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Parenting Skills and Parent Education

This department provides instructional materials to equip parents with the knowledge and skills to enable them to raise healthy, happy and productive children and teens.  These materials provide comprehensive information as well as very practical suggestions for all areas of parenting.

Anger Control
Everyone experiences anger but if you get angry frequently and it seems uncontrollable, this tape is for you.  You can learn to express your thoughts and feelings while remaining calm and totally in control of yourself and the situation.  It will do wonders for your relationships and your peace of mind.  This program is excellent for teens and adults.  (Audio Cassette - $12.98) 

Being A Happy Effective Parent
Parenting can be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of our lives.  This tape includes positive programming acquired from psychologists and family counselors.   This tape provides positive suggestions and mental pictures to enable parents to help their children enjoy their childhood and develop into happy, healthy, unique, independent, successful, loving and supportive individuals. 
Parenting can be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of our lives.  This tape includes positive programming acquired from psychologists and family counselors.   This tape provides positive suggestions and mental pictures to enable parents to help their children enjoy their childhood and develop into happy, healthy, unique, independent, successful, loving and supportive individuals.  Parenting can be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of our lives.  This tape includes positive programming acquired from psychologists and family counselors.   This tape provides positive suggestions and mental pictures to enable parents to help their children enjoy their childhood and develop into happy, healthy, unique, independent, successful, loving and supportive individuals.  (Audio Tape - $12.98)  

Helping Your Child Achieve In School
Parents are vital to their child's educational development and this book provides practical suggestions on how they can take a positive, active role.  Dr. Johnson presents a wealth of simple and enjoyable at-home educational activities.  Special emphasis is given to developing reading skills in primary-aged children, and to building comprehension and other skills of middle-grade children.  Other topics discussed are school testing, motivation, using personal computers to improve skills, and more.  (Book, 264pp - $10.00)

Kid CooperationKid Cooperation:  How to Stop Yelling, Nagging, and Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate
There really is a way to talk so that kids will listen. This is an empowering work, filled with practical skills that will help end sibling fights, boost children's self-esteem, and let parents handle discipline with understanding and authority. This book offers workable tools for remaining calm and in control while raising happy, self-disciplined children. Based on years of research, this empowering book hones practical, sound, and easy-to-use strategies to help you to: (1) Teach your kids to cooperate; (2) Avoid punishment and handle discipline with knowledge and authority; (3) Build your children's self-esteem; (4) Nurture sibling relationships; (5) Take care of yourself and your other relationships. Kid Cooperation will help you to get a handle on your frustrations and be the kind of parent your child deserves. 208 pages (Book - $12.95) 

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Progressive Relaxation and Breathing
Being a parent can be highly stressful at times.  Learning to relax and remain relaxed throughout the day is an extremely important coping skill to master.  The ability to be relaxed under trying circumstances leads to improved self-control and coping ability.  Relaxation can provide peace of mind, restful sleep, increased energy and thinking power.  This tape provides detailed instruction and practice in the two most recommended forms of relaxation training.  Being a parent can be highly stressful at times.  Learning to relax and remain relaxed throughout the day is an extremely important coping skill to master.  The ability to be relaxed under trying circumstances leads to improved self-control and coping ability.  Relaxation can provide peace of mind, restful sleep, increased energy and thinking power.  This tape provides detailed instruction and practice in the two most recommended forms of relaxation training.  Being a parent can be highly stressful at times.  Learning to relax and remain relaxed throughout the day is an extremely important coping skill to master.  The ability to be relaxed under trying circumstances leads to improved self-control and coping ability.  Relaxation can provide peace of mind, restful sleep, increased energy and thinking power.  This tape provides detailed instruction and practice in the two most recommended forms of relaxation training. 
(Audio Tape - $11.95)

S.O.S. Help for Parents

SOS For Parents
A practical and comprehensive book for effectively handling common everyday behavior problems.  This book provides useful tools and then provides detailed examples on how to apply them to a wide range of behavior problems encountered by parents of children and young teens.  This book is extensively recommended by parent educators and health professionals.  It is the most practical book available to help parents raise healthy, happy, successful kids.  (Book - $12.95)  

Why Children MisbehaveWhy Children Misbehave and What To Do About It  This beautifully illustrated text offers practical strategies for dealing with common behavior problems in a concise, easy-to-use format. The authors cover problems with defiant and aggressive kids, promoting methods of discipline that teach self-control, instead of methods that focus on obedience and compliance. They include specific strategies for handling other common problems such as temper tantrums, not sharing, untruthfulness, whining, bad language, interrupting, sarcasm and sassiness, teasing, and stealing. Illustrated by over 100 photographs directly connected to the concepts covered in the text. Endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. 176 pages.  (Book - $14.95) 

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