New Release Books in Parenting & Families

Cultivate a Wild and Free family culture in your home and build wonder and adventure into your children''s daily routine with this essential guide from the founder of Wild + Free, packed with practical suggestions and imaginative ideas. While every family has its own culture, Ainsley Arment believes that being intentional about how we raise our kids is one of the most important things parents can do. Drawn from her own family''s stories and those shared in the W+F community, and filled with inviting full-color photos throughout, Wild + Free Family focuses on ways any parent can create an environment where wonder and adventure are part of the everyday fabric of family life. Wild + Free Family isn''t just for parents homeschooling their kids. It''s for all parents looking for a better, more intentional way to connect with their kids. Ainsley teaches you how to set up workable (yet forgiving) routines that can help kids thrive and offers ideas for creating traditions that they''ll fondly remember and want to share with their own children.

You aren''t alone in your struggle to be a good parent and make a difference. Parenting for a Better World shows you how simple practices such as mindfulness, letter-writing, growing vegetables, waiting on others, and joining street protests can all allow you to integrate good parenting with taking care of others and the Earth.

With honesty and humor, A Not So Average Family shares the story of a the Wilsons, who faced unexpected challenges that evolved into on-going emotional turmoil. This "average" family had to stay on its toes as one set of twins was followed by another in an unplanned pregnancy. That was demanding in itself, but then came the discovery of a brain tumor in one child, then later a brain hemorrhage in another. Through the upheaval and uncertainty, Sally holds close to her determination and faith in herself. It is the story of a family that simply didn''t give up.

A timeless primer that teaches parents and kids essential life skills through project management principles.

More Love at Home is an homage to the beautiful family-building doctrines and practices of LDS families. It''s a template for new members, non-members, less active members looking to return, and of course, for all active members also seeking to enjoy More Love at Home: ). This book is infused with love: love for the Savior, love for the gospel, and (as subtext) a love of missionary work. It''s comedic and instructive by turns, as each chapter discusses a different aspect of family life and how to enhance it. Families are the basic building block of society. When families are strong, we are all stronger. When they are weak, mankind suffers. Latter-Day Saints have a plethora of knowledge about how to properly build well-constructed families. It''s more than time to bring that knowledge further out of obscurity and into the world

Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes

This practical guide teaches parents to use positive behavior support (PBS) to structure their homes and promote desired behavior. It guides readers through a 5-step approach to manage family life so that all family members thrive: 1) assessing strengths, challenges, and needs, 2) creating a family vision and expectations, 3) arranging the home environment, 4) teaching behavioral expectations, and 5) monitoring outcomes and problem-solving. Concrete, research-based examples, exercises, downloadable worksheets, and chapter-long case studies walk parents through every step of the process.

This is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. Avoiding criticism of these interactions, the contributors instead offer an impartial view of the natural occurrences in media-related family life.

This research-based book covers the core components of modern parenting and child development across multi-ethnic and cross-cultural contexts in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, with a focus on the United States. Parenting and Child Development: Across Ethnicity and Culture is based on a cohesive framework that links physical, psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional aspects of children''s lives to their experiences of parental behavior. This book covers the fundamentals of parent-child relationships, including the theoretical perspective of parenting, positive and negative parenting behaviors, and changing patterns of parenting from infancy through adolescence. Explored are parent-child relationships and their implications for children''s health, well-being, and quality of life in different family forms, including parenting in drug-addicted families, homeless families, cohabiting families, single-parent families, and LGBT families around the world. Using an array of theories with relevant empirical findings, the practical implications for child development both within the United States and across the globe are highlighted. Also included is specific information about tools and techniques for measuring intimate relationships and intervention strategies for relationship problems. Integrates modern, evidence-based research on parenting and child development Synthesizes interdisciplinary modes of studying parenting and child development Contextualizes research using global perspectives across cultures, ethnicities, and a diverse array of family patterns Capture both fundamentals and nuances of parenting and child development in concise chapters

