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Everyday Parenting with Security and Love: Using PACE to Provide Foundations for Attachment

KIM GOLDING - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Children who have experienced trauma, loss or separation early in life need more than just special care and attention; they need to be parented with love and security in a way that allows them to heal and rebuild emotional bonds. This comprehensive book provides parents and carers with...
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Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids: Family-Friendly Projects for Exploring and Teaching Math, Science, History, and Culture Through Creative Building

John Miller - Quarry
Format: Print book

Now an Amazon Best Kids' Books of 2016 pick!Balancing your child's screen time can be difficult, especially when it comes to wildly popular, open-ended video games like Minecraft. Minecraft offers players an environment focused on exploration, imagination, and creation, but its nonlinear...
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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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Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed

LAURIE KILMARTIN - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

An honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmy-nominated writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of Sh*tty Mom Laurie Kilmartin.Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows...
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Healing Well and Living Free from an Abusive Relationship: From Victim to Survivor to Overcomer

RAMONA PROBASCO - Revell
Format: Paperback

One out of every four women in the United States will experience some form of domestic violence or abuse in her lifetime. Through Dr. Ramona Probasco's own powerful personal story of coming out of an abusive relationship, along with her twenty years of experience as a Licensed Marriage...
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Mama Natural's Week to Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Genevieve Grace - North Star Way
Format: Paperback

With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page,...
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The Everything Parent's Guide To Sensory Processing Disorder: The Information and Treatment Options You Need to Help Your Child with SPD

Terri Mauro - Adams Media
Format: Book

If your child has been diagnosed with sensory processing disorder SPD, you understand how simple, everyday tasks can become a struggle. With The Everything Parents Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder, you can help your child learn how to reduce stress and minimize the symptoms of SPD....
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Divorce Without Court: A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce

Katherine Stoner Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Get essential information on how to end a marriage fairly and inexpensively. This book guides you through a negotiated divorce, using divorce mediation, or an increasingly popular approach called collaborative divorce. Encouraging and straightforward, Divorce Without Court explains: how mediation...
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said...
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The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow

Laura Jana - Da Capo
Format: Print book

What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists? The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century...
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Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

Amber Ankowski PhD - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what's actually going on inside your little one's head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier - and a lot more fun. In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski...
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Jancee Dunn - Little, Brown and Company
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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Time to Talk: What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development

Michelle MacRoy-Higgins - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

Is your child on track? Wondering when to expect baby's first word? Want to get your toddler talking? Worried your child is not speaking as clearly as his peers? When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions...and Time to Talk has the answers. Written by an experienced...
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Healthy Children: How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children

SMITA GUHA - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity...
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Eat, Play, Sleep: The Essential Guide to Your Baby's First Three Months

Luiza DeSouza - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From a caretaker of newborns who's had years of hands-on experience with celebrity clients, comes this practical and reassuring guide to the first three months with your new baby.Are you a new or soon-to-be new mother? Are you caught between self-doubt and conflicting parenting advice...
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No More Mean Girls: The Secret to Raising Strong, Confident, and Compassionate Girls

Katie Hurley - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

In this Queen Bees and Wannabes for the elementary and middle school set, child and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley shows parents of young girls how to nip mean girl behavior in the bud.Once upon a time, mean girls primarily existed in high school, while elementary school-aged...
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5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead

Leigh Tate - Kikobian
Format: Book

What does it take to become a successful homesteader? Based on her popular homesteading blog, 5 Acres A Dream, Leigh Tate shares how she and her husband Dan are facing the challenges of trying to establish a self-sufficient homestead from defining their dream, finding property, and setting...
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Blending Families Successfully: Helping Parents and Kids Navigate the Challenges So That Everyone Ends Up Happy

M.D. George S. Glass - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, less than half of the people who get married in the United States remain with their first spouse, and less than 50 percent of children grow up with both biological parents. In short, we live in a society of blended families. Everyone...
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Raising Independent Self-confident Kids: Nine Essential Skills to Teach Your Child or Teen

