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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Denene Millner · Agate
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood... |
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Raising Independent Self-confident Kids: Nine Essential Skills to Teach Your Child or Teen
Wendy Moss · American Psychological Association
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Parenting is a delicate dance. One of the hardest parts of parenting is knowing when to let your child struggle, in order to learn and grow, and when to intervene. In this book, child development experts Wendy L. Moss, PhD, and Donald A. Moses, MD, examine the key skills parents need to help... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
Erika Christakis · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written... |
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The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
ELIZABETH FLOCK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders.... |
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
John Leland · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America's oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's fastest-growing age group: those... |
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Sober Dad: The Manual for Perfectly Imperfect Parenting
Michael Graubart · Hazelden
Pages: 226
Format: Print book
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Admit it. You've been looking for that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show everyone the great man you know you are. Well, congratulations. That moment is here.You are a parent (or you're about to become one) . A father! A sober dad. If the word sober led you to pick up this book,... |
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Living Well with ADHD
Terry M Huff · Specialty Press
Pages: 141
Format: Print book
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Is ADHD a curse or a blessing - or a neurological difference that you can thrive with? Living Well with ADHD accepts the scientific evidence that ADHD can have disabling effects, but it challenges "disability thinking." It is less about coping with disability than using abilities;... |
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Nancy Jo Sales · Vintage
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized... |
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Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
David Flink · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Print book
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An innovative, comprehensive guide - the first of its kind - to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently,... |
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Redefining Aging: A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life
Ann Kaiser Stearns · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving. Even an elderly spouse, parent, or other family member who is significantly impaired or increasingly... |
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Why Can't We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy
Pam Lobley · Familius
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Facing summer with her two boys, ages ten and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: "Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy's... |
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Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein · Harper
Pages: 303
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a groundbreaking picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their... |
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