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Subject headings allow you to find books, eBooks, and videos that are more precisely related to your topic in the library catalog. From the search screen, change the Keyword drop-down to Subject. Books that can check out are located on the third floor of the Library.
A selection of books about child development are listed below. To find more books, use the following subject headings:
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development by Call Number: eBook - click link to accessEncyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive entry point into the existing literature on child development in the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience and sociology.
Watch My Baby Grow by Call Number: HQ774 .W38 2015Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations.
Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children: Strategies for Caregivers and Educators by Call Number: QP376 .B487 2020This practical resource explains brain development from prenatal to age 8 with suggestions for activities educators and caregivers can use to foster children's cognitive growth.
The Bottom Line for Baby : From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time--What the Science Says by Call Number: RJ61 .B8736 2020Apply the best science to all your parenting decisions with this essential A-Z guide for your biggest questions and concerns from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline
Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings by Call Number: HQ771 .M47 2020With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically.
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Call Number: HQ755.8 .S53123 2011Explains the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book.
The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive by Call Number: HQ755.8 .B694 2019A book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, and child development experts coping with difficult children.
Subject headings allow you to find books, eBooks, and videos that are more precisely related to your topic in the library catalog. From the search screen, change the Keyword drop-down to Subject. Books that can check out are located on the third floor of the Library.
A selection of books about family relationships are listed below. To find more books, use the following subject headings:
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Call Number: HQ755.8 .S453 2014All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture's most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, the book is original and essential reading for mothers and fathers of today—and tomorrow.
Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles by Call Number: LC225.3 .C654 2021The book is a framework for implementing best practices to increase the likelihood of engaging every family with an emphasis on those families that have been traditionally disengaged and disenfranchised from schools.
The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups by Call Number: HQ755.8 .S298 2016In this New York Times bestseller, one of America's premier child psychologists offers a must-read account of the dismal state of parenting today, and a vision for how we can better prepare our children for the challenges of the adult world
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Call Number: BF575.F66 S627 2020An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.
When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce by Call Number: HQ814 .L425 2015From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Your Baby & Child and one of the world's leading experts on child development and parenting, a practical, comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for your child during and after separation or divorce.
Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge by Call Number: HQ756 .T476 2012Through inspiring personal experiences, Etan and the men he's gathered together hope to share the message that by standing up and taking an active role as fathers, men not only find their own lives more joyful and fulfilling--they pass on to the next generation an unshakable legacy of love, wisdom, responsibility, and strength.
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Call Number: HQ755.8 .F325 2017This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old.
Subject headings allow you to find books, eBooks, and videos that are more precisely related to your topic in the library catalog. From the search screen, change the Keyword drop-down to Subject. Books that can check out are located on the third floor of the Library.
A selection of books about child rearing are listed below. To find more books, use the following subject headings:
Be All In: Raising Kids for Success in Sports and Life by Call Number: GV709.2 .P43 2020Soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Christie Pearce Rampone and sports neuropsychologist Dr. Kristine Keane share the best practices that athletes, parents, and coaches can use to turn the lessons learned through sports into lifelong skills.
The Empathy Advantage: Coaching Children to Be Kind, Respectful, and Successful by Call Number: BF723.E67 A93 2020In this helpful guide, parents, caregivers and teachers are coached to help their children and students to develop social-emotional skills that will equip them to better navigate the world with self-compassion and empathetic concern.
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being by Call Number: HQ755.8 .D3728 2019Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two" into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery.
The Drive to Learn: What the East Asian Experience Tells Us About Raising Students Who Excel by Call Number: LC225.33.E37 G76 2017Grove draws on over 100 studies of children's learning and child-rearing in China, Japan, and Korea. They reveal that those children, even the youngest ones, are highly receptive to classroom learning. Why do they come into classrooms with attentive and engaged attitudes? How did they acquire the drive to learn? Can American parents benefit from knowing how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing? The Drive to Learn explores these questions.
Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes by Call Number: HQ755.8 .B763 2014A guide that helps parents focus on their children's unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers. This guide empowers parents to help kids break out of pink and blue boxes to become their authentic selves.
Foundations of Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos by Call Number: HQ778.5 .B37 2013Infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds grow best when they are loved, cared for, and valued as unique individuals. This book will help you provide children with high-quality care in a responsive learning environment.
The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Call Number: HQ772 .W365 2009Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd argues incisively that parents--not peers, not television--are the primary shapers of their children's moral lives. And yet, it is parents' lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children's development.
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five by Call Number: HQ755.8 .M425 2010Bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child's brain develops--and what you can do to optimize it.
Proactive Parenting: Guiding Your Child from Two to Six by Call Number: HQ769 .P8294 2003Experts in various fields of child development, from psychology to linguistics, shed new light on the art of parenting children from ages two to six, sharing a wealth of advice, information, and practical suggestions on how to deal with a wide variety of behavioral and development issues.
Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk by Call Number: BF723.C57 A27 2002Based on 10 years of research, this text teaches parents how to communicate using non-verbal gestures before their babies can talk. This can enhance the parent-infant bond, alleviate frustration and sharpen a child's attention to its surroundings.
How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too! by Call Number: HQ755.85 .S48 2000Provides advice that teaches parents how to be consistent in disciplining children, manage anger, prevent arguments, and ways to reinforce good behavior instead of criticizing the child.
The Irreducible Needs of Children by Call Number: BF721 .B71345 2000What do babies and young children really need? This impassioned dialogue cuts through all the theories, platitudes, and controversies that surround parenting advice to define what every child must have in the first years of life.
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child's Sleep by Call Number: RJ506.S55 P358 2005The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers offers loving solutions to help this active age-group get the rest they—and their parents—so desperately need.
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting from Tots to Teens by Call Number: HQ769 .M924 2021How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a deeply researched, evidence-based primer that provides a fresh, often surprising perspective on parenting issues, from toddlerhood through the teenage years.
Subject headings allow you to find books, eBooks, and videos that are more precisely related to your topic in the library catalog. From the search screen, change the Keyword drop-down to Subject. Books that can check out are located on the third floor of the Library.
A selection of books about behavior and discipline are listed below. To find more books, use the following subject headings:
1-2-3 Magic by Call Number: HQ770.4 .P44 2003The award-winning, best selling '1-2-3 Magic' book provides practical and easy-to-learn parenting techniques that WORK for children ages 2-12.
Parenting a Defiant Child: A Sanity-Saving Guide to Finally Stopping the Bad Behavior by Call Number: eBook - click link to accessOnly a handful of communities have clinics specializing in the screening and treatment of defiant and ADD children - and those clinics have long waiting lists: Most parents are left to their own devices as they try to understand the problem and find a way to help their child. This behavior pattern tends to have life-long negative implications if not addressed. The book offers specific techniques, as well as encouragement, reassuring readers that the problem is not their fault and that by using the right strategies, the problem can be successfully resolved.
The Discipline Miracle: The Clinically Proven System for Raising Happy, Healthy, and Well-behaved Kids by Call Number: eBook - click link to accessWritten for parents of children aged 1 to 5 years, "The Discipline Miracle" presents a comprehensive approach to discipline that allows parents to provide their children with a true sense of security while imposing healthy limits-in short, everything they need to raise happy, well-adjusted kids.
Toughlove: Raising Confident, Kind, Resilient Kids by Call Number: HQ755.8 .T677 2016From toughLOVE, a unique online community: balanced, practical advice for parents of school-age children from child psychology experts on how to handle everything from picky eating to media consumption to the homework wars.
Elements of Discipline: Nine Principles for Teachers and Parents by Call Number: LB3012 .G76 2013This is a helpful book for teachers, parents, and day-care professionals that provides a simple set of rules for managing - successfully and humanely - a wide range of discipline situations and challenges.
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds by Call Number: HQ773 .F67 2010A clinically proven, five-week program for improving your child's behavior Rex Forehand, Ph.D. and Nicholas Long Ph.D. have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem.
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills by Call Number: HQ773 .K39 2008A lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are occasionally, or too often, "out of control" Includes a bound-in twenty-minute DVD featuring Dr. Kazdin and his staff illustrating key concepts of the Kazdin Method.
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Call Number: LC4801 .F72 2008From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids and transforming school discipline.
Subject headings allow you to find books, eBooks, and videos that are more precisely related to your topic in the library catalog. From the search screen, change the Keyword drop-down to Subject. Books that can check out are located on the third floor of the Library.
To find more books, use the following subject headings:
- Behavior disorders in children
- Autistic children -- Behavior modification
- Attention deficit disordered children -- Education
- Asperger's syndrome
- Deaf children
- Parents of children with disabilities
The Activity Kit for Babies and Toddlers at Risk: How to Use Everyday Routines to Build Social and Communication Skills by Call Number: RJ506.D47 F45 2016In this easy-to-navigate guide, leading experts present more than 100 games and activities designed to support development in children from birth to age 3.
Behavioral Challenges in Children with Autism and Other Special Needs: The Developmental Approach by Call Number: RJ506.B44 C85 2016Behavioral Challenges in Children with Autism and Other Special Needs provides a systematic framework for both parents and professionals to understand and improve a child's behaviour, while also supporting underlying developmental capacities.
Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Children's Learning Problems by Call Number: LC4704 .H43 2009This comprehensive, practical guide to children's learning problems should be the first resource parents and teachers reach for when a child shows signs of difficulty in academic, social, or behavioral learning. Drawing on her decades of experience, educator Jane Healy offers understandable explanations of the various types of learning disorders. She distills the latest scientific research on brains, genes, and learning as she explains how to identify problems--even before they are diagnosed--and how to take appropriate remedial action at home, at school, and in the community.
The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs by Call Number: HQ773.6 .B75 2007Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs.
Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Autism Spectrum, Tourette's, Anxiety, and More! The One-Stop Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals by Call Number: RJ506.B44 K88 2014The all-in-one guide covers the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety, to autism spectrum disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, Tourette's, sensory integration problems, and executive dysfunction.
Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators by Call Number: HV2391 .M26 2018Offers a comprehensively clear, evidence-based guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and teachers of deaf children today.
Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs by Call Number: HV891 .B16 2004A trusted resource for thousands of families, this lively book gives parents of children from age 3 through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible.
