Active Parenting of Teens
Active Parenting of Teens

Author: Michael H. Popkin

Publisher:

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597232319

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The challenge of successfully ushering children through their teen years has always been among parents' hardest-won achievements. But in today's society, where children seem to become adults overnight, and where they often make decisions about drugs, sexuality, and violence before they understand the consequences, a parent's job is more important than ever. So how can you ensure that your teens develop the skills and character they need to not only survive but to thrive as they gain independence? Active Parenting of Teens provides the guidance and support you need to turn the challenges of raising a teenager into opportunities for growth. You'll learn: Methods of respectful discipline Skills for clear, honest communication Concrete strategies to prevent risky behavior How to be an encouraging parent ..and much more, plus insight into important issues such as teens online, bullying, and depression. The "active" approach has helped millions of families become happier and more productive as their children become more responsible, respectful, and capable of making good decisions. Book jacket.

Active Parenting
Active Parenting

Author: Michael H. Popkin

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781597233439

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This guide teaches practical parenting skills that really work to help you make the most of your child's first five years. Written by one of the nation's foremost parenting experts, Dr. Michael H Popkin, in collaboration with university child development specialists, Active Parenting: First Five Years will help you nurture your child with a "just right" combination of freedom and nonviolent discipline. You'll learn about: - what a baby's cry means - your child's growing brain - preventing tantrums and other problems - building a loving bond - caring for your child at different ages and stages - using mindfulness to keep your cool - 6 ways to prepare your child for school success ...and so much more! Since 1983, Active Parenting has helped over four million parents raise responsible, courageous children who thrive.

Active Parenting Now Parents Guide
Active Parenting Now Parents Guide

Author: Michael H. Popkin

Publisher:

Published: 2003-05-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781880283493

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Dr. Michael Popkin shows you how to develop courage, responsibility and character in your children.

Taming the Spirited Child
Taming the Spirited Child

Author: Michael H. Popkin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-04-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1416539247

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Do you dread parent-teacher conferences? Does your child really know how to push your hot button? Has your child been labeled "defiant" or "rebellious"? Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame -- not break -- a spirited child. Parents are often faced with scary labels for their children, such as attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, or hyperactivity. In this uniquely prescriptive guide, leading parenting expert Dr. Michael Popkin shows parents how to think differently about so-called problem children. The effective strategies within this guide will quiet the difficulties spirited children have at home and school while exposing the unique, special gifts they possess. Develop a relationship with your spirited child by: -- Building relationship skills -- Disciplining with encouragement -- Balancing the power dynamic -- Curbing tantrums effectively With step-by-step methods for every type of misbehavior and every child's unique personality, this comprehensive guide will help parents cultivate their child's spark, not extinguish it -- and reach beyond depressing labels for their beloved children.

Active Parenting
Active Parenting

Author: Michael H. Popkin

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597233033

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Dr. Michael Popkin--one of the nation's foremost experts on parent education--explains positive discipline and communication techniques to help your family run more smoothly. This guide shows you why children misbehave and how to redirect them, nonviolent discipline that really works, how to prevent future problems with drugs, and much more. Millions of parents have used this "active" approach to raise courageous, cooperative children--and now you can, too!

Christian Active Parenting
Christian Active Parenting

Author: Melody F. Popkin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-07

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781597233354

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Christian Active Parenting calls upon the wisdom of the Bible to give parents the strength and skills needed to raise upstanding, courageous children. Six illuminating chapters use scripture to explore the essential Active Parenting model: encouragement, communication, and non-violent discipline. Written for parents of children ages 5 to 12, Christian Active Parenting helps them cope with challenges including bullying, drug prevention, and making the word of God central to their children's busy lives.

Promoting Positive Parenting
Promoting Positive Parenting

Author: Femmie Juffer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-22

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1000893197

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The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD), now used in many countries, offering thousands of families the support they need to thrive. A new preface from the authors reflects on the original research and development of the program, considers its effectiveness, and outlines future aims to broaden implementation and test new modalities. The original volume offers a new generation of students and professionals an introduction to the brief and focused parenting intervention program that has been successful in a variety of clinical and nonclinical groups and cultures. It offers detailed descriptions and case reports of studies with the program, describes the implementation and testing of VIPP-based interventions in a variety of family and childcare settings, and in various countries including the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It details the successful implementation of the program in samples of insecure mothers, mothers with eating disorders, preterm infants, adopted children, children suffering from dermatitis, and children with early externalizing behavior problems. The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting is for all those concerned with family support and parenting interventions in the fields of developmental and clinical psychology, human development and family studies, psychiatry, social work, public health and nursing, and early childhood education.

Active Parenting
Active Parenting

Author: RamG Vallath

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2021-09-19

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9390327199

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What do you want your child to be? There is no one way to raise a child. Each child is unique and can vary in so many ways in abilities and behaviour from others in their group. Ramgopal Vallath, indebted to his own parents for an upbringing that has helped him overcome great challenges and difficulties, set out to meet numerous parents to work out some common guidelines that could help groom a child. This book is the result. As with his previous bestselling book, From Ouch to Oops, this too is bound to reach out and move its readers, and leave lessons of lasting use in what is one of the most important tasks a parent undertakes: raising a child to be a healthy, resilient, positive adult.