Koemba Book Club
The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
This guide outlines the steps women, as well as men, can take to strengthen good relationships and heal difficult ones. It is also available on two 90-minute audio-cassettes from HarperAudio.
The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships
A fresh new jacket design brings this classic self-help guide up to date for a contemporary readership. One of the forerunners to today’s pop psych market along with Women Who Love Too Much, this multimillion bestseller shows us how anger affects women’s relationships and explains how to turn this often destructive force into a constructive […]
Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear
“Connection Parenting” is based on author Pam Leo’s seven week parenting series, “Meeting the Needs of Children,” that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children’s optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to […]
The Homework Myth: Why Our Children Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
This work is a compelling expose of homework – its negative effects, why it’s so widely accepted, and what we can do about it. Whilst they’re free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete […]
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes
Criticizes the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting–sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Kindlon and Thompson set out to […]
Your Competent Child
In this important book, Jesper Juul argues that today’s families are at an exciting crossroads. The destructive values — obedience, physical and emotional violence, and conformity — that governed traditional hierarchical families are being transformed.Instead we can choose to embrace a new set of values based on the assumption that families must be built not […]
