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In this wide-ranging and practical guide to parenting,  There is clear information on  the role of parents, important parenting skills, how our family backgrounds contribute to what we do, and the cycles and stages of childhood.  They explore themes that relate to managing families, catering for the needs of parents and children, love and discipline, setting standards and limits, and integrating important values into parenting.

"At last the Mellors have written down their ideas on child-rearing.  We have used their approaches for seventeen years and they really work," - George & Jenny, parents of three.

Ken & Elizabeth Mellor (Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2004) (214 pages)

Teenagers actually want to be controlled and have their parents involved in their lives!

Dr William Doherty (Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2003) (208 Pages)

In A Stong Marriage, William Doherty describes how to break free of common traps such as confusing individual desires with needs, applying a trade-in-the-old-model mentality to your own spouse, or becoming overtime parents instead of fulltime parents.  He also discusses the thorny problem of inintentional marital sobotage from family, friends, even counsellors who may not believe commitment is worth fighting for.

In his forthright, enabling, caring and accepting style, William Doherty explains convinsingly that today's divorce epidemic is not an inevitable outgrowth of human change or the fickly natur of love.  Rather, it is the result of overwhelming and conflicting demands on our time, rampant consumerism, and the often-skewed emphasis we place on personal fulfilment.  These are powerful forces, he acknowledges, but they are not insurmountable. 

Young couples who want to hold tight to happily-ever-after, and longtime spouses on the brink of break-up, can fight back to restore a marriage worth saving - even if it seems too late. 

This book shows how.

Easy Parenting is about meeting the challenges and dealing with the difficulties that parents face, so they can raise their children to become happy, well balanced adults. In Easy Parenting, Ken and Elizabeth Mellor also suggest ways to handle friction in families. The book includes both what parents can do and how to learn to do it.

Enjoyable to read, easy to understand and straightforward to apply, the book contains many practical skills and approaches, including:

• different ways of loving your child
• "nagging" effectively as part of teaching children
• effective ways to discipline
• struggling with children for their benefit
• developing your child's self-esteem
• getting your child to understand what you say
• finding out what your child needs
• managing conflicts between brothers and sisters.

Easy Parenting is taken from the middle third of ParentCraft, Ken & Elizabeth Mellor's internaitoinally aclaimed book on parenting.. The contents are the same with a few minor additions.

The Happy Family is about how to make family life enjoyable, stable and secure for all involved. Ken and Elizabeth Mellor provide simple, easy-to-use ways to manage our families well so they provide what is needed. They suggest that our families are classrooms for life and little communities in which children learn how to live in the wider world.

Their practical advice on how to do this includes:

• understanding and shaping your family patterns
• creating balance between family life and work
• learning from our own childhood experience of families
• ways of ensuring your own family works well
• handling family conflicts
• creating and working together in a parenting team.

The Happy Family is taken from the first third of ParentCraft, Ken & Elizabeth Mellor's internaitoinally aclaimed book on parenting.. The contents are the same with a few minor additions.

Dr William Doherty (Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2003) (166 Pages)

According to Dr William Doherty, one of the leading US family therapists, there are a number of forces outside the family that make it harder to be an effective parent today.  In Confident Parenting, he considers the effects of the advertising industry, television programming, other parents who are permissive, other parents who compete over their children's achievements, and other providers of children's activities such as sports coaches.

Dr Doherty offers clear advice on how parents can take charge of their children in the ways that children need.  His forthright, clear, caring and respectful style makes the book a wonderful read.  Loaded with insights, it is a valuable resource for any parent.

Stephen Karcher has created a wonderful book for couples using the the Chines Oracle - the I Ching.  The simplicity and beauty of  his writing, as usual, makes this book very easy reading and wonderfully rich in the contribution it can make to people who wish to enhance their relationships with each other.  Stephen presents the hexagrams as they apply to relationships, enabling readers to apply the ancient wisdom of the I Ching to the complexities of the way we love one another today.

Ken & Elizabeth Mellor joined forces with Stephen to add the richness of their approach to his.  They provided Reflections and Practices for each of the hexagrams - amounting to about 16% of the text.  As spiritual mentors they have introduced many thousands of people to meditation and other enlightening techniques.  Their experience as counsellors and psychotherapists and their shared life as a couple makes them particularly at home in the blend of the practical, pshychological and spiritual that is tne heart of this way of the lover. 

This first edition is the same as the second with the exception of the cover picture, the subtitle of the book and a few paragraphs at the begining of the "Parenting with love" chapter. 

In this wide-ranging and practical guide to parenting, There is clear information on the role of parents, important parenting skills, how our family backgrounds contribute to what we do, and the cycles and stages of childhood. They explore themes that relate to managing families, catering for the needs of parents and children, love and discipline, setting standards and limits, and integrating important values into parenting.

"At last the Mellors have written down their ideas on child-rearing. We have used their approaches for seventeen years and they really work," - George & Jenny, parents of three.

Mark Dobson (Doubleday 2002) 90 pages

Everyone gets bullied at some stage in their lives. Back Off Bully provides practical strategies to help you and your family deal with:

• the schoolyard bully
• bullies in the workplace and
• bullies within the family

Mark Dobson has a talent for using exactly the right words and examples that people (children and adults) who are being bullied can understand.  This is a gem of a book.

Written to teenagers and adults.  These approaches really work!

Bully Busting is a practical book that offers help to children to deal with bullies.  It also provides ways to take care of the damaging effects of teasing and bullying.  Special activity pages, with an emphasis on fun, give young people ways to practise dealing with bullies in different situations. 

The book is designed for parents to use with children of primary and secondary school age.

Ken and Elizabeth highly recommend this book for both children and adults who need to learn to deal with bullying people.