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FussBusters at Home: Strategies and Games for Smoothing the Rough Spots in Your Preschooler's Day

Carol Baicker-McKee · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

This one-of-a-kind parent's survival guide makes daily life with young children more rewarding and less daunting.Here is a unique parenting book filled with coping strategies, activities, and ideas for successfully managing day-to-day life with preschoolers. Arranged chronologically...
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The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child

Dawn Davenport · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 393
Format: Paperback

The go-to guide for everything you want to know about international adoptionFrom the initial decision—Is adoption right for you?—through returning home with your child—How can you ease the transition?—The Complete Book of International Adoption takes parents...
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Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To

Annabelle Gurwitch · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along...
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Adopting in America: How To Adopt Within One Year

Randall Hicks · Wordslinger Press; 5 edition
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Authored by one of the nation's leading adoption attorneys, ADOPTING IN AMERICA is the ultimate "how to" book for anyone thinking of adopting. Written in a clear style, it details every type of adoption. This includes not just the standard types (domestic independent, agency...
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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

Molly Millwood PhD · Harper Wave
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood

When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what...

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It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence, 2nd Edition

Meg Kennedy Dugan · Routledge; 2 edition
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Those who have never experienced an abusive or violent relationship often believe that upon finding a way out, victims' difficulties are solved: their life is good, they are safe, and recovery will be swift. However, survivors know that leaving is not the end of the nightmare -- it is the beginning...
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Diane Wiessinger · Ballantine Books; 8 Rev Upd edition

It's no secret that breastfeeding is the normal, healthy way to nourish and nurture your baby. Dedicated to supporting nursing and expectant mothers, the internationally respected La Leche League has set the standard for educating and empowering mothers in this natural art for generations....
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What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce

Judith S. Wallerstein · Hyperion; 1 edition
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce gave us new and important insight into the long-term effects of divorce on children who have grown into adulthood. What About the Kids? is a new book that tells parents in unprecedented detail how to help their children over the long haul-what to say, what...
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How to Build Your Baby's Brain: A Parent's Guide to Using New Gene Science to Raise a Smart, Secure, and Successful Child

Gail Gross · Skyhorse
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Your child's DNA is not destiny; you are at the helm, guiding their course.

The truth is, nature and nurture are in a delicate dance - if one goes too fast, the other one falls. Science tells us that early childhood experiences have the capacity to structure and alter the brain....
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Making the Grade: Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know

Laura B. Tyle · 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 first grade. It's a combination manual and advice book, suitable both for parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom...
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Rachel Simmons · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls' dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of 'success' comes at the expense of self-worth...

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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Conor Grennan · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs...
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The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems

Elizabeth Pantley · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 244
Format: Book

Winner of Disney's iParenting Media Award for Best Product "Easy naptime solutions that really work--without any tears." Kathy Lynn, President, Parenting Today "Naps: Children need them. Parents want them. Here are the tools to make them happen." Maureen A. Doolan...
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