New Releases by Jane Nelsen

Empowering Methods for Effective Childcare As a professional childcare provider, you want to create an environment that is inviting and nurturing for children as well as encouraging for your adult staff. You want to find ways to form a partnership with parents in their children''s development. Simply put, you want to provide an all-around quality childcare experience at every level. This book is also great for parents who want to take an active role in assuring the best childcare for their children. Positive Discipline for Childcare Providers offers a thorough, practical program that is easily adaptable to any childcare or preschool situation and setting. Inside are workable solutions to many of today''s toughest childcare issues and everything you need to develop an enriching experience for children, parents, and workers alike. You''ll learn how to: ·Create a setting where children can laugh, learn, and grow ·Support healthy physical, emotional, and cognitive development in all children, including those with special needs ·Encourage parents to establish a partnership with you and provide the same kind, firm limits and respectful environment at home ·Uncover support and learning opportunities for yourself and fellow childcare providers ·And much more! "In a magical way, Positive Discipline for Childcare Providers demonstrates techniques that decrease misbehavior by increasing the child''s sense of capability, courage, and community feeling." —Rob Guttenberg, a state-certified childcare trainer, director of parenting education at YMCA Youth Services Maryland, and author of The Parent As Cheerleader "Wow! This book is an incredible resource full of effective and practical ideas—from creating an environment where everyone feels welcome to a model of discipline that respects and empowers adults and children." —Mary Jamin Maguire, M.A., L.P., LICSW, trainer, Minnesota School-Age Childcare Training Network

Positive Parenting for Those Important Teen Years Adolescence is often a time of great stress and turmoil—not only for kids going through it, but for you, their parents as well. During the teen years, kids aggressively begin to explore a new sense of freedom, which often leads to feelings of resentment and powerlessness for parents who increasingly are excluded from their children''s lives. This revised edition of Positive Discipline for Teenagers shows you how to break the destructive cycle of guilt and blame and work toward greater understanding and communication with your adolescents. Inside, you''ll: ·Find out how to encourage your teen and yourself ·Grow to understand how your teen still needs you, but in different ways ·Learn how to get to know who your teen really is ·Discover how to develop sound judgment without being judgmental ·Learn how to use follow-through—the only surefire way to get chores done Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commmonsense approach to child rearing. Inside, you''ll discover proven, effective methods for working with your teens. Over 1 million Positive Discipline books sold! "I highly recommend this book to parents, teachers, and all others who work with young people. It is one of the best books I have seen on helping adults and adolescents turn their conflict into friendship. Remarkably, it shows how to accomplish this while helping young people develop courage, confidence, responsibility, cooperation, self-respect, and trust. I urge you to read it." —H. Stephen Glenn, Ph.D., coauthor of Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World.

According to bestselling author Jane Nelsen, the chronic stress of modern life keeps millions of people from enjoying the sweet happiness that comes with peace of mind. Dr. Nelsen''s From Here to Serenity shows readers how they can achieve inner peace by following four basic and easily applied principles: understanding how feelings can act as a personal compass, freeing one''s self from the filters of one''s thought system, realizing that other people do the best they can with what they know, and learning how gratitude can overcome depression and anger.

A Blueprint for Bringing Together Two Families Living in a stepfamily is challenging. But a household where yours and mine must become ours can become a harmonious family unit. It is possible to build a stepfamily that works for all of its members--an environment where both adults and children can feel safe, loved, and free to grow and learn. Written to address the particular challenges that stepfamilies typically confront, this latest addition to the bestselling "Positive Discipline series helps you understand the process of stepfamily living and empowers you to make the right decisions. Inside, you will find real solutions that can make your new family a cohesive and happy unit. You''ll discover how to: -Resolve responsibility and role issues -Blend rules and traditions -Build effective communication between all family members -Handle discipline and finances -Develop respect and affection among rival children -And much more! "Anchored in today''s family realities, the essence of this book is a respectful approach to stepfamily discipline. The scenarios are grittily realistic and the wealth of positive suggestions ring true. Families are always a work in progress so this book is useful for both seasoned and novice parents and stepparents." --Margorie Engel, Ph.D., president, Stepfamily Association of America

The philosophy of positive discipline is that of raising children in a positive environment enabling them to grow into secure, capable people. Tailored to the needs of parents, teachers, and anyone who works with children, Prima''s "Positive Discipline" library is an invaluable resource.A million new stepfamilies form each year, and none of these blended families makes the adjustment unscathed. Most encounter many difficulties, from deep-seated emotional trauma to the minor skirmishes that every family faces every day. They''ll find solid, tested advice here on how to overcome the problems and accentuate the rewards of their new relationship.

