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You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

Ken Robinson · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now,...
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Unconditional Love: A Guide to Navigating the Joys and Challenges of Being a Grandparent Today

Jane Isay · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful meditation on the joys of being a grandparent and a practical guide to help you and your adult children make the most of your relationship with a grandchild.For many grandparents, a grandchild offers a second chance to become the parent they didn't have the time or the energy...
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

SHERYL GONZALEZ-ZIEGLER · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect...
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Rachel Simmons · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls' dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of 'success' comes at the expense of self-worth...
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Baby and Toddler Basics: Expert Answers to Parents' Top 150 Questions

TANYA ALTMANN · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

Parents of children from birth to age three will find answers to their most-frequently asked questions about child health and wellness in this easy-to-understand volume. Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP, practicing pediatrician and frequent contributor to NBC's "Today" show, helps...
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician

Michael Ellis · Oxford University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact...
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Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems

Naomi Schaefer Riley · Templeton Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Toddlers on tablets. Pre-teens on Tumblr. Thanks to a variety of factors - from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations bent on making education digital, to a culture that promotes everyone as the star of their own reality shows - technology is irrevocably a part...
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How to Fix a Broken Heart

Guy Winch · Simon & Schuster/ Ted
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing...
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Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship

Stephen Snyder · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288

The next Mating in Captivity, this is a paradigm-shifting guide to thinking about and enjoying sex and intimacy in committed, long-term relationships, from one of the nation's top sex therapists. These are astonishing times for sex. With a click of the mouse you can learn the names...
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Mama Took Care of Me

Marietta Murphy · Beaver's Pond Press
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

''Mama Took Care of Me'' tells the true story of growing up and growing old. A young girl or boy hearing this story may have that aha moment--as young Marietta did at age five--when she realized that someday, life will come full circle.
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