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Reachout Parents: Why Your Teenager Really Needs Self-Care

2016

Psychologist Anna Sidis explains why self-care is especially important for teenagers and how they can practice self-care to reduce stress.

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Why Shaming Your Children Is a Bad Idea and What You Can Do Instead

As parents, we need to step off our pedestal, stop dominating our kids, and instead treat them as we like to be treated. After all, do you like being shamed? Does it bring out the best in you?

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Shefali Tsabary
2015
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How Children Develop Toxic Shame

The mild feeling of shame — the prefrontal cortex clutch shifting — is how kids learn to shift themselves from "forbidden" behavior to acceptable behavior.

Article
Laura Markham, Ph.D.
2016
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Why Shaming Your Kids Isn't Effective Discipline

Here's what you need to know about shaming your kids online and in public, including examples of shaming words that single parents, in particular, should avoid.

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Jennifer Wolf
2020
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Why Do Kids Act Up?

According to neuroscience, our children are like puppies.

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Alison Escalante
2019
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Present Moment Parenting: The Guide to a Peaceful Life with Your Intense Child

There are many reasons a child doesn't respond to typical parenting techniques. Whatever the root cause of the intensity, parent coach and trainer Tina Feigal's revised edition of her book (formerly titled The Pocket Coach for Parents) will give you the tools you need to create a peaceful life.

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Tina Feigal, Amelia Franck Meyer, Mechele Pitt
2017
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Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits

Do you dread parent-teacher conferences? Does your child really know how to push your hot button? Has your child been labeled “defiant” or “rebellious”? Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame—not break—a spirited child.

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Michael H. Popkin
2007
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Raising The Challenging Child: How to Minimize Meltdowns, Reduce Conflict, and Increase Cooperation

What's the worst you've ever faced as a parent? An all-out tantrum at the mall? A son who won't take out his earbuds to listen to you? A daughter who's failing at school and won't do her homework? A teen who constantly breaks curfew? A call from the police? Whatever you're dealing with, Raising the...

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Karen Doyle Buckwalter, Debbie Reed, Wendy Lyons Sunshine
2025
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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.

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Mona Delahooke
2019
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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

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Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson
2019
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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self

Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal.

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Lori G. Plante
2010
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