The Parenting & Families category has 781 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3,771 ratings. The most-rated is Kids These Days: A Game Plan for (Re)Connecting with Those We Teach, Lead, & Love.
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El Arte de educar [The Art of Educating]
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Nosotros, los padres, somos acompañantes de esas almas que son nuestros hijos; nuestra responsabilidad es conocerlos, caminar con ellos a lo largo de sus vidas. Si logramos ver la grandeza de sus espíritus, si nos volvemos verdaderos compañeros, daremos el primer gran paso: construir una relación sana. ¿En qué lugar quedamos cuando regañamos a nuestros hijos? ¿Cuántas veces nos hemos sentado con ellos realmente a escucharlos, a mostrarnos curiosos por lo que están viviendo sin tratar de imponernos? ¿Cuál es nuestro lenguaje corporal frente a ellos y cómo nos perciben? Éstas y muchas otras preguntas nos hace Alejandra Llamas a lo largo de su audiolibro para que reflexionemos acerca de nuestra postura y para que aprendamos a desarrollar nuevas herramientas que nos enseñen a ser padres que nutren. El arte de educar pone en tus manos la responsabilidad de crear niños sanos, seguros, creativos, empáticos con sus necesidades y las de otros. Éste es el propósito: convertirnos en padres-guía y maestros de nuestros niños, pero también en sus alumnos para tener la capacidad de aprender lo que nos vienen a enseñar. Este audiolibro, en pocas palabras, puede ser el gran regalo para que tú y tus hijos aprendan nuevas maneras de ser. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2014 Grijalbo (P)2018 Alejandra Llamas
The 5 Love Languages: Military Edition
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Marriage is hard enough for the everyday civilian. But imagine marriage when you’re separated by thousands of miles, when one of you daily faces the dangers of combat, while the other shoulders all the burden of home-front duties. Add to that the unpredictable schedules, frequent moves, and the challenge of reintegration, and it’s no wonder military marriages are under stress. Guided by input from dozens of military couples in all stages of their careers, authors Gary Chapman and former military wife Jocelyn Green offer you an unparalleled tool for navigating these challenges. Adapted from the number one New York Times best seller The 5 Love Languages, this military edition helps heal broken relationships and strengthen healthy ones. With an updated Q&A section specific to military marriages, stories of how military couples have adapted the five love languages to their unique lifestyles, and tips for expressing love when you’re miles away, The 5 Love Languages: Military Edition will take you on a well-worn path to marital joy, even as you face the pressures of serving your country. The challenges of military marriages are unique, but they don’t have to hinder love. Learn how to keep yours healthy and flourishing.
©2017 Gary D. Chapman (P)2020 Gary D. Chapman
Missed Translations
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A bittersweet and humorous memoir of family - of the silence and ignorance that separate us, and the blood and stories that connect us - from an award-winning New York Times writer and comedian. Approaching his 30th birthday, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his day job as a writer for the New York Times and a practicing comedian. But his stage material highlighting his South Asian culture only served to mask the insecurities borne from his family history. Sure, Deb knew the facts: His parents, both Indian, separately immigrated to North America in the 1960s and 1970s. They were brought together in a volatile and ultimately doomed arranged marriage and raised a family in suburban New Jersey before his father returned to India alone. But Deb had never learned who his parents were as individuals - their ages, how many siblings they had, what they were like as children, what their favorite movies were. Theirs was an ostensibly nuclear family without any of the familial bonds. Coming of age in a mostly white suburban town, Deb’s alienation led him to seek separation from his family and his culture, longing for the tight-knit home environment of his white friends. His desire wasn’t rooted in racism or oppression; it was born of envy and desire - for white moms who made after-school snacks and asked his friends about the girls they liked and the teachers they didn’t. Deb yearned for the same. Deb’s experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign, and subsequently as a stand up comedian, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father - the first step in a life-altering journey to bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared. Deb had to learn to connect with this man he recognized yet did not know - and eventually breach the silence separating him from his mother. As it beautifully and poignantly chronicles Deb’s odyssey, Missed Translations raises questions essential to us all: Is it ever too late to pick up the pieces and offer forgiveness? How do we build bridges where there was nothing before - and what happens to us, to our past and our future, if we don't?
