Children-Teenagers: Alternative Health, Healing, Prevention, and Well-Being Catalog
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How to meet your nutritional requirements, deal with anxious parents and skeptical friends. How to find your own answers to tough questions. Easy beginner's recipes. Quotes from vegetarian teens across the country, lists of cool books and magazines. It identifies the obstacles young people face in changing their diets and show how to deal with them.

Your handbook for surviving and succeeding during these exciting years with both your sanity and sense of humor intact. Contains lessons on: the nature of friendships and love; the importance of belief in the future; the value of respect for yoourself and others; and dealing with tough issues like death, suicide and the loss of love.

Pinpoints the various battlefields--classrooms, television, the popular culture, church, the family-- and show how our children are impacted by what is experienced in these areas. Provides invaluable ideas and suggestions for parents who want to counter these negative influences on their children.

They reveal the terrible family secret--the shame and secrecy that typlifies the emotional makeup of a child of alcoholism. They discuss the realities of family alcoholism, such as the frequent occuttence of child abuse, the ruined family holidays, and the &quote;crazy&quote; fantasylike atmosphere of the alcoholic home. Dealing with the feelings as an adult child from an alcoholic family-the guilt, embarrassment, inability to trust, extreme sadness, lack of self-esteem...... Relief for those caught in the pain of having grown up with alcoholism.

Covers the gamut of adolescent problems...Provides very useful recommendations...sound advice, fortified with the opinions of specialist. Realistic and responsible. Supportive of both teens and parents...specific suggestions for positive commmunications.

Helping your dhild through the stages of: Infnats (age of helplessness), Pre-Schoolers (age of guilt), Children 6-8 )age of sadness), Children 9-12 (age of anger), Teenagers (age of false maturity). The predictable reactions that depend on your child's age and sex. The sleeper effects of divorce.....

From effective treatments and developing discipline and self-esteem to helping your family adjust. Describes methods of controlling hyperactivity--but most important, it tells how to live with the residual problems that the condition creates.

Children with out a conscience are often the product of even well-intentioned families. How to recognize character-disturbed children and adults, prevent the development of antisocial behavior, choose healthy child-care and school environments, find the best professional help if your child is at risk, minimize the trauma of adoption and foster care, protect yourself from exploitative relationships in both business and personal life....... Protecting ourselves from the &quote;trust bandits&quote; who would steal our love, our money, our very lives.

From America's leading experts on parent-child communication- the book that bridges the gap between parents and teachers and gives both new skills to help children succeed in school. Innovative techniques so kids can learn the life skills so essential to becoming loving, caring, productive adults.

Shows you how to turn off the cycle of guilt and blame and begin working with your adolescents toward greater understanding and communication. How to win cooperation with non-punitive parenting...teenage rebellion...your own unresolved issues...seeing through your child's eyes. Show parents creative and practical ways to help adolescents take constructive steps toward self-reliance and confidence. The book teaches parents how to accomplish this through better communication and responsibility-sharing with their teens.

For Children Who Are Complaining, Cranky, Slow Learners, Aggressive, Hyperactive, Unwell, or Depresses. An effective approach to handling "problem" children. Shows parents how to identify the common foods, chemicals, or common allergic substances that could be the culprits that cause some children or adults to feel unwell or act inappropriately. Shows how certain foods and environmental factors can be recognized, prevented, and treated. You can change your lives so you're more content, happy, and free of illness.

Helping your children understand and deal with their emotions. You can help your children understand their God-given emotional natures. You can teach them appropriate emotional responses that enable them to develop a healthy self-image and relate to God in a more meaningful way.

Can you breadk the destructive chain...Yes. If you understand how your own relationship with your parents ( and their relationship with their parents) influences your relationships with your kids. You and your dhildren can have the relationship you dreamed of so long ago if you start now, while they are still in your care....

Bring out the best in your children...without letting them get the better of you. A consistent, decisive, and respectful way for parents to love and discipline their children. An action-oriented method of child-raising which allows the reality of a situation to be the teacher to your child. This new method is based upon timeless, tried-and-true principles that you know you can trust. Surefire techniques for bringing up loving, obedient, and empowered children.

Addresses the serious causes and effects of this national crisis. To make their children their top priority and, if necessary, to change their lives to do so. Covers all aspects of parenting, from childbearing to discipline, from mutiple families to being role models. A road map to safety for America´s families.

Gives real insight into how we can avoid the pitfalls; drug, deviancy, and destructive problems that we face. Optimistic, practical, uplifting yet down-to-earth. How to handle disagreements, how and argument can be a positive experience, family leadership, quality time, diversions, self-image, values, peer pressures, compromise, negotiation...

This book goes beyond the terms of leniency versus strictness to teach children to be responsible and self-reliant--not through fear and intimidation, which are outer-directed concerns (what happens when the disciplinarian is on vacation, or asleep?) but through the maturity of feeling accountable to one's commitments (inner-directed behavior). An inspiring, workable formula for developing closeness, trust, dignity, and respect.

A wealth of experience and wisdom in this book. It offers tremendous help for parents with teenage children. Gives a workable guide for parenting that is invaluable. This book will help enhance your relationship with your teen and help you to become an even more effective parent.

From Allergies and Animal Bites to Toothache and TV Addiction. Hundreds of Doctor-Proven Techniques and Tips to Care for your Child. From infancy through age 12. Up-to-date advice on 117 infant and childhood illnessess and health problems. Plus parenting issues, accident prevention, first aid for injuries, and medical emergencies.

For and about fathers who have begum to face their roles in the present evolvement of families. Addresses the issues - pro and con - of father involvement. the two roles working and nurturing their families. A brilliant, highly readable addition to our knowledge about children and their parents.

I want my children to value themselves; to become risk takers in life; to be iant; to be free from stress and anxiety for a lifetime; to celebrate their present moments; to experience a life-time of wellness; to be creative and happy; and to fulfill their needs and feel a sense of purpose in life." How to turn these wants into reality.

A thoughtful and provactive book for parents to help them understand their children in truth and falsehoods as they grow through each developmental phase and circumstances. Knowing when and why their child has lied and creating the motives for truthfulness.

Step-by-step guidelines for raising responsible, productive, happy children. How to help create strong feelings of self-worth with your child. One of the best books on child guidance...simple, practical, and consistently constructive. Embodying the most positive insights of modern psychology.

Provides a wealth of urgently needed information that will help you understand and cope with your child's baffling disorder. Many practical steps you and your child's teacher can take to help your child. Describes symptoms and causes of hyperactivity. Looks at the full range of medical and psychological treatments currently available.