Wendy Moss - American Psychological Association
Format: Paperback

Parenting is a delicate dance. One of the hardest parts of parenting is knowing when to let your child struggle, in order to learn and grow, and when to intervene. In this book, child development experts Wendy L. Moss, PhD, and Donald A. Moses, MD, examine the key skills parents need to help...
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Rachel Simmons - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls' dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of 'success' comes at the expense of self-worth and well-being....
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

Dan Barry - Harper
Format: Print book

With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice...
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Heading Home With Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality

Laura A. Jana - American Academy of Pediatrics; Third Edition edition
Format: Print book

The new edition of this bestselling guide to newborn care has been fully revised and updated. Written by two pediatricians and focusing on the first few months of an infant's life, Heading Home With Your Newborn, 3rd Edition, includes new information on breastfeeding and the involvement...
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Single Girl Problems: Why Being Single Isn't a Problem to Be Solved

Andrea Bain - Dundurn
Format: Paperback

"If one more person tells me about their third cousin twice removed who met the love of their life online, I'm going to take out my weave and eat it." Being single sucks! Well, that's what everyone says, anyway. In pretty much every culture, single women over the age of twenty-nine...
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The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years

Carol Kranowitz - Tarcherperigee
Format: Print book

The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder, and their parents. The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast audience...
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting

Shefali Tsabary - Viking
Format: Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." - Oprah WinfreyAs seen on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their...
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Your End of Life Matters: How to Talk with Family and Friends

Anne F Ziff - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Talking about End of Life Matters is offered at a time when people are starting to talk more about end-of-life matters. Based on the author's own experiences and those of others she's worked with, the book conveys the value of talking about last wishes long before the end is imminent....
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Well Played: The Ultimate Guide to Awakening Your Family's Playful Spirit

Meredith L Sinclair - William Morrow
Format: Print book

From Today Show contributor, Meredith Sinclair, comes this ultimate resource for awakening your playful spirit, jumpstarting your relationships, and upping your happiness quotient. In our age of digital addiction, many of us have lost our ability to be spontaneous. More parents are complaining...
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Good job! : the 15 things a parent should never say and what to say instead

Jennifer Lehr - Workman
Format: Print book

A provocative guide to the hidden dangers of "parentspeak" - those seemingly innocent phrases parents use when speaking to their young children. Imagine if every time you praise your child with "Good job!" you're actually doing harm? Or that urging a child to say "Can...
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Where the Wild Moms Are

Katie Blackburn - Faber And Faber
Format: Print book

In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mom finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Moms are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Moms and try to entice her to join their...
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Warning Signs: How to Protect Your Kids from Becoming Victims or Perpetrators of Violence and Aggression

Brian D Johnson - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Warning Signs provides practical methods to reduce harm to and by children. Doctors Johnson and Berdahl present the most common risk factors and warning signs, along with practical parenting advice and strategies for raising strong, safe kids and protecting them from becoming either perpetrators...
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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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7 Caregiver Landmines and How You Can Avoid Them

Hoge Raad (Strafkamer) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

A caregiver's journey often contains beliefs and behaviors that act like emotional landmines, and can cause serious damage. Avoiding these landmines, while finding a path to safety, requires caregivers to hear from someone with experience they can trust. Author/radio host, Peter Rosenberger,...
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How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

Thomas Lickona - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Can you teach your child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided.We all want our kids to be kind. But recognizing that abstractly is not the same as knowing what to do when your son tunes you out or you catch your daughter...
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The Confident Parent: A Pediatricians Guide to Caring for Your Little One--Without Losing Your Joy, Your Mind, or Yourself

Jane Scott - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

A much-needed guide that delivers essential baby and child-care advice while reminding parents to calm down and trust themselves.. Parents are more overwhelmed than ever before -- juggling demands on their time as well as conflicting advice from family, friends, frenemies and "experts"...
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Baby Play for Every Day

