Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation &amp; Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy. 
You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions (Instant Help)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shapiro PhD, Lawrence E.

Sprague, Robin K.

Exercise & Fitness

Instant Help

Talking, eating, singing, and more—think of all the things little ones can do without pacifiers in their mouths! This book shows toddlers the benefits of becoming big kids to gently wean them off their pacifiers. 
It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier is written by child psychologist Lawrence Shapiro and includes advice for parents on guiding young children through this often difficult transition. This compassionate and engaging story will help your child say bye-bye to binky once and for all.

It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier

Children's Books

New Harbinger Publications

Every kid knows sleeping in mommy and daddy's bed is great-but what happens when it's time to sleep by yourself? This compassionate story follows Alex as he struggles with his feelings about sleeping in his room, learns his bed is a special place, and finally goes to sleep all by himself in his own bed. 
Written by child psychologist Lawrence Shapiro, It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed includes advice and helpful tips for parents on guiding their children through this often difficult transition. Sleeping in your own bed like a big kid is no small feat-it's an accomplishment the whole family will be proud of.

It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Young children accustomed to expressing themselves with tantrums, gestures, or simple silence need to learn that using their words is the best way to make their thoughts and feelings heard. This book helps kids learn to say 'please' and 'thank you' and express themselves in productive ways. 
It's Time to Start Using Your Words is written by child psychologist Lawrence Shapiro and includes language development information and advice for parents. Reading this book at storytime is a great way to encourage your child to communicate with words and leave crying and shyness behind.

It's Time to Start Using Your Words

When it comes to teaching kids to behave well, the "why" is as important as the "how." In Learning to Listen, Learning to Care, children learn why it is important to follow rules and behave considerately toward others. This cultivates empathy, which contributes not just to good behavior, but to academic and social success. By working through the fun and engaging exercises in this book, kids learn how to recognize the impact of their behavior on others, express emotion in appropriate ways, and compromise with family and friends. Behavioral problems among children are at an all-time high in the US. Parents of nearly 2.7 million children say that their kids suffer from severe emotional or behavioral problems that interfere with their family life or learning. A staggering 50 percent of counseling referrals are for behavioral problems. Empathy is the antidote to many of them, according to child psychologist and author Lawrence Shapiro. In Learning to Listen, Learning to Care, he teaches the empathy and self-control that can reduce behavioral problems and lead to long-term success. This book is appropriate for kids between the ages of six and twelve.

Learning to Listen, Learning to Care: A Workbook to Help Kids Learn Self-Control and Empathy

Self-Help

Relationships

If you’re cutting or hurting yourself you’re not alone. Thousands of teens across the country think that hurting themselves is the only way they can feel better, even though they continue to feel alone and out of control. There are a lot of reasons why teens hurt themselves. None of them are your fault. You can’t change your past, but there is a lot you can do, right now, to make your future a place you’d like to spend some time, a place free from the pain, loneliness and isolation of cutting. This workbook offers a great way for you to make it happen. The exercises in Stopping the Pain will help you explore why you self-injure and give you lots of ideas how you can stop. The book will help you learn new skills for dealing with issues in your life, reduce your stress, and reach out to others when you need to. Work through the book, or just check out the sections that speak to you the most. This is your own personal and private road map to regaining control of your life.

Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure

Death & Grief

Most children learn to stop throwing temper tantrums, talking back, and refusing to go to bed or take a bath at an early age. But some children have trouble with impulsivity and self-control. Left unaddressed, these issues can lead to some very serious problems in adolescence and adulthood. Anger control problems are the number one reason that children are referred for therapy, affecting children as young as three years old. Since anger problems in children may indicate other significant concerns, it pays to address anger in kids as soon as possible. If a child in your life has an anger problem, you need the friendly, effective activities in this book.
I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad contains forty activities for issues such as recognizing anger triggers, better problem solving, and communication tips for defusing conflict before it gets out of hand. The workbook explores common lifestyle issues such as lack of sleep that can make anger problems worse. These fun activities will help kids talk about their feelings and learn to control them.

I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad: A Workbook to Help Kids Control Their Anger

Pelta-Heller, Zack

Greenwald, Anna F.

Education & Reference

Many parents enjoy the positive bonding that comes with having their infant in their bed, but after a few years of having a thrashing, kicking child disturbing your rest and, well, recreation in the evening hours, you’ll probably start thinking of ways to remove your child from the family bed. Recent surveys suggest that many parents admit they would like their children to sleep in their own beds but lack the energy or patience for this nighttime battle.
This workbook will help you set limits, not only with respect to keeping kids in their own beds, but also in other areas of your child’s life. It will also help you teach children to be more independent and able to get to sleep on their own. This program comes in three week-long phases. First, you’ll learn the art of limit-setting. Then you’ll find out how to teach kids to be more self-reliant. Finally, both you and your children will work together to become a “sleep-smart” family. The workbook also addresses special circumstances like divorce, fears, death in the family, and so forth.

A Parent's Guide to Getting Kids Out of the Family Bed: A 21-Day Program

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Building positive friendships is a critical part of a child's development. When adults look back on their childhoods, they rate their friendships as one of the most important factors in their happiness. 
But researchers report that half of children have difficulty making and keeping friends. These problems predispose them to lifelong relationship challenges. What's more, parents report that they rarely know what to do to help their children make friends. Social problems in childhood may lead to more serious problems in adolescence and adulthood, so it's wise to help your child with these skills now. 
The activities in this book offer you effective tools for helping your child become a better friend-maker. The activities in Let's Be Friends teach kids a wide variety of social skills including the making and keeping of new friends, finding friends with common interests, ways of coping with rejection, and tips for developing give and take in relationships. With practice, the skills in this book can help youngsters locate support during transitions, build self-esteem, and develop into healthy, resilient adults.

Let's Be Friends: A Workbook to Help Kids Learn Social Skills and Make Great Friends

This professional edition includes both the Instant Help book and a companion CD that offers the complete book and printable worksheets for your clients.The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids is intended to be used jointly by parents and their children to cope with specific stressful time periods (divorce, loss of a loved one, a family move, and so on), and to help families develop a more healthful lifestyle.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 explains why stress is a problem for children, and helps parents and children reduce stress in their daily lives and become more resilient. Part 2 helps children and their parents build ten-minute relaxation exercises into every day. The book ends with a chapter on making relaxation activities a family habit.

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions

Stress Management

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