Childcare Southern California

Politics & Social Sciences

Pillsbury, Linda

Social Sciences

Perspective Pub

This easy-to-use guide helps parents increase cooperation and reduce conflict in households with children ages two through 12. Parents learn how to eliminate the tantrums, teasing, dawdling, interrupting, and complaining that drive them crazy.

Win the Whining War & Other Skirmishes: A Family Peace Plan

Whitham, Cynthia

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tackling 26 situations that plague parents of 2- to 12-year-olds, this book helps parents define their values, build good parenting habits, and set firm, fair limits. Bedtime, pets, makeup, music, TV, homework, and designer clothes are just a few of the problems covered.

The Answer Is No: Saying It and Sticking to It

Gives suggestions on how mothers can make a balance between the responsiblities of family, job, and self to reduce stress and restore harmony

Survival Tips for Working Moms: 297 Real Tips from Real Moms

Pillsbury, Linda Goodman

Business & Money

Suggests ways in which parents can help children make and maintain friendships, including scheduling one-on-one play dates, encouraging good behavior, and overcoming hyperactivity.

Good Friends Are Hard to Find

Fred Frankel

This accessible history of American women from the 1600s through today provides an overview of what life was like for women and profiles of more than 50 ethnically and culturally diverse women.

America's Daughters: 400 Years of American Women

Head, Judith

Personal stories, exercises, and activities to help parents talk with their daughters about menstruation—even if their daughters don’t want to talk.

Before She Gets Her Period: Talking With Your Daughter About Menstruation

Parenting & Relationships

Gillooly, Jessica B.

Family Relationships

Peaceful Parenting in a Violent World.

Peaceful Parenting in a Violent World

Cress, Joseph N.

Research shows that children in families who sit down to dinner together are more likely to be successful, but on-the-go families need ideas for accomplishing this with meals that don't require much time in the kitchen. Offering a helping hand to exhausted parents who are often faced with screaming kids and no dinner plans, this cookbook for busy families is filled with easy recipes that parents and children can make together from whatever is in the house. Included are quick ideas for appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, and desserts that can be made at any time. Recipes for dishes such as homemade onion soup, black bean salad, stuffed mushrooms, chicken with orange sauce, and chocolate banana cream pie are presented in an appealing, fun format that will inspire even those who hate to cook.

Better Than Take-Out (& Faster, Too)

Marx, Pamela

This extremely practical and supportive guide empowers parents as they struggle with a child who may be bipolar. The authors' own family experiences, stories from hundreds of other parents of bipolar children, and input from a wide range of mental health professionals provide parents with specific information to deal with the everyday but incredibly challenging issues confronting the entire family. Among the helpful topics included are how to explore the possibility that a child's problem behaviors are a sign of mental illness; finding a mental healthcare professional who can make a diagnosis; understanding what a diagnosis is and isn't; learning parenting strategies to control a child's behavior at home, at school, and in social situations; and balancing the needs of a bipolar child with the needs of everyone else in the family.

If Your Child Is Bipolar: The Parent-to-Parent Guide to Living with and Loving a Bipolar Child

Sheryl Gurrentz

Singer, Cindy

Gurrentz, Sheryl

Mental Health

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