Parenting

The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell
• Narrated By Chris Fabry
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Every child has a unique way of feeling loved. When you discover your child's love language - and how to speak it - you can build a solid foundation for your child to trust you and flourish as he or she grows. In this audiobook for parents, teachers, single parents, and more, Drs. Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell offer practical advice for how to discover and speak your child's love language - in dozens of ways!

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
• Narrated By Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
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Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Disciplineprovides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears - without causing a scene. Defining the true meaning of the “d” word (to instruct, not to shout or reprimand), the authors explain how to reach your child, redirect emotions, and turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth.

The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting: Raising Children with Courage, Compassion, and Connection

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Brené Brown
• Narrated By Brené Brown

On The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting, Dr. Brené Brown invites us on a journey to transform the lives of parents and children alike. Drawing on her 12 years of research on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, she presents ten guideposts to creating what she describes as "wholehearted" families where each of us can continually learn and grow as we reach our full potential.

The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jessica Joelle Alexander, Iben Dissing Sandahl
• Narrated By Kim Mai Guest
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Discover the parenting secrets of the happiest people in the world. What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world - and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids year after year? This upbeat and practical guide reveals the six essential principles that have been working for parents in Denmark for decades. A revealing and fresh take on parenting advice, The Danish Way of Parenting will help parents from all walks of life raise the happiest, most well-adjusted kids.

The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Shefali Tsabary
• Narrated By Shefali Tsabary
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Turning the traditional notion of parenting on its head, Dr Tsabary shifts the epicentre of the parent-child relationship away from the standard parent-to-child 'know it all' approach to a mutual 'parent-with-child' relationship in which the parent learns alongside the child. Parents unwittingly pass on an inheritance of psychological pain and emotional rigidity to their children.

Calm Parents, Happy Kids: The Secres of Stress Free Parenting

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Laura Markham
• Narrated By Xe Sands

Most parenting books focus on changing a child's behaviour, but the truth is that children only change when their relationship with their parents changes. In Calm Parents, Happy Kids, Dr Laura Markham introduces an approach to parenting that eliminates threats, power struggles and manipulation, in favour of setting limits with empathy and communication.

Buddhism for Mothers

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Sarah Napthali
• Narrated By Rebecca Macauley

Buddhism for Mothers explores the potential to be with your children in the all-important present moment; to gain the most joy out of being with them. How can this be done calmly and with a minimum of anger, worry and negative thinking? How can mothers negotiate the changed conditions of their relationships with partners, family and even with friends? Using Buddhist practices, Sarah Napthali offers ways of coping with the day-to-day challenges of motherhood.

Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Patty Wipfler, Tosha Schore
• Narrated By Patty Wipfler
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>Listen introduces parents to five simple, practical skills even the most harried parent can use. These tools will help parents strengthen their connection with their child and help build their child's intelligence, cooperation, and ability to learn as they grow. The audiobook delivers detailed information, accompanied by more than 100 real-life stories from parents who've used this approach to address the root causes of their child's difficult behaviors.

The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Josh Shipp
• Narrated By Roger Wayne
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Written in Shipp's playfully authoritative, no-nonsense voice, The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans tells his story and unpacks practical strategies that can make a difference. Ultimately, it's not about shortcuts or magic words - as Shipp reminds us, it's about investing in kids and giving them the love, time, and support they need to thrive. And that means every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.

Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who ThriveHow a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell
• Narrated By Daniel J. Siegel

In this best-selling classic, child psychiatrist and coauthor of The Whole Brain Child, Daniel J. Siegel and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. Illuminating important research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, Siegel and Hartzell explain how the parent-child relationship directly affects brain development, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories to help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Janet Lansbury
• Narrated By Janet Lansbury
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Janet Lansbury's advice on respectful parenting is quoted and shared by millions of listeners worldwide. Inspired by the pioneering parenting philosophy of her friend and mentor, Magda Gerber, Janet's influential voice encourages parents and child-care professionals to perceive babies as unique, capable human beings with natural abilities to learn without being taught; to develop motor and cognitive skills; communicate; face age appropriate struggles; initiate and direct independent play for extended periods; and much more.

