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It Will Get Better: Finding Your Way Through Teen Issues – Melinda Hutchings

Jarvis — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:59:15 +0000

It Will Get Better: Finding Your Way Through Teen Issues provides parents struggling with the teen years with answers and also offers insights that helps them produce well rounded young adults with a handle on life.

Teenage life brings up plenty of issues and can feel overwhelming at times. In It Will Get Better, Melinda Hutchings draws on her own experiences and those of many teens who speak openly about their issues – everything from family break-ups and troubled friends, to cutting, cyber-bullying and experiencing the death of a parent. They talk candidly about dealing with difficult emotions and what did or did not help them. Most importantly, they share the insights they gained that helped them heal and move forward.


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Alongside the teen voices are helpful sections of expert advice, practical tips, websites and many other supportive resources to help you find your way through. Perfect for the information-hungry generation and their parents, It Will Get Better is revealing and informative, providing strategies to face and overcome challenging issues and helping teens to recognise their enormous potential to create a happy and fulfilling future.

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Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy – Nigel Latta

Jarvis — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:19:04 +0000

Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy is clinical psychologist Nigel Latta’s series on how to bring up your kids without any namby pamby parenting.

Do your kids sometimes make you feel your head is going to explode? Ever yelled at them until you were hoarse? Do you have days when you feel like making a run for the airport? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that bad behaviour has inevitable consequences, this is the perfect book to help your family make it through the crucial first decade or so and still enjoy each other’s company.



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Practical commonsense answers and real life examples, logical and realistic strategies, and innovative behaviour modification tools that work in the real world – all from a parent and family therapist who’s seen almost everything there is to see and offers some hard-won battlefield wisdom. Written in down-to-earth language, this book needs to be handed out at birth, an essential guide for the struggling parent who knows family life can and should be better. About the program: Bringing up kids has never seemed more difficult with all the rules, regulations and judgments modern society places on parenting. Now, clinical psychologist Nigel Latter brings his unique brand of humour to Australia, to lead us through the maze of tactics to keep the little tackers at bay. Presented with tongue firmly in cheek, this is a series that will debunk the myths and have Mums and Dads rediscover that tried and true methods are often the best.

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Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? Do your kids sometimes make you feel your head is going to explode? Ever yelled at them until you were hoarse? Do you have days when you feel like making a run for the airport? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that bad behaviour has inevitable consequences, this is the perfect book to help your family make it through the crucial first decade or so and still enjoy each other’s company. Practical commonsense answers and real life examples, logical and realistic strategies, and innovative behaviour modification tools that work in the real world – all from a parent and family therapist who’s seen almost everything there is to see and offers some hard-won battlefield wisdom. Written in down-to-earth language, this book needs to be handed out at birth, an essential guide for the struggling parent who knows family life can and should be better.

What’s Happening to Our Boys? – Maggie Hamilton

Jarvis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:12:12 +0000

Maggie Hamilton’s What’s Happening To Our Boys confronts the problems boys and young men face, and suggests positive and constructive ways for family members to help them grow into resilient, productive and happy individuals.

Why are increasing numbers of boys suffering body image and self-esteem problems? Why do they feel worthless without the latest branded toy, game or item of clothing? What makes soft drinks, snacks and fast foods so attractive? Why are they drawn to countless acts of violence on TV, in movies and in computer games? What impact does our highly sexualised climate and our emphasis on success and money have on them as they grow? And why are so many boys vulnerable to cyber bullying and to porn?



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Following the success of What’s Happening to Our Girls?, this book investigates a wide range of the challenges boys and young men face as they grow up in the early 21st century. These include things such as increasing pressure on young boys to buy into consumerist culture, their exposure to violent video games, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, the particular risks they face as young drivers, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues, safety on the internet, and bullying. That all sounds terrifying, but as ever, Maggie’s emphasis is on finding solutions. As with the previous book, she talks to a number of boys and their parents and teachers as well as professionals, and compiles a vast amount of evidence from various sources.

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The Grandparents’ Book, 2nd Ed – Miriam Stoppard

Jarvis — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:21:43 +0000

The Grandparents’ Book, 2nd Ed is Dr Miriam Stoppard’s personal, practical & wise guide to how to be the kind of grandparent every child (& parent) wants – now in paperback.

Every grandparent wants to make the most of life with their new grandchildren. But how can you build a close relationship? How far should you get involved? What about financial planning for the future? Discover not just how to be a good grandparent, but a really great grandparent. Get involved discover the vital nurturing role a grandparent can play and how to build that unique closeness. Be sensitive sensible guidelines on how to build a wonderful relationship with your grandchildren while respecting parents’ boundaries.



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Have fun great ideas for days out, holidays and activities you will all enjoy. Discover how to make the most of this very special relationship.

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The Winter of Our Disconnect – Susan Maushart

Jarvis — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:20:30 +0000

As seen on Channel 9′s Weekend Today The Winter of Our Disconnect is the story of how one family survived six months of wandering through the desert, digitally speaking, and the lessons learned about themselves and technology along the way. At the same time, their story is a channel to a wider view – into the impact of new media on the lives of families, into the very heart of the meaning of home.

