A clear and accessible guide for parents, detailing what drugs are, how they cause harm, and how to reduce the risk of their child experiencing drug problems. Provides practical advice on detecting drug use and accessing help, empowering parents to have supportive conversations with their children about drugs.
Forget scrolling through the latest parenting websites and getting sucked in by the latest fads on Instagram - using an engaging mix of expertise and experience, this book will help you understand what it means to be a 'good enough' parent to your children from babyhood to adulthood. In return, you'll help instil that feeling of being 'good enough' in your child - a mindset that will give them the best chance of navigating the ups and downs of modern life. As a mother of three and practicing psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience, Tara Porter is intent on reducing the pressure of modern parenting advice for both parents and children. We all beat ourselves up with ideas of perfection, but what if 'good enough' parenting , is actually enough?Whether your child is taking their first steps or about to fly the nest, Tara will show you how to find your 'good enough', an approach that allows parents to define their own role, avoid parental guilt and espouse an approach of balanced, boundaried emotional support, whilst retaining their sense of sanity and self as they do so.
After giving birth to three children in Japan, journalist Abigail Leonard was shocked to return home to the US and understand American motherhood from a new perspective.Fascinated to learn more about the ways that culture around the world impacts the experience of birth and parenting, especially for women, she starts reporting. Identifying four new mothers - from the US, Japan, Finland and Kenya - she follows them closely through birth and the first year of their children's lives. Their intimate stories shed a light on national history, policy and gender relations; what is universal and what we can learn from other cultures.Sarah, Tsukasa, Anna and Chelsea negotiate hospital and healthcare settings; daycare, professional ambitions and religion; complicated relationships with partners, family and friends. Abigail Leonard captures the love and complexity of their experiences in careful detail and compelling prose. Her rich storytelling draws an insightful and international portrait of modern mothering.
Separating from our other parent can be one of life's toughest challenges. When we separate with children, trying to navigate how to bring them up together becomes much harder. The separation process may become confrontational; and when children watch their parents fight, or become pawns in that fight, the safe parental bubble they have lived in up to that point bursts. The Co-Parenting Method, based on the award-winning coaching methodology of The Co-Parent Way(TM), guides co-parents through their separation in a way that allows them to keep their children safe, whole, and protected. It gives co-parents the skills and knowledge they need to keep a safe parental bubble intact for their children, whatever they may feel about each other. 'Marcie is an excellent advocate for making co-parenting work - she brings the voice of the child, which can often be lost when parents are separating, to the forefront of the discussion.' - Barbara Reeves, Head of Family Law, Mishcon de Reya LLP
"Susie Allison gives the achievable advice she's known around the world for on her million-follower Instagram account, Busy Toddler. From daily life to 'being two is fine' to tantrums and tattling and teaching the ABCs, let Susie give you the stress-free parenting advice you've been looking for. Susie shares real moments from raising her three kids as well as professional knowledge from her years as a kindergarten and first grade teacher. Her simple and doable approach to parenting is both uplifting and empowering ... includes over 50 of Susie's famous kid activities that have helped hundreds of thousands of parents make it to nap time and beyond. This isn't about perfect parenting. This is about actual parenting"--
“The Motherload is for all the women who wish someone had told them the truth about motherhood. Honest, unapologetic, and brutally funny…it’s about developing the strength to care for yourself and, thereby, learning to care for another.” —Stephanie Danler, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter An intimately honest memoir about motherhood that dares to ask, what happens when “what to expect when you’re expecting” turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.“The kid was objectively a tiny worm, even worse, a worm with my nose.” Welcome to Sarah Hoover’s unflinching take on motherhood and its expectations in which the beatific narrative women have been fed—one of immediate connection to your child followed by a joyful path of maternal discovery—turns out to be not quite true. In The Motherload, Hoover provides a candid, funny, and sobering look at the journey women undertake as expectant mothers and wives from the early days of pregnancy through labor and beyond. Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself—career, love, marriage, children—and when Hoover moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she’d imagined began falling into place. She got her degree, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and went on some exceptionally bad dates. She also met interesting artists, one of whom became her future husband (a whirlwind romance, theirs, exciting even with its imperfections). But when Hoover got pregnant, the life she imagined began to unravel. She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. She suffered from anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors—a stark trigger. And eventually, when her son was born, there was no… joy. Instead, she felt “disoriented, lonely, and like none of my clothes fit.” Why was she seeing and hearing things that weren’t there? Why was she so angry and miserable when she had everything she thought she wanted? Why was the life she’d built falling apart? It took her months to discover that she was suffering from severe postpartum depression. And it took even longer to trace all the threads that came to inform her experience. At its core, The Motherload is about learning to forgive yourself for not being what you’ve been told you must be and for not loving the way you’ve been told you should. It’s about the uniquely female experience of constantly grappling with expectation versus reality, no matter your circumstance, and a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. It is a moving, exciting, roller coaster ride, and a propulsive addition to the canon of women’s literature.
