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Discipline: The Brazelton Way
by T. Berry Brazelton, Joshua D. Sparrow

   

Book Description:
 Discipline: The Brazelton Way shows how the normal growth spurts--physical, emotional, and intellectual � can lead to conflicts and testing behavior. For each problem--defiance, lying, stealing, fighting and biting, and foul languageDrs. Brazelton and Sparrow offer both understanding and practical solutions.
Sleepless nights, wailing babies, defiant toddlers � these are universal issues for new parents. Now beloved pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and his esteemed colleague the child psychiatrist Joshua Sparrow come to the rescue with these highly effective and affordable guides. Full of empathy, warmth, and wisdom, each book in the Brazelton Way series leads parents step-by-step through these trying struggles. Courtesy of Dr. Brazelton's unparalleled understanding and experience, parents will emerge from the turmoil relieved, empowered, and full of new pleasure in the strength and progress of their individual child.


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Building Healthy Minds: The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence and Emotional Growth in Babies and Young Children
By Stanley Greenspan, Nancy Breslau Lewis, Stanley I. Greenspan

 

Book description:
 The book that applies Dr. Greenspan's developmental theories to a child's everyday life-with practical, delightful, deeply insightful observations and advice.
Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book Dr. Greenspan, the internationally admired child psychiatrist, identifies the six key experiences that enable children to reach their full potential. In Building Healthy Minds, he draws upon discoveries made in his research and practice as he describes the many ways in which games, fantasy play, and conversations with and without words encourage this development. No one has looked so deeply into the very earliest stages of human development, and no other book makes such vital and effective information available to every parent.

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The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
 by Serena Wieder, Robin Simons
 

    

Book Review:
Ingram
Covering all kinds of disabilities--including cerebral palsy, autism, retardation, ADD, and language problems--this comprehensive guide offers parents specific ways of helping all special needs children reach their full intellectual and emotional potential.

Addison-Wesley
Nature or nurture. One of the most intense debates in understanding the development of the human mind is whether cognitive ability is based in genetics or developed through learning experiences. While biology clearly plays a part, recent neuroscience research shows that the interactions experienced during infancy and childhood can actually change the physical structure and wiring of the brain.
Does this mean many children with developmental and learning disorders--such as autism, PDD, language... read more
Filled with practical advice, activities, and inspiring true read-aloud miracles, this book is a must for every parent-and for anyone interested in how children learn to read.

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Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children
 by Donna Jackson Nakazawa



Book Description:
 A psychologically wise guide to helping multiracial children of all ages develop confidence and a healthy sense of self.
"Am I black or white or am I American?" "Why don't my eyes look like yours?" "Why do people always call attention to my 'different' hair?" Helping a child understand his mixed racial background can be daunting, especially when, whether out of honest appreciation or mean-spiritedness, peers and strangers alike perceive his features to be "other." Drawing on psychological research and input from more than fifty multiracial families, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? addresses the special questions and concerns facing such families, explaining how they can best prepare their multiracial children to make their way confidently in our color-conscious world. From the books and toys to use in play with young children, to simple scripts to help them gracefully react to insensitive comments at school, to advice on guiding older children toward an unflappable sense of self, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? is the first book to outline for parents how, exactly, to deflect the objectifying and discomforting attention multiracial children are likely to receive. Full of powerful stories and expert counsel, it is sure to become the book that both adoptive and birth parents of different races will look to for understanding as they strive to raise their children in a changing world.

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The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?
by M. Neihart, S. M. Reis, N. M. Robinson, S. M. Moon
 

Book description:
 The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students. Concise, comprehensive, meticulously researched, and wide-ranging in its coverage, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? is essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and to position them to make the contributions of which they are capable.

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The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence : Theory, Development, Assessment, and Application at Home, School and in the Workplace
by Reuven Bar-On, James D. A. Parker
 

Book description:
 Building on nearly eighty years of scientific work, The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence is the first definitive resource that brings together a stellar panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners, in the field. Sweeping in scope, the text presents information on the most important conceptual models, reviews and evaluates the most valid and reliable methods for assessing emotional intelligence, and offers specific guidelines for applying the principles of Emotional Intelligence in a variety of settings.

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Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Our Overweight Children : What Our Kids Go Through-And How We Can Help
 by Sylvia Rimm, Eric Rimm
 


Book description:
 Helping your child through a weight problem doesn't have to be a long, difficult process. In Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, Dr. Sylvia Rimm, one of America's most trusted family psychologists for more than 20 years, cuts to the heart of the issue with simple advice you can use today, even as you are still searching for ways to help your child lose weight.

