It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
List by: Margaret
Quote by: Barbara Kingsolver
Before your teenagers drive you crazy, read this! : battlefield wisdom for stressed-out parents
Nigel Latta
NZ 649.64 LAT
New Zealand's most popular parenting writer has drawn on his extensive experience in family therapy and working with the country's most difficult teenagers to write the book that will save the sanity of parents everywhere. Once you've negotiated the terrors of toddlerdom and the perils of primary school you think you've got a pretty good handle on this parenting thing - then along comes Mother Nature with her horrible hormones and suddenly you're so far behind square one you're starting to wonder if this raging bundle of contradictions screaming at you was switched in the night by evil aliens. With his now trademark humour and pragmatic common sense approach, Nigel debunks the politically correct nightmare of perfect parenting and argues for sanity first - yours - and reclaiming the ground parents have lost in the great "I'm my child's best friend" debacle.
Growing great girls
by Ian and Mary Grant.
NZ 649.133 GRA
Parenting gurus Ian and Mary Grant show you how to raise self-assured, optimistic, adventurous, generous, strong and loving young women. Hot tips, quotes and action labs encourage parents to take a hands-on approach, helping their daughters to succeed in life.
He'll be OK : growing gorgeous boys into good men
by Celia Lashlie
NZ 649.132 LAS
After years working in the prison service, Celia Lashlie knows what can happen when boys make the wrong choices. She also knows what its like to be a parent - she raised a son on her own and feared for his survival. During the recent Good Man Project she talked to 180 classes of boys throughout New Zealand, and what she found was surprising, amusing and, in some cases, frightening. In this book, she reveals what goes on inside the world of boys, and that it is an entirely different world from that of girls. She offers parents - especially mothers - practical and reassuring advice on raising their boys to become good, loving, articulate men.
Raising boys : why boys are different and how to help them become happy and well-balanced men
by Steve Biddulph & illustrations by Paul Stanish
649.132 BID
Raising Boys has created shifts in how parents understand the development and needs of boysfrom birth to the teenage years. Completely new and revised with 50 extra pages and new photographs.
You want to do what? : instant answers to Kiwi parenting dilemmas
by Karen Sullivan
NZ 649.1 SUL
"As your children become more independent, the parenting questions multiply. Tackling the trickiest problems head on, childcare expert Karen Sullivan explains when it is safe, appropriate, necessary or normal for children aged 9-18 to do certain things." -- Back cover.
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