The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively

You know you love your child. But how can you make sure your child knows it?

The #1 New York Times bestselling The 5 Love Languages® has helped millions of couples learn the secret to building a love that lasts. Now discover how to speak your child’s love language in a way that he or she understands. Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell help you:

Discover your child’s love language
Assist your child in successful learning
Use the love languages to correct and discipline more effectively
Build a foundation of unconditional love for your child

Plus: Find dozens of tips for practical ways to speak your child’s love language.

Discover your child's primary language—then speak it—and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.

Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder

Do you ever feel confused about what went wrong in your foster or adoption story? Are you fearful about the future of your marriage and your children? Do you ever feel overwhelmed and desperate for help?

You are not alone.

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can sometimes add to the problems these families face, sometimes prolonging the healing process for all.

Attachment disorder is cruel.

This book is for the wonderful-hearted people who stepped into adoption with dreams of loving a child to wholeness, only to find that children who hurt sometimes hurt people. This book is for parents who feel overwhelmed, desperate, and depleted. Or for the friend or family member who has watched the adoption story of their loved one unravel and felt helpless.

Marcy Pusey’s family has lived their own version of hope and hell in learning what real love looks like for these children. It took their marriage to the brink, their own personal mental health to its limits, their family to some dark places—but they came out in a brighter place. They surfaced with the support of their community, their dedication to making it, and a whole lot of prayer. Before Marcy was raising kids with attachment disorders, she was therapeutically supporting families who were. And now she offers this hope and help to you.

Parenting Children of Trauma brings you everything she’s learned as mama, friend, and counselor, in a new and easy-to-understand way by:

• Demystifying attachment disorders and the impact of complex emotional trauma on our homes and society.
• Breaking down current treatment options for attachment disorders.
• Equipping you with information, strategies, and stories to know you are not alone or powerless in your own home.
• Resources specifically for the friend or family member who wants to support adoptive/foster families.

Whether you're already in this situation, thinking about stepping into it, or know someone who is in it, this book will help you set realistic expectations, redefine love, and walk away with actual tools to change the climate of your heart and your home.

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families

Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

Designed for preschool and beyond, this helpful and practical psychology-based parenting method is an invaluable guide for all parents! Teach your children healthy responsibility and encourage their character growth from a young age. Learn to establish healthy boundaries with your children through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.

Trusted by generations of parents, counselors, and teachers to lovingly raise responsible children, Parenting with Love and Logic includes solutions for dozens of specific topics such as:

• Tantrums
• Managing screen time
• Grades and report cards
• Chores
• Getting ready for school
• Peer pressure
• Cyberbullying
• Navigating crisis situations and grief
• And much more!

Each issue is indexed for easy reference. Learn how to tame tempers and re-establish a calm, healthy relationship and positive communication with your child today!

Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood

From the authors of the bestselling Parenting with Love and Logic, this teen-specific resource empowers parents to raise responsible tweens, teens, and young adults without anger, nagging, or power struggles. Learn to set healthy boundaries, encourage important skills, and foster effective decision-making with empathy and grace.

Designed to help you and your child grow during the challenges of the teenage years, this book addresses a wide range of real-life issues such as:

• Addiction
• Social media and screen time
• Peer pressure
• Sex and dating
• Divorce and visitation
• Anger and aggression
• Paying for college
• And much more!

Each topic is indexed for easy reference. Learn to reconnect with your teenager and establish a healthy relationship with them today!

Raising Other People's Children: What Foster Parenting Taught Me About Bringing Together A Blended Family

Raising Other People's Children helps you navigate the complicated world of foster and step-parenting with better awareness and greater empathy, providing real-life solutions for forging strong relationships in extraordinary circumstances.

Drawing on Debbie Ausburn’s decades of experience with every facet of the foster care system, Raising Other People's Children provides expert guidance viewed through the lens of real human interactions.

The responsibility and complexity involved in raising someone else’s child can seem overwhelming. Regardless of whether you’re a stepparent, foster parent or adoptive parent, it is on you to take on the challenge of caring for them, helping them to move forward while also meeting their unique emotional needs.

The Foster Parenting Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home

The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents. He describes what to expect from the process, how to access help and how to ensure the best care for your child. He tackles thorny issues such as children's use of the Internet and social media, managing contact with birth parents and how to support your child at school. Most importantly, he provides advice designed to help your child feel safe, secure and loved. The Foster Parenting Manual offers seasoned, sympathetic advice that will be valued by foster parents and the professionals who support them.

Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Years

While new and experienced parents alike find that every baby brings its own set of challenges, the Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby’s First Years offers informative guidance on standard childcare practices, like proper nutrition, indoor and outdoor safety, diapers and toilet training, comforting a fussy baby, and more.

However, more dilemmas face modern-day parents than ever before. This revised reference guide also gives essential—and actually attainable—advice for a new generation of parents, one that faces challenges like single parenthood, work-life balance, delayed child growth and development, and the potential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and other newborn conditions.

Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby’s First Years combines everything you need to know about your baby’s first three years in an easy-to-read, convenient guide you can keep and reference throughout every stage of your child’s first years. With a detailed, month-to-month calendar, learn what to expect of your baby’s growth and development during the first 36 months of its life, and what steps you can take to ensure a foundation of healthy growth and development.

While there is no built-in instruction manual for raising a child, Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby’s First Years offers expert advice on everything you may need to know about caring for your little one.

