Every parent fears "losing" their child. But in this revolutionary book, youthologist Vanessa Van Petten translates what parents want to say into what teens want to hear.

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As a fitness professional and healthy lifestyle coach, I continue to be impressed by the quality, depth and perspective of Experience Life magazine. The focus isn't just on how to get fit,lose weight and look better, which is refreshing. It is on how to have a healthier mindset and a healthier body. They offer practical ideas for being active (not just doing workouts), getting outdoors, eating healthier without dieting, overcoming the challenges to staying motivated, and addressing the underlying beliefs and emotions that get in the way of success. 

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You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight. ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It's about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids' behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our biggest enemy is our own emotional reactivity. When we say we "lost it" with our kids, the "it" in that sentence is our own adulthood. And then we wonder why our kids have so little respect for us, why our kids seem to have all the power in the family.

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Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide is a vital book for parents. Beginning with talk as the foundation of literacy, and emphasizing the importance of listening to and speaking with children, Lucy Calkins, longtime education specialist, then moves into the stages of reading and writing: how to recognize an emergent reader, how to foster a young author, and how to encourage a love of books and reading through your own interest and modeling. Additional chapters deal with math, science, and social studies.

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Halfway through this book, my wife convinced me to start reading it, myself. As I read it, I started thinking of how many of these things I used to do as a kid but, how little of them, with my busy schedule, I do with my kids. We then decided to start doing some of the exercises and playing some of the games that Laura and Jorge mention here. Although we don't do them every day, the kids really enjoy them and are constantly asking us for more. That motivates us even more to go out there and continue exercising with them. What started as a way to get the kids to have fun and in good shape has also turned into a challenge for my wife and I to get into better shape as well. One of the things that I have also noticed is that the kids are getting along much better too. I strongly encourage anyone to pick up this book and read it. The good thing is that you can just read it little by little. (Amazon Review by Carlos R. Rodriguez)

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Nothing makes one more keenly aware of health risks lurking in the everyday world than becoming a parent. Most know the importance of using cabinet locks and child gates, but research is showing many more ways we need to be childproofing our homes. Tens of millions of American children now face chronic diseases and illnesses including cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD/ADHD, allergies, learning and developmental disabilities, as well as a host of lesser but disruptive ailments. And the growing research points to much of the increases on unseen threats wrought by exposure to chemicals in everyday products like cleaning supplies, beauty care and cosmetics, home furnishings, plastics, some foods and toys as contributing to these ailments. With that in mind, the non-profit organization Healthy Child Healthy World offers parents a definitive guide to creating a healthy, nontoxic, and environmentally sound home.

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My kids are now 30 and 33, and when they were growing up, I never worried much about the origins of the foods they ate, the clothes they wore or the furnishings in our house. But now I see how much better my granddaughter's eczema is when she wears organic clothes washed in an earth-friendly detergent, or eats certain foods instead of others - and I realize how important these issues can be for young families. 

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Greg Horn did an excellent job with this book! It's very comprehensive, realistic and empowering. It explains the effects on the environment from the food we eat, the products we use, the energy choices we make and how our homes are built. The best part is his very specific recommendations in each chapter. Some of the life changes are quick and easy and others require longer term planning. 

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