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Written for parents and families of college-bound students, Jon McGee's Dear Parents is an essential tool you'll need to navigate the complex and often emotional challenge of getting your daughter or son prepared for--and through--college. Organized chronologically, the book takes readers through the stages of childhood leading up to college, as well as the process of searching for and selecting a college. From the decisions you make during your child's early years to the process of setting up their dorm room, this book provides parents with insights, wisdom, and guidance about college, college preparation, and choosing a college.Letters written by college and educational professionals, all with children, frame and illuminate each chapter. Drawing on their personal and professional experience, these experts offer practical and sympathetic advice about preparing for college. The book concludes with insights about sending children off to college and the appropriate roles for parents as your children experience these important years. Undergirded by research but informed by on-the-ground insight, Dear Parents is designed to both engage and inform while demystifying the daunting and ever-changing process of entering college."If you've picked up this book, my guess is you don't need convincing that there is a lifelong return from a college education. You want to understand the process better and you'd like to help your teen smartly navigate their choices. You picked wisely if that's the case.... Jon McGee is a wonderful guide, shedding light on the mysterious process of applying to college while bringing much insight to the inevitable trade-offs."--from the foreword by Chris Farrell, Marketplace

This easy to follow illustrated book from a best-selling author presents strategies for 9-13 year olds with anxiety. It teaches them about, and normalizes, their symptoms and provides a set of concrete steps to overcome them. The tried and tested techniques are based on the most up-to-date psychological treatments of anxiety, including CBT and ACT.

"[A]n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book…about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon.” —James Fallows, The AtlanticLove That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius—and what they truly need—grit, empathy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.

Niall Breslin's latest Mindful Moments picture book, now in paperback, brings calm to bedtime by teaching children a body scan meditation technique for an easy countdown to sleep.

Are you tired of doing everything by yourself?Do you wish people would give you the help you need?Do you get frustrated when your attempts to help others donΓÇÖt work?Go To Help will teach you concrete strategies to get better at offering, asking for, and accepting help. YouΓÇÖll gain practical insights to help yourself and others get more done with less stress and longer-lasting success.YouΓÇÖll learn how to:ΓÇó Offer help that inspires others to learn and growΓÇó Manage when someone doesnΓÇÖt accept your helpΓÇó Reject requests when youΓÇÖre overloadedΓÇó Ask specifically for the kind of help thatΓÇÖs actually useful

Margaret McCall, an ambitious freelance writer, believes she has discovered the story of a lifetime that had baffled the police for half a century. Backtracking to the year 1891, she focuses her investigation on Isabel Laughton, an unmarried woman who has a large mansion and wealth but is missing the thing she yearns for the most-a child.As fate would have it, Peggy, mother of a prostitute, abandons her infant grandson on Isabel''s doorstep. The moment she cradles him, a bond of a mother''s love is instantly felt, and Isabel raises the child as her own, naming him Shawn.For fifteen years, life is grand, keeping her secret safely intact, but then the unthinkable happens; Shawn''s mother wants him back. Desperate, Isabel unleashes her vengeance and embarks on a murderous streak on all those who threaten to take him away from her.Feathers...church bells...a mysterious stranger-are they somehow connected?Margaret returns to the Laughton Estate, where she uncovers all the secrets. She learns of the madness and the reason Isabel''s love for Shawn has extended beyond the grave.Now the truth has placed Margaret in a precarious situation. Isabel cannot allow sixty-four years of cover-up to be ruined in a single day. Margaret, too, must be silenced.

It's 1970 and Janey's unpredictable father has decided to move his family back to his homeland in rural Northern Ireland. He had hoped to escape the mad jumble of the 60's in suburban New York in search of a more tranquil lifestyle, but unknowingly arrived at the beginning of a thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles. Thrust into a new world seemingly gone mad, Janey must find an uncharted path through life.

Relationship expert and counselor Dr. Morgan Cutlip equips mothers with five simple steps for combating the chaos of motherhood, defeating feelings of guilt and inadequacy, and deeply loving their kids without neglecting or losing themselves.