Product Description: Providing the basics of a child’s emotional development, this book pays particular attention to children who have learning challenges related to autism, ADHD, sensory issues, or other developmental delays A short course for busy parents, teachers, and professionals, Helping Children with Their Feelings sets parents on a clear, practical path to increase their child’s understanding of his or her own and others’ feelings...read more

Product Description: Offering parents realistic expectations about toddler behavior, this guide provides detailed, how-to advice for teaching kids to share and for intervening when toddlers have difficulty sharing. It reviews children's temperament and development and the roles they play in the willingness to share, while also explaining how to handle the child who never complains about giving up a possession...read more

Product Description: Rejecting the notion of a one-size-fits-all approach to parenting, this guide uses the points of a star to provide an outline of different strategies for handling both everyday and serious child-guidance issues. The book is filled with anecdotes with which readers will identify, and it encourages parents to be creative in developing a variety of responses to children’s actions...read more

Product Description: Walking parents through the concept of emotional competency, this practical manual argues that it begins by teaching children to identify and acknowledge their feelings. The book provides exercises and examples that demonstrate how children—including toddlers—can cope with their emotions, using problem-solving tools and self-calming techniques such as exercise or a few minutes alone with a favorite book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In a story designed to help children learn to solve problems for themselves, Willy must figure out a way to get some peace and quiet when he arrives home from school after a noisy bus ride and his little sister wants to play.

Teasing, theft and the need for privacy are just a few of the interpersonal issues children need to be able to handle. These new books introduce problem-solving techniques, including: -- Brainstorming possible solutions; -- Anticipating how each action will affect others; and-- Selecting the best solution for the situation.Each story presents several alternatives for readers to consider. Every choice leads to a different ending. Kids can decide whether they like how the story turns out -- or whether they want to go back and try another way of solving the problem. The stories also give adults an opportunity to ask children what other solutions they can suggest.When something disappears out of your lunch box or your locker or your desk every day, you'd like to say, No big deal. But even minor theft is a big deal to kids. Amy's Disappearing Pickle shows children several different ways of ending an annoying problem. Like all Kids Can Choose books, this story about theft emphasizes brainstorming solutions and evaluating each option before taking action. With guidance and practice, children can use the techniques in the book to solve their own problems.

In a story designed to help children learn to solve problems for themselves, Heidi must figure out a way to stop an annoying classmate from teasing her and grabbing her hat.

Product Description: Functioning as a kind of quick-reference guide to parenting, this concise book discusses child development, describes basic temperament traits, and offers many practical child-guidance tools as it introduces a problem-solving process known as STAR Parenting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the necessary tools for parents to teach 'people' skills to their children, including dealing with feelings and solving problems

Product Description: Toddlers feel emotions just as older children and adults do. Their frustrations at their inability to say how they feel can be eased with these delightful rhymes that teach words and actions, sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands...read more

Verses suggest what to do to cope with shyness

Verses suggest what to do to express anger

Verses suggest some things to do when someone feels like acting silly

Using a story about two friends, Jenny and Eduardo, explores the various ways Jenny might react when Eduardo calls her a dummy, and the consequences of her possible reactions

Relates the story of a little boy who considers eight things to do while he waits to take his turn, and presents questions about behavior and feelings for an adult to ask the child as each alternative in the story is considered

Presents a situation where two little girls want to play with the same toy and encourages critical thinking on the part of the reader to resolve the problem

A young boy considers eight ways to get someone to play with him, while the text encourages problem solving by looking at alternatives and possible consequences

Illustrates the use of problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and conflict resolution through an example of mother-child separation

Presents a situation where a child is lost at the zoo and encourages critical thinking on the part of the reader to resolve the problem