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A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens: Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out

Joani Geltman · AMACOM
Format: Paperback

Turn back the clocks! Your sweet child has morphed into a teen. And it's no longer just a messy bedroom or an attitude with a capital "A" causing concern. There's a whole new range of issues on the horizon. What if your daughter texts a naked picture to a "boyfriend"...
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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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Party Style: Kids' Parties from Baby to Sweet 16

Gemma Touchstone · Front Table Books
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Make memories your children will treasure forever. As the creator of ILovePartyStyle.com and editor-in-chief of Party Style magazine, Gemma Touchstone knows how to make children's celebrations memorable. And with her help, you'll want to find any excuse to party! Packed with easy...
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Ketchup Is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves

Robin O'Bryant · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then ... read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. It's not always pretty but it's...
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Pearl Fairweather Pirate Captain: Teaching children gender equality, respect, respectful relationships, empowerment, diversity, leadership, recognising bullying behaviours and prevention of violence

Jayneen Sanders · Educate2empower Publishing
Pages: 42
Format: Kit

Captain Pearl Fairweather is a brave, fair and strong pirate captain. She and her diverse crew of twenty-four women sail the seven seas on the good ship, Harmony, looking only for adventure. All is well, until the day Captain Sandy McCross sails into their lives and demands to take over...
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The 5 Money Conversations to Have with Your Kids at Every Age and Stage

Scott Palmer · Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book

Raise your hand if your parents had "the talk" with you. No, not that talk. We mean the money talk.Money affects you and your kids every day. Now there's a way to talk about money in a way that actually brings your family closer.With two kids of our own, we suspect our parenting...
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Waking up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting

Howard J. Bennett · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

A positive, interactive plan for overcoming bedwetting, geared to parents of kids ages 6-13. Author Dr. Howard Bennett is both a pediatrician and a parent, and he encourages parents to read the book together with their children and develop a plan that includes behavior management techniques,...
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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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The ABA Consumer Guide to Adopting a Child: Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Adoption

Robert A. Kasky · American Bar Association
Pages: 107
Format: Print book

Adopting a child is an extraordinarily important decision. In this authoritative guide, adoption experts Robert and Jeffrey Kasky provide all the information needed to navigate the adoption process and to successfully adopt a child. The book discusses the various types of adoptions; alerts...
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Meet ME Where I'm At!

Cynthia Best MS PT · Future Horizons
Pages: 28
Format: Paperback

This book helps special needs children understand how they are wired and it offers them ways to communicate without having to express themselves verbally or even face-to-face. Written for children in the early grades, it provides concrete strategies that that can be individualized and then...
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The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting

Sally Donovan · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Print book

This is another book about adoptive parenting. Probably not the kind of parenting you hear about in training, or read about in text books, but the real stuff dynamic, messy, baffling adoptive parenting, rooted in domestic life. Adoptive parent Sally Donovan combines her knowledge of trauma...
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Vets for Vets: Harnessing the Power of Vets to Heal

Dr Gerald Alpern · Psychological Development Publications
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Alpern's book is based on decades of work with veterans. It provides innovative new and practical treatment techniques for veterans. Each chapter offers the three targeted groups of readers (i.e family and friends of vets, mental health professionals and vets themselves) insights...
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The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be

Armin A. Brott · Abbeville Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The fourth edition of this best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly, updated, revised, and expanded.We are expecting! The twentieth-anniversary edition of this thoroughly updated and revised parenting classic remains the most informative...
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STEP PARENTING: 50 One-Minute DOs and DON'Ts for Stepdads and Stepmoms

Randall Hicks · WordSlinger Press
Pages: 102
Format: Print book

A great step parenting and blended families resource for both the stepparent and the existing parent. Tired of reading a book that is hundreds of pages in length, then thinking they could have boiled down the "important parts" and saved you a lot of time? Here's a book that...
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive

Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers...
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