JoCoLibrary – Adult Nonfiction – Frustrated Parents
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Annotation:Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Annotation:A lighthearted but insightful guide to raising adolescent children shows parents how to deal with teenagers living in a faster-paced, less morally certain world than the one they knew.
Annotation:A new dad records his first, initially faltering year of fatherhood in this charming, funny, and lovingly written memoir.
Annotation:Psychologist Lerner’s personal tales show how having children alters your life, and that loving kids despite their imperfections is the best way to assure their loving you despite yours.
Annotation:The author of the "Momfidence!" column in Woman's Day magazine argues that readers should regain confidence in their innate parenting skills, offering a less stressful, make-it-up-as-you-go approach that is designed to keep children healthy and happy while keeping parents sane.
Annotation:The story of one teenager's descent into methamphetamine addiction is told from his father's point of view, describing how a varsity athlete and honor student became addicted to the dangerous drug and its impact on his family.
Annotation:Details a program for improving communication between parents and children, providing sample dialogues, role-playing exercises, and humorous yet illuminating cartoons
Annotation:A local author offers a humorous look at parenting kids of all ages in contemporary times.
Annotation:Funny stories, helpful tips from teenagers, communication advice, and more are combined in a practical guide to dealing with teenagers, their growing-pain angst, and their seemingly endless dramas in a positive manner for all involved.
Annotation:Having twins can be mind-boggling, and Scalise offers many suggestions, tips, and checklists for minimizing the incredible impact of twins on households, financial resources, and sanity
Annotation:An experienced therapist offers techniques for helping "chronically inflexible" children who suffer from excessively immoderate tempers, showing how brain-based deficits contribute to these problems.
Annotation:Teaches how the attachment parenting theory works, with actual footage of parents using the technique with their children.
Annotation:A Lamaze certified RN covers the skills needed to successfully breastfeed a baby, including information about pumping, bras, overcoming obstacles, and how to breastfeed twins.
Annotation:The author describes what a meltdown is, why they happen, and how to implement a four-step program to prevent them, while still modeling positive behavior for children.
Annotation:Argues that children must learn to make their own decisions and accept the consequences, and shows parents ways to encourage responsibility while maintaining discipline.
Annotation:Debunks myths about the effectiveness of gentle discipline methods while empowering parents to find ways to make gentle discipline work for both themselves and their children.
Annotation:This guide by two pediatricians who have raised eight children together discusses self-esteem, spanking, divorce, single parenting, travel, and baby-sitting, and offers advice on how to prevent problem behavior.
Annotation:An authoritative and informative guide examines the tools necessary for raising children with positive, loving discipline, and covers such topics as discipline vs. punishment, the causes of bad behavior, raising responsible children, and much more.
Annotation:This video is designed for children to watch as a preventative measure or during time out so they can understand what certain behaviors look like, why those behaviors are irritating to others, and how to better control the behaviors in the future.
Annotation:Contains three of classic humorist Bombeck’s books about parenting: At Wit's End, Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! and I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression.
Annotation:An often hilarious, occasionally disquieting look at parenting and childhood tips, bad advice, and advertising from the 1930s and 40s.
Annotation:Topics include sex, marriage, husbands, birth, and children, all garnished with surprisingly appetizing recipes.
Annotation:Social satirist Frazier’s essays relish the humorous side of parenting, with anecdotes such as setting rules for your kids about pets (they’re not to be taped) and sand (it’s not to be eaten).
Annotation:Great for new dads with a sense of humor (and an appreciation of profanity), this is a father’s witty look at the joys and absurdities of raising kids.
Annotation:A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children.
Annotation:Coping with being a recovering alcoholic and a single mother, Lamott has to face the fact that her best friend since childhood is dying of cancer.
Annotation:The lead vocalist/guitarist of the punk-rock band Pennywise has written part memoir/part parenting manual for responsible punks who want to raise decent, but nonconformist kids.
Annotation:Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning memoir in which he pays tribute, with humor and grace, to his poverty-stricken Irish family, including his father who drinks away the family’s pay checks, but who instills in his children a love of Irish history and lyrical storytelling.
Annotation:After experiencing an embarrassing operation for an anal fistula and losing his job, Marsh also discovers he’s an alcoholic and out of shape. He decides not to get another job and stays at home with his kids, getting to know them, as well as himself better.
Annotation:An illuminating memoir of a woman’s struggle to become a trustworthy person and a good mother after having been raised by her own mother, a drug user and a compulsive liar.
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Parents, are you frustrated? Try these nonfiction materials for some advice, sympathy, or just a good laugh.
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