Alkylation of ZrCl$sb4$ with phenyllithium affords the new d$sp0$ complex $rmlbrack Li(Etsb2O)rbracksb2lbrack ZrPhsb6rbrack ;$ the $rmlbrack ZrPhsb6sp{2-}$) anion adopts a trigonal prismatic geometry. Despite the presence of orbitals on the phenyl ligands that are of the right symmetry to serve as $pi$-donors, the trigonal prismatic geometry clearly shows that the phenyl groups are not acting as $pi$-donors. The lithium cations form weak interactions with the ipso carbons of the phenyl rings. In an attempt to prepare six-coordinate d$sp0$ species that lack Li$spcdots$C interactions, the synthesis of zirconium pentafluorophenyl complexes was investigated. The compounds (Li(12-crown-4)$rmsb2rbracksb2lbrack ZrClsb2(Csb6Fsb5)sb4$) and $rmlbrack Li(tmed)sb2rbracklbrack Li(tmed)rbracksb2lbrack ZrFsb2(Csb6Fsb5)sb5$) were isolated; the first adopts an octahedral structure owing to the $pi$-donor character of the chloride ligands, while the latter adopts a regular pentagonal bipyramidal structure. The latter compound also shows that C-F bond activation has occuned. Alkylatidn of the phosphine complexes ZrCl$sb4$(PP) and HfCl$sb4$(PP) complexes with $rm LiCHsb2SiMesb3$ affords unusual lithium salts of five-coordinate zirconium auryls; one of these salts, $rmlbrack Li(dcype)sb2rbracklbrack Zr(CHsb2SiMesb3)sb5$) where dcype is 1,2-bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)ethane, was structurally characterized. The structure of the anion is best described as a distorted square pyramid; the structure is consistent with molecular orbital calculations which predict that square pyramidal structures should be adopted for such d$sp0$ species. Equally interesting is the structure of the cation, which consists of a lithium atom surrounded by a distorted tetrahedral array of two diphosphine ligands. These results bear on important issues such as whether five-coordinate d$sp0$ alkyls are susceptible to Jahn-Teller distortions, and whether trialkylphosphine ligands should be classified as hard or soft Lewis bases. Treatment of $rm (Csb8Hsb8)ZrClsb2(thf)sp{cdot}2KCl$ with one equivalent of p-tolyllithium, followed by the addition of $rm N,N,Nspprime ,Nspprime$-tetramethylethylenediamine (tmed), yields red crystals of the mono(p-tolyl) complex $rmlbrack Li(tmed)rbracklbrack (Csb8Hsb8)Zr(p$-$rm Csb6Hsb4Me)Clsb2$); this compound has been crystallographically characterized. Treatment of $rm (Csb8Hsb8)MClsb2{cdot}2KCl$ (M = Zr, Hf) with three equivalents of methyl-, phenyl-, or p-tolyllithium in tetrahydrofuran or diethyl ether, followed by addition of $rm N,N,Nspprime ,Nspprime$-tetramethyl-ethylenediamine, yields several new organozirconium and -hafnium compounds of stoichiometry $rmlbrack Li(tmed)sb2rbracklbrack (Csb8Hsb8)MRsb3$) where R = Me, Ph, or p-$rm Csb6Hsb4Me$. With larger alkyl groups, electrically neutral organozirconium and -hafnium complexes can be isolated: treatment of $rm (Csb8Hsb8)MClsb2(thf)sp{cdot}2KCl$ with 2 equiv. of LiCH(SiMe$sb3)sb2$ gives products of stoichiometry $rm (Csb8Hsb8)Mlbrack CH(SiMesb3)sb2rbracksb2$. The structure of this latter complex has been determined. Interestingly, this latter 14-electron molecule reacts reversibly with carbon monoxide but is unaffected by dihydrogen even at elevated pressures.

This activity book is designed to help you gain a better understanding of your child and become familiar with the kinds of activities and discipline methods that help your child thrive.

The philosophy of positive discipline is that of raising children in a positive environment enabling them to grow into secure, capable people. Tailored to the needs of parents, teachers, and anyone who works with children, Prima''s "Positive Discipline" library is an invaluable resource.Parents recovering from addictions or other destructive behaviors need help mending the broken bonds with their children. Three experts provide it here.

Written by parenting and recovery experts, this important first book on healing the broken circle of the parent-child relationship helps parents take charge of their lives and make changes that will bring the whole family together. Topics include how to rebuild trust, break old patterns of codependence, and improve communication.

For both teenagers and parents, the teen years can be like living in a war zone. In this book, the author of Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson, and coauthor Lynn Lott offer techniques and behavior modification models that will help parents see through their teens'' eyes, nurture their teens'' need for independence, communicate with their teens for better understanding and more.

While the argument rages between strict and permissive parenting, both sides miss the point. If our goal as parents and educators is to help children become capable adults, then teaching them to make proper decisions and become self-reliant is paramount. With the bestselling classic Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World, authors and educational speakers H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen have created a book that no parent or teacher can afford to ignore -- an inspiring, workable formula for developing closeness, trust, dignity, and respect, as well as for creating self-discipline, responsibility, good judgment, and perseverance in children. Over the years, this invaluable guide has helped thousand of parents instill children with character-building traits that last a lifetime. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The author of Positive Discipline offers a warm, beautifully written book which will help people find understanding and compassion in their relationships with children, spouses, employers, friends--and most important, themselves. "A stupendous acheivement"--Wayne W. Dyer, author of Your Erroneous Zones.