Toddler Discipline for Every Age and Stage: Effective Strategies to Tame Tantrums, Overcome Challenges, and Help Your Child Grow

Tackle toddler discipline and tamp down on tantrums before preschool begins

Make it easier to manage your little one's most challenging behaviors with these highly effective toddler discipline tools. This standout among parenting books helps you learn how to effectively support your toddler as you deal with day-to-day difficulties.

Written by mother of two and child development expert Aubrey Hargis, this guide to parenting toddlers teaches you about the behavioral challenges you'll face and the ways you can address them while fostering important life skills like curiosity, respect, independence, and confidence.

Toddler Discipline for Every Age and Stage includes:

• An overview of toddler development—Better understand how your child will grow physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally, as well as how this affects their behavior.
• Age-appropriate discipline strategies—Take a holistic approach to parenting with guidance that is tailored to each age group.
• Handy tips—Informative quick tips help you get the most out of this parenting guide, teaching you how and why certain things work and addressing specific challenges.

This child development book shows you how to build an effective toolbox of toddler discipline strategies that will serve you through every step of their growth.

The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment

There Is Hope for Every Child, Every Parent, and Every Family

Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more challenges. You may have discovered that the techniques that worked with your birth children are not working with your adopted or foster child.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers.

You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

The Connected Parent will help you lovingly guide your children and bring renewed hope and restoration to your family.

The Foster Parenting Toolbox

Finally, a comprehensive parenting book for foster families!

What do you need to meet the needs of the children in your care? Each child will be unique and require a different set of tools in your toolbox. The Foster Parenting Toolbox is 464 pages of incredibly helpful information. Over 100 foster parents in the trenches, case workers, social workers, CASAs, GALs and judges contributed to this book to help all those on the child's team understand and work better with the children who are entrusted to their care.

Covering topics from newborns to teens and everything in between, this book will help not only foster parents, but be beneficial to those who work with foster parents: case workers, social workers, judges, CASA's, GAL s and others.

There are many ways agencies and those who work with foster children are using this book including:

• Showcasing it at a Heart Gallery as a resource for foster/adopt families
• Using it in support groups for post adoption education
• Having CASA workers read it to understand the perspectives of all the people on the child's team
• Sharing it family to family as there are no other parenting books like this just for foster parents
• Reminding themselves why they chose to work in this field

Over 100 professionals contributed to this project

Edited by Kim Phagan-Hansel, the editor of Fostering Families Today Magazine, more than 100 contributors have helped weave a stunning tapestry of advice specifically for foster parents and the professionals and case workers who are on their foster child's team. This 464-page book is an extension of the trainings offered by individual states. It s a top of the nightstand resource that offers today s foster parents access to a wealth of useful information from professionals in the field and successful foster parents in the trenches. One of the most important features is the voice of foster youth, woven throughout the book. That presence is a constant reminder of why each of us is committed to doing what is called the toughest job you will ever love. This is a book you won t read all at once, but come back to again and again.

Chapters include

• Why Foster
• Perspectives
• Transitions
• Teamwork
• Birth Family Connections
• Loss, Grief, and Anger
• Attachment and Trust
• Trauma and Abuse
• Family Impact
• Discipline
• School Tools
• Parenting Teens
• Nurturing Identity
• Allegations
• Respite and Support
• Reunification, Adoption, and Beyond
• Resources, Recommended Readings and Index

It's an indispensable resource that no foster family, case worker, judge, CASA or GAL should be without.

CEU quizzes are available for each chapter and are included in the back of the book. Check with your agency for compliance.

Rethinking Discipline: Conscious Parenting Strategies for Growth and Connection

A practical guide to conscious parenting with simple, effective strategies that work

As parents, it can be challenging to relate to your child and embrace calm, especially in times of conflict. Rethinking Discipline helps you rethink your child's behaviors so you can focus on teaching valuable life skills while staying connected—even in the most difficult moments.

Featuring actionable strategies that deliver results, this step-by-step guide to conscious parenting gives you everything you need to improve your family's communication and connection. Learn how to apply the basic principles of conscious parenting to stay calm in the moment, respond mindfully to misbehaviors, and develop your child's emotional awareness and problem-solving skills.

This standout selection in conscious parenting books delivers:

• Teachable moments—Identify common misbehaviors in children of all ages, from toddler to teen, and decode what skills they need to learn.
• Situational approach—This conscious parenting book is organized based on your ever-changing needs, such as your emotional reaction or specific conflict situations using real-world examples and scenarios.
• Essential support—Get tips on what to do when strategies don't work on the first try.

Rethink, resolve, and reconnect with this comprehensive guide to conscious parenting.

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego—a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault—who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.

The stunning news of Burke Harris’s research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs—adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come?.

Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover?

Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what happens to children’s brains when they are exposed to extreme stress—and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease such pain and help them grow into healthy adults. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

Nurturing Resilience in Our Children: Answers to the Most Important Parenting Questions

TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD

In their critically acclaimed parenting bestseller, Raising Resilient Children, Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein introduced readers to their breakthrough parenting model for raising resilient, emotionally healthy children capable of confronting life's challenges and bouncing back from setbacks.

In this important Q&A follow-up book, Brooks and Goldstein elaborate and expand upon their theory of resilience by supplying reasonable, jargon-free answers to dozens of questions typically asked by the thousands of parents they've encountered through their workshops, seminars, and lectures.

They discuss such important topics as:

• Helping children feel special and appreciated
• Teaching children how to solve problems and make decisions
• Encouraging self-discipline, self-control, and interpersonal skills
• Fostering Resilience in Our Children shows parents how to help their children develop key competencies and character traits.