Looking at children as individuals is an awesome way to help them grow as people while at the same time allowing you to grow in your understanding of the uniqueness of the child. It provides its own challenges, but in the long run, is a much easier way to guide kids.
If you are interested in learning more about kids and ways to interact with them, alternative parenting, consider some of the books below. These books were instrumental in designing the seminar you attended.
Thanks again.....and, pay attention to those bends!
Blessings!
Andrew Kendrick, MA
Eagles' Wings Counseling
BOOKS:
Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children
Lisa Guest
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No-To Take Control of Your Life (Inspirio/Zondervan Miniature Editions)
John Townsend & Henry Cloud
Pre-Hysteric Parenting: The Frazzled Parents' Guide to Harmony in the Home
H. Norman Wright
Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Foster Cline, MD & Jim Fay
Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Foster Cline, MD
Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years
Jim Fay
Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
Jim Fay
Meeting the Challenge: Using Love and Logic to Help Children Develop Attention and Behavior Skills
Jim Fay
Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children
John Gray
The Wonder of Boys
Michael Gurian
Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work
Otto Kroeger & Janet M. Thuesen
Strong-willed Child Or Dreamer?
Dana Scott Spears, Ph. D.
Understanding Your Child's Personality
David Stoop
The Way They Learn
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
The 8 Seasons of Parenthood: How the Stages of Parenting Constantly Reshape Our Adult Identities
Barbara C. Unell and Jerry L. Wyckoof
How to Speak Your Spouse's Language: Ten Easy Steps to Great Communication from One of America's Foremost Counselors
H. Norman Wright
What Did I Just Say!?!: How New Insights into Childhood Thinking Can Help You Communicate More Effectively with Your Child
Denis Donovan & Deborah McIntyre
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting
John Gottman, Joan Declaire & Daniel Gottman.
Grace-Based Parenting
Timothy Kimmel
Setting Limits
Robert J. MacKenzie
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
Margaret (Meg) J. Meeker
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (Advice on Parenting)
Thomas W. Phelan
The Stress-Proof Child
Antoinette Saunders
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough: Positive Discipline That Works
Nancy Samalin
Parenting With Love: Without Anger or Stress
Elizabeth Skoglund
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Leonard Sax
ARTICLES:
John Corso, Age and sex differences in thresholds, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 31:498-507, 1959.
John Corso, Aging and auditory thresholds in men and women, Archives of Environmental Health, 6:350-356, 1963.
Jane Cassidy and Karen Ditty, Gender differences among newborns on a transient otoacoustic emissions test for hearing. Journal of Music Therapy, 37:28-35, 2001.
Hiroaki Sato, et. al., Sexual dimorphism and development of the human cochlea. Acta Otolaryngologica, 111:1037-1040, 1991.
Thierry Morlet, et. al., Development of cochlear active mechanisms in humans differs between gender, Neuroscience Letters, 220:49-52, 1996.
Michael Phillips, Joseph Lurito, et. al., Temporal lobe activation demonstrates sex-based differences during passive listening, Radiology, 220:202-207, 2001.
J. D. Pearson, et. al., Gender differences in a longitudinal study of age-associated hearing loss, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97:1-10, 1995
