Foster Family-Friendly Titles: Adult Non-Fiction

1) Parenting through crisis: helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change

Author

Coloroso, Barbara

2) Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

Author

Notbohm, Ellen

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eAudiobook, eBook

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Brimming with insight, compassion, and spirited humor, Ellen Notbohm's timeless book describes ten characteristics that help illuminate-not define-children with autism. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical role adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life. An all-new section explores ten...

3) The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Author

Riley, Dr. Douglas A

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eAudiobook, eBook

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The perfect book to help you give your oppositional-defiant child the help he or she needs.

4) Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children With Severe Behaviors

Author

LCSW, Heather T. Forbes

Series

Beyond Consequences Logic and Control

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Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children's behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly understand the neurological research behind the basic model given in this book, deemed, 'The Stress Model.' While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or...

5) Foster families

Author

Mooney, Carla

Series

Changing families

6) The grown-up's guide to teenage humans: how to decode their behavior, develop unshakable trust, and raise a respectable adult

Author

Shipp, Josh

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Book, eBook

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A practical guide to understanding teens from bestselling author and global youth advocate Josh Shipp. In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn't need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster kid, he was headed straight for trouble until he met the man who changed his life: Rodney, the foster...

7) raising resilient children fostering strength hope

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8) Let's get ready for reading: a guide to help kids become readers

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"This guide for adults who care for young children offers rhymes, activities, and books to foster a love of reading from the time a baby is born to age 5"--Provided by publisher.

9) When you wonder, you're learning: Mister Rogers' enduring lessons for raising creative, curious, caring kids

Author

Behr, Gregg

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"Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning brings the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into the digital age. It focuses on six skills and mindsets that parents and educators can foster in kids--curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication, perseverance, and empathy--by leading with a Mister Rogers anecdote, then connecting the logic behind what Mister Rogers did on his show to the latest science, followed by tips for parents...

10) The Montessori child: a parent's guide to raising capable children with creative minds and compassionate hearts

Author

Davies, Simone

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"From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, The Montessori Child guides parents in using the principals of Montessori to raise their school-aged children in ways that assist their development and foster a respectful relationship between parent and child and world. When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it's amazing what they can achieve. The...

11) What your ADHD child wishes you knew: working together to empower kids for success in school and life

Author

Saline, Sharon

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"A veteran psychologist presents a proven roadmap to help ADHD kids succeed in school and life. You've read all the expert advice, but despite countless efforts to help your child cope better and stay on track, you're still struggling with everyday issues like homework, chores, getting to soccer practice on time, and simply getting along without pushback and power struggles. What if you could work with your child, motivating and engaging them in the...

12) The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Author

Greene, Ross W

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Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.

What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting,

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13) How to talk so little kids will listen: a survival guide to life with children ages 2-7

Author

Faber, Joanna

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OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed "The Parenting Bible."
For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for...

14) What white parents should know about transracial adoption: an adoptee's perspective on its history, nuances, and practices

Author

Guida-Richards, Melissa

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"A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--Provided by publisher.

15) Thicker than blood: adoptive parenting in the modern world

Author

Crook, Marion

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The act of adopting children, and the processes and politics around it, have changed drastically in recent decades, mostly for the better. Still, many prospective adoptive parents remain bewildered or apprehensive, and those who have adopted find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Thicker Than Blood is a comprehensive yet down-to-earth look at adoptive parenting in the twenty-first century. Author Marion Crook's family includes...

16) Raising my rainbow: adventures in raising a fabulous, gender creative son

Author

Duron, Lori

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Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron’s frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son.
Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, Lori's younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi."
C.J. is gender...