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Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids: Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them

Laura Schlessinger

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Following her previous New York Times bestsellers, Dr.Laura Schlessinger, the conscience of talk radio, now addresses an issue near and dear to her heart: the stupid things parents do to mess up their children. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and convincingly condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. These are just a few of her hard-hitting points:

• Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them: "The cavalier manner in which our society treats child care, not as a matter of intimacy and love, but as a matter of convenience and economics, is deeply destructive to our children's sense of attachment, identity, and importance."
• Dads Need Not Apply: "Single motherhood may be more acceptable to society, but it is not acceptable to children; nor is it in their best interest."
• Brave New Baby: "In our society, reproductive freedom means anyone can decide to create a life by any means with no, and I mean no, consideration of what is in the best interest of that new human being."
• Spare the Rod: "Children without discipline often become adults with tempertantrums, defiance, rage, depression, anxiety, poor school and work adjustment, drug and alcohol abuse."

Stupid Things Parents Do to Mess Up Their Kids covers all aspects of parenting and also tackles such cultural and societal concerns as abortion, modern sexuality, drug and alcohol use, violence, discipline, and a child's right to privacy.

Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage that Will Go the Distance

James Dobson

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The bestselling Gold Medallion winner Love for a Lifetime has brought hope, harmony, and healing to millions of homes worldwide, giving men and women powerful and biblical insights for building lasting marital harmony. Encouraging and practical, this proven classic is perfect for every husband and wife who want to strengthen and celebrate their marriage relationship.

The joining of husband and wife in marriage is the most fulfilling human relationship possible. There is nothing like being loved unconditionally and intimately, decade after decade, by someone who promises to be there for better or for worse for the remaining days of your lives.

For this reason, nurturing and celebrating each other is the most important investment of time and energy you can make as a couple. And millions around the world can testify, the surest way to preserving a marriage is by applying the principles outlined in God's Word.

With Bible-based insights shared by today's foremost family advocate, Love for a Lifetime is a modern classic. This newly updated edition delivers the wisdom that will bring success to your marriage... for as long as you both shall live.

Story Behind the Book

For every ten marriages in America today, five will end in bitter conflict and divorce. And only one or two couples in ten will achieve what might be called "intimacy" in their marriages. This book helps keep readers from being passive victims in the unfolding drama of their lives together. They can build a stable, satisfying, intimate relationship that will withstand the storms of life. All they need is a little wise counsel...and a burning desire to succeed. Based on information from a panel of successfully married couples, on the research of respected experts in the field, and on the principles endorsed by the Creator of families Himself, Love for a Lifetime is designed to help couples do just that.

Contemporary Moral Problems

James E. White

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Explore today's challenging moral terrain with James White's CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS. The ninth edition examines the compelling and contentious debate over society's most pressing ethical controversies. This anthology covers divergent viewpoints on many timely issues and introduces you to the major theories in the history of Western ethics. This balanced collection features carefully chosen readings on classic topics such as abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment. It also engages students in current debates about global warming, torture, war and terrorism, and same-sex marriage. Fourteen new reading selections in this edition ensure up-to-date coverage of contemporary moral issues. This book's well-crafted introductions to each chapter and reading; emphasis on opposing viewpoints; probing review and discussion questions; and provocative case studies ensure that you will develop a rich understanding of ethical theories and the issues to which they apply. Depend on this accessible, comprehensive anthology to engage you in a lively and informed discussion of contemporary ethics.

Emily Post's The Gift of Good Manners: A Parent's Guide to Raising Respectful, Kind, Considerate Children (Emily Post)

Peggy Post, Cindy Post Senning

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A tad disappointed 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I am a huge Emily Post fan as everyone knows. I got this book to start preparing for our baby that is on the way.

I had hoped for more specific information. For instance there are only two areas that cover grandparents in the book.

There is great information in the book. But, after finishing it I am still searching for another book to give me more direct answers to questions that never got answered in this book.

I want to know how to handle it when my child points out that their grandparents are not following the table manners that we are trying to stick by. I want to know how to handle negative comments about religion. I want to know how to make a child stick to the yes ma'am no ma'am rule even when adults out there say they don't like being called ma'am.

Again, it's a good book. But, if you are looking for a broad range of answers then you may still need to find another book in addition to this one as I am.

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Manners, fundamental social skills for success in life, are among the greatest gifts parents can give. From self-respect and respect for others to knowing how to behave in public, this comprehensive, practical guide helps parents instill age-appropriate manners as their child’s world expands from toddlerhood through the teen years. This is a must-have resource for every family.

The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting

Malcolm Gauld, Laura Gauld

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Attitude over aptitude. Effort over achievement.

