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7 Common Reasons Parents Feel Guilty

By Amy Morin — 2020

Many parents feel guilty about committing the “sins” that afflict nearly all mothers and fathers. But feeling guilty has consequences related to the emotional health of parents and children's general wellbeing.

Read on www.verywellfamily.com

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How Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Can Survive & Thrive with Terri Cole

Does your mother guilt trip you or emotionally blackmail you? Does she act competitively with you or take credit for your talent or accomplishments? These are all behavioral patterns of the narcissistic mother.

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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.

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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change.

Dr. Laura Markham

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The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions so You and Your Children Can Thrive

Presents compassionate guidelines for divorcing parents on how to manage a divorce and its aftermath while promoting child resiliency and well-being, discussing such topics as the benefits of constructive fighting, handling the legal side of a divorce appropriately, and therapeutic parenting.

Robert E. Emery

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Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things.

Madeline Levine

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Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids—from Toddlers to Teenagers

How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions (aka emotional intelligence)—and helping our children do the same.

Jennifer S. Miller

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When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids

An urgent and necessary book, when the world feels like a scary place brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse—how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them.

Abigail Gewirtz

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Jewish Spiritual Parenting: Wisdom, Activities, Rituals and Prayers for Raising Children with Spiritual Balance and Emotional Wholeness

Parenting has never been easy―but in a culture that encourages more screen time than face time, how can you make sure that your children stay connected to what really matters in life? In this guidebook for building a strong framework for a Jewish life, Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Michelle November,...

Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes, Michelle November MSSW

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Interview with Meditation Leader: Biet Simkin

Biet Simkin is a meditation + spiritual leader in the celebrity world. We discuss how her book, "Don't Just Sit There!: 44 Insights to Get Your Meditation Practice Off the Cushion and Into the Real World", can help others during COVID-19.

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Honey, I Wrecked The Kids: When Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-outs, Sticker Charts and Removing Privileges All Don't Work

Bringing the same perceptive and practical advice that made Breaking the Good Mom Myth an international bestseller, TV personality and psychotherapist Alyson Schafer again comes to the rescue of desperate parents everywhere.

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