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Joanna Faber, Julie King
• Narrated By Heather Alicia Simms, Michele Pawk, Candace Thaxton, and others
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What do you do with a little kid who...won't brush her teeth...screams in his car seat...pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential emergency first-aid manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.

No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Janet Lansbury
• Narrated By Janet Lansbury
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Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers. No Bad Kids is a collection of Janet's most popular and widely read articles pertaining to common toddler behaviors and how respectful parenting practices can be applied to benefit both parents and children.

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (6th edition)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 1 min)
• By Thomas W. Phelan PhD
• Narrated By Paul Costanzo

Being a parent is one of the most rewarding experiences in life, but every family faces challenges that can be frustrating and overwhelming. For more than 25 years, internationally renowned clinical psychologist Thomas W. Phelan's 1-2-3 Magic has helped millions of parents, teachers, and caregivers raise independent, emotionally intelligent children and build happier, healthier families - all through an easy to understand program that you'll swear "works like magic".

Toddler Tactics

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Pinky McKay
• Narrated By Vanessa Coffey
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Do you automatically cut toast into fingers? Appreciate finger painting as much as fine art? Hear 'no' a million times a day? If the answer is yes, then Toddler Tactics is for you. Being the parent of a toddler can be exciting, inspiring and exhausting - all at once! Your adorable little baby has now become a moving, grooving tot with attitude, and it will take all your patience and skill to deal with these changes. Parenting expert Pinky McKay explains what to do at each stage of development and offers fuss-free advice.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Moms and Sons - 34 Stories about Raising Boys, Being a Sport, Grieving and Peace, and Single-Minded Devotion

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 1 min)
• By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark (editor)
• Narrated By Joyce Bean
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There is a special bond between mothers and their sons, and it never goes away. This book contains some of the best stories and poems from Chicken Soup's library honoring that lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring.

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Elizabeth Pantley
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen

There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out", or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving audiobook The No-Cry Sleep Solution.

Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Ronald M. Rapee PhD, Ann Wignall D.Psych, Susan H. Spence PhD, and others
• Narrated By Tom Perkins

Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But 10 percent of children have excessive fears and worries - phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder - that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help.

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Ross W. Greene
• Narrated By Ross W. Greene

Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't attentionseeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren't passive, permissive disciplinarians. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach.

The Sh!t No One Tells You: A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Dawn Dais
• Narrated By Meredith Mitchell

There comes a time in every new mother's life when she finds herself staring at her screaming, smelly "bundle of joy" and wishing someone had told her that her house would reek of vomit, or that she shouldn't buy the cute onesies with a thousand impossible buttons, or that she might cry more than the baby. Best-selling humor author Dawn Dais is convinced that there is a reason for this lack of preparedness....

Autism, The Montessori Way: A Practical Guide to Help the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Learn Using Montessori Inspiration

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Rachel Peachey
• Narrated By Rachel Perry

Begin your journey in learning with a fresh perspective. For many, exploring Maria Montessori's philosophy has greatly changed the way they parent, teach or even view children. This is especially true for children with autism, who require even greater understanding from those who care for them. Whether you're a parent or an educator, this audiobook was designed to help you learn about both autism and the Montessori method.

The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Josh Shipp
• Narrated By Roger Wayne
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Written in Shipp's playfully authoritative, no-nonsense voice, The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans tells his story and unpacks practical strategies that can make a difference. Ultimately, it's not about shortcuts or magic words - as Shipp reminds us, it's about investing in kids and giving them the love, time, and support they need to thrive. And that means every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.

