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The challenge: How to raise children in a drug-filled society and prevent substance abuse

Dr. Schwebel's Recommendations:

• Start when your children are young
• Create a family climate for communication
• Show your children how to meet their needs without drugs
• Help kids understand the dangers of drugs
• Help them learn to resist peer pressure
• Teach your children how to make wise decisions
• Establish give-and-take discussions with teens
• Stay alert to potential drug problems and know how to respond

How to listen...

This easy-to-read, delightfully illustrated book is organized in a month-by-month format. Each chapter begins with a description of the developmental events and advances in play behavior that are likely to occur during that month. A section on play ideas suggests ways that parents can introduce games and activities that capitalize on their babies' emerging skills. Included are:

• More than 180 candid photos showing babies, parents, and caregivers at play
• 400 fun-filled play activities for parent and child to share during daily routines such as mealtime, diapering, bath...

Two year olds progress at such a rapid rate that they often leave their families dazzled and a bit confused. This easy-to-read, parent-friendly book, illustrated with over 130 photographs of real children at play, provides insight into how two year olds see themselves; how they get along with others; and how they learn language. Here are hundreds of innovative ideas to help your child in all these efforts as well as suggestions for dealing with potential problems. Some of the subjects covered include:

- self-definition - resolving conflicts - living with siblings - playing with...

Should you give your child nutritional supplements? Are vaccinations safe? Why are more and more children becoming couch potatoes? In Healthy Child, Whole Child, doctors Stuart H. Ditchek and Russell H. Greenfield answer these questions and more, offering authoritative, cutting-edge information on all aspects of children's health and wellness. Taking the position that conventional and alternative approaches to pediatric care are not mutually exclusive, they provide the newest science and most up-to-date information on:

• The 6 myths (and one true statement) about...

Your ex-spouse is bad mouthing you to your children, constantly portraying you in a negative light, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your relationship with your children could suffer. You could lose their respect, lose their affections-even, in extreme cases, lose all contact with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire with fire will only result in greater injury to the children. But after years of consulting parents who heeded such advice with no success, Dr. Richard Warshak is convinced that this approach...