SELF-Help Book Reviews

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• Parenting with Love and Logic,  Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay

  Jim Fay is one of America’s top educational consultants, and Dr. Foster Cline is a trend-setting child and adult psychiatrist. The authors contend in a very practical and clearly written style that parents who want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world must take advantage of this win-win approach to parenting.
  Category: Parenting
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• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay

  The authors’ focus their approach in this book on the kids who have entered the years of adolescence. This book shows how to encourage mature behavior while not destroying the relationship. The love and logic teen parenting helps to reduce behavioral problems as parents learn how to view kids with respect and love even during challenges. 
  Category: Parenting
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• Parenting from the Inside Out, How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed

  This book is a great resource for those planning to have children, and for parents. The authors contend that how you make sense of your childhood experiences has a profound effect on how you parent your own children.  The top priority is nurturing healthy attachment between parents and children.
  Category: Parenting
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• Boundaries in Marriage, Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

  Boundaries are the ways in which we define and maintain our sense of individuality, personal integrity and freedom. The principles described in this book are significant ingredients to a thriving marriage. The authors guide readers in how to cope with differing needs, how to establish healthy communication, how to solve problems and much more. 
  Category: Marriage
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• Love & Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

  The goals of this book are to stop the Crazy Cycle of Conflict, initiate the Energizing Cycle of Change, and to enjoy the Rewarded Cycle of new passion. Dr. Eggerichs contends that a wife’s top priority is the driving need to feel loved.
  Category: Marriage
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• How People Grow by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

  This book is one of the best possible resources for Christian adults who desire personal growth. A sound approach which integrates practical and passionate theology with proven psychology is presented to provide structure for personal growth.
  Categories: Personal Growth, Self Help
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