Character over talent.

In this groundbreaking book, Laura and Malcolm Gauld draw on their experience as parents and as educators at Hyde -- an organization of award-winning schools and programs -- to argue persuasively that true education springs not just from seeking good grades and achievements but from reestablishing a commitment to character, attitude, and purpose. Offering a new paradigm for reconnecting education with values, the Gaulds focus attention not on the child, but on the child's primary teacher -- the parent.

After explaining how enormous a parent's impact is on how children approach education and life, the Gaulds detail the Hyde program's 10 Priorities for meeting life's challenges so that any family can embrace them. Interspersed throughout are dozens of remarkable stories of Hyde parents and students; their funny, moving, and provocative anecdotes reveal that astonishing results are possible and that all children -- and their parents -- can exceed expectations and realize their full potential.

Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Gordon B. Hinckley

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An invitation to stand up and be counted . . .

No nation can be greater than the strength of its individual homes or the virtue of its people. Sadly, many today would say ours is a nation in crisis. Families are splintering around us, our children are becoming alienated from their great cultural heritage, and our leaders seem increasingly out of touch. Yet, according to Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one cannot lose hope. The solution lies not within our governments, schools, or symbols of popular culture, but rather within ourselves, our families, and our faith.

In the tradition of William Bennett's Book of Virtues, Hinckley has created a classic look at the values that can change our world -- and how to stand up for them. Drawing on anecdotes from his own life, as well as from our nation today, he examines ten virtues that have proven through the ages to provide the most profound path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith. He then shows how the two guardians of virtue -- marriage and the family -- can keep us on that path, even in difficult times.

Standing for Something is an inspiring blueprint for what we can all do -- as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community -- to rediscover the values and virtues that have historically made us strong. At once masterful and illuminating, it is a work for our time: a reflection from one man's long and productive life that dwells not on the past but on the means by which all of us can work toward a brighter future.

The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell the Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations

Randy Cohen

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The man behind the New York Times Magazine’s immensely popular column “The Ethicist”–syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as “Everyday Ethics”–casts an eye on today’s manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world.

Every week in his column on ethics, Randy Cohen takes on conundrums presented in letters from perplexed people who want to do the right thing (or hope to get away with doing the wrong thing), and responds with a skillful blend of moral authority and humor. Cohen’s wisdom and witticisms have now been collected in The Good, the Bad & the Difference, a collection of his columns as wise and funny as a combination of “Dear Abby,” Plato, and Mel Brooks. The columns are supplemented with second thoughts on (and sometimes complete reversals of) his original replies, follow-up notes on how his advice affected the actions of various letter writers, reactions from readers both pro and con, and observations from such “guest ethicists” as David Eggers and the author’s mom. Each chapter also features an “Ethics Pop Quiz,” and readers will be invited to post their answers on the book’s Web site. The best of them will appear in a future paperback edition of the book.

The Good, the Bad & the Difference is divided into seven sections:
•Civic Life (what we do in public)

•Family Life (what we do at home)

•Social Life (what we do in other people’s homes)

•Commercial Life (what we do in situations where money is a factor)

•Medical Life (the rights and obligations of patients and caregivers)

•Work Life (ethics for the professional sphere)

•School Life (moral questions from and about kids)

Each section provides a window into how we live today, shedding light on the ways in which a more ethical approach to the decisions we make, and to our daily behavior, can make a big difference in how we feel about ourselves tomorrow.


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Honor: A History

James Bowman

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Because it sounds better than "Honor, My Thesis Notes" 3 out of 5 stars.
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James Bowman has written a thoroughly provocative book that had me contemplating a concept I hadn't much considered - and more: the prevalence of this concept (and sometimes lack thereof) that he uses as a lens to focus many recent political and cultural events. However, you might notice in that last lauding sentence I made no reference to the past; Bowman's subtitle ("a history") doesn't pass muster. This is no "history of honor" - rather, it reads as a simple story of "how honor became discredited" using selective historical signposts as a means of making his point. Not quite the same thing and the book suffers for it, especially when the author ends up rather lamely suggesting various means to revive a certain brand of honor; not that a historical survey necessarily excludes opinion, but a less selective reading of history and more background would have served his purposes *far* better.

Still, simply by the novelty of his subject and the scope of its influence Bowman is on to something and if his clunky historical approach sometimes fails (the first chapter in this "history" discusses honor in the current Muslim culture and fully two-thirds of the reminder are devoted to the 20th century) he generally makes the case that honor *deserves* attention and the West (or any culture, really) ignores or denigrates it at its peril. The aforementioned discussion of Muslim honor codes, for example, is juxtaposed with strikingly similar ones in the medieval West - namely, ethical standards sublimated to the appearances important to one's "honor group" and neatly severed from any actual moral standards of right and wrong, much less life and death. Thus the killing of one's sister for even an implied notion of impropriety is thoroughly justified to protect the *appearance* of family or clan honor - never mind the barbaric morality involved in weighing another's very life so lightly.