©2020 Sopan Deb (P)2020 HarperAudio
Positive Discipline for Today's Busy (and Overwhelmed) Parent
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Jane Nelsen, coauthor of the popular Positive Discipline series, along with positive discipline educators Joy Marchese and Kristina Bill, put forth a new volume for parents looking to make their overburdened lives a little easier. With the increasing pressure to excel at parenting, work, and personal relationships, it's easy to feel stressed and dissatisfied. This targeted positive discipline guide gives parents the tools to parent effectively without sacrificing their well-being or giving up on their life goals. Instead of creating unachievable expectations, parents will learn how to play to their strengths at work and at home. Attitude is key - if you feel confident in your parenting abilities and at your job, your children are more likely to adopt an attitude of self-reliance and cooperation. Using wisdom based on the positive discipline philosophy, busy parents will be able to avoid pampering and keep permissive and punitive parenting at bay, fostering a happy, successful home life. With tried and true communication approaches at their fingertips to aid in work-life integration, moms (and dads!) won't have to feel guilty about leaving their child with a sitter during the day, or leaving work early to go to a soccer game. Parents will also learn how to balance out their "wheel of life" and adopt coping strategies when life feels a bit too overwhelming. Includes a PDF of charts and an appendix from the book. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Jane Nelsen, Kristina Bill, and Joy Marchese (P)2018 Random House Audio
The Gentle Discipline Book
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Discipline is a vital part of child-rearing, but many parents misunderstand how to use it and attempt to control their child's behaviour via a combination of punishment and motivation. Yet while this traditional approach may appear to produce quick results, it can potentially damage the child and, in the long term, leave parents with a far worse problem than they had initially. The Gentle Discipline Book analyses common discipline techniques and explains why so many are ineffective. It focuses on helping parents understand why children misbehave and how to respond in a way that will help them work with - rather than against - their child. Gentle discipline focuses on teaching and learning rather than punishing. With plenty of practical advice and case studies from real families, it will enable parents to set boundaries and enforce them with compassion and respect; it also demonstrates how parents can inspire children to be better and do better and how to set a great example for them. Gentle parenting is not about being a pushover - it means understanding children and having realistic expectations of them as well as responding appropriately and consistently. The book covers a range of ages, and the principles it contains work with toddlers, tweens and teenagers equally well - because it helps parents respond to the unique needs of each individual child. As well as providing a framework that will enable parents to become experts in their own child's behaviour, The Gentle Discipline Book provides solutions to common problems such as whining and sulking, aggressive behaviour, refusal to do things, rudeness, sibling rivalry, lying, low self-esteem and a lack of confidence.
©2016 Sarah Ockwell-Smith (P)2016 Little Brown Book Group
Pee Wees
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A New York Times best-selling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey. Rich Cohen, the New York Times best-selling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his son’s elite peewee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the 12-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a tale about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
©2021 Rich Cohen (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Two Homes, One Childhood
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A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, PhD, details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood. Building on his 2004 book The Truth About Children and Divorce and a strong evidence base, including his own research, Emery explains that a parenting plan that lasts a lifetime is one that grows and changes along with children's - and families' - developing needs. Parents can and should work together to renegotiate schedules to best meet the changing needs of children from infancy through young adult life. Divided into chapters that address the specific needs of children as they grow up, this book: Introduces Emery's Hierarchy of Children's Needs in Divorce Provides specific advice for successful parenting, starting with infancy and reaching into emerging adulthood Advocates for joint custody but notes that children do not count minutes and neither should parents Highlights that there is only one "side" for parents to take in divorce: the children's side Himself the father of five children, one from his first marriage, Emery brings a rare combination of personal and professional insight and guidance for every parent raising a child in two homes.
