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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits

Robin Berman · Harperwave
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers....
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Being My Mom's Mom

Loretta Anne Woodward Veney · Infinity Pub
Pages: 171
Format: Book

Being My Mom's Mom invites readers on my personal journey before and after the onset of my Mom's dementia. Personal vignettes highlight the heartache and humor in this life-changing disease. I offer strategies from real experience for building the best care team for loved ones,...
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The Un-Prescription for Autism: A Natural Approach for a Calmer, Happier, and More Focused Child

Janet Lintala · AMACOM
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Each year, more than 50,000 U.S. families receive an autism diagnosis. On top of turmoil and worry, they share the same urgent question: What can we do to help our child? The answers parents find can be contradictory...even dangerous. The conventional approach (employed by too many pediatricians)...
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Mothers of the Military: Support and Politics during Wartime

Wendy M Christensen · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Mothers of the Military examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers...
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Untying Parent Anxiety

Lisa Sugarman · Familius
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

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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The Infertility Journey: Real voices. Real issues. Real insights.

Tarun Jain · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback

Infertility affects about 15 percent of all couples (1 in 7) in the United States, and occurs equally among women and men. When it affects you, it can quickly become one of the most trying times in your life. Your infertility journey, however, does not have to be so difficult. By being...
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How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

Thomas Lickona · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Can you teach your child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided.We all want our kids to be kind. But recognizing that abstractly is not the same as knowing what to do when your son tunes you out or you catch your daughter...
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Get Ready Get Set to Stay Put: A Guide for Aging at Home

Emily M Butler-Morton · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive guide on aging at home. Possibilites, precautions and various options are discussed including detailed steps that can be taken. Learn how to live safely and comfortably in your own home. Listing of helps, agencies and services available for seniors. Helpful section on how to stay...
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Parenting Through the Storm: Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems

Ann Douglas · Guilford
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

Raising a child with a psychological condition is a "perfect storm" of stress, heartache, and hard work. Ann Douglas knows firsthand just how daunting it can be--and what a difference knowledge and support can make. Each of her four children (now grown and thriving) has dealt...
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Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains

Suanne Kowal-Connelly · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

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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How to Be Perfect Like Me

Dana Bowman · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Recover. Rinse. Repeat.Dana Bowman can't escape the lure of perfectionism, trying to be a flawless wife, mother, and person in recovery. When Dana experiences a short-lived relapse during the Christmas holiday, she has the startling realization that recovery is more than just giving...
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The Confident Parent: A Pediatrician's Guide to Caring for Your Little One--Without Losing Your Joy, Your Mind, or Yourself

Jane Scott · A TarcherPerigee Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

We've all heard the complaint from parents: They're more overwhelmed than ever before -- juggling demands on their time as well as conflicting advice from family, friends, frenemies and "experts" on how to achieve parental perfection--or risk jeopardizing their little one's future...
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Blending Families: Merging Households with Kids 8-18

Trevor Crow · Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better...
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

DEBORAH REBER · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are - these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing...
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The Happiest Kids in the World: A Stress-Free Approach to Parenting-the Dutch Way

RINA MAE ACOSTA · EXPERIMENT LLC
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The secret to raising the happiest kids in the world? Whatever it is, it's somewhere in the Netherlands . . . Would parents rather their children be successful or happy? Kids in the US face lots of pressure to excel - often at the expense of happiness. But does it have to be this way? Not in the Netherlands!...
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