Paul Tough

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Challenges conventional views about standardized testing to argue that success is more determined by self-discipline, and describes the work of pioneering researchers and educators who have enabled effective new teaching methods.

How Children Succeed

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Arizona

Phil McGraw

Do you feel that your family is not what it used to be, or what it has the potential to be? Do you worry that the parenting decisions you're making today may be scarring your child for life? Do you sometimes feel you are in a tug-of-war with the world over who will shape your child's values and beliefs?
With Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, Dr. Phil offers a new classic on family life -- and gives parents real answers and a plan for being the most positive and effective parents possible. Starting right now, you can begin to make realistic choices and take day-to-day actions that can make your family phenomenal. You must decide that you will lead your family with strength and love and that peace and joy are not just for the people next door or on TV. They're for your family.
In Family First, Dr. Phil gives it to parents straight: even in this fast-paced world your family should be the center of your life and your child's life. Parenting is the most important and noble act you will ever undertake, yet American families are threatened like never before from the inside as well as the outside -- many of us fight too much, don't get involved enough in our children's lives, or get bogged down in life's daily struggles instead of keeping our eye on the big picture of our family's well-being.
Dr. Phil has been working with families for over twenty-five years to help them repair the fissures that have fractured their home lives. In Family First, he provides a proven action plan to help parents determine the strengths and weaknesses of their parenting style. His 7 Tools for Purposeful Parenting cover the most important elements for any parent: parenting for success -- for the purpose of raising cooperative, caring, and competent children. Exercises, scripts, assessments, solutions for specific problems, and precise directions for implementing the steps you need to take are all included in this landmark work.
Dr. Phil shows parents how to make changes now -- how to put a stop to your children's tantrums; talk to them about peer pressure or self-esteem; instill values like integrity, honesty, and respect for other people; and bring order back to your house. If you want your child to have a happy, fulfilled life, you must open your eyes to the crucial role you play in his or her development.
Most important, Dr. Phil's new book offers you and your family hope -- for a phenomenal home life now, and a productive, fulfilling future for your children. As Dr. Phil says, you are not just raising children, you are also raising adults, and everything you do today impacts what kind of adult your child will become. You are building the future.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Your Step-By-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family

The author examines the crisis in the American family, discussing the importance of the family relationship, its impact on mental health and good child development, and practical, innovative solutions for bringing families back together.

Family First

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Kevin Thompson

THE IRONY OF THE STICKY YEARS IS THEY DON’T STICK AROUND FOR LONG. Gummy bears stick to teeth like cotton candy sticks to fingers. Lemonade sticks to floors like ketchup sticks to tables. Life with kids is sticky, and fast. One day you buckle them into baby carriers. The next day you drive them to kinder. You turn around once and the van wreaks of body odor. You turn around again and it's time for driver’s ed. Before long, they drive off for good and you’re left holding a bag of baby teeth. Here’s a taste of the wit and wisdom you’ll find among dozens of sticky stories to relish: • Dad, what year were you born? Do you remember? • Butt? It's a tooshie, or biscuit (or sometimes watermelon or cantaloupe). • Do hot dogs come from the cow's weenie? • Did you keep any of Santa's texts? • Does gratitude mean you have a great attitude? THE FAMILY VAN FLIES THROUGH THE STICKY YEARS, BUT THE RIDE IS FULL OF TIMES TO TREASURE, LESSONS TO LEARN AND LAUGHS TO REMEMBER.

Stories from the Front of the Van

The Sticky Years

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Wisconsin

S257, c1991; no dust jacket (appears Publisher didn’t intend one)

Normal Is Just A Setting On Your Dryer; Under His Wings (3 in 1 Exclusive)

God Uses Cracked Pots

New Mexico

Ericka Sóuter

*Clearance sale*
Paperback 
Remainder mark. See pictures.
Gently used 

Oregon

Continue to have and grow your life, Mom. It’s better for you and your kids. When did being a good mom come to mean giving up everything that used to make you . . . you? That’s the question millions of 21st-century mothers grapple with every day as they muddle through our kid-centric culture. Contrary to incessant messaging, not always putting your kids first—not sacrificing your own free time, enjoyment, and dreams so your kids can have your full attention every day—is what makes for a good mother. With Honey, I Can’t Find My Self, popular journalist and Good Morning America parenting expert Ericka Sóuter shares her tips for being a happy, whole person while still being a wonderful (and sometimes just good enough, which is plenty good) parent. Sóuter blends her own stories of surviving the seismic challenges of becoming a parent with testimonials from stay-at-home and working moms; interviews with therapists and researchers; and findings from the latest studies on happiness, self-care, and parenthood. What she delivers is a wonderfully irreverent survival guide to motherhood. Here, you’ll find advice on keeping your career on track while parenting, handling clueless and unhelpful partners, taking back ownership of your body, creating a reliable village of support (even with moms you didn’t think you’d like), staying connected with child-free friends, and what to do if you feel like you’re missing the “mom gene.”

How to Have a Kid and a Life

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Tom Farrey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children

In this fascinating journey into a culture gone haywire, an Emmy-award winning reporter examines what's right and what's wrong with the fevered pursuit of excellence in youth sports.

