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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

LISA SCOTTOLINE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make...
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Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

David Flink · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Print book

An innovative, comprehensive guide - the first of its kind - to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently,...
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When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All - From the Everyday to the Extreme

MIREILLE SCHWARTZ · AMACOM
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

All the answers parents need. Keeping kids safe takes vigilance. But when your child has food allergies, the challenge is greater and you worry that much more. As a food-allergy mom (and someone seriously allergic herself) , author Mireille Schwartz has been through it all. Now, in this...
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How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane: And Other Lessons in Parenting from a Highly Questionable Source

Johanna Stein · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

Looking for the perfect book to help you survive childbirth and parenting with your sanity intact?Look elsewhere.For Johanna Stein (writer/comedian/forward/slash/abuser and occasionally neurotic/immature/way-too-candid mom), parenting is an extreme sport. Her stories from the trenches may not always...
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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong

Steve Biddulph · Random House Inc
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

A practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys.Raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted daughter from babyhood to womanhood...
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The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai

ELIZABETH FLOCK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders....
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Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture

Lisa Boucher · She Writes Press
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

Have you ever wondered if social drinking has unintended consequences to your health, family, relationships, or your profession? Have you ever thought that losing control of your drinking couldn't happen to you or someone you love? All the women you know are too smart. Too rich. Too kind....
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Dementia in the Family: Practical Advice From a Caregiver

LEE CARDWELL · Self-Counsel Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Approximately six million people have some form of dementia in North America, and they each have an average of five care partners. This number is growing each year and will continue to grow until a cure is found. There are books that are very clinical and books that are fictional, but Dementia...
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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting

Alfie Kohn · Da Capo Press
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

Somehow, a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children--what they're like and how they should be raised--have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their...
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How to Age in Place: Planning for a Happy, Independent, and Financially Secure Retirement

Mary A. Languirand Ph.D. · Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

The first authoritative and comprehensive guide to "aging in place"--a burgeoning movement for those who don't want to rely on assisted living or nursing home care--which allows seniors to spend their later years living comfortably, independently, and in their own home...
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Jancee Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers...
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Your Kid's a Brat and It's All Your Fault: Nip the Attitude in the Bud--from Toddler to Tween

Elaine Glickman · Tarcher
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In this wise and hilarious parenting book, Elaine Rose Glickman tells parents that - when it comes to their bratty kids - the buck stops with them! You've seen them - kids running wild through restaurants while the parents avert their gaze and order another cappuccino. You've heard...
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Wits Guts Grit: All-Natural Biohacks for Raising Smart, Resilient Kids

J Pincott · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Inspired by research on how natural, invisible forces shape our kids' health and minds What if memory and learning could improve after eating certain foods - such as blueberries - high in plant chemicals called flavonols? What if primal ways of moving the body strengthen kids' working...
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Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children With Special Needs - A Guidebook

Laura Shapiro Kramer · BookBaby
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Laura Shapiro Kramer has turned her experience raising a special-needs child (already detailed in her successful memoir) into a guidebook for other parents.The e-book and web site contain multiple resources and she is building a community of support through Facebook, Twitter, and at uncommonvoyage.com.
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