The Council of Dads –My Daughters, My Illness and the Men Who Could Be Me A Circle of Friends This is not merely a book about dads. It is about living -a father cherishing every minute with his two-year-old twin daughters- in a year that sees him battling an aggressive illness. He refers to it … Read more
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety [1] and Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking [2], published in 2004 and 2008 respectively, are two of the three books in Tamar Chansky’s Freeing Your Child series. Tamar Chansky, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Children’s Center for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and Anxiety. An expert in … Read more
A Holistic Approach There are many books that discuss the notorious ‘Terrible-Two’ phases which young children may go through, however, not many target children in a specific age-group, much less examine the on-goings in consecutive 3-month periods of growth. In Fathering Your Toddler – A Dad’s Guide to the Second and Third Years, American author … Read more
Padilla-Walker, L.M. & Coyne, S.M. (2011). “Turn that thing off!”: Parent and adolescent predictors of proactive media monitoring. Journal of Adolescence, 34(4). Background Parents are typically wary that the media may influence their children’s values and behaviours in ways that are inconsistent with their own aspirations for their children. This is especially true for fathers who … Read more
Who’s Screaming? Screamfree™ is defined as learning to relate with others in a calm, cool and connected way, taking hold of your own emotional responses no matter how anyone else chooses to behave; learning to focus on yourself and take care of yourself for the world’s benefit. Screamfree Parenting may indeed be a revolutionary book … Read more
So You Want To Be Heard! Written by Mrs Maureen Ng, Honorary Vice-Chairman of Eagles Mediation & Counselling Centre (EMCC), So You Want To Be Heard! is a timely and practical book which discusses issues and challenges that you, as a dad, may face when communicating with your children. Written in bite-sized chapters and peppered … Read more
How to be a Hero Dad by Johnny Ong is a succinct, easy to read and clearly organized parenting guide for Dads who simply want to know what to do. Ong, a trainer for both children and parents, has been heartened by the increasing numbers of fathers attending his workshops, talks and seminars in their … Read more
Teaching Your Children Values is based on the premise that one of the most enriching gifts parents can give their children is a strong sense of personal values. Authors Linda and Richard Eyre, parents to nine children themselves, are the co-authors of several parenting books as well as co-hosts of a radio programme and television … Read more
John J. Medina is a developmental molecular biologist, research consultant, author of New York Times bestseller Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, and a father. This father of two boys believes (pg 3) that “Parents need facts, not just advice, about raising their children…parenting is about brain development.” He says that … Read more
Smart Parenting for Smart Kids is co-authored by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD. Kennedy-Moore is an author, psychologist, and speaker, who specialises in parenting and children’s social and emotional development. Lowenthal is a clinical psychologist with more than 22 years of clinical experience and a long-time advocate of children’s mental health issues, … Read more