Game On

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Utah

We need a license to drive, but the most important thing many of us will do in our lives requires no license or training--raising children. And since parents receive no preparation for raising another human being, they often question their own abilities and feel vulnerable to making mistakes. The Birth to Five Book offers parents practical, down-to-earth help and success strategies for this big responsibility. Whether raising an infant, toddler, or preschooler--or all of them at once!--young parents will love this collection of commonsense advice. From feeding and reading to discipline, toilet training, and play, it's all here in simple terms that any parent can put to work immediately.

The Birth To Five Book

Roni Cohen-Sandler

Raising Emotionally Resilient Daughters in the Digital Age

Practical advice for raising authentic, self-reliant teenage girls in the age of the Internet from the experienced clinical psychologist Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler It may feel as though your preteen or teenage daughter is growing up in a different universe than you did. Between smartphones, social media, and cyberbullying, the world is changing. Technology is transforming how girls identify themselves, learn, develop social skills, and communicate with the people around them. Many mothers feel as though they are venturing into alien territory, with no idea how to navigate these unprecedented situations. But the good news is that regardless of your technological skill, you are still the best person to guide your daughter through all the chaos of adolescence. In Anything But My Phone, Mom! Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler shows mothers how to handle the modern challenges of parenting teenage girls, drawing upon dozens of interviews with teenagers and their mothers, decades of clinical experience, and her own experience raising a daughter. With clear, practical advice, she provides insights and strategies for how you can better understand your daughter and what she's going through, maintain a close and loving relationship with her, keep her safe, and help her become a resilient, capable, confident, and healthy young woman.

Anything but My Phone, Mom!

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Emma Brown

Pennsylvania

Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood

"How will I raise my son to be different? This question gripped Washington Post investigative reporter Emma Brown, who was at home nursing her six-week-old son when the #MeToo movement erupted. In search of an answer, Brown traveled around the country, through towns urban and rural, affluent and distressed. In the course of her reporting, she interviewed hundreds of people--educators, parents, coaches, researchers, men, and boys--to understand the challenges boys face and how to address them. What Brown uncovered was shocking: 23% of boys believe men should use violence to get respect; 22% of an incoming college freshman class said they had already committed sexual violence; 58% of young adults said they've never had a conversation with their parents about respect and care in sexual relationships. Men are 4 times more likely than women to die by suicide. Nearly 4 million men experience sexual violence each year. Emma Brown connects the dots between educators, researchers, policy makers and mental health professionals in this tour de force that upends everything we thought we knew about boys"--adapted from back cover.

To Raise a Boy

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Kevin Leman

Louisiana

A guide for stepparents whose children's birth orders have been changed by the presence of new siblings offers advice on role confusion, concepts of self, and building a parenting team. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Living in a Stepfamily Without Getting Stepped On

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What are you really telling your children?

Elizabeth Pantley, the creator of the bestselling No-Cry parenting books, shows you how to improve the hidden messages behind your words and deeds. She shares with you other parents' stories that demonstrate how they unknowingly sent their kids negative messages through their words and actions. After each story she provides a gentle lesson by showing the child's perspective on the same scenario and offers suggestions for a positive outcome.

Maryland

What Our Words and Actions Are Really Telling Our Children

Hidden Messages

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Light water mark to top of cover and spine

California

#parenting #relationships #raisingchildren #adult

Nevada

The Magic and Mayhem of Motherhood

Joyful Mother of Children

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David Borgenicht

James Grace

Simple Seams for Mealtime, Bedtime, Bathtime--Anytime!

Children bring boundless love, unbridled joy and overwhelming happiness into our lives. They also bring temper tantrums, stubborn moods and strong wills. To deal with these obstinate emotions, parents often have to turn into hustlers, tricking their kid into doing things that he or she refuses to do, such as getting dressed, holding still, trying new foods or going to sleep.How to Con Your Kid gives parents tools to easily trick their little one, from short, one-line cons to longer step-by-step scams. There are loads of tricks for keeping kids clean, fed, clothed and happy--even when they'd rather be dirty, hungry, naked and bored.

How to Con Your Kid

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Jack W. Hayford

Arkansas

How You Can Love the Kids in Your Life

Hayden shows what Jesus wants parents to understand about children and being childlike.

Blessing Your Children

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Lanita Preston

Great condition, some highlighting. Bought during COVID and never needed again. Greatly informative and helpful. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maine

Homeschooling and Working While Shaping Amazing Learners

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John Wayne is renowned as having been a larger than life, yet his personal code was a simple one of loyalty, self-reliance, grit, honesty, patriotism and generosity.

John Wayne: Lessons for My Children examines how Wayne used his beliefs to raise six lively kids into successful young adults, and how those lessons might be used by readers to help guide their own sons and daughters.
Packed with reminiscences and anecdotes from Duke's children (including a foreword and an afterword), quotes and personal stories from Duke, himself, and analyses of key scenes from Duke's films, plus hundreds of touching, rousing and inspiring photos from Duke's family life as well as his films, John Wayne: Lessons for My Children is a perfect gift for dads and Duke fans everywhere.
The book itself is a stunning handbook with glossy pages, and a leatherette cover to ensure the book lasts for years and years. The perfect impulse purchase for Father's Day or any day.

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