A powerful self help meets parenting book perfect for readers of books such as The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry and The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
A fully illustrated, practical guide full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn't prepare us for
Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more research addressing the structural nature of obstetric violence. In this collection of essays, the cause of reproductive injustice is understood as the institutionalized isolation of (potentially) pregnant people, making them vulnerable for bio- and necropolitical disciplination and control. The central thesis of this book is that reproductive justice must be achieved through a radical reappropriation of relationality in reproductive care to safeguard the access to knowledge and care needed for safe bodily self-determination. Through empirical research as well as decolonial, feminist, midwifery, and Black theory, reproductive justice is reimagined as abolitionist care, grounded in the abolition of authoritative obstetric institutions, state control of reproduction, and restrictive abortion laws in favor of community practices that are truly relational.
New mothers will discover the power of a daily self-care practice with this beautiful guide that offers practical advice, relatable stories, and interactive tools to help them navigate the joys and challenges of parenting while maintaining their own well-being.
Delve into the ideal resource for theory and research on parental monitoring and adolescents' disclosure and concealment from parents. This handbook presents ground-breaking research exploring how adolescents respond to parents' attempts to control and manage their activities and feelings. The chapters highlight how adolescents' responses are as important for their mental health and behaviour as parents' attempts to regulate them. Examining responsive, intrusive, and invasive parenting behaviours, the volume addresses modern challenges like monitoring in the digital age and medical decision-making. It covers cutting-edge research on diverse cultures and groups including Latinx, Turkish, Chinese, LGBTQ+, and chronically ill youth. The internationally recognized contributors offer insights from different theoretical perspectives and describe novel methodological approaches, focusing on variations across different developmental stages, contexts, and cultures.
A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from celebrated author Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James."There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book."There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home."There is no good way to say this-because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, "a single point in a timeline." Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, "The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now." Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit.
God loves to bring people into community, into a knowledge of being loved and valued. Many people, especially those living in marginalised and socially deprived communities, struggle with mainstream church. The Ignite café-church model, pioneered in Canterbury Diocese, is designed to build relationships and share faith with people where they are, in their own communities. Through eating and exploring faith together, Ignite shares the gospel in both word and action, while also supporting people's essential needs. This book sets out how to plan and run Ignite in your context. It covers building and supporting a team, how best to set up for Ignite and the style in which it should be delivered. Pre-planned 'running orders' provide two years' worth of weekly material including video clips, table discussions, quizzes, short talks, craft activities, drama and prayer responses.
The Montessori Way, Revised and Expanded offers an updated and comprehensive guide to Montessori education, perfect for parents and educators seeking practical insights and techniques.
Packed with a variety of fun, screen-free activities for both indoors and out, at home and on the go, this book is your go-to-guide for entertaining children offline in the digital age. Split into bite-sized chapters, it will provide you with a host of imaginative suggestions to try after school, at the weekend and especially during the holidays.
A must-have guide for helping your child conquer worry, fear, and overwhelmAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVERKids today are more susceptible than ever to anxiety and stress. As a parent, you want to shield your child from these overwhelming feelings, but it can be daunting in an unpredictable world. Fortunately, there are ways to help, and Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry shows how. Psychotherapists and parent coaching team Ashley Graber, LMFT, and Maria Evans, LMFT, introduce SAFER Parenting—a simple yet powerful five-step approach designed to help children ages 6-12 regulate emotions and build lasting self-esteem. Offering real-life examples and drawing on their experience working with thousands of families struggling with anxiety, they outline key practices to reduce worry both in the moment and over time. You’ll learn how to: Recognize often-missed signs of anxiety and uncover their root causesManage big feelings and guide your child toward useful coping toolsNavigate difficult conversations with therapist-approved techniquesNurture your child’s confidence and independenceCreate psychological safety at home to increase calm and lower anxietyMeeting parents where they are, Raising Calm Kids In a World of Worry shows how despite having plenty of reasons to worry, you can become a more confident parent and help your child find ease when they need it most.
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . .So begins Tim Winton's The Riders, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This is Scully's desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn't know.
Were you ever told 'you can't have dessert until you eat all your vegetables?' Or to 'be grateful for your meal'? Or perhaps you yourself have said 'Mummy's on a diet so she can't eat that' or 'Daddy is fat, you don't want to be like him'. We may not realise, but we are constantly communicating our thoughts on food to our children. As we continue to navigate complex mealtimes, picky eating, emotions and tantrums as well as puberty, diet culture, body image and eating disorders - now more than ever, we need to change the way we communicate about food to our children and ourselves. So how do we help children develop and nurture a healthy relationship with food?Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Dr Anna Colton guides you through a judgement- and shame-free journey from pregnancy to a child's adolescence with accessible scientific and psychological understandings. She shows you how you've formed your relationship with food and gives you the practical, evidence-based tools to instil a positive relationship with eating in your children. How to Talk to Children About Food will help you to:· Understand how you developed your relationship with food· Recognise how your eating behaviours and beliefs get passed on to children· Learn the developmental stages of eating and gain the tools to support them through the ages· Navigate and manage complex food feelings without anxiety, anger or distress· Identify eating disorder behaviours and know when to intervene· Break negative eating cycles and patterns· Build a positive relationship between food and your child/teen's body· Have calm, happy and fuss-free mealtimes for everyone.
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