For any parent who’s ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table – or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage – this account of one family’s self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections, to create a media ecology that encourages kids – and parents – to thrive.



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When journalist and commentator Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. At ages 14, 15 and 18, her daughters and son didn’t use media. They inhabited media. Just exactly as fish inhabit a pond. Gracefully. Unblinkingly. And utterly without consciousness or curiosity as to how they got there. Susan’s experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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Dear Mum – M I L K

Jarvis — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:53:49 +0000

Dear Mum: MILK is illustrated with winning images chosen by eminent Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt, celebrating moments of intimacy, laughter and kinship.

M.I.L.K. began as an epic global competition to find extraordinary and geographically diverse images. The publication of DEAR MUM is in praise of one of life’s closest relationships. These unforgettable images, chosen from the M.I.L.K. collections, celebrate what it is to be part of a family, to share the gift of friendship and, more than anything else, to be loved.



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The Eco-nomical Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways for Parents to Save Money and the Planet – Joy Hatch

Jarvis — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:33:09 +0000

The Eco-nomical Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways for Parents to Save Money and the Planet is a guide by Joy Hatch that points the way to the future of parenting in an economically and environmentally responsible way.

With a recession in full swing and unemployment rates climbing to alarming levels, young families are searching for budget-friendly solutions that dovetail with their green values. While having a child motivates parents to consider the future health of the planet, they often can’t afford to purchase high-end organic baby products. “The Eco-nomical Baby Guide” offers creative ways for raising a healthy baby on a budget. It’s possible to still maintain an excellent quality of life while cutting costs and helping the environment.



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The hosts of green baby guide website, Rebecca Kelley and Joy Hatch are young, conscientious mothers who have done all the homework and now share the insights, knowledge and cost-saving tips they have learned from their own experience and research. With its three primary goals of saving time, money and the planet, “The Eco-nomical Baby Guide” shows parents how to: find out exactly which baby products are necessary and which aren’t; get practical up-to-date information on green options for feeding, clothing, diapering and outfitting materials; ensure that products are true to their green claims; learn insider tricks for finding safe, quality used gear for up to 90 per cent off retail prices; and, also find resources and inspiration for making baby supplies from recycled or otherwise sustainable materials.

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What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind – Debra Ollivier

Jarvis — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:51:48 +0000

Less a how-to and more a how-not-to, What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind offers a refreshing counterpoint to the stale love dogma of our times. It debunks longstanding myths, presenting savvy new thinking from an old sexy culture and more realistic, life-affirming alternatives from the land that knows how to love.

It’s not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It’s this: French women don’t give a damn. They don’t expect men to understand them. They don’t care about being liked or being like everyone else. They generally reject notions of packaged beauty. They accept the passage of time, celebrate the immediacy of pleasure, like to break rules, embrace ambiguity and imperfection, and prefer having a life to making a living. They are, in other words, completely unlike us.



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Ollivier goes beyond familiar ooh-la-la stereotypes about French women, challenging cherished notions about sex, love, dating, marriage, motherhood, raising children, body politics, seduction, and flirtation. Peppered with anecdotes this guide to life is filled with provocative ideas from French sexperts, mistresses and maidens alike.

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Rekindling: Your Relationship After Childbirth – Martien Snellen

Jarvis — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:20:59 +0000

Rekindling: Your Relationship After Childbirth by Martien Snellen is a godsend for any new, or newish, parent who thinks their other relationship could do with a little attention too.

We all know parenthood brings massive changes. But not every couple is prepared for the impact pregnancy and childbirth can have on their intimate relationship. Sure, we expect to put sex on hold for a while just before and after the birth, but most of us naively assume that things will eventually return more or less to normal. Unfortunately for many couples it doesn’t work out like that. And although it’s true, as Martien Snellen points out, that no one ever died from lack of sex…Well, sometimes it can make a relationship feel a little bit under the weather.



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Dr Martien Snellen is a psychiatrist with an extensive practice in relationship counselling. In this new edition of his immensely well received book (originally released as Sex & Intimacy after Childbirth) he explores the factors that can affect your sex life when you have a new baby. From changes in body image to serious health issues like Postnatal Depression; from divergent levels of interest to just not being able to find the time. And, most importantly, he offers practical suggestions to help get the spark back. For both of you.

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Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice – Emily Maguire

Jarvis — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:50:30 +0000

Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice by Emily Maguire is both a personal and illuminating book that seeks to be a bridge to enable young women and men to understand the issues behind them and those ahead of them

After many waves of feminism, where are we? Are young women really either massive sluts or helpless dolls? And anyway, what’s the definition of a slut? Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice (a revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars), Emily Maguire ignites discussion on issues relevant to teenagers.



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Drawing on her adolescence and the experiences faced by teens today, Maguire looks for answers and a way forward. Guided by the wisdom born of experiences both good and bad, Maguire offers advice without lecturing in this engaging and frank book that will inform and equip readers of all ages.

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