The Mother of All Parenting Books The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy Healthy Child from Preschool through the Preteens Mother of All 1st Edition by Ann Douglas ISBN 0764556185 9780764556180

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ISBN 10: 0764556185 
ISBN 13: 9780764556180
Author: Ann Douglas

The Mother of All Parenting Books The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy Healthy Child from Preschool through the Preteens Mother of All 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Truth About Parenting

• Why No One Tells You How Tough It Is to Be a Parent

• What no one ever tells you until you become a parent

• That was then, this is now

• United We Stand, Divided We Fall

• Childproofing your relationship with your partner

• Stealing moments away with your partner

• Keeping the sizzle in your sex life

• Safety Valves, Safety Nets, and Other Parenting Tricks of the Trade

Chapter 2: Kid Under Construction

• When Nature Meets Nurture

• Your child’s personality type

• Parenting a “difficult” or spirited child

• When worlds (and personalities!) collide

• Your parenting style

• Doing Yourself Out of a Job

• Setting your child’s moral compass

• Swimming upstream: parenting in a commercial culture

• The self-esteem toolkit: the gift that keeps on giving

Chapter 3: The Dirt on Discipline

• What Discipline Means and Why Your Child Needs It

• Keep your eyes on the prize

• The more immediate payoff

• The Most Common Types of Discipline Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

• Not understanding what discipline is all about

• Not knowing what techniques to use

• Failing to ensure that the crime fits the punishment

• It’s all in the details

• The Most—and Least—Effective Methods of Discipline

• The top 10 discipline techniques

• Three discipline methods you’ll want to avoid

• How your discipline methods evolve as your child gets older

• Discipline methods that work well with preschoolers

• Discipline methods that work well with school-aged kids and preteens

• Mother (and Father) Guilt

Chapter 4: Short-Circuiting Power Struggles Before Someone Gets Zapped

• Why Power Struggles Occur and What You Can Do to Avoid Them

• Wounded animal syndrome

• An ounce of prevention

• Making your message heard

• What your kids have to gain by getting you locked in a power struggle…

• …And what you have to lose

• Teaching Your Child to Manage Her Emotions and Finding Ways to Manage Your Own

• Anger Management Jr.

• Anger Management Sr.

Chapter 5: Ain’t Misbehavin’: Coping with Behavior Problems

• The Minor Leagues: Dealing with Routine Behavior Problems

• Get with the program: modifying your child’s behavior

• The most common types of garden-variety behavior problems

• The Major Leagues: More Serious Behavioral Problems

• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

• Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

• Conduct disorder (CD)

• Setting Standards for Your Child: How High Is Too High?

Chapter 6: Talking the Talk

• Promoting Healthy Communication between Parent and Child

• Oh Brother! (Oh Sister!) Dealing with Sibling Relationships

• Why sibling relationships can be a minefield for parents

• How to handle sibling conflicts

• Other things you can do to promote healthy sibling relationships

• Parenting Your One and Only

• Dealing with Grandparents

• Troubleshooting problems before they arise

• Maintaining the bond with a long-distance grandparent

• Getting Through the Tough Stuff Together

• A death in the family

• Separation or divorce

• Life after divorce

• Beyond Cinderella: Step-parenting success

• Other Traumatic or Painful Events

• How Stress Plays Out for Kids

Chapter 7: Playing It Smart

• Countdown to Kindergarten

• Is your child ready to start school?

• What you can do to prepare your child for the first day of school

• What you can do to prepare yourself for your child’s first day of school

• What You Can Do to Help Your Child Succeed in School

• Reading really is fundamental

• A parent’s guide to homework

• What Report Cards Can—and Can’t—Tell You

• How to interpret your child’s report card

• Dealing with report card shock

• Does your child need a tutor?

• Troubleshooting Common School-Related Problems and Concerns

• School-related fears and anxieties

• Working cooperatively with your child’s school

• Home-Schooling: Is It a Good Fit for Your Family?

• Exceptional Kids, Exceptional Challenges

• Does your child have a learning disability?

• Is your child gifted?

Chapter 8: The Joy of Play

• Stop the Extracurricular Insanity

• “Screen Time”: How Much Is Too Much?

• The In-House Brain Drain: Kids and TV

• Video Games: Do They Get a Bad Rap?

• Kids and Computers

• Surfer boys and girls: Kids and the Internet

• Keeping kids safe online

• Kids and Internet addiction

• That’s Entertainment? Music and Music Videos

• Setting the Stage for Play

• Boredom Busters: 22 Fabulous Ways to Banish Boredom at Home

Chapter 9: Social Studies: Kids and Friendship

• Friendship

• It’s a girl thing…

• …and a boy thing

• With Friends Like These

• You can’t choose your child’s friends—or can you?

• The truth about teasing

• What Every Parent Needs to Know About Bullying

• The fallout of bullying

• What parents and teachers can do to stamp out bullying

• The New Kid on the Block: Helping Your Child to Settle in after a Move

• Play Date Do’s and Don’ts

• Birthday Parties

• “The Meanest Mom in the World”: Dealing with Other Families’ Rules

Chapter 10: The Health Department

• What’s up, Doc?

• The Facts on Immunization

  • How immunizations work

  • DTaP

  • Polio

  • Haemophilus influenza type B vaccine (Hib)

  • Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine

  • About the chicken pox vaccine (Varivax)

  • About the Pneumococcal vaccine for children

• How to Tell When Your Child Is Sick

• Antibiotic Alert

• More About Fever

  • Fever Isn’t the Bad Guy; the Illness Is

  • This does not compute

  • What type of thermometer to use

  • How to take your child’s temperature

  • What you need to know about febrile convulsions

  • When to call the doctor

  • Treating a fever

• Your Top Pediatric Health Questions Answered

• Caring for a Child with a Chronic Medical Condition

Chapter 11: The Worry Zone

• Coping with the Worry That Goes Along with Being a Parent

• The Most Common Types of Pediatric Injuries and How to Avoid Them

• All-Seasons Safety

  • Preventing frostbite

  • Playing it safe in the summer

• First Aid Essentials: What to Do When Your Child Is Injured

• Stranger Danger: Streetproofing in the Real World

Chapter 12: Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Kids

• Nutrition on the Run: Nutrition Tips for Busy Families

• Winning at Food Group Roulette

  • Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta Group

  • Vegetable Group

  • Fruit Group

  • Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group

  • Meat and alternatives

• No More Food Fights! De-stressing Family Mealtimes

• Walking the Talk: Fun Ways to Stay Active as a Family

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