Parenting Social Issues

Parenting a boy with ADHD can feel like navigating a constantly shifting landscape—filled with unexpected challenges, overwhelming emotions, and deep concern for your child's future. But with the right tools, support, and understanding, you can help your neurodivergent son thrive in ways that are meaningful, lasting, and rooted in compassion. Parenting Boys with ADHD is your go-to guide for understanding and nurturing your child’s unique brain. Whether your son is struggling to stay on task, facing academic hurdles, or finding it hard to make and keep friends, this book offers practical...

At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough - what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities - from eating and parenting to dating and voting - for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning.

Topics such as classroom learning, self-esteem, bullying, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism, anorexia and bulimia, stimulation in pedagogy, depression, emotional intelligence development, and social skills can be addressed with the help of child psychologists, allowing for the prevention of future problems or even equipping the child to become an adult capable of facing life. However, child psychology professionals operate from various theoretical paradigms, following different “models” of therapeutic approaches, some of which are very different from each other. ...

In a rapidly changing world, Raising Gen Alpha helps parents, pastors, and educators understand, love, and lead today’s children. Gen Alpha is growing up in a world very different from the one their parents did. Born between 2010-2024, this generation faces intense pressure from school, social...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand. When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she...

Jane Barrow thought she'd left the mysteries behind. She was wrong. Between planning her wedding to Mike, running her cleaning business, and keeping up with her two kids, Jane has her hands full. The last thing she needs is another cold case pulling her back into the shadows of Alma's forgotten past. But when a stranger named Hazel calls late one night, desperate for answers about her brother who vanished forty years ago, Jane can't turn away. The trail leads back to the Wheeler house—the same eerie Victorian where Jane discovered disturbing Polaroids of missing children hidden behind the...

Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved. ‘Am I ugly, Mummy?’ are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has a Barbie doll in one hand and a pink vanity...

Jane Barrow thought she was just cleaning houses and raising her kids in small-town Alma, Kansas. But when a routine job at the Whitcomb family reunion takes a deadly turn, she finds herself caught in a web of lies that stretches back decades. When Vanessa Whitcomb takes a mysterious tumble down the stairs, the police are quick to call it an accident. But Jane discovers a hidden notebook filled with cryptic observations about the family's darkest secrets—and she's convinced someone pushed Ness to keep her quiet. As Jane digs deeper into the Whitcombs' tangled history, she realizes that ...

Raising a child with ADHD presents unique challenges that require empathy, patience, and resilience. This book is designed for parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers seeking trusted support and innovative techniques for a fulfilling family life. Imagine fostering a loving atmosphere where your child’s unique strengths shine. You can guide them toward a successful and balanced life by utilizing compassionate strategies and practical tools.

This book is a brief exposition of the right way to redeem the time and command the day. It exposes: The hours involved and how they were established for divine judgment and redemption. Scriptural exegesis on how the time was used by everyone or groups who made exploits with God to activate divine interventions. How you can effectively command your day or redeem the time as an individual or a group. How to establish unity of the faith and humanity, your leadership purpose and spiritual power with the diversity of benefits to be safe, secure and exempted from all harms to make exploits on ...

"Like any other life-sustaining resource," says Marilyn McEntyre, "language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants." Today more than ever, language needs to be rescued and restored. Drawing on a wide range of sources, both critical and literary, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies is an engaging address to everyone concerned with preserving the vitality and precision of the spoken and written word.

Do you ever feel like you're losing your teenage son to the challenges of the world? You never saw it coming. As a Christian mom, you poured your heart into raising him with love and faith, but now, it seems like he's turning his back on everything you've held dear. It can be a tumultuous journey, but remember, you are not alone. There's still hope, and your prayers are more powerful than you might think. In God, I’m Worried about My Son, you’ll discover a compelling and inspiring 7-step strategy, proven to heal the relationship between a prodigal son and a praying mother. Val, an ...

"Everyone who seeks a more compassionate and wise life will benefit from this wonderful, insightful, and beautiful book." ―Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul One in sixty-eight US children has an autism spectrum disorder, and with countless parenting books helping families care for...

Jane Barrow thought cleaning the old Wheeler house would be just another job—until contractor Brent discovers a metal box hidden in the wall containing decades-old Polaroid photographs of children. Each haunting image shows a different child posed against the same rose-patterned wallpaper, their names faded and crossed out in mysterious handwriting. When Jane begins investigating the photos, she uncovers the tragic story of Pearl Wheeler, a reclusive woman whose life was shattered by accusations decades ago. But as Jane digs deeper into Alma's buried secrets, strange things start ...

A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation. How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness. In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children.

With Single Mothers Raising Sons in a Fatherless Home, Dr. William James brings his experience to bear upon the serious topic of boys being raised in homes in which fathers are not present.

This isn’t the way it was supposed to be A 17-year-old boy murdered, Gunned down for no reason But when you live in a known gang area in Las Vegas, There can be collateral damage. The police always have the time and resources to look into murders of wealthy people, But it seems different rules apply if you’re poor, Even if you aren’t part of a gang. When Maria got the call that her son had been murdered, her life fell apart. And when the police said they would try to find the murderer, but there was probably little they could do, she was devastated. If the police couldn’t do it, ...

When asked, almost everyone agrees they would like to have control over some parts of their lives. Billy, at age ten, is no different. Truth be told, he’d love to have some peace in his day. He knows better than to wish for happiness or a warm dinner, though that’d be super! What he really would love is a mom who recognizes that he’s just a kid and not her enemy. He doesn’t know why she seems to hate him, but like all kids, he holds onto hope. Nothing feels easy for Billy. He leaves one war zone at home to go to school, where he’s an easy target for the class bully. If it ...

With hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, an epic spiritual storm ensues for Mark and Missy Worton, who courageously board the last plane to Ethiopia to rescue a six-year-old girl. Although Favor has already been declared their daughter, she is about to be wrongly placed into a foster care system that looks more like child slavery. Once they land, the storm is far from over. The couple faces false accusations of illegal actions, fears of imprisonment, and threats to their family's safety.

Survivor Issues–Issue 3: A Poem for the Silent is a stream-of-consciousness poetic reflection that gives voice to the emotional reality of surviving trauma, abuse, and silence. Spoken in a raw, improvisational flow, this piece moves through themes of domestic violence, sexual assault, fear, faith, resilience, and the long road toward healing. It captures the internal dialogue of someone processing pain while still searching for strength, truth, and survival.