©2016 Robert E. Emery (P)2016 Penguin Audio
My Gentle Barn
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Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some 200 animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to rehabilitate abandoned and/or abused animals. As Ellie teaches the volunteers to care for the animals, they learn a new language of healing that works wonders on the humans as well. My Gentle Barn weaves together the story of how the Barn came to be what it is today with Ellie's own journey. Filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries, My Gentle Barn is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir listeners alike.
©2014 Ellie Laks (P)2014 Tantor
Betrayed: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Struggle to Escape a Cruel Life Defined by Family Honour
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In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times best seller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the heartbreaking true story of Zadie. When the young teenage girl, thrown out of her home by her strict Muslim family, is discovered hiding on the city streets by the police, it is clear that all is not as it should be. Taught to believe that Westerners should not be trusted, when Zadie is initially delivered into the experienced hands of foster carer Rosie, she is understandably suspicious of the family around her. Through Rosie's support and understanding, gradually Zadie begins to settle into her new surroundings, but loyalty to her relatives prevents her from confessing the horrifying truth about her troubled past. When the shocking truth finally emerges, Rosie and her family can hardly believe that Zadie had managed to keep the secret to herself for so long.
©2015 Rosie Lewis (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Finding Family
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Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA was a Global Ebook Awards gold medal winner and a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. It is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of how he pieced together the long-kept secret of his own origins. This highly suspenseful book is a compelling saga of personal detective work that will appeal to anyone who loves a good mystery. But this isn't fiction. It's an engrossing account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes listeners on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer.
©2015 Richard Hill (P)2017 Tantor
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Tu hijo, tu espejo [Your Child, Your Reflection]
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¿Cómo reconciliarte con tu vida y dejar que tus hijos vivan la suya? En este manual, Martha Alicia Chávez busca ofrecer las claves para ejercer una paternidad responsable y amorosa. Nadie dijo que ser padre sea una tarea sencilla. Enojo, envidia, frustración y vergüenza son emociones que muchas veces experimentamos con respecto a nuestros hijos y que, por si fuera poco, generalmente se acompañan de culpabilidad. Ese “lado oculto” de la relación padre/hijo puede arruinar la relación y alejarnos cada vez más de ellos. Tu hijo, tu espejo, de la psicoterapeuta mexicana Martha Alicia Chávez, es una útil herramienta para detectar esos momentos en que ser padre, lejos de ser una alegría, resulta ser un agobio. Es además una guía para aprender a aceptarlos con naturalidad y a modificar nuestra conducta. Esta versión en audiolibro es narrada por Gwendolyne Flores. También presta su voz la propia autora, lo que le confiere un matiz especial, ya que ella mejor que nadie sabe con qué intención escribió cada palabra. Desde su publicación en 2002, Tu hijo, tu espejo ha vendido más de 500 mil copias. La autora, además de continuar con su trabajo como terapeuta individual y familiar, es una reconocida conferencista que se ha especializado en el tema de la paternidad. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U. (P)2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
The End of Molasses Classes
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A new book from the award-winning teacher and best-selling author, Ron Clark, providing rules for parents and teachers to help kids succeed in school.<
©2011 Ron L. Clark, Inc. All rights reserved. (P)2011 Simon & Schuster Audio
Talking to Children about Divorce
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Marriage and family therapist Jean McBride has helped more than 20,000 families navigate divorce. Now she shares her expertise with an in-depth guide to discussing divorce with your kids so you can support your child’s adjustment throughout the entire divorce process. In Talking to Children About Divorce, Jean McBride provides you with the tools and encouragement to effectively communicate with your child about divorce. McBride brings her more than 25 years of specializing in divorce to guide you through crucial but difficult conversations and cultivate an environment of love and support throughout the divorce process. You’ll learn how to have honest conversations about different situations and emotions that may arise during divorce - from breaking the news to understanding resistance. Whether you’re beginning the divorce process, or have been working through it for a while, Talking to Children About Divorce offers practical advice that will contribute positively to your child’s emotional wellbeing. Learn to initiate open communication, with: Concrete actions to help your children weather the emotions of divorce. Useful scripts to guide you through a variety of situations throughout the divorce process. Simple steps to improve communication, both with your former spouse and with your children. Ten tips to maintain co-parenting success and promote healthy, happy, well-adjusted children.
