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A Parent's Guide to Prescription Stimulants (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisThere's a lot of controversy around ADHD meds like Adderall and Ritalin, yet they continue to be used recreationally by millions in the US. As a parent, you probably have a lot of questions. Are they really the wonder drug they're made out to be? What are the risks of taking them? How do teens get them without a prescription? <p><p> Along with answering these questions, this guide will help you talk with your teen about prescription stimulants and guide the conversation in a productive and encouraging way. <p> Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Ready Player One (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisThis bestselling novel and film appeals to gamers, sci-fi enthusiasts, and kids of the 1980s alike, giving families a chance for common enjoyment and deep conversations. If your teens love RPO, this guide can help make sense of the good and the bad and offers lots of discussion questions.
A Parent's Guide to Sabbath & Rest (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisIn our age of being on the go and never stopping to even think, it's hard to slow down, to breathe, to reflect. But it's the best thing we can do for our souls. This guide makes the case for Sabbath in your teen’s life and offers easy ways to implement it today. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Self-Regulation: A Practical Framework for Breaking the Cycle of Dysregulation and Mastering Emotions for Parents and Children
by Dr. Amber ThorntonDiscover tools and techniques for managing emotions, reactions, and behavior in this friendly, evidence-based book designed especially to help and support struggling, overstressed parents.As the millennial generation moves into their parenting years, posting on social media about milestones, memories, and good times is almost second nature. Families can seem &“perfect,&” and some parenting methods are heralded as &“the best.&” However, behind closed doors, many parents and caregivers struggle greatly no matter what method or combination of parenting methods they use. There are points where it seems like you&’ve tried everything. Maybe it even feels hopeless. That&’s where A Parent&’s Guide to Self-Regulation comes in. This book will demystify the concepts of dysregulation and parental self-regulation, and will normalize prioritizing these skills for parents, before bringing the concepts into parenting children. With this book&’s step-by-step framework, you will learn how to mitigate tough parenting moments, develop self-regulatory skills, and read real accounts from other parents. From addressing societal myths about dysregulated parenthood to tips on re-parenting yourself for better regulation and everything in-between, this book will serve as both a friendly companion and a source of solid, evidence-based advice. A Parent&’s Guide to Self-Regulation is written by Dr. Amber Thornton, a clinical psychologist and mother of two, who knows what it feels like to struggle with dysregulation and self-regulation as a parent.
A Parent's Guide to Sexting (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisSexting has been a growing trend in our culture for years, and it isn’t going anywhere. This guide will answer questions like: Why are teens sexting?What will happen if my teen sexts?How do I have an open and loving conversation with my teen about sexting and its dangers? Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Shame-Free Parenting (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisPossibly one of the most debilitating and demotivating feelings we experience, shame is a powerful influence in all of our lives. Yet most of us were never taught how to deal with it well, if at all. This guide aims to help you break free from your own shame while creating a shame-free atmosphere for your kids. <p><p> Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Smartphones (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisGood news! It is possible to use smartphones well and to keep them from becoming our kids’ entire world, even if they’ve had phones for a while. This guide offers a theology of technology, tips for preparing kids for the first phone, and much more.
A Parent's Guide to Snapchat (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisWhy are teens so obsessed with Snapchat? And what do they even do on it? This guide will help you better understand the app itself, why it’s appealing, and how to have conversations about it with your teens.
A Parents' Guide to Special Education for Children with Visual Impairments
by Susan LaventureThis handbook for parents, family members and caregivers of children with visual impairments explains special education services that these children are likely to need and to which they are entitled--and how to ensure that they receive them. Edited and written by experienced parents and professionals, this helpful and easy to use resource addresses the effect of visual impairment on a childs ability to learn and the services and educational programming that are essential for them to get the best education possible. Chapters address early intervention, assessment, different types of services, IEPs, accommodations and adaptations, different types of placements, children with other disabilities in addition to visual impairment, and negotiation and advocacy.
A Parent's Guide to Spring Break (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisHow did spring break become what it is today? What pressure do teens and college students feel to join in? How do we talk to them about it? What’s the correct response to the “spring break phenomenon”? What does it mean to actually take a break? All these questions and more are answered in this insightful guide.
A Parent's Guide to Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisWith rates of suicide and self-harm on the rise, we can’t afford to not talk with our children about these difficult topics. Learn what God says about both, how to initiate conversations, and how to get help.
A Parent's Guide to Talking about Porn (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisPornography is a threat for everyone, no matter our age. But we must especially be aware of how our teens’ exposure to porn. This guide will answer these questions you may have: When will my teens encounter porn?How to people rationalize porn?What is our culture telling men and women?What is porn telling men and women?How does porn impact men and women who watch it?What can I do to help my teens not fall prey to porn?How to teens hide porn? Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
The Parent's Guide to Talking About Sex: A Complete Guide to Raising (Sexually) Safe, Smart, and Healthy Children
by Janet Rosenzweig Bs MpaIf your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having "the talk” with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking book, you may find you never need to have "the talk. ” Dr. Rosenzweig illustrates how you can help protect your children from sexual abuse, trauma, and bullying through your everyday interactions with them. She walks you through the steps you can take to combine your own family’s values with age-appropriate information for children at all stages of development. And you’ll learn how to do so in a way that will improve the trust and communication between you and your child. Dr. Rosenzweig applies her decades of experience in child abuse prevention, sexuality education, and family services to help you identify the real threats to your children’s safety and to protect them from becoming victims of sexual misinformation or exploitation. From choosing a child’s first daycare to meeting the multimedia challenges of adolescence, The Parent's Guide to Talking About Sex will coach you to raise sexually safe and healthy sons and daughters.
