- How
to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
- Author: Sal Severe, Ph.D.
- Date Published: 1997
 EP Review: This award-winning book is a collection of stories,
ideas and solutions cultivated by the author -- a school psychologist,
nationally-recognized parenting expert, and most definitely a
parent himself. It's hard to read one page without coming away
with a useful tip or insight. Highly recommended.
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- From the
Author:
"Parents need to understand that their children's behavior
is often a reflection of their own behavior. That's what makes
this book unique. It does not focus on what children do wrong.
It teaches parents what they can do differently."
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- Caterpiller Scramble and Cantaloupe Boats:
Over 100 Simple Nutritional Recipes & Educational Activities
for Children
- Author: Noreen Thomas
- Date Published: 1997
- EP Review: This darling and creative cookbook is great fun.
Not only does it encourage your children to "eat right"
with kid-focused meals et. al., but each recipe has a fun activity
to further drive important life-long healthy habits home. A unique
idea for a cookbook...buy it for your next rainy Spring day or
the long summer days ahead!
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- Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day
and Eat for a Month
- Author: Deborah Taylor-Hough
- Date Published: 1999
- EP Review: Tired of scrambling last minute to prepare dinner?
EPs need this book! Here's a collection of recipes with bulk cooking
instructions that is sure to make daily life easier for every
EP.
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- From the
Author: "Some cookbooks
refer to this as investment cooking, once-a-month cooking, bulk
cooking or cooking ahead. I call my method Frozen Assets, since
dinner in the freezer can be like money in the bank."
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- Raising Happy Kids on a Reasonable Budget
- Author: Patricia Gallagher
- Published:
1993
- EP Review: For EPs living on a shoe-string budget, this
creative and handy book covers money-saving tips on feeding,
clothing, educating and entertaining your kids plus much more!
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- From the
Author:
"There are two ways to add more money to your food budget.
You can either earn more or you can save more. I recommend the
latter. I have tried both and saving money in little ways adds
up to big savings..."
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- Getting Thru to Kids: Innovative Approaches
for Pre-Schoolers to Teens
- Author: Phillip Mountrose
- Published: 1999
- EP Review: To get through to your kids, you have
to get through your own issues first. This book is an insightful,
creative resource for anyone who wants to improve communication
with their children, or any other family members for that matter.
Highly recommended.
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- From the
Author:
"The more children can see themselves in the faces and
hearts of others, the more they realize their connection with
everything, knowing that they travel a path that transcends understanding
yet is somehow meant just for them."
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- Effective Parenting
- Author: Robert O. Owolabi
- Date Published:
1999
- EP Review: For the price of this book ($4.95), you can't
go wrong even if you pick up just one or two useful insights
or tips.
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- From the
Author:
"This book sets out to establish guidelines for effective
parenting. The guidelines are not based on any academic research
or religious doctrine or dogma. They are based primarily on the
experience of the author. After all, experience, the sages say,
is the best teacher!"
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- Dr.
Gaffney's Coaching Guide: For Better Parents and Stronger Kids
- Author: Carol Renaud Gaffney,
Ph.D.
- Published:
1997
- EP Review: Feeling stressed as a parent? Take a
deep breath, relax, and read this book. Solid values and sound
advice delivered by a life-affirming author.
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- From Chapter
1: You Can Take Your Kids Only As Far As You Have Been: "This chapter
about you, the parent, is first because "better parenting"
is not about fixing the kids or making them behave. It is about
you, your child, and the relationship you have with him...You
must take the time to give attention to you, the foundation of
the relationship. The stronger the foundation, the more stable
the relationship will be when, inevitably, storms come through."
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- The Care and Feeding of Perfectionists
- Author: Cynthia Curnan, Ph.D.
- Published:
1999
- EP Review: Have a perfectionist in your life? Whether
spouse, child or parent, your loved one may be driving you mad.
Here's a book that offers tools, insight and hope.
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- From the
Author:
"To be against something has no power; the key is to
be for something else. An unwanted trait can be diminished by
redirecting attention to a preferred one...To redirect your attention
from the Perfectionist is to say, I see you, I hear you, and
I choose not to follow you.
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- A Parent's Guide to Standardized Tests
in School
- Authors: Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Ph.D.
- Joshua Halberstam,
Ph.D.
- Published:
1998
- EP Review: Concerned about how your child will or has scored
on your school's standardized tests? This book pulls both the
parent and child through the hurdle.
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- From the
Author:
"Every child and family in the U.S. is deeply affected
by testing. Test scores determine a child's educational future
as well as a child's sense of well-being and worth."
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- Running on Ritalin
- Author: Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
- Published:
1998
- EP Review: If your child has been (or may be) diagnosed
with ADD, this book is a thought-provoking and informative discourse
on this controversial subject. Written by a pediatrician and
family therapist who has evaluated hundreds of ADD patients.
Highly recommended if you are even considering administering
Ritalin to your child.
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- From the
Author: "The
surge in Ritalin use tells us volumes about how we explain --
and deal with -- the problems many children and adults are having
in coping with their world today...It brings into question our
cultural standards for behavior, performance, and punishment...It
highlights the most basic psychological conundrum of nature versus
nurture, and it raises fundamental philosophical questions about
the nature of free will and responsibility."
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- Dyslexia My Life: An Autobiography
- Author: Girard J. Sagmiller
- Published:
1995
- EP Review: One man's journey to find himself as
a dyslexic person. If your child has been diagnosed with dyslexia,
this book can forewarn you of the diffculties that may lie ahead
for you and your child.
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- From the
Author: "I
will never forget the tears in my mom's eyes when someone tried
to stick me in the back corner of society, where I could not
hurt anyone..."
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