Parenting Advice, Parenting Books and Counselor Resources

Are you looking for parenting advice, parenting books or counselor resources? Our resources increase understanding of child problems and how to help. Search under the headings below to find the parenting help you need.

Addiction and Other Family Problems

Parenting Advice and Enhancing Parenting Skills

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12: This book offers easy-to-follow steps to immediately manage troublesome behavior. This award-winning program discusses the importance of establishing fair and consistent discipline. The gist of the plan is to enable parents to discipline children, ages 2 to 12, by instituting a system of counting and time-outs, delivered straightforwardly and unemotionally. How the regimen is used to stop undesirable behavior, stimulate desirable conduct, and cope with children's testing is conveyed in Phelan's candid style, filled with common sense, concrete examples, and lots of reassuring humor. Time-and parent-tested, the methods are applied in identifiable situations (pouting, bedtime, dressing) as well as in the all-too familiar incidences of children testing and manipulating their elders.

Assertive Discipline for Parents: A Proven, Step-by-Step Approach to Solving Everyday Behavior Problems: Raising happy, well-behaved children seems to be harder than ever. The old answers don't seem to work. New approaches are needed. Assertive Discipline for Parents is the parenting book that addresses the needs of today's parents. Assertive Discipline for Parents will enable you to master the skills needed to guide your children's behavior successfully.

8 Weeks to a Well-Behaved Child: A Failsafe Program for Toddlers ThroughTeens:This book emphasizes the importance of consistency as a tool for ushering change into a child's bad behavioral habits. Scheduling his strategies into a week-by-week series of courses, the author urges sufficient"loving" but insists "love is not enough"; to augment that, he recommends respect, "setting strict and firm limits," enforcing these, and yet also "allowing for dissent and expression" of children's emotions as adults move with them through a developmental process. Windell provides homework assignments at the close of chapters that ask parents to come to grips with the particulars of their situation in an objective fashion. Especially useful for the parent who has tried everything and is desperate for something that works.

Child Behavior Problems

This category includes books and resources to increase understanding of child behavior problems and how to solve them. They also provide useful parenting advice.

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Professional Books

Although these books may be of most use to professionals working with children and their families, parents, educators and other concerned adults may also find them of value.

Child Screenings and Assessments

How's My Child Doing? How to Assess How a Child is Doing and Develop a Plan to Help. Use this behavior rating scale to assess how a child is doing across 4 developmental domains (social, behavioral, emotional and cognitive/learning). Develop a profile of a child's strengths and weaknesses. Use our Blueprint for Action to set goals and help you decide whether further parenting advice or professional support might help. Click here, to indicate your interest in this product. Dr. O'Connor will send you an e-mail when this product is ready for sale.

Counselor Resources:

(1) The Counselor's Tool-Kit for Developing Individual or Group Support for Children of Alcoholics: 7 Steps for Easy Integration into Your Helping Program. A complete tool kit for creating your own helping program for children of alcoholics. Integrate into your counseling program and support the children you work with. This Guide can be integrated with " I Can Be Me" to provide a complete psycho-educational program to help children of alcoholic parents.

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(2) I Can Be Me--a Helping Book for Children of Alcoholic Parents: Addiction, family and child counselors are using this book to help children of alcoholics. This book also includes parenting advice for helping professionals to use to assist the families they work with. Click here to learn more.

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