Becoming MomStrong: How to Fight with All That's in You for Your Family and Your Faith

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Heidi St. John
• Narrated By Heidi St. John
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If you're like many Christian moms today, you've been reading the headlines and watching the rapid-fire changes in our culture with frustration and fear. Let's face it: Moms today are facing questions that previous generations didn't even see coming, and even our right to determine what is best for our own children is under fire. Popular speaker and blogger Heidi St. John ("The Busy Mom") believes that today's mothers need a special kind of strength. We need to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Parenting as Partners: How to Launch Your Kids Without Ejecting Your Spouse

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Vicki Hoefle
• Narrated By Vicki Hoefle

Very few families are perfect. But looking from the outside in, through conversations in the grocery store or clicking through social media, often times it seems we are the only ones struggling with raising our kids or aligning with our spouses on parenting. The reality is that so many families struggle. Vicki Hoefle, three-time author, parenting coach, and sought-after speaker, offers a fresh, practical roadmap for achievable family - and marital - harmony and happiness.

Parenting the Sh*t out of Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Mother Pukka, Papa Pukka
• Narrated By Anna Whitehouse, Matt Farquharson
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For people who happen to be parents (or might be soon). Because for every turdy nappy you sadly deposit into a gag-reflex-inducing bin, there's a moment that's less sh*t around the corner. This is not a audiobook that will help you grow (or raise) a human successfully. But this is a book that might, if you're not too emotionally battered - and can see through the permanent eye twitch - help you laugh a little more than you cry. But that's not guaranteed.

The Baby Detective

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Sarah Norris
• Narrated By Natasha Brown
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The Baby Detective is the only audiobook of the parenting genre to develop a unique, step-by step investigative process that will enable parents to solve their own baby care problems. It puts them firmly back in the driving seat, giving them the tools to do away with sometimes conflicting and confusing expert advice, and to face parenting challenges using their own intuition.

Unplugged Parenting: A Mindful Approach to Raising Children in the Digital Age

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Dr Elizabeth Kilbey
• Narrated By Dr Elizabeth Kilbey
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This is the book that every parent with a child under the age of 11 (in the latency stage of brain development) needs in order to navigate the tricky pathway of how much screen time to allow on a daily basis. Play has gone from a physical, creative experience using toys and imagination to something that now involves sitting down alone for hours at a time. Dr Elizabeth Kilbey offers practical advice about how to 'unplug' your child from their device so their online time doesn't become all-consuming.

Education a la Carte: Choosing the Best Schooling Options for Your Child

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Kevin Leman
• Narrated By Tom Parks

Every parent wants the best possible education for their child - one that fits their child's unique needs, challenges them to grow, and equips them to succeed. But there are so many options - public, private, and charter schools, plus homeschooling and online schooling - that it's easy for parents to feel overwhelmed and, well, undereducated about the choices. What's more, while one schooling option may be right for one child, it may be challenging for another.

The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Suzanne Bouffard
• Narrated By Therese Plummer
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At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early childhood education is crucial for all children to gain the academic and emotional skills they need to succeed later in life. Children who attend quality pre-K programs have a host of positive outcomes including better language, literacy, problem solving, and math skills down the line.

What to Expect When Expecting: Pregnancy from a First-Time Father's Point of View

• UNABRIDGED (18 mins)
• By Trevor Clinger
• Narrated By Trevor Clinger
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Pregnancy, the suffering one must go through to achieve a miracle. In this book Trevor Clinger, a first time father, writes a narrative while actually in the delivery room of the hospital with his fiancé, and mother-to-be. This narrative starts from the moment he found out the love of his life was pregnant, all the way up to the day of birth. This book is dedicated to those mothers and fathers-to-be who have anxiety about child birth.

Hive

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Lisa M. Cini
• Narrated By Madeline Star

Four generations live under one roof in Columbus, Ohio, and they've figured out how to make it work: dividing responsibilities and chores, re-designing some physical spaces for privacy, and reconfiguring others into common areas for all to gather and enjoy living together. This tale of heartache, heroism, and hope is one family's multi-generational social experiment, which encompasses kids in their teens, parents in their 40s, grandparents in their 70s, and a 90-plus year-old great-grandmother.

A New Way for Mothers: A Revolutionary Way for Mothers to Use Their Skills and Talents While Their Children Are at School

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Louise Webster
• Narrated By Menna Bonsels
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There is incredibly important yet untapped talent among mothers who have replaced career aspirations or creative outlets with family priority. Those women who have put their interests on hold to care for their children face a huge challenge in reconnecting with the professional world again in a way that recognizes their needs to continue to be available for their children.

