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The Reflective Parent: How to Do Less and Relate More with Your Kids

Regina Pally · W.W Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An innovative parenting approach empowering parents to trust their instincts and embrace uncertainty.Figuring out how to raise happy, healthy, and successful kids can be overwhelming. Parents find themselves wading through tons of conflicting advice. Books that outline a "right way"...
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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!,...
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One Heart at a Time

Delilah · RosettaBooks
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

"You're listening to Delilah." Delilah, the most listened-to woman on American radio, has distinguished herself as the "Queen of Sappy Love Songs" and America's ultimate romance guru. But Delilah's life off-air is all the more extraordinary - a life full...
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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Simone Davies · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Turn your home into a Montessori home - and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.

It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two"...
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I Don't Want To Make My Bed!

Chris Yukevich · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 38
Format: Paperback

A young negotiator -- perhaps you know one -- tries to weasel his way out of making his bed. That's the chore he dreads the most! The boy meets his match when his parents employ an age-old strategy to get the job done.
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Baby Sign Language Basics: Early Communication for Hearing Babies and Toddlers, 3rd Edition

MONTA Z BRIANT · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Now includes streaming video, additional tips, advice, and updated resources!Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies - and left them wanting more!Now, in this newly...
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The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods

Robyn Steward · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Written by autistic author Robyn Steward, this is a detailed guide for young people aged 9 to 16 on the basics of menstruation. Created in consultation with young people, an online survey and a group of medical professionals, this is a book that teaches all people about periods, which can be a scary...
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Square One: A Simple Guide to a Balanced Life

Joseph Maroon MD · Pythia Publishing
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

ABOUT THE BOOK: After becoming a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph Maroon felt he'd achieved success. At the age of 41, however, a rapid series of losses and setbacks led him into a baffling new reality-and straight into the darkness of depression. Maroon's unexpected savior...
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Hero: Being the Strong Father Your Children Need

MEG MEEKER · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Your go-to gift for new fathers." - Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker, and radio hostWhether you know it or not, if you're a dad, you're a hero - that's the message of bestselling author and pediatrician Meg Meeker. Even if you're...
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The Trembling Answers

Craig Morgan Teicher · BOA Editions Ltd.
Pages: 88
Format: Print book

At once an extension of and a departure from his previous explorations of family and art, Craig Morgan Teicher's The Trembling Answers delves boldly into the tangled realms of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life - including the alert anxiety...
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Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

Caitlin Zaloom · Princeton University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families

The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether...

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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories

Peter Orner · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.
In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls"...
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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family

MASHONDA TIFRERE · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer...
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Why Don't You Want My Stuff?

Josh Levine · BookBaby
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

Why Don't You Want My Stuff?A Boomer's guide to downsizing, their Millennial kid's psyche and just things that are so ... An easy to understand (maybe even fun) guide through the secondary market of online retailing, auctions and estate sales. Gather consignment insight, trend forecasting...
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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...
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