University Times

Pitt's Cathedral Publishing has joined with the Parent & Child Guidance Center of Pittsburgh to create the new parenting book, "Parenting for a Peaceful Home: Challenges and Solutions For Almost Perfect Parenting." The book is a companion publication to National Public Radio's "Parenting for a Peaceful Home" series.

Like the radio series, the book provides how-to solutions for overcoming the challenges faced by parents today. Material in it is derived from more than 40 years of experience at the Parent & Child Guidance Center.

"Parenting for a Peaceful Home" is divided into five sections: Foundations of Parenting, Nurturing the Young Child, Living With Older Children, Management and Discipline for a Peaceful Home, and Parents Are People Too.

Within the five major sections are 63 short chapters followed by a list of parenting pointers that serve as reference guides and coaching tools that allow parents quick reference to particular problems and their solution.

"Parenting for a Peaceful Home" is available for $14.95 at The Book Center. It is the latest in a growing number of books from outside sources being published by Cathedral Publishing, which was launched by the University about three years ago to handle small publishing needs, mainly books with print runs under 500 copies.

Since its creation, Cathedral Publishing primarily has been publishing course packets, texts and out-of-print books for use by Pitt faculty in classes. Outside books like "Parenting for a Peaceful Home" are still only a tiny, but growing, part of Cathedral's business.

Last year, Cathedral published two titles by outside sources and this year already has published six with two more in the works, according to Frank Lehner, manager and editor in chief.

"It is becoming more of a complementary component to what we are doing," Lehner said.

Among the books to be published is a biography of General Matthew Ridgeway, a memoir by a Holocaust survivor and a collection of profiles by former Pittsburgh Magazine columnist Abby Mendelson.

"We are growing as we devote more time to the book publishing end of the business and as we have some success," Lehner said. "Folks are starting to come to us and we're able to find material that deserves to be in print."

–Mike Sajna