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101 Tips to Help Your Anxious Child by Poppy O'Neill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Family
Reassuring advice and simple strategies for parents and carers to help their child manage anxiety and overcome worries. One in four children will suffer from anxiety at some point in their young lives. As a parent it can often be difficult to know how best to support your child when they become fearfu ...Show more
Things They Don't Want You to Know - Eleven Lessons for Raising a 21st-Century Teenager by Ben Brooks
$34.99 NZD
Category: Family | Reading Level: near fine
A GUIDE TO TEENAGERS FROM THIS CENTURY - FOR PARENTS FROM THE LAST CENTURY Written from a teenager's perspective, this is a unique field guide for parents about the secret lives of 21st century adolescents - from mental health to self-harm, from drugs to sexting - and how you can help them and yourself ...Show more
Cohousing for Life: A Practical and Personal Story of Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood by Robin Allison
$49.99 NZD
Category: Family
In "Cohousing for Life", architect Robin Allison describes her journey from lonely mother of two in the suburbs to determined driver of the development of New Zealand's first cohousing community. It is a very personal story of a collective endeavour, a heroic journey of despair and triumph, as the obst ...Show more
Bringing Up Race - How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World by Uju Asika
$39.99 NZD
Category: Family
"Uju Asika has written a necessary book for our times."--Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters' Street You can't avoid it, because it's everywhere. In the looks Black kids get in certain spaces, the manner in which some people speak to them, the stuff that goes over their heads. Stuff that makes the ...Show more
How to Raise a Boy - The Power of Connection to Build Good Men by Michael C. Reichert
$35.00 NZD
Category: Family
At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate men Over the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist Michael Reichert ...Show more
Raising Girls in the 21st Century by Steve Biddulph
$35.00 NZD
Category: Family
A powerful revised and updated edition of the bestselling parenting classic, Raising Girls. There has been a sudden and universal deterioration in girls' mental health and wellbeing, starting in primary school and devastating the teen years. Fierce and tender in its mission, Raising Girls in the Twent ...Show more
Grandparents Talk by Janice Marriott
$39.99 NZD
Category: Family
Wonderful and inspiring stories from grandparents from all walks of New Zealand life. Grandparents Talk contains frank, sometimes astonishing, inspiring and thought-provoking interviews with a cross-section of New Zealand grandparents. Some are looking after their grandchildren full time. Some have Sat ...Show more
A Terrible Secret by Cathy Glass
$22.99 NZD
Category: Family
Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly concerned by Dave's behaviour, especially when she lear ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Mum & Dad by Jean Kittson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Family
Everything you need to know about supporting ageing parents, from author and comedian Jean Kittson.This warm and witty practical guide is a one-stop shop for information on how to support your ageing loved ones: how to protect their health and wellbeing, keep them safe and secure, and enable them to ...Show more
Finding True Connections - How to Learn and Write about a Family Member's History by Gareth St John Thomas
$39.99 NZD
Category: Family
Our individual memories define us. Our tribal memories unite us. If these are missing, parts of us are missing too. The Emotional Inheritance division of Exisle Publishing works with a global team of psychologists, writers and historians to provide a premium interview and story production service, to ca ...Show more
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Family
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if ...Show more
The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide by John Gottman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Family
Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of mar ...Show more
