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The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
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The Dance of Fear: Rising Above the Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
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The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships
A fresh new jacket design brings this classic self-help guide up to date for a contemporary readership. One of the forerunners to today’s pop psych market along with Women Who Love Too Much, this multimillion bestseller shows us how anger affects women’s relationships and explains how to turn this often destructive force into a constructive one. For many women, anger is a destructive force that perpetuates all the harmful dynamics of their most intimate relationships. This classic, inspirational book from internationally respected feminist psychologist Harriet Lerner explores the ways in which anger can lead into a destructive ‘dance’ within women’s relationships- permanent fighting with your nearest and dearest, distancing yourself through silence or blaming others for the failure of your relationships. Practical and accessible, this book also shows women how the destructive ‘dance of anger’ can be turned into a constructive force- women should neither suppress their anger nor vent it through aggression, but learn focussed ways to deal with it to find the best solution for all concerned. Focussing largely on family relationships, the book shows women how to deal with many different relationship issues. The book has meaning for all women, regardless of age, background or experience. Harriet Lerner provides the reader with the insights and practical skills to stop behaving in the old predictable ways and to begin to use anger to establish a more positive approach to significant relationships.
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Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear
“Connection Parenting” is based on author Pam Leo’s seven week parenting series, “Meeting the Needs of Children,” that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children’s optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds children need to thrive.
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The Twelve Unbreakable Principles of Parenting
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Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook
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Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
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The Homework Myth: Why Our Children Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
This work is a compelling expose of homework – its negative effects, why it’s so widely accepted, and what we can do about it. Whilst they’re free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete more academic assignments once they’re home. The results are predictable: stress and conflict, frustration and exhaustion. Parents respond by reassuring themselves that at least the benefits outweigh the costs. But do they? In “The Homework Myth”, Alfie Kohn, one of America’s leading educators and parenting experts, systematically examines the usual defences of homework – that it promotes higher educational achievement, “reinforces” learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of logic, research, or experience. So why do we continue to administer this modern-day cod liver oil – or even demand a larger dose? Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of children, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness have all left our kids with less free time and our families with more conflict. Pointing to parents who have fought back – and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework – Kohn shows how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.
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