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Active Parenting
Dr. Michael Popkin--one of the nation's foremost experts on parent education--explains positive discipline and communication techniques to help your family run more smoothly. This guide shows you why children misbehave and how to redirect them, nonviolent discipline that really works, how to prevent future problems with drugs, and much more. Millions of parents have used this "active" approach to raise courageous, cooperative children--and now you can, too!
Taming the Spirited Child
Do you dread parent-teacher conferences? Does your child really know how to push your hot button? Has your child been labeled "defiant" or "rebellious"? Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame -- not break -- a spirited child. Parents are often faced with scary labels for their children, such as attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, or hyperactivity. In this uniquely prescriptive guide, leading parenting expert Dr. Michael Popkin shows parents how to think differently about so-called problem children. The effective strategies within this guide will quiet the difficulties spirited children have at home and school while exposing the unique, special gifts they possess. Develop a relationship with your spirited child by: -- Building relationship skills -- Disciplining with encouragement -- Balancing the power dynamic -- Curbing tantrums effectively With step-by-step methods for every type of misbehavior and every child's unique personality, this comprehensive guide will help parents cultivate their child's spark, not extinguish it -- and reach beyond depressing labels for their beloved children.
Active Parenting Now in 3 Parent's Guide
With this friendly and action-oriented guide, Dr. Michael Popkin reveals how you can improve your family life and make the job of parenting easier.
ADHD
A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits • Explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world”--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society • Offers concrete non-drug methods and practices to help hunters--and their parents, teachers, and managers--embrace their differences, nurture creativity, and find success in school, at work, and at home • Reveals how some of the world’s most successful people can be labeled as ADHD hunters, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carneg...
Active Parenting Today
Dr. Michael Popkin, founder and president of Active Parenting Publishers and one of the nation's foremost experts on parent education, shows you how to develop courage, responsibility and self-esteem in your children.
Active Parenting of Teens
The challenge of successfully ushering children through their teen years has always been among parents' hardest-won achievements. But in today's society, where children seem to become adults overnight, and where they often make decisions about drugs, sexuality, and violence before they understand the consequences, a parent's job is more important than ever. So how can you ensure that your teens develop the skills and character they need to not only survive but to thrive as they gain independence? Active Parenting of Teens provides the guidance and support you need to turn the challenges of raising a teenager into opportunities for growth. You'll learn: Methods of respectful discipline Skills for clear, honest communication Concrete strategies to prevent risky behavior How to be an encouraging parent ..and much more, plus insight into important issues such as teens online, bullying, and depression. The "active" approach has helped millions of families become happier and more productive as their children become more responsible, respectful, and capable of making good decisions. Book jacket.
Parents on Board Parent's Guide
Supportive and creative ways to help your child learn.
Difficult Conversations
This is a great resource for teachers and administrators to communicate more effectively.
The Rational Peasant
Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of its members.
The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux
The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays in early modern philosophy by leading scholars in the field presented in honor of Thomas M. Lennon.