Ready to take the lead in your family and achieve your vision of ideal family life? Hal Elrod''s The Miracle Morning has helped redefine the mornings and the lives of millions of people since 2012. Since then, careers have been launched, goals have been met, and dreams have been realized, all through the power of the Miracle Morning Life S.A.V.E.R.S. These six daily practices will fuel your efforts to create positive change in your life. And now, the Second Edition of The Miracle Morning for Parents & Families brings you these Life S.A.V.E.R.S. in a whole new light, along with the not-so-obvious principles and the exceptional skills you need to create a loving and successful home environment. Mike and Lindsay McCarthy, two successful professionals who also lead an adventurous homeschool family, bring their wisdom and insight to you through Hal Elrod''s powerful framework. The Life S.A.V.E.R.S., the principles, and the skills you''ll find in this book will help you to be present in every moment, and to care for yourself and your family in a remarkable new way. Learn why mornings matter more than you think Learn how to master your own self-leadership and personal growth Learn how to manage your energy - physical, mental, and emotional And learn the exceptional skills of being a parent - purposefulness, playfulness, and perspective You''re already a good parent. Now learn to be an exceptional parent - the parent your kids deserve, and who you were always meant to be. The Miracle Morning for Parents and Families is your key to building a deep and satisfying relationship with your children--one that will shape their lives and yours in amazing ways. Scroll up and grab your copy today!

READY TO PUT WHAT YOU LEARNED IN THE MIRACLE MORNING FOR PARENTS & FAMILIES INTO ACTION?In The Miracle Morning for Parents & Families, you learned why it is so important to implement the Life S.A.V.E.R.S. and C.H.A.R.M.S. into your family''s Miracle Morning practice. With The Miracle Morning for Parents & Families Playbook, you will learn how to put it into action! With seven different, thoughtful exercises with worksheets and examples, you and your family will soon find yourself with practical and effective systems that will bring your exceptional parenting skills to life. As a parent, you are the leader of your family and this book will help you collaborate with your kids to give them a voice and take ownership in the home and beyond. After you put in the time, you will create: Your Family Bedtime Ritual Your Family Miracle Morning Your Unique Family Values The S.T.A.R.R. System Your Family Screen Time Contract Your Family Goals Your Family Meeting Grab your copy and start building your deep and satisfying relationships with your entire family today!

Montessori is accessible to everyone. This beautiful, modern book outlines the key principles that underpin the approach and makes applying them immediate and practical for every family. When looked at through a Montessori lens, every aspect of family life is an opportunity for meaningful engagement with your child - mealtimes, school or nursery drop o and pick up, play time, out and about, homework time, bedtime. Follow pragmatic, real-life advice, relevant for children of all ages, and discover how easy and natural it is to create a nourishing environment, instil family values, encourage positive communication, and enjoy a home life that is empowering for everyone. You can create magical Montessori moments every day - here''s how. "You will want to refer to this book again and again." Paul Epstein, PhD, Designs of Lifelong Learning

After the death of a parent, sibling, or caregiver, the life of a child or teen and their family is forever changed. Families face enormous challenges as they navigate life without that person. This book is based on the authors'' knowledge gained from working with the courageous families that are a part of a non-profit organization called Kate''s club. At this writing, since 2003 Kate''s club has provided creative and innovative programs to support grieving families. The "Kates'' Club Way" believes in empowering children and teens as they move through their grief process so they can become more resilient and ultimately find ways to thrive. This book provides suggestions and ideas so that adult caregivers have strategies and tools to best support their families. Plus, there are several chapters dedicated to helping adult caregivers cope with their own feelings about the death as they create a new life for themselves.

When military spouses say "I do" to their service members, they are often clueless about the military lifestyle that lies ahead-specifically, raising a family while the service member deploys several weeks, months, and years throughout their career. Growing Your Family is a raw testimony of how one immigrant military spouse and ambitious career woman is raising her family with grit, grace, and style. Sharing her extraordinary experience in creating her home from the scratch and with nothing, saying countless tearful goodbyes with young children, and helping her military family thrive in the COVID-19 pandemic, Pearl provides rare gems of wisdom and her unadulterated perspective on how to make the military lifestyle work. This seasoned childcare professional''s humor will keep you hooked and laughing aloud as you follow Pearl to unknown corners of Ghana in Africa, to the exotic culture in Japan, and to the sophisticated lifestyle in the US. Growing Your Family offers priceless guidance and heart-to-heart encouragement to the clueless or tired military spouse.

