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A Dude's Guide to Baby Size: What to Expect and How to Prep for Dads-to-Be

Taylor Calmus - ?WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

The viral video star behind Dude Dad offers a humorous and heartfelt guide to helping expectant fathers survive and thrive during the wild ride that is forty weeks of pregnancy. Numerous apps and books exist to help expectant parents understand their baby's development by comparing...

Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays

Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher...

10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, second edition: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior

Ph.D. Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.D. - Da Capo Lifelong Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book

Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behaviorincluding tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativitybecomes chronic, it causes big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, family and child psychologist Dr. Jeffrey...

Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future

Ginny MEd Yurich - Baker Books
Format: Hardcover

It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend 4-7 hours using devices with screens. Needless to say, our physical, mental, emotional, and relational health has suffered. But there is a ready solution: get outside! . A homeschooling mother...

Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ and Solo Parents

Marea Goodman LM CPM - Balance
Format: Paperback

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You're Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model - perfect for LGBTQ and solo parents who want to have kids but don't know where to start. In Baby Making for Everybody, queer...

Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome: The Respond but Don't React Method

David S Stein - Woodbine House
Format: Print book

A child doesn't want to leave the toy store, so he stops and flops. Another bolts across a busy parking lot, turns and smiles at his mom. An eighteen-year-old student bursts into tears when asked to change activities at school. Sound familiar? These and other common behavior issues...

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

Arbinger Institute - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Print book

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues,...

Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism

Karin Donahue - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism asserts that autistic children can be successful when parents and teachers understand key principles of autism and have the tools to help these children expand their social and emotional skills. This book explains...

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