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How Families Can Support Kids’ Mental Health During the Pandemic

By Erika Boknek — 2020

Regardless of a child’s schooling situation, parents can help provide these four key components for a child’s mental health toolkit.

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The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads: Everything You Need to Know About LGBTQ Parenting But Are (Mostly) Afraid to Ask

If You are Thinking of Becoming a Gay Dad, or if You are Already a Gay Dad ─ This Book is for You! Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families.

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Eric Rosswood
2017
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Inside Transracial Adoption

Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids? How can children gain their new families without losing their birth heritage? How can parents best support their children after placement? Transracial adoption is a lifelong journey, complex and challenging.

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Beth Hall, Gail Steinberg
2013
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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

“Birthdays may be difficult for me.” “I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family.” “When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me.” “I am afraid you will abandon me.

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Sherrie Eldridge
1999
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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Sharon Roszia, Allison Davis Maxon
2019
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Are My Kids on Track?: The 12 Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Milestones Your Child Needs to Reach

Are My Kids on Track? helps you identify and measure 12 key emotional, social, and spiritual milestones in your children's lives. Moreover, you will discover practical ways to guide your kids through any stumbling blocks they might encounter and help them reach the appropriate landmarks.

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Sissy Goff
2017
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Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Solving Family Problems

In Pride and Joy, child psychologist Kenneth Barish brings together the best of recent advances in clinical and neuroscience research with the author's three decades of experience working with children and families.

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Kenneth Barish
2012
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The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years

In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think and problem-solve more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.

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Emily Oster
2021
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out—in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships—is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
2021
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Dr. Shefali Tsabary: Children Don't Need Fixing | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent, says that no matter how out of control a child may seem, they don't need fixing. Watch as she explains a hands-on, fully present approach to parenting that can create conditions in which any child can thrive.

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Shefali Tsabary
2014
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Dr. Shefali Tsabary to Parents: Turn "All Eyes Inward" | Oprah's Lifeclass | Oprah Winfrey Network

If you hink you can fix your child's behavior, parenting expert Dr. Shefali Tsabary says, it's time to think again. "To be the conscious parent means to divorce ourselves from any idea that the answer lies in our child's behavior," she says. "The real awakening is about turning all eyes inward".

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Shefali Tsabary
2014
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