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The Minimalist Mom: How to Simply Parent Your Baby
Rachel Jonat · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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The Minimalist Mom isn't a manual for your first year with your new baby. It also isn't a long list of unnecessary things to buy. It's an intentional guide to living with less and enjoying your brand-new life with baby more. By learning how to clear the things you don't need--expensive... |
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Astrology and Relationships: Simple Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Anyone
DAVID POND · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Most of the advice you've read about astrological relationships covers the same ideas over and over. Libra gets along well with Leo, Aries clashes with Capricorn, and so on. But there's one problem: people are not that simple, and neither are relationships. Using the power and wisdom... |
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Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits
Jocelyn Elise Crowley · University of California Press
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover
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After 20, 30, or even 40 years of marriage, countless vacations, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances, what could go wrong? Gray Divorce is a provocative look at the rising rate of marital splits after the age of 50. Renowned author and researcher Jocelyn... |
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I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting
Karen Alpert · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Now that I'm a mom, I know the most painful part isn't getting something giant through your hooha. It's having a real live child.If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddo's organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book. If you stayed up past midnight to create... |
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Untying Parent Anxiety
Lisa Sugarman · Familius
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
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Raising the perfect child . . . it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular... |
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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. · AMACOM
Pages: 245
Format: Print book
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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,... |
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The Prodigy's Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent
Joanne Ruthsatz · Current
Pages: 273
Format: Print book
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We all know the autistic genius stereotypes. The absentminded professor with untied shoelaces. The geeky Silicon Valley programmer who writes bulletÂproof code but can't get a date. But there is another set of (tiny) geniuses whom you would never add to those ranks - child prodigies.... |
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The Anti-Test Anxiety Society
Julia Cook · National Center for Youth Issues
Format: Print book
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Bertha Billingsworth (BB for short) is basically a happy person until she has to take a test. To her, the word test stands for Terrible Every Single Time, because that's how she does on them, TERRIBLE! Whenever I see or hear the word test,The hair on the back of my neck stands up.My... |
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life
Susan Senator · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging,... |
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Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains
Suanne Kowal-Connelly · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
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Puberty is tough - on kids and maybe even more so on parents! Parenting Through Puberty explains the physical and emotional changes families can expect to see in their child. Dr. Kowal-Connelly covers the nitty-gritty of children's changing bodies, and, critically, she addresses the emotional... |
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Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families
GARY GARRISON · University of Regina Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
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Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as an older caregiver to his stepchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling picture... |
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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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