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Childhood Speech and Language Disorders: Supporting Children and Families on the Path to Communication

Suzanne M Ducharme - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

Communication is one of life's most fundamental joys, yet one often taken for granted until it is lost or fails to develop. Yet for millions of children each year, the skills that encompass communication stall or do not emerge at all. Even a mild disorder or temporary interruption in development...
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Gabrielle Glaser - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each otherDuring the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth...
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Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers

Miriam Beloglovsky - Redleaf Press
Format: Print book

Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography...
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children. In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant...
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Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated: How to Design a Creative and Comprehensive Homeschool Curriculum

Rebecca Rupp - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive guide to designing homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts - now revised and updated! Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children - a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid's interests, abilities,...
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Help Your Kids with Geography

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Paperback

Perplexed by plate tectonics? Confused by climates? Disoriented by demographics?Help Your Kids with Geography helps parents come to terms with what their children learn in geography class by exploring all these topics and more. Covering all the important areas of human and physical geography,...
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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

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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Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya

Bruce Kirkby - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media,...
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Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes

Laura Clery
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling author of the "honest, complicated" (SheKnows) Idiot.TRIGGER WARNING: TORN EVERYTHING! In her first...
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Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure

Chris Thurber PhD - Hachette Go
Format: Paperback

Parents instinctively push their kids to succeed. Yet well-meaning parents can put soul-crushing pressure on kids, leading to under-performance and serious mental health problems instead of social, emotional, and academic success. So where are they going astray? According to Drs. Chris...
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