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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

Vicki Iovine · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr. Spock to Dr. Brazleton has an armful of advice. But no one's delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms your fears, and cracks you up as only...
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Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

Jessica Seinfeld · Collins; 1st edition
Format: Book

It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids...
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Penny Whistle Sick-in-Bed Book: What to Do with Kids When They're Home for a Day, a Week, a Month, or More

Meredith Brokaw · Fireside
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback

A healing dose of fun for sick kids and the parents who love them! Whether your preschooler is home with the chicken pox, or your fifth-grader is laid up with a broken leg, The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK comes to the rescue with a delightful collection of absorbing activities to occupy...
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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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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi Murkoff · Workman Publishing Company; 3rd edition
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback

Introducing a completely Revised & Updated Third Edition of America's bestselling pregnancy book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. Two years in the making, it's a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision and update.Incorporating the most recent developments...
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The Conscious Parent's Guide To Asperger's Syndrome: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Succeed

William Stillman · Adams Media,
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A positive, mindful plan for the whole family!If your child has been given a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, you may be feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Asperger's Syndrome, you will learn how to take a relationship-centered...
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy

Vicki Iovine · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Your Girlfriends, of course -- at least, the ones who've been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine, "the Carrie Bradshaw of pregnancy" (Wall Street Journal), talks to you the way only a best...
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150 Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com!

Asia Citro · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Bring back playtime, all the time!Dive into a Bubbling Swamp World. Drum on an Outdoor Sound Wall. Explore the gooeyness of Glowing Slime.With the one-of-a-kind projects in 150 Screen-Free Activities for Kids, your family will rediscover the spirit of imaginative play! These fun activities...
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The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Fred Rogers · Hachette Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A timeless collection of wisdom on love, friendship, respect, individuality, and honesty from the beloved PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.There are few personalities who evoke such universal feelings of warmth as Fred Rogers. An enduring presence in American homes for over 30 years,...
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Connecting in the Land of Dementia: Creative Activities to Explore Together

Deborah Shouse · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

"Innovative ideas designed so care partners can engage and connect with people living with dementia. " On the dementia journey, each quality moment of connection is priceless. Deborah Shouse and dozens of experts in the field of dementia share ideas that engage the creative spirit...
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Calypso

David Sedaris · Back Bay Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina...
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The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children

Ronald F. Ferguson · BenBella Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

We all want our children to reach their fullest potential - to be smart and well adjusted, and to make a difference in the world. We wonder why, for some people, success seems to come so naturally. Could the secret be how they were parented? This book unveils how parenting helped shape...
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ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know

American Academy of Pediatrics · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback

Fully updated with the latest AAP recommendations, this award-winning guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them manage this condition. Topics include: evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, behavior therapy, ADHD and academics, the role of medication,...
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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...
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