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How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, 2nd Edition

TIM SELDIN · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"A practical parenting program to help build a calm and happy home life with your child, from birth through age six. This guide is based on Montessori school methods and packed with creative activities to help children discover more about their world as well as foster independence,...
 
 
The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish

Lea Waters · Avery
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths.This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from...
 
 
The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up

Susannah Meadows · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

You're faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine's answers. What do you do? In The Other Side of Impossible, Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who were determined to solve the unsolvable. Their adventures take us to the outer frontiers...
 
 
Help Your Kids with Adolescence: A No-Nonsense Guide to Puberty and the Teenage Years

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Your guide to answering your kid's awkward questions about growing up, from cyberbullying to eating disorders to sex.Help your child navigate the tricky and difficult changes of puberty with this straightforward guide. With age-appropriate text and an innovative visual approach, Help...
 
 
All About ADHD: A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed with ADHD

Thomas W Phelan · Sourcebooks Inc
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 MagicFor the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely...
 
 
As My Parents Age: Reflections on Life, Love, and Change

Cynthia Ruchti · Worthy Inspired
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Insights and encouragement for readers who are struggling with the changes in their relationships with aging parents. For most of us it is not the ifs but the whens: when I notice the first signs; when we mourn the role reversal; when my children need me too; or when I don't know how to pray....
 
 
Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children With Special Needs - A Guidebook

Laura Shapiro Kramer · BookBaby
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Laura Shapiro Kramer has turned her experience raising a special-needs child (already detailed in her successful memoir) into a guidebook for other parents.The e-book and web site contain multiple resources and she is building a community of support through Facebook, Twitter, and at uncommonvoyage.com.
 
 
The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Kimberly Seals Allers · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, "Breast is best," but sends you home with formula "just in case." Your sister-in-law says, "Of course you should!" Your mother says, "I didn't, and you turned out just fine."...
 
 
Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch

Michael Perry · Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

"Every writer has advice for aspiring writers. Mine is predicated on formative years spent cleaning my father's calf pens: Just keep shoveling until you've got a pile so big, someone has to notice. The fact that I cast my life's work as slung manure simply proves that I recognize...
 
 
Whoa, baby! what just happened? : what nobody tells you about the postpartum year

Kelly Rowland · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

When vocalist and actress Kelly Rowland, whose albums have sold millions of copies worldwide, gave birth to her son, it was love at first sight. But she was also a little freaked out about what had happened to her body and the overwhelming new thoughts and emotions. In Whoa Baby!, Rowland...
 
 
I'm OK! Building Resilience through Physical Play

Jarrod Green · Redleaf Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including...
 
 
The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2018

Len Testa · Unofficial Guides
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

Your no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's Cruise LineThe Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line by with Erin Foster, Laurel Stewart, and Ritchey Halphen describes the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's...
 
 
Get A Life: His & Hers Survival Guide to IVF

Richard Mackney · Orion
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Richard and Rosie started trying to conceive after five years of being together but, two and a half years and countless prenatal vitamins and ovulation kits later, there hadn't been even a phantom pregnancy. So began their adventure into IVF, via blood tests, sperm tests, injections...
 
 
The Many Faces of Home Birth: 30 Honest, Firsthand Accounts from Parents around the World

Shantel Silbernagel · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Features positive and uplifting home birth stories told by thirty diverse women, illustrating that home birth is an achievable alternative for any modern woman, regardless of age, race, location, or economic status.Stories span a wide range of relevant and relatable topics of today: home...
 
 
How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Jancee Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers...