Parenting

Special needs parenting books
The position of Parent can be the most rewarding and the most traumatic all at once, Give yourself and your children a fighting chance at a loving, respectful and rewarding life together.
The first few years of parental influence can have lifetime effects on the way that children behave and interact in society, learn to identify behaviour that needs to be adjusted, learn to reward where reward is due and bring your children up to be positive influences on family and society in general.
Please feel free to suggest any books that have helped you or changed your life.

Fab Dad: A Man’s Guide to Fathering,
This is the first book about having a baby written by a father for other fathers, minus all that flowery girlie prose. Learn how to deal with your partner’s mood swings, recognise when her waters have broken…
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Rich Kid smart Kid
One of te greatest gifts you can give a child is to teach them from an early age about finance and investing, teaching them the real value of education and financial planning and of course giving the a step up in the life skills department. I know from personal experience what it is like going through lifes ups and downs and is something I do not wish on any of my own children.
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Savvy kids menu’s – cooking with children
If you are spending time in the kitchen why not make it fun for your children and the emphasis on this book is teaching children to develop a passion for food and healthy eating. Just imagine how fantastic it would be for your children to develop the taste for healthy food and a passion for cooking. What a great gift to leave your children with!
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk,
Details a program for improving communication between parents and children, providing sample dialogues, role-playing exercises, and humorous yet illuminating cartoons. The best possible achievement is to have children that feel safe talking to you about anything!
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Effective Discipline for Children 2-12,
he award-winning, best selling ‘1-2-3 Magic’ book provides practical and easy-to-learn parenting techniques that WORK for children ages 2-12. You won’t need to study child psychology to understand them.
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Angry Children, Worried Parents: Seven Steps to Help Families Manage Anger,
Acknowledging that anger in children is an emotion that cannot be entirely avoided, this guide for parents outlines a seven-step program to promote healthy anger management in children aged 4 to 14
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Children Need Boundaries: Effective discipline without punishment,
No matter what their background, religion or current situation, children need the physical and emotional safety of boundaries and containment. And they need to know what the consequences would be
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Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear,
Yes it is possible, however difficult it may seem, through consistant behavioural patterns and gentle discipline, you will have a loving and rewarding relationship.
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Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman,
Society’s confusing and often contradictory messages to girls and women make raising a daughter an especially daunting responsibility for any parent. Girls are born believing that they can do anything
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Bringing Up Boys,
With so much confusion about the role of men in today’s society, it’s no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Dr. Dobson tackles a multitude of questions
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Future-proof your child: Parenting the wired generation,
‘Stop the world, I want to get off!’ is the regular refrain of many of today’s time-pressured parents. ‘Give me an experience and I’ll promise you a relationship,’ is the mantra of their children.
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The Five Love Languages of Children,
Outlines five expressions of love–quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch–and explains how to identify and communicate effectively in a child’s “love language”
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Toddler Sense: Understanding your toddler’s sensory world – the key to a happy, well-balanced child,
Toddler hood is a time of tremendous growth and development. It is also a time of tantrums and conflict. Knowing what constitutes normal behaviour will help you accept and respect this.
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Good enough mother ,
Chris goes through all the milestones: starting nursery school, learning that hot plates are hot (the hard way), realising that mummy can?t make the earthmoving equipment on the side of the road…
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The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder,
The revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking special-needs activity guide This revised edition of the companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child includes new activities
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How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn’s Full Potential,
The authors explain the newborn’s growth and development, including all of the critical stages involved, and then guide parents in creating a home environment that enhances and enriches brain development.
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Mind Moves,
Mind moves is an easy-to-use self-help guide for parents and teachers to remove learning barriers like ADD and ADHD, and improve sensory-motor integration, auditory processing, articulation and language.
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Now That You Know: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children,
Now updated with new material on AIDS and support groups, this completely non-judgmental, very informative, and extremely effective book (Library Journal)is a standard reference for parents of gays
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The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life,
Discusses how women see their relationships with family and friends change as children are born, grow, and eventually leave the nest.
This is excellent reading that will prepare your for the different stages as your children grow and change.
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The Out-Of-Sync Child,
Now revised and updated, this “parents’ bible to sensory processing disorder ” (“New York Times”) features additional information from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skills problems and much more.
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The New Strong-Willed Child,
Dr. James Dobson has completely rewritten, updated, and expanded his classic best seller The Strong-Willed Child for a new generation of parents and teachers. It’s in CD format.
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Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple’s Quest to Have a Baby,
Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual, all the while trying to save a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures, and dissapointments…
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Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood,
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes — from the hyperactive search for high stimulation…
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Hey baby!: The hip new mom’s guide that’s all about you,
One minute you are in stilettos sipping Martinis on the company account, the next you are bulk-buying maxi-pads and freezing your breast milk in ice trays. For most new moms the about-turn in lifestyle…
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Fab Dad: A Man’s Guide to Fathering,
This is the first book about having a baby written by a father for other fathers, minus all that flowery girlie prose. Learn how to deal with your partner’s mood swings, recognise when her waters have broken…
Get the book here