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Blending Families: Merging Households with Kids 8-18
Trevor Crow · Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Pages: 190
Format: Print book |
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Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better... |
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Shakespeare on Love
William Shakespeare · W W Norton
Pages: 258
Format: Print book |
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William Shakespeare is ubiquitous throughout the Western world as the master of the written word, and the above-quoted "Sonnet 18" is celebrated as one of the most exquisite love poems of all time. Love comes in all forms - friendly, familial, unrequited, and lustful - and impressively,... |
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Goodnight Nanny-Cam: A Parody for Modern Parents
Jen Nessel · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 32
Format: Print book |
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When the text of Goodnight Nanny-cam appeared online in the New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" column, it garnered 100,000 hits and more than 15,000 Facebook likes in a matter of days. Filled with sly references to BPA-free bottles, Baby Einstein DVDs, and toddler... |
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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 |
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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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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman · Harperwave
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover |
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After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers.... |
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Nancy Jo Sales · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Large Print Hardcover |
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Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales's riveting... |
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The 2015 Baby Names Almanac
Emily Larson · Sourcebooks
Format: Book |
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The Hottest Baby Name Trends, Lists, and ForecastsAn instant snapshot of how the world today is shaping the name you may choose for your child tomorrow, The 2015 Baby Names Almanac is jam-packed with information and trends, plus thousands of names to browse. Here's a sneak peak at the ideas,... |
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Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death: A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness
Aroop Mangalik · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover |
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Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost... |
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The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively
Gary D Chapman · Northfield Pub
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Over 400,000 copies sold! Socially, mentally, and spiritually, teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these pressures, it is still parents who can influence teens the most, and The Five Love Languages of Teeneagers equips parents to make the most of that... |
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