It''s time to break the cycle. Not every family is the perfect model of Catholic family life. Some of us approach parenting still wounded by childhood experiences that were less than ideal. When we start our own families, at best we feel a bit unprepared, and at worst we feel paralyzed with fear that we will repeat our parents'' dysfunctional, abusive behaviors. In All Things New, Erin McCole Cupp draws on her own and others'' experiences to discuss how to develop a joyful family life when our own experience of being parented was damaging. Erin wrote this book for moms and dads who want to parent better than they themselves were parented. Drawing on the Holy Family as the model of family life, and distilling practical lessons from the Two Greatest Commandments and the Beatitudes, All Things New shows readers that, while change isn''t easy, God has given us all the ingredients we need to create a holy, joyful family.

Ready to start (or even thinking of starting) your family? Love Comes First: Creating LGBTQ Families has everything you need in a complete three-in-one format so you can easily find the sections that most apply to you. Inspiring, heartwarming (and sometimes challenging!) stories of families created through multiple ways that come to life with engaging photographs. What the experts say about conceiving and raising children in LGBTQ families-from adoption to surrogacy. A tour through the biology and latest technologies of reproductive medicine from an LGBTQ perspective. Are you a gay man or couple considering surrogacy? Read a first-hand account of a gay dad and his surrogate in Family Stories. Get the details on egg donation and fertility law in Expert Advice. And find out everything you need to know from a biological perspective in Reproductive Possibilities. Or a lesbian wanting to build your family through adoption and biologically? You''ll find various personal perspectives. And practical information from an organization specializing in adoption for LGBTQ parents as well as sperm donation from the largest sperm bank in the country. The book is endorsed by some of the most known LGBTQ parents: "Love Comes First: Creating LGBTQ Families shares beautiful stories to support all of us, no matter what stage in life you are. It''s a resource I wish I had twenty years ago-I love that this book exists now, and for future generations. We are so, so lucky to have these stories to encourage us to live authentically and with purpose, however that may look." - Nate Berkus, host of "Nate & Jeremiah by Design" "Love Comes First: Creating LGBTQ Families is an inspiring resource for beginning your journey to parenthood." - Andy Cohen, host of "What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" "Love Comes First: Creating LGBTQ Families shows us all the different ways to build families. It''s a lot more than a ''how-to'' guide. It gives us hope and encouragement that our families will help make the world a better place." - Melissa Etheridge, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, musician and activist "My family mean everything to me. I feel extraordinarily blessed to have my beautiful family which as a young, gay man, didn''t seem possible or acceptable in the 80s. But LGBTQ parents can be loving and protective parents just like anyone else and I hope we continue to break down the barriers that challenge or stigmatize LGBTQ families." - David Furnish, co-chief of Rocket Pictures along with his husband, Sir Elton John

Numbers of grandparents caring for grandchildren continue to increase. Circumstances may vary, but grandparents often share similar challenges and unique strengths. Using this book encourages grandparent caregivers to expand their views about their not-so-new role through: - Short readings - Creative activities - Relevant examples - Personal reflections This fast paced resource provides a weekly dose of wisdom, insight and ways to reaffirm your commitment to the critical job you''ve undertaken: that of caregiving grandparent.

Want to be the best parent you can be? The "Art of Parenting" is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow manual that shows you how to be a strong nurturer, loving parent, and raise an emotionally healthy family.

Provides an expert view of research on parenting and child development in new family forms.

