Parenting a teenager is tougher than ever, but new brain research offers new insight into the best way to connect with teens. With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, noted teen expert Dr. Laura Kastner shows parents how to stay calm and cool-headed while dealing with hot-button issues everything from rude attitude and lying to sex and substance use -- with clear, easy-to-follow suggestions for setting limits while maintaining a close and loving relationship. Find out why Dr. T. Berry Brazelton calls Getting to Calm required reading for any parent who struggles with their teen!

Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens

Parenting & Relationships

Laura S. Kastner

Jennifer Wyatt

Parenting

Parent Map

Taking care of yourself as a new parent isn’t selfish; it’s just good parenting. This charming book reads like a cozy chat with an experienced mom who’s been there and knows a thing or two. Packed with playful ideas, encouragement, and eight fun, quick recipes, Cooking With a Baby On Your Hip is proof that it’s possible to have a baby and still have a life! With gorgeous, vibrant illustrations, it makes a terrific gift for any expectant or new mother.

Cooking With a Baby on Your Hip

Lawrence, Francinne Cascio

Family Relationships

Beyond Smart is the first book to give parents practical, realistic tools for maximizing all aspects of their child’s educational experience, from academics to social and emotional learning, beginning from birth. Morgan provides clear direction for parents, giving them effective strategies for guiding and supporting their child’s learning --beginning while the child is still in diapers and for working with educators and within a school community. Each chapter in this book addresses a common school-related issue, breaking it down into specific, approachable problems and presenting steps towards resolution. Morgan, a veteran journalist, includes the very latest in brain and education research, and draws from a pool of world-renowned experts, including Dr. Harvey Karp, Dr. Wendy Mogel, Dr. Laura Kastner, Dr. Andrew Meltzoff, and many more. Beyond Smart provides a blueprint for parents who want to go beyond academics to support their child’s social and emotional education.

Beyond Smart: Boosting Your Child's Social, Emotional, and Academic Potential

Morgan, Linda

Reference

With humor, a sense of adventure, and sensitivity to family-budget issues, author Lora Shinn guides travelers through four vibrant Northwest cities, presenting itineraries and options that are uniquely geared for families with children in tow. Northwest Kid Trips uses engaging language and an accessible, easy-to-thumb format, Shinn lays out the best of each city’s options for sleeping, eating and sightseeing then piles on fun facts about locations, including nicknames, movies and books, etc. Unlike other guide books, Northwest Kid Trips offers optional side escapes” or day trips, so families can maximize their fun and travel budgets with a side trip to the San Juan Islands or the Oregon Coast, for example. This book focuses on the quirky, intimate and kid-approved experiences that make for a memorable and uniquely Northwest vacation.

Northwest Kid Trips: Portland, Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver

Travel

Shinn, Lora

Canada

Raising a happy and successful teenager is a challenge for any parent, even the most patient and wisest among us. Parenting adolescents requires all sorts of skills that most of us don’t naturally possess. In this down-to-earth, practical guide, you’ll learn how to tap your “wise mind” to calmly navigate even the stormiest of parenting moments. You'll learn how to preserve your loving relationship while encouraging progress towards the 7 essentials of happy, healthy teens: 
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<li> Secure attachment to parents</li> <li> Self-control</li> <li> Academic success</li> <li> Social thriving</li> <li> Emotional flourishing</li> <li> Strong character</li> <li> Physical health</li> </ul>
 With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, Dr. Kastner, author of Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens and Teens, and Russell provide clear and useful tools for parents, giving them effective new ways to manage their own emotions in the heat of the moment with their teen while maintaining — and even gaining — closeness.

Wise Minded Parenting: 7 Essentials for Raising Successful Tweens + Teens

If you have a teenage boy, there’s a 50 percent chance that he’s already sexually active, and a 33 percent chance that he’s been solicited by an online predator in the past year. How prepared is he for the risks and realities of sex?
Unflinchingly honest, unfailingly complete, immensely readable (and often funny), Spare Me ‘The Talk’! is the first book of its kind by a guy, for guys ages 12-24, and for parents of boys as young as 8. With real-world stats and tips for both parents and their sons, this is not the typical, “what’s happening down there?” book with a blue cover instead of a pink one. It’s a comprehensive crash course for boys on staying safe ― emotionally, mentally, and physically ― while navigating the danger-laden worlds of teenage sex and sexuality in a digital age. Your teen will learn proven, effective ways to: <ul>
<li>Avoid pregnancy, and HIV and other sexually transmitted infections</li> <li>Stay safe online and avoid sexual harm</li> <li>Ask someone out (and let someone down easy)</li> <li>Understand bodies and body issues, both male and female</li> <li>Accept that sexuality comes in all shapes and sizes</li> <li>Know the consequences of abstinence, indulgence, and everything in between</li> <li>Decide what is right for him, remaining true to himself and respectful of others</li> </ul>
With a strong moral compass, veteran sex educator Jo Langford offers a powerful supplement to those notoriously awkward parent-guy sex talks, answering the tough questions that teenage guys really have ― but are too embarrassed to ask. Spare Me ‘The Talk’! is the newly revised and updated edition of Langford's The Sex-EDcylopedia (which is no longer in print), and includes critical new information about the constantly-evolving digital world, including social media, cyberbullying and video game culture.

