Why Gender Matters By Leonard Sax
ISBN 0767916255 Broadway Paperback 336 pgs WB Price: $25.95
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn't think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends. It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated. In "Why Gender Matters," psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations. For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher--especially if the teacher is female. Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literallycannot say. Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes. A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy. 20.27 cms L x 13.51 cms W (0.25 kgs) 336 pages

The Parents' Handbook By The American Guidance Service
ISBN 0979554209  EAN: 9780979554209 AGS Paperback 138 pages 
WB Price: $28.95
The Parent's Handbook shows parents how they can become more knowledgeable, confident and successful in relating to their children. Discusses misbehavior, communication, encouragement, natural and logical consequences, family meetings, drug and alcohol abuse prevention. Chapter topics include: Understanding Yourself and Your Child; Understanding Beliefs and Feelings; Encouraging Your Child and Yourself; Listening and Talking to Your Child; Helping Children Cooperate; Discipline That Makes Sense; Choosing Your Approach.25.25 cms L x 20.42 cms W (0.35 kgs) 138 pages

How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too! By Sal Severe
ISBN 0141001933 EAN: 9780141001937 Penguin Paperback WB Price: $23.95
A New York Times Bestseller In this eye-opening resource, Dr. Sal Severe taps his twenty-five years of experience as a school psychologist and parenting workshop leader to show that a child's behavior is often a reflection of the parent's behavior, and by making changes themselves, parents can achieve dramatic results in their children. Instead of focusing on what children do wrong, Dr. Severe teaches parents to emphasize the positive, to be consistent, and to be more patient. He shows parents how to teach their children to behave, listen, and be more cooperative, and how moms and dads can manage their own anger and prevent arguments and power struggles. Packed with concrete strategies for dealing with homework hassles, ending tantrums, and other common problems, Dr. Severe's empathetic, common-sense book will be welcome everywhere. 20.17 cms L x 16.15 cms W (0.25 kgs) 288 pages

Children The Challenge By Sal Severe
ISBN 0452266556 EAN: 9780452266551 Plume Paperback 
WB Price: $27.95
Children: The Challenge" gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving them the guidance necessary to discipline lovingly and effectively.20.32 cms L x 13.51 cms W (0.29 kgs) 335 pages

Rewards for Kids Ready-To-Use Charts & Activities by Virginia Shiller
ISBN 1591470064 EAN: 9781591470069 Magination Paperback 
WB Price: $35.95 
With positive advice and guidance, this book provides parents with a variety of exercises and activities to improve their parenting skills, along with a selection of ready-to-use charts.Schneider is the author of many parenting and self-help books. She specializes in relationships, parenting and family living subjects. She holds a M.A. in Counselling Psychology from Columbia University.28.09 cms L x 21.64 cms W (0.56 kgs) 176 pages

Raise Your Child's Social IQ By Cathi Cohen
ISBN 0966036689 EAN: 9780966036688 Advantage Paperback 
WB Price: $24.95
Parents, this book offers direct, sense-making, step-by-step exercises that parents can do with their children to increase their social skills and awareness. Based on the highly successful social skills training groups that have been directed by Cathi Cohen for many years, Raise Your Child's Social I.Q. provides parents with the structure to work on skills at home--how to join a group, how to choose friends, how to notice what people around you are feeling, how to handle angry feelings and much, much more. 21.54 cms L x 14.10 cms W (0.32 kgs) 244 pages

The Hidden Gifts of The Introverted Child By Marti Olsen Laney Psy.D
ISBN 0761135243 EAN: 9780761135241 Workman Paperback 
WB Price: $27.95
Introverted children are often misunderstood, even by their parents, who worry about them. Engaged by their interior world, they’ re often regarded as aloof. Easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation, they can be seen as unmotivated. Content with just one or two close friends, they may be perceived as unpopular. Parents fret that they are unhappy and maladjusted. But the truth is quite different: Introverted children are creative problem solvers. Introverted children love to learn. Introverted children have a high EQ (emotional IQ) and are in touch with their feelings. They take time to stop and smell the roses, and they enjoy their own company. They are dependable, persistent, flexible, and lack vanity. How can parents help their introverted children discover and cultivate these wonderful gifts? Help is here. Written by Dr. Marti Olsen Laney, author of The Introvert Advantage with 74,000 copies in print, The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child fully explains introversion as a hardwired temperament, not a disability, and tells just what parents need to do to help their child become the person he or she is meant to be— and succeed in an extroverted world. Beginning with a 30-question quiz that places a child on the introvert/extrovert continuum, The Hidden Gifts shows parents how to foster a climate that allows introverted kids to discover their inner strengths; schedule ways for a very young innie to recharge those batteries and teach an older child to do it for him- or herself; create a harmonious household with siblings, and parents, of different temperaments; help innies find success at school, sports, parties, and other group activities. 23.11 cms L x 15.34 cms W (0.49 kgs) 302 pages

