How do we help our kids connect with God? Most parents want their kids to learn to love God. But most of us struggle to facilitate real spiritual experiences.

Jared Patrick Boyd discovered that children's spiritual formation is rooted in the imagination. This book provides six units of weekly guided imaginative prayer, themed around core topics: God's...

Combining modern research, personal stories, professional experience, and real-life examples, Jeannie Cunnion shows parents how to embrace God’s grace and let go of the pressures—external and internal—that come with raising children.

When it comes to their children, parents feel constant pressure to get everything right. They face overwhelming moments of...

Estrangement or semi-estrangement from an adult son or daughter can be a parent’s worst nightmare. And estrangement can be equally painful for an adult child, who may see friends enjoying rewarding, fun relationships with their aging parents and wonder where his or her family went wrong.

We Don’t Talk Anymore addresses the increasingly common parent–adult...

This isn't your ordinary wine pairing book--this is wine pairing for the weary parent!

Did your daughter just get out of bed for the twelfth time to ask for a glass of water? We've got the perfect rosé for your sanity. Did your son just have a meltdown in the middle of the grocery store? We've got a Pinot for your pain. Has your child's math homework left...

This humorous and action-packed adventure story is a fun way for kids to learn basic bicycling safety rules. Ride along with Devin Van Dyke and find out what happens as he tries to follow his mother’s list of safety rules while meeting up with friends along the way. Chaos reigns when Devin forgets to follow rules such as one person per bike, wear a helmet...

Without a guide to help address these changes, they can easily become overwhelming and stressful for teens, parents and caregivers. Best-selling authors and social-emotional learning experts, Nadine Briggs, Director of Simply Social Kids, and Donna Shea, Founder of The Peter Pan Center for Social & Emotional Growth, are not only in-demand for their work...

A riveting memoir about growing up as a typical sibling in a family of four, Mikey & Me is Teresa Sullivan’s tribute to her beloved older sister Mikey, who was blind and developmentally disabled.
When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely-knit unit, devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, and increasingly violent, it becomes...

Rose is a stuffed bunny who loves the little boy she lives with and all the fun they have together. They play in the park, paint pictures, and read stories. Everything is perfect, until she discovers a loose thread dangling from her arm. Rose tries to ignore the little string, but it is no use. No matter how hard she tries, Rose can't stop pulling at it...

Happiness starts out as a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, an out-going, theatre-performing California girl, and Brian, an intellectual New Yorker with an unwavering writing routine. But when Heather falls pregnant, their magical interlude abruptly ends—Brian loves her, only he doesn’t want kids. So Heather decides to have...

What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a picnic when their car was crushed by a four-wheel-drive. Hannah's baby didn't survive.

When Hannah told her story in court, the judge wept. In her struggle to make...

Discover how to successfully and efficiently calm an angry person or diffuse a volatile situation in ninety seconds or less with this proven and accessible peacekeeping method by self-described “lawyer turned peacemaker” Douglas E. Noll.

We live in an increasingly divided world and most of us have encountered our fair share of aggressive people and difficult...

A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.

Eleven years ago, Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating...

Affairs can be wonderfully exciting but when they are discovered they can bring misery and heartache to all those involved. They can make us feel incredibly happy and at the same time riddled with guilt. When someone feels that something is missing in their relationship, either emotionally or sexually, they will often embark on an affair. But affairs...

If you have a child with anxiety, you need quick, in-the-moment solutions you can easily use now to help your child face their fears and worries. Written by a psychologist and expert in childhood anxiety, this easy-to-use guide offers proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure skills you can use at home, in social settings, or anywhere...

A lonely little girl turns her world into a place of happiness with new friends. Watch and see what unexpectedly happens in the toy store. A lonely little girl doll sits by herself in a toy store with all her toys. She sees a lonely little boy doll across the room She invites him over to sit on her shelf. They play with her toys, read books and talk...

In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults.

Today's kids have adopted sedentary...

Autism is a childhood condition ... right? Not right. Children with autism grow into adults with autism. The great strides we have made in understanding childhood autistic behaviors and interventions have lagged dramatically behind the needs of aging autistics. What of the young adult trying to build relationships? What of the middle-aged autistic adult who...

Following in the legacy of teaching stories, Fables for Wisdom Seekers Young and Old invites parents, teachers, counselors, and other caring adults together with children ages 6-11 to explore ideas about building self-esteem and the challenges of being in a family, school, and community as well as being a citizen of the world. Each fable is...

Sequel to the award-winning Mommy, Daddy I Had a Bad Dream! This children's picture book for ages 3 and up models a loving, constructive, developmentally informed response to young children's meltdowns and will benefit both children and parents. The essence of the story is a progression in which Jilly, a happy little kangaroo, has a series of Terrible...

When a youngster’s dog dies tragically, a caring neighbor reaches into distant memories to recall a story of life and death imagined as a Big Play and guide the child through grief.
 
Gently, through a series of conversations, the pair explores perspectives on blame and guilt, ghosts and animal souls, honoring and letting go. As the two neighbors explore the...

Mama Bird Papa Bird is sweet story of a family that learns how to care

for an unexpected child. The questions that Mama Bird and Papa Bird ask

remain unanswered, provoking the young reader's imagination, such as

"How did it (the egg) get there?" Children ages 0-8 are fascinated by

the full color spreads. Receiving the Mom's Choice Gold Award makes this

book an...

