How do you get your 6-year-old to sleep on time? How do you get your child to socialize? How do you get your 5-year-old to stop throwing tantrums when she wants something? When conventional approaches such as reward and punishment don’t work, what do you do? As much as being a joy and blessing to raise a child, parenting is a journey riddled with questions. As a parent, how do you know what’s right for your child and you? Family counselor and columnist, Gouri Dange tackles all your parental woes with simple and reasoned answers and suggestions. Presented in an accessible question–answer format, More ABCs of Parenting provides practical solutions to demonstrate how there are answers to problems you thought were impossible.

From babysitting schedules to dealing with stepchildren to long-distance grandparenting, this book covers everything that today's grandmas and grandpas need to know--in a warm, witty style that can help anyone feel relaxed and reassured in this new family role.Written by a grandmother who's authored fourteen previous books, Grandparenting ABCs discusses the newest developments in pregnancy and childbirth, makes suggestions for the most useful baby gifts and the best books, music, and toys for each stage of growth, explores the emotions that may come with this important life passage--and offers a road map through one of life's most joyful journeys, letting grandparents pass on a legacy of love to the newest generation.

Meet Ryan, Anna, Matthew, Sophia, Faith, and their trusted protector, Samson the Safety Dog! Together they are the All-Star Safety Patrol Kids, and theyre here to help your child learn the ABCs and 123s of safety. From playing with friends to avoiding strangers, the All-Star Safety Patrol Kids can teach your child everything he or she needs to know to make smart, safe choicesalong with practicing the alphabet and counting to ten. Look for more All-Star Safety Patrol Kids adventures to help you teach your children to make safe choices without boring or frightening them. After all, safety should be fun and empowering. Child Safety Tips and Programs is an excellent source for practical tips and fun tools from someone who is passionate and genuinely cares about the safety of children. Jennifer Baker, counselor at the Houston Police Department As a mother, I believe that it is never too early to start teaching my children about their personal safety as it is vital to their protection in todays times. Child Safety Tips and Programs is an excellent resource for parents to help them provide the tools necessary to do so. Tamara Desmarais, mother of four children

The ABC of One to Seven is a practical guide to themanagement of common physical and emotional problems of earlychildhood. New chapters include the prevention and management ofobesity, behavioural and emotional problems, ADHD, autism, thechild with fever, and changes in access to medical and socialservices. Including the latest NICE guidelines and advice on when to referand how to manage the problem afterwards, each chapter providesrelevant websites and resources for health workers. The ABC of One to Seven and the companion book, ABC ofthe First Year, have become standard guides for generalpractitioners, trainee doctors, medical students, midwives, nursesand health visitors. They are indispensible reference books forfamily doctor surgeries, emergency and outpatient departments,wards and libraries.

A growing body of evidence supports the benefits of high-quality parent interventions for building social and communication skills in 0- to 5-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). How can clinicians coach parents to effectively incorporate learning opportunities into daily routines at home? From preeminent experts, this practical book explores the role of the coach and reviews the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of successful collaboration with parents. Topics include structuring coaching sessions, identifying children's needs, facilitating playful engagement, and deepening parents' understanding of how they can boost skills development during everyday activities. Seventeen reproducible handouts and forms include the multipage P-ESDM Infant–Toddler Curriculum Checklist, ideal for use in telehealth assessments. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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First published in 1992, this volume, a completely new work and companion to the best seller The ABC of Child Abuse Work, keeps alive the theme of the child’s perspective. This new book examines four faces of abuse in detail: physical abuse, children caught up in marital violence and the much neglected subject of neglect, so often ignored in many texts. Because of the high anxiety that surrounds sexual abuse, particular attention has been paid to this subject with a step-by-step interdisciplinary approach for working with the sex offender, the non-offending parent and the sexually abused child. There is also a section devoted to understanding and working with female sex offenders. The painful stresses experienced by the worker are not forgotten and emphasis is put upon the specific skills required in child protection work. There is a lively chapter on face-to-face work with abused children the complexities of child protection conferences are helpfully analysed with particular reference to the attendance of parents and children. The black perspective is given prominence with contributions from Emmanuel Okine and David Divine. A chapter by Caroline Ball describes the contents and implications of the 1989 Children Act. Issues relating to racism, sexism, classism, ageism and disabilityism are honestly tackled. The ABC of Child Protection aims to continue the development of a better service for abused children and their families. It serves as a guide to students on qualifying courses and for experienced professionals who wish to extend their practice in this area.

The Christian Church has been "welcoming the children" in everygeneration since Jesus' earthly life. The early church, and generations of Christians since, would find expressions of care, appropriate for their times, to help needy families and dependent children.This story is about how the Christian church, with the major focus upon Arizona Baptist Children's Services (ABCS), has responded to the mandate of Jesus to "welcome the children" whose families have been crippled or absent. To tell that story, the writer has chosen to go back in time to create a context of historical examples. What ABCS and other Christians are doing in the Year of Our Lord, 2010, is little different than the experience of how the church responded to the needs of children in the first, fifth or eighteenth centuries. Only the methods have changed.The methods have evolved from foster family care to specialized services for children and families. These state-of-the art modern methods of care are described in detail. This should be helpful and informative to social workers and others who work with troubled families and children in out-of-home care in a faith-based context.

"In this unique contribution to the literature on parental involvement in culturally and linguistically diverse communities, Flora Rodríguez-Brown offers a critique of family literacy programs that lack a clear design for literacy activities relevant to community goals, offering an alternative model that is grounded within an abiding respect for the parents’ role as the child’s first, and ultimately, most important teacher." Robert D. Milk, University of Texas, San Antonio The Project FLAME program used as context for this book is a comprehensive family literacy model, supported by a strong sociocultural framework based on current research on cultural ways of learning and theories of multiliteracies and discourse. The model highlights the relevance of parents’ knowledge, cultural ways, and discourses in sharing literacy knowledge with their children. A pressing need exists for models and programs that effectively serve the educational needs of the steadily increasing numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse students in U.S. public schools today. Addressing issues related to development, implementation, and effectiveness of a program model that fulfills this need, this book is an essential resource for educators, community workers, and researchers interested in the relevance of the home-school connection in relation to children’s school success.