The Castaways: New Evidence Supporting the Rights of the Unborn Child

• Abridged/Unabridged (3 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Sarah Hinze
• Narrated By Sarah Hinze, Jessica Bluth, Debbie Burris, and others

The Castaways: New Evidence Supporting the Rights of the Unborn Child examines what happens to souls who attempt to come to the Earth but are blocked through abortion. In analyzing collected accounts, a sampling of which are in The Castaways, a surprising picture emerges of what may be happening to the spirits of those aborted - the castaways. If you have lost a child, or are trying to conceive a child, or cannot bear children, this book will provide enlightenment, hope, and healing.

Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say "No Way" - and Parents Say "Way to Go"

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Christine M. Benton, John S. March MD
• Narrated By Christopher Solimene

No one wants to get rid of obsessive-compulsive disorder more than someone who has it. That's why Talking Back to OCD puts kids and teens in charge. Dr. John March's eight-step program has already helped thousands of young people show the disorder that it doesn't call the shots - they do. This uniquely designed volume is really two books in one. Each chapter begins with a section that helps kids and teens zero in on specific problems and develop skills they can use to tune out obsessions and resist compulsions.

How Was School Today?: How to Make Your Kids Love to Talk to You About Their Day

• UNABRIDGED (21 mins)
• By Tanya Clark
• Narrated By TANYA BROWN
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Do you have a day by day schedule that makes a go at something like this at your home? You ask your kids, companion, and so on, "How was your day?" Then, do you either receive a snort consequently, a fine, or whatever? Possibly ever once in a blue moon you will get a fairly long and included answer. Now and again when we ask associates that question, we genuinely need to know the answer, however here and there we truly don't. Frequently, the how was your day remark is only a merriment.

Hannah's Hope: Seeking God's Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Adoption Loss

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Jennifer Saake
• Narrated By Sarah Zimmerman
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You can meet Hannah in 1 Samuel, chapters 1 and 2. The Bible says she was "barren", and we know she suffered heartache, anguish, and grief because of her empty arms. Perhaps you do, too. Hannah's Hope is for all who long for a child yet to be conceived, grieve for a baby too soon passed from the womb, or have lived through the no-man's-land of failed adoption. It is intended as a guide to assist you in making wise decisions as you struggle through your grief.

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Leonard Sax MD PhD
• Narrated By Keith Sellon-Wright

Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential.

When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Daniel Bates
• Narrated By Michael Hanko
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From two therapists who have a combined 25 years of experience working with families, comes a new kind of parenting audiobook. This audiobook doesn't focus on technique, a discipline scheme, or parenting style. This audiobook focuses on the parent themselves, specifically the kind of thinking that makes parents effective or ineffective. When Parenting Backfires examines 12 thinking errors commonly made by parents.

Mommy MD Guide to Surviving Morning Sickness: More Than 150 Tips That 25 Doctors Use to Make It Through Morning Sickness and Related Pregnancy Symptoms

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Jim Pathman PhD, Rallie McAllister
• Narrated By Rachel Alena

>The Mommy MD Guide to Surviving Morning Sickness, offers advice on morning sickness and its related symptoms: ptyalism, smell sensitivity, vomiting, headache, heartburn, and constipation. You'll hear how Mommy MD Guides faced the challenges of morning sickness, and you'll also learn how Mommy MD Guides celebrated success when they felt better - or enjoyed pregnancy, despite the nausea.

Being a Proactive Grandfather: How to Make a Difference

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Richard Eyre
• Narrated By Curtis Shelburne

New York Times number-one best-selling author Richard Eyre encourages gradfathers to ask themselves a very important question: what kind of grandfather will you be? Will you be a disengaged grandfather, who downsizes to an adults-only condo in Sun City by a golf course and rarely sees his grandkids? Will you be a limited grandfather, a supportive grandfather, or best of all will you be a proactive grandfather?