Just when you thought you've heard it all-"Parenting from the Heart" offers a new and different, refreshing approach to parenting. This easy-to-understand, down-to-earth book moves beyond parenting theories and techniques to get to the heart of parenting. If parents know how to look within their hearts to find the answers they need, parenting techniques are not necessary. If parents know how to find a loving connection with their children at most times, discipline and consequences are rarely necessary. All parents have it within them to bring out the best in their children. Approaching parents in this way makes parenting a true pleasure instead of the battle and chore it often becomes. Many so-called experts say that raising kids is the toughest job any of us will ever do, but it does not have to be that way. It can be the most joyful thing any of us will ever do. "Parenting from the Heart" is a must resource for anyone who cares about parenting and raising children. About the Author Jack Pransky, Ph.D. is Director of the "Center for Inside-Out Understanding" and is an international consultant and trainer for the prevention of problem behaviors and the promotion of well-being. He also authored the books, "Somebody Should Have Told Us!; Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner-City and Beyond; Prevention from the Inside-Out, Prevention: The Critical Need" and co-authored both the "Healthy Thinking, Feeling, Doing--from the Inside-Out" curriculum and guide for middle school students and "What Is A Thought (A Thought Is A Lot)," a picture book for little children. Pransky has worked in the field of prevention since 1968 in a wide variety of capacities. He has offered parenting training and consultation to a great number of parents, and has trained many parenting course instructors.

Parenting from the Heart is a fresh, accessible, authoritative pocket book for helping your gifted, bright, or creative child become resilient and psychologically vibrant, both in and out of the classroom! Engaging chapters explore how to support your child’s social-emotional development through teaching, reinforcing, and modeling the author’s research-based framework “strengths of the heart,” championing the dynamic trio of Emotional Intelligence, social skills, and character strengths. Featuring diverse, illustrative examples, effective interventions, and frequently asked questions to help you put concepts into practice, this book offers essential information for raising and supporting responsible, caring, empathic, and resilient gifted children. This book is a must read for all caregivers seeking to get ahead of potential behavioral, academic, and social challenges while building a healthy foundation to become a calm, reflective, and thoughtful parent.

The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application.Helping parents to connect compassionately with their children, show them love, and offer guidance even in difficult moments, this practical booklet describes how the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process can transform parenting to promote peace for generations to come. NVC-based parenting tips and ten practical exercises to foster trust, improve cooperation, and inspire open dialogue are included.

It's no secret that 21st century life often seems to be working against the hopes and dreams of Christian parents for their families. In this much-needed volume, Chuck Swindoll offers solid advice and helpful, pastoral counsel for building close, rewarding and fruitful family relationships.

Parenting by Heart is an empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and practical, compassionate solutions. Filled with specific advice tried by thousands of families, this authoritative guide shows what actually works rather than what theoretically “should” work. Here is the step-by-step guide with hundreds of tested solutions that will help make you feel more confident about how to instill your values, be in charge, and stay connected with today's kids in these modern and often difficult times.

This book is designed to assist parents who are separated from their children to strengthen their bonds, through learning rights they have and responsabilities they can accept, even though they are apart.

Donated by Child Development Training Consortium.

Discover biblically sound keys to raising morally mature children that focuses on character development not just following rules.

Parenting: just when parents think they have it in their grasp, another bump on the road of life makes them lose their grip. They begin to wonder if what they are doing is right. Using the book of Proverbs, author David Walls gives them answers that work. This book combines common sense, biblical wisdom, wit, passion, and good humor to give practical advice for parents.