Child Guidance

Talk to the mothers, father, grandparents and parent educators who’ve used Elizabeth Crary’s STAR Parenting Program and you’ll hear one rave review after another. Now a new book gives you the same strategies, based on Crary’s decades of experience with real families’ real issues. It offers stories about families just like yours—and all sorts of suggestions for developing your own creative solutions to both everyday and serious situations. More . . .

This readable guide to children’s and adults’ anger explains the legitimate reasons that kids may be angry or may think they are. You’ll find step-by-step recommendations, charts, lists and sample scenarios that help you understand your role in teaching children to handle strong emotions. More . . .

This common-sense guide to improving everyday behavior tells you how to squelch backtalk, tantrums, fibbing, and homework hassles. See a sample . . .

If you're exhausted, exasperated, or just plain scared about parenting teens and tweens, here's a road map from a social worker who survived the adolescence of her own six children. More . . .

Give your kids the interpersonal skills they need now—and throughout life—by using sibling squabbles to teach them "people" skills. Find out the four essential skills.

You can set limits in a loving manner. This practical guide shows how. The process is based on 5 areas of healthy parenting and has 15 parent-tested tools. Review the tools.