too. Told from the unusual point of view of the bullier rather than the bullied, Confessions of a Former Bully provides kids with real life tools they can use to identify and stop relational aggression.

Laura S KastnerGetting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens
Parenting a teenager is tougher than ever, but new brain research offers new insight into the best way to connect with teens. With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, noted teen expert Dr. Laura Kastner shows parents how to stay calm and cool-headed while dealing with hot-button issues everything from rude attitude and lying to sex and substance use -- with clear, easy-to-follow suggestions for setting limits while maintaining a close and loving relationship. Find out why Dr. T. Berry Brazelton calls Getting to Calm required reading for any parent who struggles with their teen!

Sheri Van DijkDon't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens
Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated-and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from living a happier life. Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is a workbook that can help. In this book, you'll find new ways of managing your feelings so that you'll be ready to handle anything life sends your way. Based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a type of therapy designed to help people who have a hard time handling their intense emotions, this workbook helps you learn the skills you need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence.

Rita Sommers-FlanaganProblem Child or Quirky Kid?: A Commonsense Guide for Parents
Many parents wonder, "Is my child normal?" They may be concerned about their child’s behaviors, attitudes, feelings, or general development. They may worry if their child doesn’t seem to be fitting in socially, isn’t happy, isn’t getting along with others, or seems overly anxious, fearful, sad or angry. This book gives parents the advice, reassurance, and practical knowledge they need to help their child and themselves. Drawing on their years as counselors and teachers, the authors consider what’s "normal" and what might not be "normal." They cover common childhood problems and suggest remedies for parents to try at home. After describing difficulties that might be more rare and serious, they explain the world of mental health professionals, then offer ideas for getting oneself and one’s child ready to take advantage of professional help. The message throughout is clear: What’s best is when our children are neither normal or abnormal, but simply able to live well.

Jerold J. KreismanI Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
A revised and updated edition of the bestselling guide to understanding borderline personality disorder. After more than two decades as the essential guide to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), this new edition now reflects the most up- to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder as well as connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, ADHD, and eating disorders. Both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic advancements point to real hope for success in the treatment and understanding of BPD. This expanded and revised edition remains as accessible and useful as its predecessor and will reestablish this book as the go-to source for those diagnosed with BPD, their family, friends, and colleagues, as well as professionals and students in the field.

Kimberlee RothSurviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds
and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide for adult children of parents with borderline personality disorder. Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who suffers from BPD. Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it. Symptoms of this problem include unpredictability, violence and uncontrollable anger, deep depression and self-abuse. Parents with BPD are often unable to provide for the basic physical and emotional needs of their children. In an ironic and painful role reversal, BPD parents can actually raise children to be their caretakers. They may burden even very young children with adult responsibilities.

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