The Timekeeper’s Son, a moving father-son tale, explores middle-aged grief and youthful yearnings, the price of hidden disabilities and wounds, and the claims and limits of community.

In the small town of Milledge, Georgia, aspiring teenage filmmaker Josh Lovejoy hits a jogger while driving late at night. But this is not just any jogger: the victim is...

In this book, a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of over fifty of today's most successful innovators and—based on her findings—provides ten rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals whose ideas and drive will change the world.

Is your child passionate about something? Maybe it's...

Due to events beyond your control, you find yourself with a loved one in prison. What now? Carol Kent has been there and knows what it's like to have life flipped upside down. She writes Waiting Together from a heart that understands what it's like to navigate a new normal, offering hope and healing from a Biblical perspective. This 90-day guide, filled...

Porcupette Finds a Family, is a story about how a baby porcupine (called a porcupette) finds a new family after losing his mother. He wants to have an attachment to the bear family he finds, but is afraid his "bear" mother and "bear" brother and sister will leave him too. This causes him to act out his fears in
ways that jeopardize acceptance from his...

"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." —Delia Ephron, bestselling author

The bestselling and “perennially hilarious” mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Join Lisa and Francesca as they regret drunk-shopping online, try...

Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times bestselling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors...

An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy.

What really makes love last?...

Grounded in 12 solid, proven parenting principles, Building Better Humans guides readers through the expected and unexpected challenges of parenting, including: Communication, Punishment, Social Skills, Love, Sex & Marriage, Money & Work, Technology & Digital Dangers, Kids in Crisis and Special Needs Children.

Building Better Humans offers cover-to-cover...

The true story behind the classic TV show: A father’s delightful account of raising eight free-spirited children in 1970s America.

Tom Braden had a colorful career: He parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, directed the CIA’s covert operations program during the early years of the Cold War, ran for public office, owned a newspaper, served as executive...

The values we live and raise our families by are grounded, first, in love. Contrary to many of today’s so-called family values, our values go beyond one or two loaded social issues to a wholehearted lifestyle of practicing compassion, hospitality, justice, peace, and belonging.

More than Words articulates ten values that forward-thinking, openhearted people...

When Milo’s family moves to a new city, he vows to officially retire from having fun. So he stays inside for days while his little sister, Georgie, yearns to explore the new neighborhood. Finally, Milo ties Georgie to the end of a ball of yarn so she can go out, on one condition: she has to come home when he tugs the string twice.

But one day, Georgie isn’t...

Life’s third year is full of milestones: learning ABCs, making friends, playing make-believe, and having real conversations. The final book in this series, You Are Three, looks back on each of these memorable achievements and more, inviting little ones to celebrate how much they have grown and discovered.

Supersaturated ink-and-wash illustrations in a...

Countless books and articles have offered remedies for the poor learning outcomes of American schoolchildren. Virtually all of these publications share one thing in common: They propose improvements in the policies and practices controlled by adult educators. Grove believes that our children’s poor learning cannot be totally the fault of educators. Our...

When your child reveals that he or she is attracted to the same sex, how you respond may have a lot to do with your faith. Doesn't the Bible say that's wrong? Will we have to leave our church? Worst of all, you may wonder, "Do I have to choose between my Christian faith and my child?"

Susan Cottrell is a mom who has been there and wants you to know that...

Join bestselling romantic comedy author, Whitney Dineen, as she discovers the three Es of parenting:

• Exhilarating—when you first discover you’re pregnant.

• Exhausting—when you realize you’ll most likely never sleep again--like EVER.

• Explosive—OMG these kids spew from both ends!

And that’s just the beginning. Whitney shares the...

Sam took a breath and shut his eyes tight.

He thought ten miles left, and ten miles right.

A New Way to Go to Sleep.

A family story of exceptional power and universal relevance - about loss, about carrying on, and about recovering a brother's life and death.

Life changes in an instant.

On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Nicholas and his brother Richard are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. He isn’t, and then he is. He drowns.

Richard...

One day a teenage boy gets on his bike and rides forty miles up California’s Pacific Coast Highway to avoid causing an earthquake he fears will endanger his mother and sister. But the quake he is experiencing is not coming from beneath the earth; it’s the onset of bipolar illness.
Blinded by Hope describes what it’s like to have an unusually bright...

Dads, Lift Up Your Children in Prayer

Thank You, Lord, for the privilege of being a praying dad. I have faith in You, not only as my Savior, but as my heavenly Father, my counselor, my helper—my everything. Give me fatherly wisdom today, help me express love to my children, and help me keep them surrendered to Your care as their ultimate Father.

Your heart...

Build a Connection with Your DaughterThat Will Last a Lifetime

You want to be closer to your daughter. You want her life to be filled with joy, beauty, and wonder. But you also want to protect her from a world that can be hurtful...and even dangerous.

This one-of-a-kind book features over fifty fun and practical ways to build a great relationship with your...

Your Faith Will Stand Unshaken
When Your Prayers Shake Up the World

As you pray to the God of the universe, you're free to ask for the seemingly impossible. Align your heart with His will and pray with confidence, knowing He will answer according to His perfect plans and mighty power.

Join authors Sally Burke, president of Moms in Prayer International, and...

What’s so important about being a grandfather? Everything!

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you’re not on the playing field anymore and that your championship days are over. As an elder of the family, you play a vital role in your grandchild’s future. You will leave a legacy for that child and your family, but what will it be? And how do you make sure...