"Middle-class American life is defined by relentless competition among families, waged from elite preschools to youth sports to selective universities. The lengths to which parents will go to give their children a leg up have become notorious: ostentatious birthday parties to wow the neighbors, fistfights on the soccer sidelines over playing time, criminal conspiracies to cheat at college admissions. Such excesses make it easy to say that parents must just calm down and act more reasonably. But this simplistic advice misses the deep social dynamics that draw today''s well-meaning parents into an endless race against other families, says Matt Feeney, a political theorist and an anxious stay-at-home father of three. In Little Platoons, he identifies and explains these powerful forces, and he urges parents to reawaken to families'' unique social role and recognize their singular potential as a source of resistance. Today''s parents, Feeney shows, operate within self-sustaining feedback loops of competitive worry. Their natural vigilance turns into a fixation on worst-case scenarios about their children''s future prospects in an uncertain world. All around them, they see their worried fellow parents adopt an intensive approach to parenting, in which admission to the most prestigious possible college looms as the long-term goal. Fearing their children will be left behind, parents look for advantage wherever they can. They scramble for entry into competitive preschools, sit with their kids through long hours of homework, hit the road every weekend for sports tournaments, and buy phones and tablets marketed as essential to success. In so doing, parents feel no choice but to set aside their own priorities and values; they alter their lives and the inner workings of their homes to suit the needs and whims of schools, sports leagues, social media companies, and college admissions officers. The web of voluntary associations that once made civil society a bulwark of liberty has become, instead, a series of gatekeepers who demand compliance in exchange for small margins of advantage. In the face of all of this, Feeney argues, families are politically invaluable. At its best, the intense solidarity of family life fosters an alternative set of values and sources of meaning. If we remember this, families offer a standpoint from which to critique and to reject our hyper-competitive, zero-sum society and the inhuman, implacable, indifferent systems that shape it. Blending original reporting, penetrating social analysis, and humorous, self-deprecating stories of Feeney''s own struggles to stay calm as a parent amid the absurdities of Bay Area tech-boom, Little Platoons is unexpected and essential reading for anyone raising kids today"--

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with diverse parents, this book reveals how digital technologies give personal and political parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, or support. The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in late modernity. Parents are both more burdened with responsibilities and charged with respecting the agency of their child-leaving much to negotiate in today''s "democratic" families. The book charts how parents now often enact authority and values through digital technologies-as "screen time," games, or social media become ways of both being together and setting boundaries. The authors show how digital technologies introduce both valued opportunities and new sources of risk. To light their way, parents comb through the hazy memories of their own childhoods and look toward varied imagined futures. This results in deeply diverse parenting in the present, as parents move between embracing, resisting, or balancing the role of technology in their own and their children''s lives. This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research in the United Kingdom, the book offers conclusions and insights relevant to parents, policymakers, educators, and researchers everywhere"--

From biomechanist and bestselling author Katy Bowman comes her eagerly anticipated guide to getting kids--from babies to preteens--and their families moving more, together, outside. Our kids are moving less than any other generation in human history; indoor time and screen time have skyrocketed. As adults and kids turn more to "convenient," tech-based solutions, tasks that once required head-to-toe use of our muscles and bones can be done with a click and a swipe. Without realizing it, we''ve traded convenience for the movement-rich environment that our physical, mental, and environmental health depends on. Parents don''t know what to do! But there''s good news: While the problem feels massive, the solution is simple...and fun! Grow Wild not only breaks down the ''big ideas'' behind movement as a nutrient, it serves as field guide--how to spot all the movement opportunities we''re currently missing. Learn to "stack your life" for richer experiences that don''t take more time: Set up your home to promote more movement, naturally Dress for (movement) success Add snacktivities to your meals Plan dynamic celebrations Create a dynamic homework space Bring nature into your home and play And much more! Bowman, a leader in the Movement movement, has written Grow Wild to show where movement used to fit into the activities of daily life and more importantly, how it can again. The perfect companion to Bowman''s bestseller Move Your DNA, Grow Wild provides practical, everyday, nature-rich ideas on how to let kids move their DNA while doing things they''ll love. The book features: 100+ full-color photographs of kids and families moving Success stories from parents, grandparents, teachers "Study sessions" that make movement research more accessible to laypersons Written to all that work with children--parents, teachers, relatives, health professionals, and more A book to be referenced again and again as kids grow up! Grow Wild is necessary reading for a wide range of readers--anyone who spends time with children. Humans live in many places and there are countless movement opportunities wherever you live, you just need to know how to spot them. Children and their families can thrive by learning to move more inside, adventure more outside, and grow wild in any environment.

The creators of the best-selling Baby Whisperer series offer advice to parents on how to build a strong and loving family, drawing on true examples while providing strategic exercises to explain how small household bonds can be expanded into a larger family dynamic.

"A proven, comprehensive resource on Christian family life. Now updated throughout with discussions of recent family-related issues"--

Explores the moral choices of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically-assisted reproduction and highlights the social norms that can distort decision-making.

Habits of the Household by award-winning author Justin Whitmel Earley equips you with simple habits for mealtimes, bedtimes, and other daily routines to shape your home in the rhythms of God''s love.