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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

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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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Jennifer Senior - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

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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Your Kid's a Brat and It's All Your Fault: Nip the Attitude in the Bud--from Toddler to Tween

Elaine Glickman - Tarcher
Format: Print book

In this wise and hilarious parenting book, Elaine Rose Glickman tells parents that - when it comes to their bratty kids - the buck stops with them! You've seen them - kids running wild through restaurants while the parents avert their gaze and order another cappuccino. You've heard...
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Keep Calm and Parent On: A Guilt-Free Approach to Raising Children by Asking More from Them and Doing Less

Emma Jenner - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From a modern-day Mary Poppins and the former star of TLC's Take Home Nanny comes a holistic and guilt-free approach to parenting children ages seven and under.Emma Jenner lives, teaches, and nannies by this philosophy: if parents are in control, they can enjoy their children more....
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Ketchup Is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves

Robin O'Bryant - St. Martin's Press
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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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

Most resources available for parents come out of the medical model of disability--from psychologists, educators, parents, and doctors--offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism. Furthermore, it is widely believed that many autistic girls and women are underdiagnosed, which...
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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture...
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits

Robin Berman - Harperwave
Format: Hardcover

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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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

SHERYL GONZALEZ-ZIEGLER - Dey Street Books
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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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Cris Beam - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. .. . Beam gives foster children a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system cant, or wont She advocates for them.-- NewYork Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care What, as a country, do we owe them...
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