©2016 Jean McBride (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
Healing From Family Rifts
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A family rift is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can face. It can have a profound effect on virtually every aspect of life, causing depression, relationship problems, and even physical illness. Healing From Family Rifts offers hope to those coping with a split in their families. Family therapist Mark Sichel addresses the pain and shame connected with family rifts and offers a way through the crisis and on toward healing and fulfillment. Uniquely, Sichel does not assume that every rift will or even should be mended. Instead, he offers ways to recover from any outcome, including: A 10-step process to come to terms with the family dynamics that led to the split Methods to find peace and personal reconciliation Skills that help to build a second family of people whose values are in line with one's own Techniques to fight feelings of guilt when faced with a family rift Includes inspiring and instructive stories drawn from the author's patients that help listeners put their own situations in perspective
©2004 Mark Sichel (P)2018 Tantor
The Gentle Parenting Book
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Parenting trends come and go. Gentle parenting is different - it isn't a label for a precise set of rules but a method of parenting that embraces the needs of parent and child while being mindful of current science and child psychology. It means parenting with empathy, respect, understanding - and boundaries. In The Gentle Parenting Book, Sarah Ockwell-Smith provides a trustworthy combination of what-to-expect information and gentle-parenting solutions to the most common challenges faced by parents with young children. Sarah addresses a wide variety of topics, including coping with a crying baby, introducing solid foods and creating healthy eating habits, potty training, starting nursery and school, sibling rivalry, tantrums, whining and sulking, aggressive behaviour and much more. And for those parents who have previously used a more authoritarian style of parenting, there's plenty of advice - and reassurance - on making the transition to a gentler approach. For many, gentle parenting comes as a relief because it chimes with their deepest instincts about the best way to raise their children.
©2019 Sarah Ockwell-Smith (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
The Three Mothers
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This program is read by the author. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes. Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. These three extraordinary women passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning - from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced. These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America’s racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families’ safety. The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers. These women, their similarities and differences, as individuals and as mothers, represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books "The Three Mothers is a fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history after raising sons who helped shape a movement. By tracing the intellectual, political, and emotional strands of each woman’s life, Anna Malaika Tubbs uncovers hidden complexities within black motherhood that illuminate our understanding of the past while also shedding light on the overlooked contributions of black women today. An eye-opening, engrossing read!" (Brit Bennet, New York Times best-selling author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers) "Anna's connection to these women is palpable on the page - as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Through Anna's writing, Berdis, Alberta, and Louise's stories sing. Theirs is a history forgotten that begs to be told, and Anna tells it brilliantly." (Ibram X. Kendi, number one New York Times best-selling author of How to Be an Antiracist and National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning)
©2021 Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
F--k, Now There Are Two of You
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Adam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting's primal struggles in Go the F--k to Sleep and You Have to F--king Eat - the often-imitated, never-duplicated pair of New York Times best sellers that ushered in a new era of radical honesty in humor books for parents. But what could possibly be left?
Parents - new, old, expectant, and grand - of multiple children already knew the answer. Author Adam Mansbach discovered it for himself by having two more kids, less than two years apart. F--k, Now There Are Two of You is a loving monologue about that new addition to the family, addressed to a big sibling and shot through with Adam's trademark profane truth-telling. Chock-full of unspoken sentiments channeled directly from the brains of parents worldwide, F--k, Now There Are Two of You articulates all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn't let a child listen to it.
