The only childcare book written specifically for families in revoery, Parenting One Day at a Time offers practical parenting advice using the principles of the Twelve-Step Recovery programs.
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Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., an educator and developmental psychologist, is president and CEO of FCD Educational Services, Inc. Founded in 1976, FCD is a Boston-based nonprofit organization that provides on-site alcohol, tobacco, and other drug education for schools in the United States and abroad.Dr. Packer is the author of numerous award-winning books for parents and teenagers including the best-selling How Rude! The Teenager's Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior and Not Grossing People Out; Bring Up Parents: The Teenager's Handbook; 365 Ways to Love Your Child; Parenting One Day at a Time; and The Nurturing Parent: How to Raise Creative, Loving, Responsible Children. His articles have appeared in McCall's, Child, U.S. News and World Report, and The Harvard Graduate School of Education Bulletin.For eight years, Dr. Packer was headmaster of Parkmont School in Washington, D.C., an innovative alternative school for children ages 11-15. More recently, he served as director of education for the Capital Children's Museum. A specialist in adolescence, substance abuse, and parent education, Dr. Packer holds undergraduate and Master's degrees from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Educational and Developmental Psychology from Boston College.Alex Packer's feature-length screenplay, Digby and Fly, won First Prize in the Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Competition. His proposal for an interactive family television series was optioned by Popular Arts Entertainment in Los Angeles.Dr. Packer serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of COASA (Children of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Inc.), a nonprofit organization created to provide services to children from substance abusing homes.
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Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., is an educator, psychologist, screenwriter, and author of several books including How Rude!™, Bringing Up Parents, and Highs! He is president and CEO of FCD Educational Services, Inc., a Boston-based provider of drug education programs for schools and colleges worldwide.
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This review is from: Parenting One Day at a Time: Using the Tools of Rcovery to Become Better Parents and Raise Better Kids (Paperback)
This book takes the steps and principles and promises already familiar to those in a 12 step environment and with real life applications show how to use that knowledge in child rearing. Breaks it down into simple and easy to use ideas.
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This book applies the principles of Twelve Step programs to the challenge of raising children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Higher Power, Twelve Step, Helping Children, Rational-Emotive Therapy, Daily Parenting Inventory, Serenity Prayer, Dispute Irrational, Engage Rational Thoughts, First Things First, Freesponsibility System, Parenting One Day New!
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This book applies the principles of Twelve Step programs to the challenge of raising children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Higher Power, Twelve Step, Helping Children, Rational-Emotive Therapy, Daily Parenting Inventory, Serenity Prayer, Dispute Irrational, Engage Rational Thoughts, First Things First, Freesponsibility System, Parenting One Day New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Rational-Emotive Approaches to the Problems of Childhood by Michael E. Bernard in Back Matter
- Exceptional Children (Mayf) by James H. Bryan in Back Matter
- Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint by E. Hetherington in Back Matter
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta in Back Matter
- Current Psychotherapies (with InfoTrac ) by Raymond J. Corsini in Back Matter
- Your Anxious Child : How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John S. Dacey in Front Matter, and Back Cover
- Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John S. Dacey in Front Matter
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