Clare Halsey - DK
Format: Hardcover

New parents take heart - you can boost your baby's development, bond with your newborn and infant, and get back into shape after pregnancy through play! Baby Play for Every Day highlights a simple baby play activity for every day of the year, so you can combine bonding and baby development...
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The Stepmoms' Club: How to Be a Stepmom without Losing Your Money, Your Mind, and Your Marriage

Kendall Rose - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

The tips, tricks and support you need to survive stepmotherhoodYou've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things...
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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men

Margaret J Meeker - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book

A completely revised and updated edition of America's pregnancy bible, the longest-running New York Times bestseller ever. With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the "Most...
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

ANGELA GARBES - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes...
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Your Pregnancy, Your Way: Everything You Need to Know about Natural Pregnancy and Childbirth

Allison Hill - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book

As an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she's given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirth - especially when it comes to "going natural." Drawing...
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Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children Over Age Four

Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero - New Horizon Press
Format: Book

Adopting Older Children addresses the most significant challenges surrounding older-child adoption (both domestically and internationally), including mental health, behavioral, and educational concerns. This thorough guide enumerates the issues an older adopted child faces and provides...
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The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

Jessica Joelle Alexander - TarcherPerigee
Format: Print book

What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents for raising happy, confident, succesful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical guide brings together the insights of a licensed psychotherapist and a mom -- a Dane and an American...
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toughLove: Eighteen Top Experts Share Proven Strategies for Raising Confident, Kind, Resilient Kids

Lisa Stiepock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From toughLOVE, a unique online community: balanced, practical advice for parents of school-age children from child psychology experts on how to handle everything from picky eating to media consumption to the homework wars.The challenges of parenting evolve as the world becomes more complex....
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Ask: Building Consent Culture

KITTY STRYKER - Thorntree Press
Format: Paperback

Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture - and one that is more...
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Teach Your Baby to Sign, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers - Includes 30 New Pages of Signs and Illustrations!

Monica Beyer - Fair Winds Press
Format: Print book

Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.You may feel like you can't possibly be any closer with your young child, but the truth is, you can--through sign language.The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have the verbal...
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Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas

TOM PAPA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human functioning have made him an invaluable asset to me as a friend and colleague. Because he sees nothing, knows nothing and understands nothing, I always seek...
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The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup and Create a New Life You Love

Suzanne Riss - Workman
Format: Print book

For the more than one million women who get divorced each year, welcome to your support group. Wise, comforting, and uplifting, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce captures the experience of sisterhood through the voices of its authors and their community of women in the Maplewood Divorce...
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Black, Pregnant and Loving It: The Comprehensive Pregnancy Guide for Today's Woman of Color

Suzanne Greenidge-Hewitt - Page Street Pub Co
Format: Print book

The Only Month-By-Month Pregnancy Guide for Black Women Let's face it: Not all pregnancies are created equal. African American women are at a higher risk for complications such as hypertension, asthma and preterm birth. That's why Dr. Suzanne Greenidge-Hewitt and Yvette Allen-Campbell...
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Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

Karen Panetta - Dreamscape Media, LLC
Format: Audiobook

To succeed in science and tech fields today, girls dont have to change who they are. A girl who combines her natural talents, interests, and dreams with STEM skills has a greater shot at a career she loves and a salary she deserves.The authors present compelling research in a conversational,...
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My Partner, My Enemy: An Unflinching View of Domestic Violence and New Ways to Protect Victims

John Michael Leventhal - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

The problem of domestic violence and partner abuse knows no bounds, can affect anyone, and when kept silent and in the dark can become deadly. Hon. John Leventhal presided over the Brooklyn Felony Domestic Violence Court, the first felony domestic violence part in the nation, since it opened...
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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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The Feminists Guide to Raising a Little Princess: How to Raise a Girl Whos Authentic, Joyful, and Fearless--Even If She Refuses to Wear Anything but a Pink Tutu