Spare Me 'The Talk'!: A Guy's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Growing Up

Self-Help

Langford, Jo

Relationships

With such a dizzying array of parenting theories, tactics, and fads out there, how can any parent know which advice to follow? Help is here for parents who want to find a practical path that produces exceptional results: strong family bonds, calmer interactions, and healthy, happy kids who are set up for future success. The latest in Dr. Kastner’s celebrated parenting series, Getting to Calm, The Early Years is the first book for parents of children ages 3–7 that analyzes popular parenting approaches in light of fifty years of parenting research and current evidence-based treatment models. Offering clear, step-by-step descriptions of proven and effective techniques, this book guides parents as they help their children build competencies while coping with some of the most common and painful problems of the early years, including: <ul>
<li>Sleepless nights</li> <li>Clinginess</li> <li>Tantrums</li> <li>Whining</li> <li>Power struggles</li> <li>Lying</li> <li>Defiance</li> </ul>
Through vivid family vignettes, Kastner illustrates the common traps and travails of parenting young kids, showing us what has been proven to work (and what certainly has not), with an emphasis on positive parenting and wise-minded decision making. This accessible, insightful, and ultimately enjoyable book offers tremendous support, powerful skills, and plentiful encouragement for anyone who is parenting a child through the early years.

Getting to Calm, The Early Years: Cool-headed Strategies for Raising Caring, Happy, and Independent 3-7 Year Olds

Kastner, Laura

If you have a teenage girl, there’s a 50 percent chance she’s already sexually active and a 33 percent chance she’s been solicited by an online predator in the past year. How prepared is she for the risks and realities of sex?
You hold in your hands a comprehensive crash course for girls into staying safe ― emotionally, mentally, and physically ― while navigating the danger-laden worlds of teenage sex and sexuality in a digital age. This book is the first of its kind for girls and young women ages 12-24, and for parents of girls as young as 8.Your teen will learn proven, effective ways to: <ul>
<li>Avoid pregnancy, and HIV and other sexually transmitted infections</li> <li>Stay safe online and avoid sexual harm</li> <li>Ask someone out (and let someone down easy)</li> <li>Understand bodies and body issues, both male and female</li> <li>Accept that sexuality comes in all shapes and sizes</li> <li>Know the consequences of abstinence, indulgence, and everything in between</li> <li>Decide what is right for her, remaining true to herself and respectful of others</li> </ul>
In language that’s relatable, unflinchingly honest (and often funny), veteran sex educator Langford offers a powerful supplement to those notoriously awkward parent-daughter sex talks, answering the tough questions that teenage girls really have ― but would rather die than ask.
Jo Langford is a certified counselor and sex educator who for two decades has provided outreach programs in high schools, residential medical, and psychiatric settings. He is the author of Spare Me the Talk: A Guy’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Growing Up, a Sex Offender Treatment Provider and adjunct faculty for Saybrook University’s Washington campus. He can be reached at beheroes.net.

Spare Me 'The Talk’! A Girl’s Guide: A Girl’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Growing Up

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Now more useful than ever, Getting to Calm has been revised and updated with new research and fresh insights into successful parent-teen relationships. Getting to Calm is a practical, realistic and ultimately reassuring guide to navigating one of the most challenging aspects of parenting today―staying calm and clearheaded during 14 of the most common hot-button situations that arise during the teen years, including: 
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<li>When your teen is rude and sarcastic</li> <li>When your smart teen gets into trouble with social media</li> <li>When teen problems drive a wedge between you and your spouse</li> <li>When your teen is acting like a spoiled brat</li> <li>When you’re worried you’re losing your teen</li> <li>When teens are mean</li> </ul>
With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenage brain, Drs. Laura S. Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt provide clear and useful tools for parents, giving them effective new ways to manage their own emotions in the heat of the moment with their teen while maintaining―and even gaining―closeness.

Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens - Updated and Expanded

Kastner, Laura S.

Wyatt, Jennifer

Your guide to a year of living adventurously with kids in Seattle! 
Within a two-hour drive of Seattle, you can hike to secret beaches, “camp” in a shipping container, play flashlight tag in a 100-year-old fort, walk an alpine ridge that’s ablaze in the fall, whoosh down a 35-foot-high slide, shoot a pumpkin cannon, ride on a mini steam train, swim in a quarry, see real dino fossils, sled in a national park and watch salmon migrate in the heart of the city. And you might make it home by naptime.
Organized by season, “52 Seattle Adventures With Kids” is a local’s guide to the most affordable and awesome family outings around the Puget Sound region and beyond, highlighting a new outdoor or indoor adventure for every week of the year. It’s written by parents, for parents, and is packed with insider tips on saving, snacktime stops and staycation know-how.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: 
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<li>Spontaneous summer day trips and weekend getaways</li> <li>Off-the-beaten track fall fun such as salmon spotting, yurt camping</li> <li>Winter escapes, from steamy pools to scary-fun sledding hills</li> <li>Spring adventures, including exciting waterfall hikes and mini train rides</li> <li>The ultimate tip list on saving bucks and escaping crowds</li> <li>
52 Seattle Adventures With Kids was created by the writers and editors of the Puget Sound region’s most beloved parenting resource, ParentMap.</li> </ul>

52 Seattle Adventures With Kids: A four-season guide

Murray, Elisa

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