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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

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

A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side...
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Man vs. Baby: The Chaos and Comedy of Real-Life Parenting

Matt Coyne · Scribner
Pages: 273
Format: eBook

From a "hero for dads everywhere" (Daily Mirror) , a hilarious, insightful, and heartfelt take on parenting based on a viral blog post that Ashton Kutcher called, "one of the best descriptions of fatherhood I've ever read."One evening, while his three-month-old...
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What High Schools Don't Tell You

Elizabeth Wissner-Gross · Plume
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

From the author of What Colleges Don't Tell You, a plan to help parents of middle and early high school students prepare their kids for the best collegesIn order to succeed in the fiercely competitive college admissions game, you need a game plan - and you have to start young. In this empowering...
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Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

Love and guilt are thick in the Scottoline/Serritella household, and Lisa and Francesca's mother-daughter-turned-best-friends bond will strike a familiar note to many. But now that Lisa is a suburban empty nester and Francesca is an independent twentysomething in the big city, they...
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

SHERYL GONZALEZ-ZIEGLER · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect...
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Start Smart: Building Brain Power in the Early Years

Pam Schiller · Gryphon House; Revised Edition edition
Format: Print book

Did you know that emotions boost our memory? Or that small muscle exercises help the brain develop? Early experiences contribute to the structure of the brain and its capacities. The quality, quantity, and consistency of stimulation will determine, to a large extent, the number of brain...
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Making the Grade: Everything Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know

Micki Pflug · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback

This brand-new and important workbook gives parents easy-to-apply methods for educating their third-grade children, whether as home schoolers with parents taking full control of their child's studies, or as parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom settings....
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L is for Lion: And Other Playful Alphabet Fun

Between the Lions · Gryphon House
Format: Print book

Between the Lions is a PBS KIDS® series that helps children gain literacy skills through games, songs, and fun! Now with L Is for Lion, parents and teachers can expand on what children love about their favorite show with activities that make learning letters easy and entertaining....
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Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't

Suzanne Barston · University of California Press
Format: Print book

As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called “A Parent is Born,” the program’s tagline was “The journey to parenthood . . . from pregnancy to delivery and beyond.”...
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The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old

Harvey Karp · Bantam; First Edition edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of “nos” and “don’ts” into “yeses” and hugs…if...
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I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent: Helping Your Children Set the Boundaries They Need...and Really Want

E D Hill · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover

Fox News host and busy mother of eight E. D. Hill offers the antidote to permissive parenting by giving parents permission to be in charge. Instructional and conversational, I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent challenges parents to reclaim their roles, make the hard decisions,...
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