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Baby-Led Weaning: The

TERESA PITMAN · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Put down the spoon and forget the purées -- baby-led weaning is the easy, natural way for your baby to start solid foods. Around 6 months, most babies are developmentally ready to self-feed. The philosophy behind baby-led weaning is to offer your baby healthy finger foods and let her determine...

 
 
The Everything Big Book of Party Games: Over 300 Creative and Fun Games for All Ages!

Carrie Sever · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Tons of party games, including popular "minute-to-win" challenges!What's the secret to the best parties? Games--and the sillier, the better! Get your guests out of their chairs and into the fun with activities guaranteed to keep everyone laughing, including:Cookie Face (Who...
 
 
The Stepmoms' Club: How to Be a Stepmom without Losing Your Money, Your Mind, and Your Marriage

Kendall Rose · Sourcebooks
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The tips, tricks and support you need to survive stepmotherhood

You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now,...

 
 
Dad's Maybe Book

Tim O'Brien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.

"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow,...

 
 
How to Advocate Successfully for Your Child: What Every Parent Should Know About Special Education Law

Greer M. Gurland Esq. · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback

In this new book, Greer M. Gurland, Esq., Harvard Law School, '94, delivers a mega-dose of power for parents with passion and insight. Greer is a seasoned special education attorney--and a mom of five special needs children--who clearly works hard to level the playing field for parents....
 
 
Ready, Set, Go!: A Gentle Parenting Guide to Calmer, Quicker Potty Training

SARAH OCKWELL-SMITH · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A calmer, simpler approach to potty training

If you're like most parents, you're as nervous about potty training as your little one is. But help is on the way. This supportive guide provides step-by-step advice for a compassionate and emotionally aware process - one that focuses...
 
 
Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living

Liz O'Donnell · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced...
 
 
Parenting Mindfully: 101 Ways to Help Raise Caring and Responsible Kids in an Unpredictable World

Catherine DePino · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover

More than ever, life in our world, nation, and communities appears insecure and unpredictable. Every day, new and disturbing incidents appear on the news that feed this sense of unrest. In our communities, people don't attempt to understand one another's points of view, causing...
 
 
I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said...
 
 
TheDadLab: 50 Awesome Science Projects for Parents and Kids

Sergei Urban · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad.With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their...
 
 
Why Can't We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy

Pam Lobley · Familius
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Facing summer with her two boys, ages ten and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: "Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy's...
 
 
Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families

GARY GARRISON · University of Regina Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as an older caregiver to his stepchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling...
 
 
The Nursing Mother's Companion: The Breastfeeding Book Mothers Trust, from Pregnancy Through Weaning

KATHLEEN HUGGINS · HARVARD COMMON PR
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-selling books on breastfeeding for more than 30 years, with more than 1 million copies sold. It is respected and recommended by professionals,...
 
 
American Military Life in the 21st Century

Eugenia L. Weiss · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 700
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive guide to the lives and experiences of military service members, veterans, and their families in the United States today, with special emphasis given to those of the post-9/11 era.* Providers readers with a current understanding of the experiences of U.S. service members,...
 
 
Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture

Lee Airton · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An authentic and accessible guide to understanding - and engaging in - today's gender conversation.

The days of two genders - male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink - are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More...