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Title:
Staying Together
Author:
Susan Quilliam |
- A Relate guide to helping couples stay together rather than drift apart
- Practical, supportive and gently challenging
- For people who want to invest in their primary relationship and for people whose relationships need rescuing
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Title:
Baby Shock
Author:
Elizabeth Martin |
- Another Relate guide to anticipating and managing the negative effects that babies and young children can have on relationships
- Very practical and written by someone who's been there!
- For people who are either planning children or who feel that their children are damaging their relationship with their spouse
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Title:
The Surrendered Wife
Author:
Laura Doyle |
- An extremely controversial book! I expected to be shocked by some of the content - and I was
- The surprise was to find that some of it was very useful (if uncomfortable)
- For people who recognise that their relationship with their spouse isn't sitting comfortably with them (and maybe never did!)
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Title:
How To Mange Your Mother
Author:
Alyce Faye Cleese & Brian Bates |
- A practical and sympathetic guide to accepting your relationship with your mother and making it stronger / more appropriate / more adult
- For people who believe that their relationship with their mother has some room for improvement
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Title:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
Author:
Stephen Covey |
- Another book from the "Seven Habits" group of books - this one focussing on the family
- A practical guide with lots of stories from his large family.
- For people who want to take a strategic approach to family life and work on improving it
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Title:
Raising Cain
Author:
Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson |
- In my opinion a much deeper and more thougtful book that Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys
- Still practical, certainly very empathic and no-nonsense style
- For people (parents, teachers etc.) who want to step into the shoes of boys whilst they're growing up - and then know how best to help them
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Title:
Speaking of Boys
Author:
Michael Thompson |
- A Q&A book from the same author as "Raising Cain". Same excellent style
- For people (parents, teachers etc.) who want specific advice on real matters
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Title:
The Highly Sensitive Child
Author:
Elaine Aron |
- An engaging and insightful book written by a Highly Sensitive Person
- Very constructive and yet empathic. Extremely useful questionnaires for testing child and parent sensitivities
- For parents who think they have a sensitive child and who want to do best by that child
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Title:
Reviving Ophelia
Author:
Mary Pipher |
- A classic tome on raising teenage girls. Well researched and well written
- Empathic and challenging, it wants us to put ourselves in the girls shoes. It doesn't tell us how to "manage" them, it wants us to work on ourselves and to work with the girls
- For people (parents, teachers etc.) who are interacting with girls an want to do it in an understanding, listening and empathic style
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