Devorah Blachor - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

"May God grant me the serenity to accept the color pink, the courage to not let my house become a shrine to pink and princesses, and the wisdom to know that pink is just a color, not a decision to never attend college in the hopes of marrying wealthy." - from The Feminists Guide...
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Baby Names 2015: This year's best baby names: state to state

Eleanor Turner - Crimson Publishing; 4 edition
Format: Book

Fully up-to-date for 2015, this guide is packed with advice and information from celebrity baby names and trends to tips on choosing a name and dealing with family expectations. In its 4th edition Baby Names 2015 now has over 8,000 baby names inside, alongside meaning and origin, so parents-to-be...
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When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All - From the Everyday to the Extreme

MIREILLE SCHWARTZ - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

All the answers parents need. Keeping kids safe takes vigilance. But when your child has food allergies, the challenge is greater and you worry that much more. As a food-allergy mom (and someone seriously allergic herself) , author Mireille Schwartz has been through it all. Now, in this...
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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong

Steve Biddulph - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback

A practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys.Raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted daughter from babyhood to womanhood...
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What's Your Stem?: Activities to Discover Your Child's Potential in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

Rihab Sawah MS Ma - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book

Foster your child's curiosity! How exactly does a bridge stay up? Why are there so few people with red hair? What's the probability that someone else has the same birthday as you? Nurture your child's interest in the world around them through fun, engaging activities that teach...
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I See Life Through Ros-Colored Glasses

LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In I See Life Through Ros Colored-Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella's delightful essays are sure to strike...
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Necessary Conversations: Between Families and Their Aging Parents

Gerald Kaufman - Good Books
Format: Print book

In this timely book, long-time family counselors, Gerald and Marlene Kaufman, urge aging people, their adult children, family members, and other caretakers to talk directly with each other about the decisions that lie ahead as they age. "Do it before a crisis hits," say the Kaufmans....
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The Holistic Pediatrician, Twentieth Anniversary Revised Edition: A Pediatrician's Comprehensive Guide to Safe and Effective Therapies for the 25 Most ... of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Kathi J Kemper - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

If you're one of the thousands of parents who feel frustrated and overwhelmed by the different kinds of medical advice you're getting from doctors, homeopaths, and others, then you will find comfort - and answers - in this comprehensive guide to integrative medicine for children. Fully...
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

DEBORAH REBER - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

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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Have a Nice Guilt Trip

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron....
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Barbara Ehrenreich - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL CAUSES describes how we over-prepare...
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The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition

Margot Sunderland - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Backed by the most up-to-date scientific research, The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition provides evidence-based parenting advice about how you should care for your child, with practical strategies from birth to 12 years of age. Child psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland has more than...
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Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits

Jocelyn Elise Crowley - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

After 20, 30, or even 40 years of marriage, countless vacations, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances, what could go wrong? Gray Divorce is a provocative look at the rising rate of marital splits after the age of 50. Renowned author and researcher Jocelyn...
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Adopting: Real Life Stories

Ann Morris - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

"Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other."With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption. These stories...
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Baby Names 2017: This Year's Best Baby Names: State to State

Eleanor Turner - Crimson Publishing
Format: Print book

Choosing a name for your baby has never been easier or more enjoyable than with Baby Names 2017. Whether you are looking for a traditional name or something more adventurous, Baby Names 2017 will help solve your baby-naming dilemmas.Did you know that the name Elizabeth is the most popular...
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Idiot's Guides: Surviving Divorce, Fourth Edition

Pamela Weintraub - ALPHA; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Divorce is a complicated, if not messy, process that requires expert information. Beginning with cautionary advice and enabling the reader to be sure divorce is the right answer, the founders of Divorce Central, an online service for the divorced and divorcing, provide all of the answers....
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Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO; Tenth edition
Format: Paperback

