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The Family Caregiver's Manual: A Practical Planning Guide to Managing the Care of Your Loved One

David J Levy · Central Recovery Pr
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Family caregiving expert David Levy sets forth how to evaluate priorities, understand options, and face bedrock issues (legal, financial, emotional, social) , so caregivers can make wise and informed decisions for their loved ones, while gaining peace of mind from knowing they did the best...
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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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Eldercare 101: A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing

Mary Jo Saavedra · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

The Silver Tsunami is upon us as elder care and crisis management reaches a tipping point with the graying of America. By 2020, 54 million people in the U.S. will be over the age of 65; by 2030, that number will top 80 million. Feeling the squeeze of multi-generational home demands, children...
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Stress-Free Potty Training: A Commonsense Guide to Finding the Right Approach for Your Child

Sara Au · AMACOM
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

Successful potty training begins with the approach that is right for your child. Is your toddler frightened of the process, afraid even to go near the bathroom? Or does he or she seem to know when it's time to go, but can't quite make it there in time? This insightful guide helps take the stress...
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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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Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want

Alexandra H. Solomon PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

"A godsend to anyone searching for, but struggling to find, true love in their lives." - Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion Real love starts with you. In order to attract a life partner and build a healthy intimate relationship, you must first become a good partner...
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The Littlest Learners: Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

DAWN R ROGINSKI · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child's reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:1) talking with young...
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Surviving Your Child's Adolescence: How to Understand, and Even Enjoy, the Rocky Road to Independence

Carl Pickhardt · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Expert suggestions for guiding your child through the rough teenage years Does it sometimes seem like your teenager is trying to push you over the edge? Learn what your child is going through and what you can do to help your teen navigate this difficult period in this practical guide from...
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Parenting by Heart: Sleeping, Feeding and Gentle Care for Your Baby's First Year

Pinky McKay · Penguin Global
Format: Paperback

'The confidence your wisdom instils in new mums is parenting gold.'NAOMIEveryone loves to tell a new parent what they 'should' be doing. But you know best what your baby needs; you just have to trust your instincts. Pinky McKay has helped thousands of parents feel confident...
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Positive Parenting 101: A Handbook for Parents Undergoing Divorce

James A Baker · Bayou Pub
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step resource guide written at basic high school reading level for divorcing parents, POSITIVE PARENTING 101 helps moms and dads anticipate the needs of their children during the trauma of divorce. This book, along with its companion online course, fulfills the parent education...
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Don't Lick the Minivan: And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids

Leanne Shirtliffe · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Leanne Shirtliffe writes with hilarity and poignancy as to the trials and pains (literally) of motherhood. She is our new Erma Bombeck!"--Elizabeth Boyle, New York Times best-selling authorAs a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized...
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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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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said...
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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting

Adam Carolla · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow...
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Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident

Cheryl Erwin · Harmony; Rev Upd edition
Format: Print book

The celebrated Positive Discipline brand of parenting books presents the revised and updated third edition of their readable and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success.Over the years millions...
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