Raising Confident Boys By Elizabeth Hartley Brewer
ISBN 1555613209 EAN: 9781555613204 Fisher Paperback WB Price: $21.95
Boys need to be noticed, admired, understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack appropriate emotional support are likely to engage in risky behaviors including drugs and acting out violently. "Raising Confident Boys" teaches readers what makes boys prone to low self-esteem and provides practical, effective tips for managing these situations as they arise.Parents and teachers will learn effective ways to help them manage their behavior to promote self-esteem; respond sensitively when children suffer setbacks; support children as they learn, and teach them self-discipline so that they can achieve their goals -- all in a succinct, easy-to-apply tips format.Each tip describes the action to take and why it boosts confidence; it often includes an example, sometimes a "negative example" as well, describing what to avoid doing that may be a common impulse. Across the page are two easy-to-use lists, one for parents and one for teachers, of supportive, practical actions each can take to maximize the confidence-boosting activity. 20.24 cms L x 12.65 cms W (0.23 kgs) 224 pages

Raising Confident Girls By Elizabeth Hartley Brewer
ISBN 1555613217 EAN: 9781555613211 Fisher Paperback WB Price: $21.95
Girls need ample, loving demonstrations from adults close to them that they are appreciated and can be trusted to know what they need for themselves. They also need to be given plenty of opportunity to develop their talents. Girls who lack sufficient emotional support may feel neglected and unworthy of attention, and easily find themselves at greater risk of exploitation and abuse, even as adults. Raising Confident Girls provides parents and teachers with the best hands-on, practical advice available for nurturing girls in a changing and challenging social environment.20.32 cms L x 12.83 cms W (0.19 kgs) 224 pages

How Smart is Your Baby? by Glenn & Janet Doman
Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Potential
ISBN 0757001947 Square One Paperback 324 pgs WB Price: $29.95
How Smart Is Your Baby? provides parents with all the information they need to help their baby achieve his or her full potential. The authors first explain the newborn's growth and development, including all ofthe critical stages involved. They then guide the parents in creating a home environment that enhances and enriches brain development. A developmental profile, which parents complete, allows Mom and Dad to track the progress oftheir child, to determine the baby's strengths, and to recognize where additional stimulation and opportunity are needed. Most important, parents learn how to design an effective and balanced daily program for physical and intellectual growth. When parents understand how their child develops, they can become the best teachers their babies will ever have. Best of all, this joyous program brings parents and babies closer together, establishing a life-long bond of learning and love. 

Redirecting  Children's Behaviour By Kathryn Kvols
ISBN 1884734308 EAN: 9781884734304 Parenting Paperback
WB Price: $25.95
Your kids aren't following the rules and you're sick and tired of it? You feel as if every conversation ends in a power struggle? If you're looking for a new approach to discipline, open up Redirecting Children's Behavior. This popular book is used as a text by thousands of parents in hundreds of parenting classes across the United States--and overseas. You'll understand why, when you see the practical, logical suggestions for rearing self-motivated and responsible children. Author Kvols emphasizes: -Creating win-win situations; Teaching the natural consequences of misbehavior; -Developing children's self-esteem and self-control. She also describes different developmental stages and helps us understand what behavior--however annoying--is normal at every age between 18 months and 18 years. 22.10 cms L x 15.34 cms W (0.29 kgs) 178 pages