A Parent's Guide to Tattoos (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisDespite what past generations felt, tattoos are becoming more and more mainstream, meaning it's highly possible teens might ask if they can get one (or several). This guide looks at the arguments for and against tattoos, offering constructive ways to talk to your teens about the controversial body art. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
The Parents' Guide to Teaching Kids with Asperger Syndrome and Similar ASDs Real-Life Skills for Independence
by Patricia Romanowski Peter GerhardtThe definitive resource for teaching kids with Asperger syndrome the life skills that build independence, confidence, and self-esteem. Children with autism spectrum disorders learn differently. Our kids' choices are too often limited and their paths to success restricted, not by a lack of intellectual ability but by deficits in acquiring, applying, and generalizing basic life skills. Success in school, at home, on the playground, and beyond depends on mastering countless basic living skills that most other kids just "pick up" almost by osmosis. This book shows parents how to teach these so-called easy skills to complex learners. This is the first book for parents and caregivers of kids with Asperger syndrome and similar learning profiles that features strategies based on applied behavior analysis--the most widely accepted, evidence-based, and effective teaching method for learners with ASDs--including how to: -Identify critical skills appropriate for your child's age--how to teach them and why-Implement new techniques that can replace, mimic, prompt, override, or impose missing order on your child's learning style -Design a curriculum for your child that reduces reliance on prompts (including parents) and promotes new learning, new behaviors, and independenceFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
A Parent's Guide to Teen Addiction: Professional Advice on Signs, Symptoms, What to Say, and How to Help
by Laurence M. WestreichFrom Berkeley to the Bronx, teenage addiction has reached epidemic levels. Parents may suspect their teen’s substance use, but often don’t know if their teen is addicted or what to do about it. Dr. Laurence Westreich, an addiction expert and the father of two teenagers, helps parents navigate the fraught addiction landscape in A Parent’s Guide to Teen Addiction. Divided into three sections, this book—based on the author’s decades of experience evaluating and treating teenagers who use substances—guides parents from the moment they suspect their teen has a substance abuse problem to the steps families must take after intensive treatment. Dr. Westreich: • Lays out the facts of teen addiction and explains how to recognize a problem with a teen • Details what parents need to know about the substances that teenagers commonly use • Provides information on what to do about the substance abuse, including how to find good one-on-one addiction therapy, how to encourage a teen to enter an outpatient program or inpatient facility, and how to line up aftercare treatment Best of all, he includes “tough talk” dialogues that parents can tailor to their specific situation with their teen. This practical, hopeful, and reassuring book helps parents put their teen on the healthy and life-affirming road to recovery.
A Parent's Guide to Teen Privacy (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisFor many teens, privacy equals autonomy, so they can tend to fight tooth and nail for it. But what's a biblical view of privacy? This guide seeks to understand it better and help you apply it in a way that allows teens to gain true freedom as they become responsible adults. <p><p> Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Teen Singleness (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisEven if your kids are young, you have the opportunity to shape how they view singleness and marriage now. But even more importantly, you have the chance to help them love God more than anything else, to the point that they're willing to follow Him wherever He leads—including even a life of singleness. <p><p> Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Teen Slang (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisIf you’re struggling to keep up with what your teens are saying, this is a great resource to have! Understand what different words mean and how they’re typically used.
A Parent's Guide to Teens and Alcohol (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisPartying and drinking can be huge temptations for teens, especially if their friends, shows, songs, influencers, celebrities, and video games all portray it as desirable and fulfilling. So how can we impart a biblical understanding of and relationship to alcohol to our kids? And what do we do if we find out they’re addicted?
A Parent's Guide to Teens and Opioids (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisOpioids and prescription drugs, though legal, are not always safe. And while teen opioid use is declining, teen overdose-related deaths are increasing. This guide will help you understand opioids, their risks, conversations to have, and preventative steps to take within your home.
A Parent's Guide to Teens & Dating (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisThe difference between how culture views dating and romance and how the church views it can be so vastly different that one can't help but wonder if there's a happy middle ground. This guide will help you prepare your teens for dating (or not) in today’s culture that glorifies God and the people around them. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Teens & Doubt (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisDoubts can be alarming, but they don't have to be! This guide encourages you to let the conversations flow as you join your teens in their search for truth in the midst of a culture that preaches "tolerance" as king. You’ll touch on questions like: Does truth exist?What if my teenager doesn’t care if God exists?Is there evidence that God exists?Could that evidence point to a different God?Can we trust the Bible?Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Teens & Eating Disorders (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisEating disorders are on the rise. We not only need to understand the culture around them but also how to have conversations about them and where to go when our teens need help. This guide gives you a starting point to talk with your teen about eating disorders from a mental, physical, and spiritual understanding. Eating disorders are a complex problem but it’s important to have the conversation about them.Disclaimer: Information contained in this resource is intended only to increase knowledge and provide faith-based encouragement to users on the subjects of eating disorders, mental health, and other related issues. Axis and David C Cook do not intend to offer medical advice or treatment of any kind. The resources we offer are intended as tools only, the use and results of which should be confirmed by a qualified healthcare professional. This information is not a replacement for diagnosis or treatment by a qualified healthcare professional. Axis and David C Cook cannot be held responsible for actions taken without professional medical guidance. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.
A Parent's Guide to Teens & LGBT+ (Axis Parent's Guide)
by AxisCheck out this guide for help with all of these questions around this sensitive topic: What does LGBTQQIAAP mean?How is it all affecting my kids?How can I talk to my teen about it?What does the Bible say about it all?How can I love others while sticking firmly to the truth of God's Word?What do my Gen Z kids think LGBT+ is? Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.