By recognizing and accepting their childis feelings, parents can improve their childis emotional resilience. The Power of Validation is the first book to explain this critical process and offer parents skills they can use to validate and empower children in order to reduce behavioral problems, instill confidence, and increase childrenis ability to regulate their own emotions.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...

Zahra sees the world in vivid colors. When kids at school tell her she's different because of the color of her skin, she doesn't know how to feel, but her mother tells her to feel proud.