Baby Steps By Claire Kopp
ISBN 0805072438 EAN: 9780805072433 Owl Paperback WB Price: $30.95
When "Baby Steps was first published in 1993, it was named one of the 10 Best Parenting Books by "Child magazine. Now, this popular guide to baby's first two years has been completely revised to incorporate the latest research on the young child's developing brain and behavior, including brand-new material on temperament, language, and memory. "Baby Steps pinpoints the important events in an infant's life, examining them month by month for the first year, and in three-month intervals during the second year. Beginning with a "miniguide" to early development, the book goes on to a cover such important subjects as sleep, crying, colic, motor development, social play, and toilet training. Developmental hints and alerts throughout the book provide parents with a clear understanding of the full range of "normal" behaviors for each phase, helping to allay common anxieties.An accessible, concrete guide to infant and toddler behavior," Baby Steps takes much of the guesswork out of parenting.23.88 cms L x 16.56 cms W (0.38 kgs) 336 pages

In Their Own Way By Thomas Armstrong
ISBN 1585420514 EAN: 9781585420513 Paperback WB Price: $27.95
A psychologist who is also a learning specialist gives a comprehensive update of his acclaimed book that shows parents and teachers how to tune in to children's individual styles of learning.20.98 cms L x 14.07 cms W (0.35 kgs) 304 pages

Raising Children Who Think For Themselves by Elisa Medrus MD
ISBN 1582700478 EAN: 9781582700472 Beyond Paperback WB Price: $38.95
In Raising Children Who Think for Themselves, physician Elisa Medhus suggests a fresh approach to the ongoing domestic war between parents and children. She argues that young people learn to govern themselves through external influences -- peer groups, mass media -- rather than through their inner voice of reason. However, being externally directed creates problems by encouraging selfishness and self-deceit, antisocial and even self-destructive behavior. This book focuses on seven strategies to reverse this trend. With a special section on 100 childrearing problems and solutions, this book is a thoughtful guide that combines the practical with the spiritual to help make growing up less painful. Awards: Winner of the the 2002 Parent's Choice Award, the NAPPA Gold Award (National Parenting Publications Association, ) and the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval. 23.09 cms L x 15.32 cms W (0.49 kgs) 304 pages

The Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch
ISBN 0385721609 EAN: 9780385721608 Anchor Paperback WB Price: $25.95
For anyone who has ever puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager comes a groundbreaking look at the teenage brain written by the medical science and health editor for "The New York Times. While many members of the scientific community have long held that the growing pains of adolescence are primarily psychological, Barbara Strauch highlights the physical nature of the transformation, offering parents and educators a new perspective on erratic teenage behavior. Using plain language, Strauch draws upon the latest scientific discoveries to make the case that the changes the brain goes through during adolescence are as dramatic and crucial as those that take place in the first two years of life, and that teenagers are not entirely responsible for their sullen, rebellious, and moody ways. Featuring interviews with scientists, teenagers, parents, and teachers, The Primal Teen" explores common challenges-why teens go from articulate and mature one day to morose and unreachable the next, why they engage in risky behavior-and offers practical strategies to help manage these formative and often difficult years. 21.08 cms L x 12.80 cms W (0.20 kgs) 256 pages

Becoming The Parent You Want To Be By Laura Davis
ISBN 0553067508 Broadway Paperback 448 pgs WB Price: $39.95
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parents of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Full of warmth, clarity, humor, and respect, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be gives parents permission to be human: to question, to learn, to make mistakes, to struggle and to grow, and, most of all, to have fun with their children.23.50 cms L x 18.87 cms W (0.88 kgs) 448 pages

The Read-Aloud Handbook (6th edition) by Jim Trelease
ISBN 0143037390 Penguin Paperback 340 pages WB Price: $27.95
Every child can become an avid reader, and this beloved, classic guide shows how to make it happen. Jim Trelease explains: -- How reading aloud awakens children's imaginations and improves their language skills-- How to begin reading aloud and which books to choose-- How to create reader-friendly homes, classrooms, and libraries-- How to lure children away from the television and video games Jim Trelease has made reading aloud a special pleasure for millions of people. With this revised edition he offers a new generation of parents,teachers, grandparents, and siblings the chance to discover the rewards-and the importance-of reading aloud to children.

My Shining Star by Rosemary Wells
ISBN 043984701X EAN: 9780439847018 Scholastic Hardcover WB Price: $15.95
Rosemary Wells shares ten proven principles sure to help any child succeed in school and in life. These principles (Listening, Honesty, Patience, etc.) guide parents to build a home that's harmonious and supportive, fostering self-esteem and good habits in children. The message is timely and direct -- and absolutely essential for every family and every classroom.17.73 cms L x 17.53 cms W.17.73 cms L x 17.53 cms W (0.16 kgs) 24 pages