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Youth Cultures in America

Cindy Dell Clark · Greenwood Press 2015.
Pages: 821
Format: Print book

Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth to pre-adolescence, although issues...
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Childhood Speech and Language Disorders: Supporting Children and Families on the Path to Communication

Suzanne M Ducharme · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Communication is one of life's most fundamental joys, yet one often taken for granted until it is lost or fails to develop. Yet for millions of children each year, the skills that encompass communication stall or do not emerge at all. Even a mild disorder or temporary interruption in development...
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A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves

Jane Gross · Vintage Books
Pages: 434
Format: Paperback

When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending...
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Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Maryanne Bruni · Woodbine House
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The popular book, Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome is now available in a completely revised third edition. The author, an occupational therapist and parent of an adult with Down syndrome, describes how the characteristics of Down syndrome can impact the acquisition and progression...
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Parenting: 50 One-Minute DOs & DON'Ts for Moms & Dads

Randall Hicks · WordSlinger Press
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback

Real. Practical. Advice. Tired of reading a book that is hundreds of pages in length, then thinking they could have boiled down the "important parts," and saved you a lot of time? Here's a book that eliminates the fluff and gives you just the nuggets in 50 one to three-page...
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

Denene Millner · Agate
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood...
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The Caregivers: A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love

Nell Lake · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers - spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill - illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy - and "providing comfort...
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Parenting Your Sensitive Child

Lynne Woolfson MA · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback

Do you have a sensitive child? One who, * seems to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, * who feels everything with quivering intensity, * who easily falls apart. If so, take heart. This book will help you navigate the sometimes bumpy, but always fulfilling parenting waters....
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Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 8th Edition

Glade B Curtis · Da Capo
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

In print for twenty-five years, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies worldwide as an established go-to resource. The book's trademark week-by-week formula helps expectant parents easily and effortlessly compare the details of their pregnancy with the same weekly schedule...
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Ask: Building Consent Culture

KITTY STRYKER · Thorntree Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture - and one that is more...
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Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language

Margaret Maclagen · Finch Publishing
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback

This book starts by describing a baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months. It then discusses play - the way young children learn. It also explores childrens' very early acquisition of words, and how they use them, and it covers the exciting...
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Motherhood Smotherhood: Fighting Back Against the Lactivists, Mompetitions, Germophobes, and So-Called Experts Who Are Driving Us Crazy

JJ Keith · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

What's the first thing a woman does when she thinks she might be pregnant? She Googles. And it goes downhill from there. While the internet is full of calming and cheerily supportive articles, it's also littered with hyper-judgmental message boards and heaps of contradictory and scolding...
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W Greene · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover

In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important...
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Healthy Children: How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children

SMITA GUHA · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 164
Format: Hardcover

This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity...
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The Silent Garden: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Deaf Child

Paul W Ogden · Gallaudet University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

For over 30 years, The Silent Garden has offered parents of deaf children the support and unbiased information needed to fully realize their children's potential. This completely revised third edition is a must-have resource that will help parents navigate the complex and unique challenges...
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