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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

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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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...
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What to Expect the First Year

Heidi Murkoff · Workman Publishing Company; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed—and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the completely revised third edition...
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Raising Financially Confident Kids

Mary Hunt · Revell; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

It's natural to want your kids to have a secure future. But when it comes to teaching the next generation how to handle money, parents are failing. Still there is hope! Financial expert Mary Hunt shows parents how to raise kids who have a healthy relationship with money--even if the parents...
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Well Played: The Ultimate Guide to Awakening Your Family's Playful Spirit

Meredith L Sinclair · William Morrow
Pages: 273
Format: Print book

From Today Show contributor, Meredith Sinclair, comes this ultimate resource for awakening your playful spirit, jumpstarting your relationships, and upping your happiness quotient. In our age of digital addiction, many of us have lost our ability to be spontaneous. More parents are complaining...
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EXIT 8 - How Battered Women STAY OUT: 16 Domestic Violence Survivors Reveal Struggles and Solutions for a New Life FREE of Abuse

Mary Walker Owens · Great Sky Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

EXIT 8 provides a much needed look at real life AFTER leaving an abusive relationship. The author, a survivor herself, interviewed 16 women who had escaped or gotten away - and more importantly, STAYED AWAY from batterers, never to be beaten or emotionally abused again. How did they...
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Let's Play and Learn Together: Fill Your Baby's Day with Creative Activities that are Super Fun and Enhance Development

Roni Cohen Leiderman · Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback

Playing with your baby is more than fun and games: it's the key to building a strong relationship with your infant and providing important early stimulation that promotes learning and development. Let’s Play and Learn Together provides 100 games, activities, and exercises that...
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Essential Baby Sign Language: The Most Important 75 Signs You Can Teach Your Baby

Teresa R. Simpson · Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Communicate with your baby--today! With Essential Baby Sign Language, you can feel closer to your baby than you ever thought possible! Featuring seventy-five of the most important signs babies need every day, this book helps you start signing now, without spending hours learning extensive...
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Family Whispering: The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting with the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger

Melinda Blau · Atria Books
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

The long awaited Baby Whisperer's guide to building a strong and loving family.Parenting is something you do. Family is something you are. - Tracy Hogg Before her untimely death in 2004, Tracy - aka the Baby Whisperer - and her longtime collaborator, journalist Melinda Blau, conceived...
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The Foster Parenting Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home

John DeGarmo · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents. He describes what to expect from...
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The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life

Patrick Lencioni · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

In this unique and groundbreaking book, business consultant and New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni turns his sights on the most important organization in our lives-the family. As a husband and the father of four young boys, Lencioni realized the discrepancy between the time...
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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

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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Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 8th Edition

Glade B Curtis · Da Capo
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

In print for twenty-five years, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies worldwide as an established go-to resource. The book's trademark week-by-week formula helps expectant parents easily and effortlessly compare the details of their pregnancy with the same weekly schedule...
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Adoption For Dummies

Tracy Barr · For Dummies; 1 edition
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

You hear all sorts of things said or implied about adoption. Some information comes from people who know a lot about it, while some comes from people who don't know anything about it but make assumptions anyway. Some comes from people whose experiences have been good; some from those...
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