Parenting-N-Families

Product Description
From a bestselling author and clinical psychologist comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter shepherding her father through his final years of life.

After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring “inherited” her father (Pop) and set off on an all-consuming, fiveyear mission to make his days as rich and comfortable as possible. This is their story, overflowing with humor, insight, and love.

In beautifully crafted vignettes, Janis brings their deepening relationship to life—both the joy and the imposition, the happiness and the heartache. Early on, she watches with relief as her father adjusts to an…

From Booklist
Previously available as a booklet in conjunction with a workshop and as a video, clinical psychologist Phelan’s simple, effective child-management program has now been issued as a trade paperback. The gist of the plan is to enable parents to discipline children, ages 2 to 12, by instituting a system of counting and time-outs, delivered straightforwardly and unemotionally. How the regimen is used to stop undesirable behavior, stimulate desirable conduct, and cope with children’s testing is conveyed in Phelan’s candid style, filled with common sense, concrete examples, and lots of reassuring humor. Time-and parent-tested, the methods…

I have Anorexia Nervosa & it’s cyclical so I’ve gotten better & worse for the past 6 years. Right now it’s getting worse over a breakup that I feel I didn’t have control of (we both didn’t want to break up but we had to due to external factors). My bf was from Lebanon & he loved me with curves so I started to love myself like that. And it’s a bit embarrassing since I’m going to school to be a clinical psychologist, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders of children & adolescents, but I can’t seem to shake…