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"We're never going to measure up to the 'perfect parent' model we've built up in our heads: a Frankenstein version of mom and dad cobbled together from our childhoods, our parents, cultural ideals, social media, and everything in between. We want to be good parents, but our pasts hold us back. If you're thinking: 'I can't be a good parent because I had a shitty childhood, bad parents, or a traumatic experience,' stop! Let go of what came before and...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Drawing on nearly twenty years' experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that's aligned to their own values and their children's unique temperaments.
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Publisher
New Growth Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has seen how important it is to help parents and caregivers think wisely and biblically about the dangers children face. Instead of living in fear or denial, parents can model living by faith in a world where evil exists"--
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F.H. Revell
Pub. Date
©2003
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English
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As a father of four, Fred A. Hartley III believes parents often invest in too many "good" things for their children while neglecting the best. Effective parenting requires something moms and dads already possess: the ability to answer every child's hesrt cry for three essential needs - acceptance, affection, and affirmation. By exercising this ability, you can raise kids who feel loved and can love others, kids who have a passion for life, and kids...
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Gist offers a fresh look at parenting that's effective, efficient, and enjoyable. The focus is on instilling "life readiness" in age-appropriate ways at any stage of child-rearing. Parents who read this book will understand why their previous parenting efforts may have been frustrating and futile, and they'll learn how to prepare "life-ready" kids with less drama and more joy. This is the latest edition with updated content." -- Amazon.
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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What Every Parent Needs to Know about Screens and Their Kids. Maybe your kids are like many others--glued to their smartphones, social media, and streaming entertainment. While we know excessive screen time, especially social media, isn't healthy, how do we teach our kids to become screenwise? Prioritizing connection over correction, Parenting Generation Screen equips you with key questions and conversations to help you process screen limits with...
12) The talk
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps parents see how God can use the everyday trials of child raising to radically transform how they view hardship and grow them to become more like Jesus. Find peace and purpose in the trenches of parenthood"--
14) Dog rules
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
A cat tricks two dogs into trying to raise a bird to be a good dog, but the bird may get the last laugh.