So you might think honor's demise would be a reason to celebrate -- and many have. But here Bowman turns the tale, explaining that honor progressed (in the West, at least) from these crude origins to eventually embrace a rational morality. A Victorian honor revival -- spearheaded by Walter "Ivanhoe" Scott, among others - brought it to a 19th century peak before the slaughter of World War I and its modernist fallout eviscerated it. Bowman again jumps out of his historical survey to point out what we've lost; this demonstration is both sobering and insightful.

So why only three stars? Well, as the author sheepishly admits in his introduction "I lightly glide over the cultural artifacts of three thousands years in a few pages" and "I [can do no] more than skim the surface of this enormous subject." I expect this was written after he finished and unwittingly discovered the depth of his subject (no bad thing, really). Bowman is a decent writer but the book is perilously thin and selective at times, e.g., naming honor's 20th century bugbears at "modern warfare, psychotherapy (!) and feminism" seems almost random. (I could just as easily - and perhaps more accurately - point to, say, democracy, technology, Christianity and even capitalism.) Again, without a sound historical basis the author ends up sounding like your boilerplate conservative scold, railing about the triumph of the "unofficial" culture (with the usual suspects: celebrity worship, rampant egalitarianism, pop art, the fawning mass media) without honor to defend the "official" one.

Finally and curiously, for an otherwise strong book about a cultural artifact, `Honor' also doesn't define its own term very well. Bowman succeeds at describing what various people *think* honor is and how they apply it but without a precise sense of what it *is* - even across historical eras - he's left chasing effects rather than rooting out causes. Two or three steps up the conceptual chain of reasoning would have made for a far richer study and certainly would have provided some sorely needed ballast to his conclusion on restoring honor in our time. Bowman finishes with such a torrent of scolding and pessimism ("In what follows, I say rather what is to be done than what I think will or even can be done") that it almost makes one wonder why he went about writing this otherwise intriguing volume at all.

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The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of World War I and the despair of Vietnam. Bowman reminds us that the fate of honor and the fate of morality and even manners are deeply interrelated.

What Am I Feeling?

John Mordechai Gottman

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Review from Parenting Press 4 out of 5 stars.
31 of 32 people found this review helpful.

Everything we do and everything we learn is based in some way on how we feel.

How we feel about our emotions-whether we value those emotions and how we cope-shapes how we nurture children.

Adapted from John Gottman's Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, this book helps adults identify their parenting and caregiving style. It explains the five important steps in "emotion coaching" children, to ensure that children are guided to healthy emotional growth.

Kids who can accept and share their emotions do better in many ways, Gottman's research shows:

They form stronger friendships;
They achieve more in school;
They bounce back from emotional crises more quickly; and
They are physically healthier.

Beautifully illustrated with photographs of parents and children.

An enthusiastic recommendation to all parents 5 out of 5 stars.
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Relationship and parenting expert, John Gottman and the Talaris Research Institute insightfully presents What Am I Feeling? an informed and informative exploration of the mindset of children, and how certain adjustments might care for the sensitivity of most children. Gottman places an easy-to-follow "parent-friendly" guide to the constructive mentality of most children with an educational content to create the ideal book for struggling parents making What Am I Feeling? an enthusiastic recommendation to all parents.

Children Learn What They Live

Dorothy Law Nolte

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For Every Parent !!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I discovered Nolte's parenting books from a glowing review in the Orlando Sentinel. I'd always loved her poem that evolved into these books. Whenever I see a parent ridiculing a child or shaming them, I wish they knew the poem.
Hopefully these books will reach a whole new generation of parents and help them become better role models for their children.
"If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence." This book will make a great baby shower present (wrapped in with a rattle or other item).

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Dorothy Law Nolte, a lifelong teacher and lecturer on family dynamics, presents a simple but powerful guide to parenting the old-fashioned way: instilling values through example. Dr. Nolte-s inspirationó?Children Learn What They Live,O the celebrated poem she wrote in 1954. Written with psychotherapist Rachel Harris, each of the 19 couplets of the poem is developed into a chapteróon jealousy, shame, praise, recognition, honesty, fairness, tolerance, and more. Positive, realistic, filled with a rare common sense, it is a book to help parents find their own parenting wisdom, and to raise children with a surer, steadier, more understanding hand.