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A Powerful Lesson on Unconditional Love and How to Raise Happy Children This collection of essays offers a gentle guide on how to put a parent's love into daily actions.  A parent’s calling is to raise a person. By making loving actions part of your life, you have the power to build the kind of family unit most people long for.  Wonderful Ways to Love a Child  is filled with true stories of parents and children who are nurturing strong and loving families. The book provides the support that empowers you to be the parent you want to be and expands your parenting skills. No simple tricks.  Cultivating a loving relationship with your child demands integrity, compassion, and emotional honesty. It is a forever commitment to continuous loving actions–even when you are too tired. This low-stress approach to positive parenting produces happy children with high self-esteem. This is how children succeed. A perfect gift for new parents.   Wonderful Ways to Love a Child  is a prescription to strengthen family bonds that will last a lifetime. There are many different parenting styles–this one is based in love and logic, and positive discipline. Learn to put yourselves in your children’s shoes–and have fun in the process. In this book you’ll discover guides to: Loving yourself and allowing your child to love themselvesGiving the gift of your presence and being open to the miracle of transformationSaying yes as often as possible, and knowing when to say noTeaching that all feelings are acceptable and making room for the CrankiesDelighting in silliness by laughing, dancing and singing togetherTeaching values by exampleOther essential tools to ensure a loving, lasting friendship with your children–and make them want to come visit when they are older If you enjoyed parenting books such as  How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and How to Listen so Kids Will Talk ,  1-2-3 Magic , or  Parenting with Love and Logic , you’ll love  Wonderful Ways to Love a Child .

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A Handbook and Guide to Parenting Teens Even when your relationship appears hopelessly beyond repair, you can follow the tips in this book and rebuild a loving bond. Learn healthy parenting habits.  While there are a lot of highs to parenting, there are plenty of challenges, particularly when it comes to teens. While we were all teenagers once, we often can’t understand what our own teens are going through. But there are certain habits you can pick up that can make the teen years easier for both you and your child. Dealing with the changes.  Just because your relationship with your teen looks different doesn’t mean it’s any less meaningful. The shifts that come may seem unwelcome at first, but as you learn to adapt and respond in a way that connects with your teen rather than pushes them further away, the changes are easier to work through. Recognizing that you’re growing and learning as you go, it’s important to understand boundaries with teens, and give them the space to do their own growing. Love them through it.  Author and licensed clinical social worker Judy Ford offers honest and valuable advice to parents who feel depleted and desolate when it comes to their relationship with their teen. With gentle wisdom and a healthy dose of good humor, Ford guides parents and teenagers through one of the most difficult times in parenting. Learn how to shift the focus from the hardships and the mishaps to the joys and heartfelt moments. Read this book by bestselling author, mother, and inspirational role model Judy Ford and discover… Easy-to-follow advice for parents presented in 60 two-page essaysPowerful and poignant examples from true life storiesA how-to guide for loving your teens, even when it seems impossible Readers of other parenting books such as  Parenting Teens with Love and Logic ,  Grown and Flown ,  Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety , and  The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers  will find a further source of wisdom in  Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen .

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Pregnancy remains one of life's biggest adventures–a time filled with wonderment as well as new thought, feelings, and worries. Wisely and gently, Judy Ford guides new mothers through every month and phase of this very special time. Written in Judy Ford's characteristically warm and supportive style, Expecting Baby is an emotional and spiritual handbook for mothers to help get them through one of life's great adventures: pregnancy. Filled with practical wisdom and insight, Expecting Baby is a great gift of comfort, support and encouragement. From morning sickness, stretch marks and getting support from family and friends to decorating the nursery, food cravings and sex while pregnant, the reader will learn to sift through the troublesome glitches to discover satisfaction and delight in her pregnancy. When she is moody and can't touch her toes, when she's fearful and just wants this baby out, Expecting Baby will help remind her what the journey is all about.

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With society increasingly held hostage to stress, conflict, and violence, the issue of anger is getting lots of attention. Couples, families, schools, and workplaces are all focusing attention on anger and how to effectively deal with it. In contrast to books that analyze the causes of anger or discuss the issue on a societal level, Getting Over Getting Mad provides us with inspiration and suggestions for making positive changes in ourselves and our relationships. The book's primary emphasis is on prevention, encouraging us to deal with stress, frustration, tantrums, and annoyances quickly, before these disturbances sour feelings and burn bridges. The book also gives concrete suggestions for handling anger in ongoing difficult situations, and chronicles the author's own experiences as a therapist and workshop leader.

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Family therapist and nationally known parenting expert Judy Ford has a lot to say on the subject of family and home. Her accessible and friendly style offers practical suggestions and helpful advice from her own life and practice. This hard-won wisdom and tried-and-true approach to strenthening family bonds sets Ford apart from many other authors in this genre. Refreshinngly honest about the realities of today's family life, Ford's book is a true help to those in need of support and inspiration.

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Honoring the unique role that grandparents play, this delightfully heartwarming and down-to-earth book offers more than sixty inspiring suggestions for how you can actively participate in your grandchildren's lives, whether they live down the block or across the country. Parenting expert Judy Ford gives practical tips for developing your identity as a grandparent and for ways to complement and not conflict with parents. A must-have for all grandparents.

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In their practical and supportive book, Judy Ford and Anna Chase offer a helping hand and show how to transform a seemingly impossible situation into a relationship filled with love. «In the end,» write the authors,"the labels mother, father, stepmother, stepfather matter less than the quality of our interactions with the young ones entrusted to our care."

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A Powerful Lesson on Unconditional Love and How to Raise Happy Children This collection of essays offers a gentle guide on how to put your love into daily actions.  A parent’s calling is to raise a person. By making loving actions part of your life, you have the power to build the kind of family unit most people long for.  Wonderful Ways to Love a Child  is filled with true stories of parents and children who are nurturing strong and loving families. The book provides the support that empowers you to be the parent you want to be and expands your parenting skills. No simple tricks.  Cultivating a loving relationship with your child demands integrity, compassion, and emotional honesty. It is a forever commitment to continuous loving actions–even when you are too tired. This low-stress approach to positive parenting produces children with high self-esteem. This is how children succeed. A perfect gift for new parents.   Wonderful Ways to Love a Child  is a prescription to strengthen family bonds that will last a lifetime. There are many different parenting styles–this one is based in love and logic, and positive discipline. Learn to put yourselves in your children’s shoes–and have fun in the process. In this book you’ll discover guides to: Loving yourself and allowing your child to love themselvesGiving the gift of your presence and being open to the miracle of transformationSaying yes as often as possible, and knowing when to say noTeaching that all feelings are acceptable and making room for the CrankiesDelighting in silliness by laughing, dancing and singing togetherTeaching values by exampleOther essential tools to ensure a loving, lasting friendship with your children–and make them want to come visit when they are older If you enjoyed parenting books such as  How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and How to Listen so Kids Will Talk ,  1-2-3 Magic , or  Parenting with Love and Logic , you’ll love  Wonderful Ways to Love a Child .

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