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The Creative Family Manifesto: Encouraging Imagination and Nurturing Family Connections

Amanda Blake Soule · Roost Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Spark and nurture your family's creativity--a guide for making creativity an intentional part of everyday life.When you learn to awaken your family's creativity, wonderful things will happen: you'll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will...
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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World

MIKE BROOKS · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology can cause harm: by eroding our attention...
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New Favorites for New Cooks: 50 Delicious Recipes for Kids to Make

Carolyn Federman · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From a leader in the field of food education, this smart, fun, lavishly illustrated cookbook provides 50 kid-tested recipes that engage children's natural inclination for adventure and use fresh, seasonal ideas for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and sweets to teach basic cooking skills....
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

Richard Ratay · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players, iPods,...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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PARENTING AS PARTNERS : how to raise your kids without ejecting your spouse

VICKI HOEFLE · ROUTLEDGE

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The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough

Wade King · Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback

The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. "This book is a teacher wonderland of ideas, inspiration, and mind-blowing magic." --Ron Clark, New York Times bestselling author and cofounder, Ron Clark Academy....
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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2019

BOB SEHLINGER · Unofficial Guides
Pages: 864
Format: Paperback

THE trusted source of information for a successful Walt Disney World vacation Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs deeper and offers...
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FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES 2019

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Autism and Tomorrow: The Complete Guide to Help Your Child Thrive in the Real World

Karen Simmons · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback

Autism and Tomorrow is a comprehensive resource that addresses many parents' questions pertaining to their child with autism, such as financial planning, long-term care, employment options, and employer relationships, community resources, education, bullying, puberty, doctor visits,...
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How to Play Ukulele: A Complete Guide for Beginners

Dan Scanlan · Adams Media
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Learn to play the ukulele with this beginner's guide that features information about basic techniques, tools, and music knowledge.What do George Clooney, Zooey Deschanel, Ryan Gosling and James Franco all have in common? Answer: they all play the ukulele and now, with this easy step-by-step...
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Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women

James C. Dobson · Tyndale Momentum; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

2011 Retailers Choice Award winner!Bringing Up Boys by parenting expert and best-selling author Dr. James Dobson was, and continues to be, a runaway hit, selling more than 2 million copies to date. Now, Dr. Dobson presents his highly anticipated companion book: Bringing Up Girls. Based...
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