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The Toddler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep Your 1 1/2- to 3-Year-Old Busy

Trish Kuffner · Meadowbrook; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The Toddler’s Busy Book is a must-read for anyone raising or teaching toddlers! This book contains over 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for kids ages 18 months to 3 years, using items found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to prevent boredom...
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Dad Is Fat

Jim Gaffigan · Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, whos best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonalds, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins celebrities for little kids to toddlers communication skills...
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Viral Parenting: A Guide to Setting Boundaries, Building Trust, and Raising Responsible Kids in an Online World

Mindy McKnight · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Mindy McKnight, YouTube's favorite mom, shares the tools parents need to keep kids safe in their online lives--and shows how to create stronger family relationships as they do. A cross between Jen Hatmaker and Rosalind Wiseman, VIRAL PARENTING is a guide to raising responsible, safe,...
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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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Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Judy Christie · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach

From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia...
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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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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...

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Beyond Mars and Venus: The Power of Evolutionary Relationships

John Gray · Benbella Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

For more than twenty years, John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. By learning to speak each other's...
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What to Expect the First Year

Sandee Hathaway B.S.N · Workman Publishing
Pages: 671
Format: Paperback

From the authors of the 9.6-million-copy bestselling What to Expect When You're Expecting, here is What to Expect the First Year (over 5.6 million copies in print), the most comprehensive guide available on the next phase of parenting-newborn care. Written with the same reassuring,...
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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 Granny Diaries: An Insider's Guide for New Grandmothers

Adair Lara · Chronicle Books
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?) . She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr. Sears guide chucked at the head. She offers...
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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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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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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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