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. Whether you're planning for the future or need to make a quick decision, Long-Term Care helps you understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to find the best care...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Toilet Training: Revised and Updated Second Edition

Mark Wolraich - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

The Toilet-Training Book Your Pediatrician Recommends How will I know when my child is ready? How can I handle bedwetting and other accidents? What's the best way to make this a positive experience for both of us? Helping your child through the toilet-training process may be one of your...
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Banish Boredom: Activities to Do with Kids That Youll Actually Enjoy

Rebecca Green - Gryphon House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Banish Boredom helps parents find activities that they enjoy, while their children learn and have fun. Based on her popular blog, Not-So-SAHM, Rebecca Green takes readers on an inspiring journey using beautiful color photos that she took of her children doing activities she describes in the book....
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Baby Signing Essentials: Easy Sign Language for Every Age and Stage

Nancy Cadjan - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

Start "talking" with your baby today and discover what they're really trying to tell youWith the gift of sign language, you can communicate with your child as early as four to six months, reduce tantrums, build verbal language skills, and create a stronger bond than ever!...
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Talking with Your Toddler: 75 Fun Activities and Interactive Games that Teach Your Child to Talk

Teresa Laikko M.S. CCC-SLP - Ulysses Press
Format: Print book

A HANDY PARENT'S GUIDE THAT TURNS PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT INTO CHILD'S PLAYAre you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning...
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Giving Birth with Confidence: 3rd Edition

Judith Lothian - Meadowbrook
Format: Paperback

For a Safe and Healthy Birth ... Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and childbirth, giving you the confidence to make decisions that best ensure the safety and health...
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Financial Care for Your Aging Parent

Lise Andreana - Self-Counsel Press, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Is your parent taken care of financially?Caring for your aging parent can feel overwhelming, and having to assume control of your parents finances in order to ensure bills are paid and he or she has enough to live on can be more than anyone wants to take on. However, children of aging parents...
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My Child Is Sick!: Expert Advice for Managing Common Illnesses and Injuries

Barton D Schmitt - Amer Acad Of Pediatrics
Format: Print book

Know when to call your doctor - and when it's safe to treat your child at home! Caring for your sick child can be a daunting experience. You want to ensure the best for him or her, but you also know that every illness doesn't require a trip to the doctor's office or emergency...
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Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide

Rebecca Eanes - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

"This is a must-read for every family that yearns to create peace and harmony."--Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious ParentTired of yelling and nagging? True family connection is possible--and this essential guide shows us how.Popular...
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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

Julie Lythcott-Haims - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller"Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege...
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The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting

Ilana Wiles - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book

Ilana Wiles is not a good mother. She's not a bad mother either. Like most of us, she's normal. From the creator of the wildly popular blog Mommy Shorts comes Ilana Wiles's first humor book on remarkably average parenting. If you want solid advice about raising kids, this book...
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The Everything Big Book of Party Games: Over 300 Creative and Fun Games for All Ages!

Carrie Sever - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback

Tons of party games, including popular "minute-to-win" challenges!What's the secret to the best parties? Games--and the sillier, the better! Get your guests out of their chairs and into the fun with activities guaranteed to keep everyone laughing, including:Cookie Face (Who...
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ADHD & The Focused Mind: A Guide to Giving Your ADHD Child Focus, Discipline & Self-Confidence

Sarah Cheyette - Square One Publishers
Format: Print book

As a young boy, his difficulty in concentrating was diagnosed as ADHD. In school, his mind always seemed to wander until he found an activity that he liked. By using that one activity, his mother was able to teach him to focus and develop self-discipline. Debbie Phelps found a way to reach...
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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children

Roberta M Golinkoff - American Psychological Association
Format: Print book

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king,"...
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The Stuff of Family Life: How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives

Michelle Yvonne Janning - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Does putting your smartphone on a restaurant table during a date impact your relationship? How does where you place your TV in your home impact your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From online...
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Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent's Guide to Navigating the Teen Years

