Foster Parenting

Designed for preschool and beyond, this helpful and practical psychology-based parenting method is an invaluable guide for all parents! Teach your children healthy responsibility and encourage their character growth from a young age. Learn to establish healthy boundaries with your children through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can, sometimes, add to the problems these families face, prolonging the healing process for all.

From the authors of the bestselling Parenting with Love and Logic, this teen-specific resource empowers parents to raise responsible tweens, teens, and young adults without anger, nagging, or power struggles. Learn to set healthy boundaries, encourage important skills, and foster effective decision-making with empathy and grace. Designed to help you and your child grow during the challenges of the teenage years, this book addresses a wide range of real-life issues.

Emotional Regulation for Grade School Parents offers 43 practical, science-backed strategies to help children understand big feelings, reduce daily conflict, and build emotional resilience—while strengthening your connection at home and at school.

Positive Self-Parenting Solutions is made for teenagers struggling and dealing with depression. It begins by emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and healing the post-traumatic stress in one's life and the numerous benefits.

Whether your child has only been recently diagnosed with ADHD or you’ve been living with their condition for quite a while, it’s normal for parents to feel worried, overwhelmed, and exhausted most of the time. However, keep in mind that ADHD is a condition, not a life sentence. It’s entirely possible for your young one to succeed because of their condition–not despite it. The key is learning how to address your child’s condition properly and consistently at the soonest time possible–the earlier you manage it, the higher their chances of success and happiness.

The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids...

Defuse the Time Bomb: Co-parenting with a Narcissist is your comprehensive guide to managing volatile disputes in co-parenting, offering actionable methods, emotional resilience, and legal insights to shield both you and your children.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than 1 million copies in print! The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. “Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s...

With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways.

What possesses a mum to kidnap her own child? That's what Maggie asks herself when she's asked to foster 13-year-old Saskia, the subject of a bitter custody battle between her parents. When Saskia's mum Rosa fears the courts are going to favour her ex-husband, James, she takes matters into her own hands. With Rosa facing criminal charges, and Saskia refusing to live with her dad, her future looks uncertain. Will Maggie be able to step in and discover the bombshell that will tear this family apart?

Imagine a different path — one built on steady guidance, mutual trust, and emotional growth. Emotional Regulation for High School Parents delivers 41 clear, actionable strategies designed to help your teen thrive emotionally — and to restore calm, trust, and connection at home.

As a teenager, Kristin Berry had heard all the horror stories surrounding foster care and adoption - abuse, neglect, rejection, anger, and misunderstandings. But instead of closing her heart, God opened it wide. This is Kristin's honest, unvarnished story of some of her experiences as a foster parent of 23 children over the course of nine years. What she learned is that living in a foster home is like living with a revolving door. You never know who will arrive or who you will have to say goodbye to. Leaving the door open means there will be heartache and pain, but also adventure and unexpected joy.

Nos enseñaron que hay que trabajar más de nueve horas diarias, incluso los fines de semana. Que el dinero no llega fácil. Que, sin sacrificio, no hay recompensa. Y así crecimos: forzando, apurando, controlando. Hasta que un día nos dimos cuenta de que, por más que lo hemos intentado todo, las cosas seguían sin fluir. Pero ¿y si el verdadero poder estuviera en hacer menos y no forzar? El poder de soltar y no forzar es para quienes están cansados de correr detrás de las cosas, de vivir con ansiedad, de forzar lo que no fluye. «No necesitas empujar la vida. Necesitas confiar en ella».

Emotional Regulation for Middle School Parents delivers 43 evidence-based strategies to help your child manage emotions, reduce conflict, and grow emotionally — while strengthening your connection at home and at school.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers. You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe. Cathy tries to comfort the girls...

El poder de decir No cuenta la historia de Tomás, un hombre aparentemente común que, tras años de complacer, adaptarse y ceder, comienza a preguntarse en qué momento dejó de ser él mismo. Su vida, como la de muchos, transcurre entre responsabilidades y relaciones donde siempre se espera que diga que sí. Hasta que un día todo empieza a cambiar.

Parenting a young athlete can be inspiring, exciting, and deeply stressful — sometimes all in the same season. Close games, tough losses, coach decisions, injuries, and post-game conversations can bring out strong emotions for both kids and parents. It’s easy to feel pressure on the sidelines, even when your goal is simply to support your child. Emotional Regulation for Athletes’ Parents offers practical, science-informed strategies to help you stay calm during competition, respond thoughtfully after games, and guide your athlete through challenges with confidence and connection.

Discover the life-changing guidance you've been seeking. Are you longing for a deeper understanding of autism, practical strategies to foster your child's development, and effective communication techniques? Do you yearn for the knowledge and tools to be a steadfast advocate for your child's unique needs? This isn't just another book on autism–it's your essential roadmap to raising a child with autism, filled with empathy, relatability, and real-world strategies.