Childhood Problems

You Weren’t the Problem: Healing from Childhood Emotional Wounds Were you labeled too sensitive, difficult, or a problem child—even when you were doing your best? Have you carried invisible scars from a childhood marked by emotional neglect, passive-aggressive manipulation, or narcissistic parenting? You Weren’t the Problem is a compassionate and practical guide to help you untangle the toxic messages you were raised with and reclaim the person you were always meant to be. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, trauma-informed healing, and lived experience, this book offers a roadmap ...

To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the listener into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualities—above all, the quality of understanding—that can provide the right answer at critical moments.

“This book blew me away, completely. Gripping from page one, I—quite literally—couldn’t put it down.”—Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners Growing up, Mallory Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. And even though it’s...

This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only...

A respectful parenting guidebook from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series that applies trusted and effective communication strategies, positive discipline tools, and parent-child communication skills to the toughest challenges of raising children. For forty years, readers have turned to...

The essential guide for helping children with language and listening problems. Does your child have trouble getting the right words out, following directions, or being understood? In this revised edition of Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems, speech-language pathologist Patricia Hamaguchi - who has been helping children overcome problems like these for more than 30 years - answers your questions to help you determine what's best for your child.

“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker “A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia.” –Harper’s The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the...

In this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series, Curtis's secret past returns in an unwelcome--but ultimately healing--visit. Rev. Curtis Black is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the decades, he has done much in the public eye, both good and evil. But what most...

The true story of life in a traditional English boarding school in the late 1960’s, as told by the author. Including entertaining tales of everyday school life, as well as how the values of the school helped him step onto the road of overcoming a difficult early childhood. A glimpse of how the human mind works written in a simple and understandable way. A small book with a BIG message.

Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven. Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart. Twenty years later in California...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret… Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster care. He can't cope with school and is often excluded for his violent...

Grief, hate, sadness, insecurity, fear, feelings of emptiness, not belonging, rejection, guilt, envy, limiting beliefs and low self-esteem are emotional toxins that prevent people from living fully, from loving, from forgiving, and finding your purpose. These feelings paralyze lives and often may not even be noticeable, even though we know something is wrong. Its causes may be stored in the subconscious, in childhood traumas, in the genealogical history, in the cycle of family repetitions and need to be accessed to change the course. The emotional detoxification proposed in this book is for...

• Do you have a strong need to please others? • Are your emotions in control of you? • Do you hide your true-self? • Are you unable to assert yourself and to say ‘no’? • Do you neglect your own needs? • Are you drawn to people who are not right for you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it is likely to show that you have a fear of being abandoned. Fear Of Abandonment – How To Heal Your Fear Of Abandonment is a step-by-step guide that will allow you to gradually heal your fear of being abandoned. This fear may have controlled your life up until this point, but ...

“When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,” writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or “lazy” usually suffer from what he calls “output failure”—a neurodevelopmental...

Find out what your child really means when he says "Look what I did", "But I'm not tired," or "You're embarrassing me," and discover what's really going on when he can't express himself at all. Using more than 100 everyday scenarios, the book leads you through each one step by step, explaining...

From #1 NY Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes a deeply powerful and emotional story about struggling to overcome your past and find where you belong. A story about friendship, survival, and finding your voice Growing up, Mallory Dodge learned that the best way to survive was...

• Do you find it hard to connect with yourself? • Are you unable to accept that you deserve to exist? • Do you find it hard to assert yourself? • Are you unable to be kind to yourself? • Do you neglect yourself? • Is your life seen as a curse as opposed to a gift? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it is likely to show that you were abused and neglected. Child Abuse And Neglect – How To Heal From Child Abuse And Neglect is a step-by-step guide that will allow you to gradually heal from child abuse and neglect. You may have struggled with the impact of what took ...

Three of Aesop's fables (The Tortoise and the Hare, The Friends and the Bear, The Crow and the Pitcher) are told from the perspective of a child observing the world and learning from it. In this truly unique series, Aesop is that child. He comes to life as an inquisitive, confident young raccoon who goes on a daily adventure and experiences each fable as it unfolds. Aesop's grandmother encourages him to go on these adventures so that he may find the answer to his many questions. Upon his return Aesop shares what he has learned with his grandmother who validates his conclusions. One of the ...

‘Raw, intense and absorbing.’ Matt Haig ‘As tender and funny as it is painful.’ TLS ‘I didn’t give my hands much thought before they turned against me. … They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.’ Lauren Brown is anxious. And...

New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer heads back to Jacobsville for a classic Long, Tall Texan romance! Elusive bachelor Luke Craig refuses to be tied down. The gorgeous, blond rancher is too busy working the land to worry about lassoing himself a lady, but he meets his match in feisty...