Back Parenting & Families | April Newsletter

SelectReads News
Dearreader template
  Parenting & Families  
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce

Emily Doskow · NOLO; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Planning Isn't My Priority
Planning Isn't My Priority

Julia Cook · National Center for Youth Issues
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Cletus and Bocephus are back! While working on their science fair project on mealworms, they learn to appreciate and understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. Creativity needs structure and structure needs creativity... and Cletus and Bocephus BOTH need to know how to plan and prioritize!...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W Greene · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In Raising Human Beings, the internationally renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.Parents...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Eat, Play, Sleep: The Essential Guide to Your Baby's First Three Months
Eat, Play, Sleep: The Essential Guide to Your Baby's First Three Months

Luiza DeSouza · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From a caretaker of newborns who's had years of hands-on experience with celebrity clients, comes this practical and reassuring guide to the first three months with your new baby.Are you a new or soon-to-be new mother? Are you caught between self-doubt and conflicting parenting advice...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed

Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. · AMACOM
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Straight Talk on Parenting: A No-Nonsense Approach on How to Grow a Grown-Up
The Straight Talk on Parenting: A No-Nonsense Approach on How to Grow a Grown-Up

Vicki Hoefle · Bibliomotion
Format: Print book

Parents these days are under a great deal of pressure to be "perfect." From psychologists to social scientists, journalists to weekend bloggers, everyone has an opinion about the do's and don'ts for raising healthy, well-adjusted - and let's not forget, polite - children...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love With Expectations and Protection With Trust
Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love With Expectations and Protection With Trust

M.D. Kenneth R. Ginsburg MD FAAP · Amer Acad Of Pediatrics
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

From award-winning author Ken Ginsburg comes this new work which explores an innovative idea in parenting: "The Lighthouse Parenting Strategy."
Read More check catalog
 
 
Raising Boy Readers
Raising Boy Readers

Michael Sullivan · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Using stories and anecdotes to humanize the research presented, Raising Boy Readers conveys an understanding of the differences that are common among many boys and how these differences affect reading. It provides practical approaches to promote reading to boys, addressing physical differences,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Getting to 30: A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years
Getting to 30: A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years

Elizabeth Fishel · Workman Publishing Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind
Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

Amber Ankowski PhD · Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what's actually going on inside your little one's head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier - and a lot more fun. In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach

Vincent J. Monastra · American Psychological Association
Format: Print book

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Monastra has treated more than 15,000 clients who have ADHD. In this indispensable book he shares the knowledge he has gained. Engaging and straightforward, the book is directed at parents of children who have, or might have, ADHD. In a conversational style,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Newborn Sleep Book: A Simple, Proven Method for Training Your New Baby to Sleep Through the Night
The Newborn Sleep Book: A Simple, Proven Method for Training Your New Baby to Sleep Through the Night

Dr. Lewis Jassey · Perigee Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Developed and refined by two successful pediatricians, the "Jassey Way" boasts more than a 90% success rate of getting children to sleep through the night in their first 4 weeks of life. A safe and proven technique, the Jassey Way uses a feeding schedule that allows newborns (and...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Waking up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting
Waking up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting

Howard J. Bennett · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

A positive, interactive plan for overcoming bedwetting, geared to parents of kids ages 6-13. Author Dr. Howard Bennett is both a pediatrician and a parent, and he encourages parents to read the book together with their children and develop a plan that includes behavior management techniques,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Dad's Guide to Babycare
A Dad's Guide to Babycare

Colin Cooper · Hamlyn
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Conceived both to teach men the best ways to care for their babies and to reflect their masculine approach to childcare, this book is a comprehensive guide on how to manage every aspect of caring for newborns to older toddlers. A further feature is that it offers help in illuminating...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Baby Signing Book: Includes 450 ASL Signs for Babies and Toddlers
The Baby Signing Book: Includes 450 ASL Signs for Babies and Toddlers

Sara Bingham · Robert Rose; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book

This second edition 9780778804512 replaces the first edition 9780778801634 Now with 100 additional American Sign Language ASL symbols plus more case studies. The interest surrounding baby signing continues to increase as more and more parents embrace this special world of communication,...
Read More check catalog