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When Your Baby Won't Stop Crying: A Parent's Guide to Colic

Tonja H. Krautter · Sourcebooks
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

One million babies born in the U.S. each year suffer from colic, and yet until now, colic has been only a footnote in baby care books. Defined as constant, unpredictable and inconsolable crying, parents dealing with colic are desperate for solutions. Now there's help. Mental health...
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Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories

Kay Marner · DRT Press
Format: Paperback

An anthology of personal essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD, OCD, PDD, ASDs, SPD, PBD and/or other alphabet soup diagnoses that takes the already difficult job of parenting and adds to the challenge. These essays focus on honest feelings, lessons learned, epiphanies, commonplace...
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Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro

David L. Hill · American Academy of Pediatrics; 1 edition
Format: Print book

All fathers have heard it before-having a baby really changes your life. And maybe they felt like David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, author of Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro. Dr Hill is a dad himself and a pediatrician in practice. Inside this practical yet humorous book, dads and dads-to-be will...
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The Complete Guide to Medications During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Everything You Need to Know to Make the Best Choices for You and Your Baby

Carl P. Weiner · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

From a renowned obstetrician and expert in maternal-fetal medicine comes the only comprehensive pharmaceutical guide available to help you make informed decisions while pregnant and nursingSometimes even physicians disagree or appear confused about what medications are appropriate choices...
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The Sex-wise Parent: The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Child, Strengthening Your Family, and Talking to Kids About Sex, Abuse, and Bullying

Janet Rosenzweig · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book

If your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having “the talk” with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with The Sex-Wise Parent, Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking...
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Making the Grade: Everything Your 4th Grader Needs to Know

Robert R. Roth · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"A brand-new title in this important series gives parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children who are starting in the fourth grade. It's a combination manual and advice book, suitable both for parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard...
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Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child

Maja Pitamic · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book

Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding...
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The Myth of Laziness

Mel Levine · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential "if only he'd just apply himself" or "if only she'd work just a little harder"? How often have you said the same thing to your son or daughter? Or perhaps you have a coworker...
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Help Your Kids with Science

DK Publishing · DK
Format: Book

Following the success of Help Your Kids with Math, Help Your Kids with Science is a comprehensive and stress-free approach to science. With clear graphics, instantly understandable diagrams, and welcoming, jargon-free text — covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics...
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My Brother's Book

Maurice Sendak · HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion...
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