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Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked
Paul Raeburn - Scientific Amer Books
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold WinnerA Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal WinnerFor too long, we've thought of fathers as little more than sources of authority and economic stability in the lives of their children. Yet cutting-edge studies drawing unexpected links... |
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
DEBORAH REBER - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are - these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing... |
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Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home
Lynda G Shrager - Bull Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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A practical step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple modifications that can help seniors make their homes safer and easier to navigate, this reference offers readers clear and practical solutions. Author Lynda Shrager is a registered, national board certified occupational therapist, a master's... |
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Down Syndrome Parenting 101: Must-Have Advice for Making Your Life Easier
Natalie Hale - Woodbine House
Format: Book
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About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award Winner, Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book! Down Syndrome Parenting 101 is a savvy book for parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone who shares life with a person with Down syndrome! It's full of uplifting advice and best practices... |
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
John Leland - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America's oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's fastest-growing... |
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Watch My Baby Grow
DK - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented... |
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The Pregnancy Bible: Your Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood
Keith Eddleman MD - Firefly Books; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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The Pregnancy Bible, with 300,000 copies sold, is the most attractive and complete guide to this important event in parents' lives. This updated edition includes authoritative information about the latest developments on a number of significant issues affecting the well-being of an expectant... |
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * Now a Netflix Film"Rich, tragic...monumental . . . true-crime reporting at its best." - Washington PostThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Now updated,... |
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Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children
Lenore Skenazy - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy?s piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over... |
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life
Susan Senator - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging,... |
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Denene Millner - Agate Bolden
Format: Paperback
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"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood... |
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What to Expect the First Year
Heidi Murkoff - Workman Publishing Company; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed -- and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the completely revised third edition... |
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The Baby Book: Pregnancy, birth, baby & childcare from 0 to 3
Dorling Kindersley Inc. - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now available in paperback, The Baby Book is a guide to caring for your child - from pregnancy through age three - that celebrates the joy of being pregnant and of being a parent.Affirmative, encouraging, and practical, The Baby Book provides everything you need to know... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
EMILY DOSKOW - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential... |
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Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language
Margaret Maclagen - Finch Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This book starts by describing a baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months. It then discusses play - the way young children learn. It also explores childrens' very early acquisition of words, and how they use them, and it covers the exciting... |
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Waiting for Baby
Rachel Fuller - Childs Play International
Format: Board book
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When youre small, waiting for anything can seem to take a lifetime, especially when its a baby! There is so much to sort out for the new arrival - clothes, toys and a place to sleep. A new addition to any family is exciting, but the experience can also be worrying and confusing for siblings.... |
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The Silent Witness
Casey Watson - Harper Element
Format: Paperback
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'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.'It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl,... |
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman - Harperwave
Format: Hardcover
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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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Brain Rules for Baby
John Medina - Pear Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Whats the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a childs brain? Whats the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really workand why we ought... |
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The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be
Armin A. Brott - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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Guide To Getting It On: Unzipped
Paul Joannides Psy.D - Goofy Foot Press
Format: Paperback
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From the author: I originally wrote this book for people who wanted to have better sex. But then it started winning awards and being used in college sex-ed courses. So I tried to make the book all things to all people, and it started to grow, and grow, and grow.But with this new edition,... |
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Unschooling in Paradise
Kathleen Ruth Kesson - Innerworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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Across the country, millions of parents are deeply dissatisfied with the education their children are receiving and see that too many bright, creative, and energetic children are falling through the cracks, losing interest in learning, or developing "behavioral issues." They know... |
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