You will discover:
* How to coach your child to success, rather than judge his shortcomings
* Why overweight girls feel pressure to have sex at an earlier age than their friends--and how to protect them
* How to set guidelines for television and computer time
* Ways to keep your child from getting bullied at school
* Conversations you can have with your child's siblings to get their support

Plus, meet dozens of adults who overcame their childhood weight problems. These real people show you the simple strategies that their parents used to help them to success--ideas you'll want to use in your own family, such as:
* Focusing your child on her strengths to take the sting out of getting teased at school
* Helping your child find the right clothes to fit in with her peers
* Using a special-interest camp or exercise group to build positive peer relationships
* Identifying other adults who can build your child's self-esteem
* The best ways to praise your child

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Playground Politics: Understanding the Emotional Life of the School-Age Child
by Stanley I., M.D. Greenspan
 

Book Review:
 Ingram
Named one of the 10 Best Parenting Books of 1993 by Child magazine, this book "not only gives parents a great understanding of children in the middle years, but gives them excellent advice on how to support them better."--Washington Post.

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The Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)
 by Wyndol Furman, B. Bradford Brown, Candice Feiring, Furman Wyndol


Book description:
 Numerous volumes exist on adult romantic relationships and on adolescent sexuality, but this is the first volume to examine adolescent romantic relationships. A group of eminent investigators met to discuss the topic and were charged with the task of writing about their conceptualization of these relationships and of romantic experiences in adolescence. The papers cover the full range of aspects of romantic relationships, and examine general processes and individual differences within the general context of adolescent development. Each paper contains numerous provocative ideas that are designed to stimulate research on the topic.

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Normal Children Have Problems, Too : How Parents Can Understand and Help
 by Stanley Turecki, Sarah PHD Wernick
 


Review:
 Lack of friends * poor self-image * sibling rivalry * hyperactivity * sadness and fearfulness * eating problems * nervous habits * aggressive behavior * defiance * sleep problems * lying * learning disabilities. . .

Even normal children can have problems.

And parents can help them.

That is the powerful assurance Dr. Stanley Turecki offers parents in this compassionate and practical book. Whatever the situation, Dr. Turecki shows you:


A new way to understand your child's difficulties and gain insights into causes and solutions
How to discuss problems without destructive arguments and win your child's cooperation
How to strengthen self-esteem by making the most of your child's individual temperament
How to improve discipline by focusing on planning and prevention rather than punishment
How to collaborate with teachers about school problems
What to do if you are told that your child should be tested for ADD or placed on medication
When to seek professional help
Including vivid vignettes illustrating a wide range of problems and how they were successfully resolved, this award-winning book is destined to become a parenting classic.

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Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development
 by Marion Dowling
 


Book description:
This book shows that personal and social development is essential to children's early learning. The kind of person we become colours all else that we do in life. But personal and social development must be supported by sensitive interventions from adults who understand children's needs.
The author presents the theory and practice of personal and social development with young children, using everyday examples from early years settings. Drawing on her extensive experience in early years settings, Marion Dowling shows how children can be helped to develop confidence, social skills and independence, and how early years workers can contribute to this. Each chapter includes suggestions for early years practice as well as professional questions for consideration.

Contents include:


� Helping children to become confident

� Living and learning with others

� Becoming independent

� Developing emotional well-being

� Acquiring a learning disposition

� Moral and spiritual development

� Living in the wider world

� Working with families

� The influence of books and stories


This book will be useful to trainee and experienced early years teachers, NNEB//BTEC students, all involved in multi-disciplinary training for work with early years as well as all adults involved in the care and education of young children.
Since this book was written there have been significant developments from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). The published Early Learning Goals give a strong emphasis to personal, social and emotional development. Further detailed guidance is to be provided in early summer 2000 which promises to give much needed support for early educators in developing suitable methods of teaching young children.

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Peer Rejection : Developmental Processes and Intervention Strategies (Guilford Series On Social And Emotional Development)
 by Karen L. Bierman
 


Book description:
 Addressing the widespread and painful problem of chronic peer rejection, this volume combines up-to-date research and practical strategies for school- and clinic-based intervention. An innovative developmental framework is presented for understanding why certain children face rejection, the peer group dynamics involved, and implications for social-emotional development and mental health. Strategies for assessing rejected children are discussed in detail, with attention to individual social competence variables as well as transactional influences. Clear guidelines are delineated for planning and implementing effective social competence coaching programs, as well as multicomponent interventions and school-based strategies. Providing invaluable recommendations for practice that are solidly grounded in the empirical literature, the book is illustrated throughout with revealing case studies and interviews.

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