©2019 Adam Mansbach (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Decoding Boys
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“If you’re raising a boy, you need this brilliant book. It is clear, wise, and eye-opening.” (Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled) When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet - or at least quieter than before - and parents often misread their signals. Here’s how to navigate their retreat and steer them through this confusing passage, by the best-selling author of The Care and Keeping of You series and Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys. What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What’s with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and...that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, and that causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less parent-child communication. But, as Natterson warns in Decoding Boys, we respect their increasing "need" for privacy, monosyllabic conversations, and alone time at their peril. Explaining how modern culture mixes badly with male adolescent biology, Natterson offers science, strategies, scripts, and tips for getting it right: Recognizing the first signs of puberty and talking to our sons about the wide range of "normal" through the whole developmental process Why teenagers make irrational decisions even though they look mature - and how to steer them toward better choices Managing video game and screen time, including discussing the unrealistic and dangerous nature of pornography Why boys need emotional and physical contact with parents - and how to give it in ways they’ll accept How to prepare boys to resist both old and new social pressures - drugs, alcohol, vaping, and sexting Teaching consent and sensitivity in the #MeToo culture Decoding Boys is a powerful and validating lifeline, an audiobook that will help today’s parents keep their sons safe, healthy, and resilient, as well as ensure they will become emotionally secure young men. Praise for Decoding Boys "Comforting...a common-sensical and gently humorous exploration of male puberty's many trials." (Kirkus Reviews)
©2020 Cara Natterson (P)2020 Random House Audio
Healing After Narcissistic Abuse
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If you have come out of a toxic relationship and are ready to move on, focus on yourself, and finally heal, then keep reading.... This book is about healing yourself rather than the main focus being on the narcissist and their behaviour. Constant research on narcissism only takes away time that could be used for implementing self-care patterns for your own recovery. Do you want to get past all the painful feelings such as shock, confusion, fear of the future, anger, loneliness, abandonment, and shame? If so, you have come to right place. You see, freeing yourself from destructive patterns doesn’t have to be difficult. Even if you have tried researching behaviors of narcissists and other ways to move on, it can be easier than you think, if done correctly. I wasted time trying to heal in the wrong way. Researching narcissism and replaying and speaking about everything over and over again rather than digging deeper, truly deeper. Don’t get me wrong, speaking up about abuse is the first, most important initial step you can take. But what comes next? How do you continue to heal past this? Studies have shown time and time again that deep healing is the way to truly address issues you are facing. Children that experience certain types of trauma during childhood are more likely to end up being in some form of an abusive relationship. A study by The Nursing Clinics of North America also concluded that healing the inner child by grieving neglected childhood developmental needs improves the quality of one's life. Here is a tiny fraction of what you’ll discover: How knowing everything about narcissism is not helping you, and what to do instead Useful things to do in the immediate aftermath, proven methods on how to process trauma Understanding what a pseudopersonality is, and how to fix it Inner child healing, why is it useful for women like us, what it is and how to go about it How simple exercises can help you with controlling your own thoughts after years of putting them first Healing PTSD Why meditation and mindfulness is so important How to reprogram your inner critic Do I need therapy? If so, which is best for me? Why your limited beliefs are holding you back Writing exercises for every step of the way Stories from real women Things you need to know before getting into a new relationship Even if you are struck with fear for the future, feel like you will never be able to move forward, and have hit rock bottom, you can break this cycle by applying the strategies in this book.
©2018 Jasmine Harriet (P)2019 Jasmine Harriet
The Transgender Teen
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Is it just a phase, a fad, or a real issue with your teen? This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, gender-variant, or gender-fluid. Covering extensive research and with many personal interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the author covers pressing concerns relating to physical and emotional development, social and school pressures, medical options, and family communications. Learn how parents can advocate for their children, find acceptable colleges and career paths, and raise their gender-variant or transgender adolescent with love and compassion.
©2016 Stephanie Brill (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC