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The Crucial Years: The Essential Guide to Mental Health and Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (Ages 6-12)

by Ziegler, Sheryl Gonzalez

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Book Overview An essential guide for parents and caregivers, this parenting guide offers insights, strategies, and understanding to navigate middle chi...

An essential guide for parents and caregivers, this parenting guide offers insights, strategies, and understanding to navigate middle childhood (ages 6-12). Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler, a seasoned clinical psychologist and mother, highlights ways to foster resilience, encourage open communication, and build lasting connections during this crucial period of child development.

There is a pivotal sea change happening. The age of puberty has been trending earlier for decades, and now starts as young as 8 years old in girls and 9 in boys. Bullying doesn't just happen on the playground, but over text and DM. Anxiety in children is drastically on the rise. Couple earlier puberty with ill-equipped, developing brains and the onslaught of new media and stressors that never existed when we were kids, and it's clear that parents need a new guide for raising children in this new generation.

The Crucial Years is your essential handbook for parenting tweens and navigating the often misunderstood and overlooked years of middle childhood (ages 6-12). As a mom and clinical psychologist, Dr. Sheryl Ziegler knows firsthand how challenging these years can be, offering tools for emotional regulation and improving child mental health. Dr. Ziegler masterfully unlocks the enigma surrounding modern puberty and offers evidence-based strategies, interventions, and answers to middle childhood's most perplexing questions and concerns. In these pages, she provides:

  • Science-based advice to recognize and navigate puberty.
  • Candid and actionable guidance for getting your kids to talk about their complicated feelings and understanding their moods.
  • Insights into the changing world of gender and sexual identity, body image and disordered eating.
  • A clear explanation of the invisible threads linking mood swings, self-confidence, and social media exposure.
  • Road-tested, real-world guidance to handle social stress and other pressures.

With The Crucial Years, you have all that you need to guide your child through the unexpected ups and downs of puberty and help them emerge as well-rounded, confident teens.

Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 320 | Language: English | Publisher: HARVEST PUBN | ISBN: 0063378655
FormatHardcover
Pages320
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0063378655
EAN9780063378650
PublisherHARVEST PUBN
Publication Date2025-05-06
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Age GroupUncategorized
Weight0.95 Pounds
Length9.3 Inches
Width5.9 Inches
Height1.3 Inches
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