KATIE NAFTZGER - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior. This guide describes the essential skills you need to help your adopted...
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The Nursing Mother's Companion: The Breastfeeding Book Mothers Trust, from Pregnancy Through Weaning

KATHLEEN HUGGINS - HARVARD COMMON PR
Format: Print book

Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-selling books on breastfeeding for more than 30 years, with more than 1 million copies sold. It is respected and recommended by professionals,...
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Handbook of Activities for the Elderly

Denise Calhoun - Tate Publishing
Format: Book

Hands-on, fun, and stimulating, Handbook of Activities for the Elderly provides step-by-step directions for quick and easy activities to build effective communication skills. An educator for over thirty years, Denise Calhoun became interested in the similarities between young children...
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Beyond the Checkup from Birth to Age Four: A Pediatrician's Guide to Calm, Confident Parenting

Luke Voytas - Sasquatch Books
Format: Paperback

This health and wellness handbook follows the typical checkup schedule from birth to age four with the goal of instilling calm and confidence in new or anxious parents. With the tangle of information available on the internet, it's easy for new parents to become overwhelmed. In this handbook,...
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Dad's Guide to Baby's First Year For Dummies

Consumer Dummies. - John Wiley
Format: Print book

Dad's Guide to Baby's First Year is a comprehensive and practical guide to For Dummies dad hood, with advice on topics ranging from conception to looking after your baby, connecting with your little one and helping your child develop and grow. Know what to expect during pregnancy...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce

Emily Doskow Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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 Guide...
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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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Waking up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting

Howard J. Bennett - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback

A positive, interactive plan for overcoming bedwetting, geared to parents of kids ages 6-13. Author Dr. Howard Bennett is both a pediatrician and a parent, and he encourages parents to read the book together with their children and develop a plan that includes behavior management techniques,...
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Big Science for Little People: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Child Discover the Wonders of Science

Lynn Brunelle - Roost Books
Format: Print book

Make your child's first forays into science fun! 52 clever and easy experiments for things that will zip, zoom, and fly, and fizz, bubble, and burst. For children ages 4 to 8.Introduce future engineers, inventors, naturalists, and artists to the physics and chemistry, biology and ecology...
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What to Believe When You're Expecting: A New Look at Old Wives' Tales in Pregnancy

Jonathan Schaffir - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Pregnant women encounter advice from many directions about how to have a healthy pregnancy - not only from health care providers, but from relatives, friends, and the Internet. Some of these pieces of advice (on topics that range from inducing labor to telling the baby's gender to improving...
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The Littlest Learners: Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

DAWN R ROGINSKI - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child's reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:1) talking with young...
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Newborn 101: Secrets from Expert Nurses on Preparing and Caring for Your Baby at Home

Carole Kramer Arsenault - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

National Parenting Publications Gold Award WinnerEver wish you could have a baby nurse at home to answer your most urgent questions around the clock? Now you can!Carole Kramer Arsenault has spent the last two decades helping parents through pregnancy, labor, and all of their new responsibilities...
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When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads 4th Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy

Barbara Luke - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

This fourth edition of the book that introduced readers to the revolutionary, nutritionally based prenatal program for the growing number of women pregnant with multiples is now revised and expanded for an era when multiple births are on the rise and includes updated diet and exercise recommendations...
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Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems

Naomi Schaefer Riley - Templeton Press
Format: Hardcover

Toddlers on tablets. Pre-teens on Tumblr. Thanks to a variety of factors - from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations bent on making education digital, to a culture that promotes everyone as the star of their own reality shows - technology is irrevocably a part...
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Healthy Posture for Babies and Children: Tools for Helping Children to Sit, Stand, and Walk Naturally

Kathleen Porter - Healing Arts Press
Format: Paperback

A manual for parents, teachers, and kids to restore their natural alignment* Explores the principles of natural alignment in accessible ways to share with children* Details simple and fun exercises--for kids and adults alike--that "remind" the body of its natural patterns and movements*...
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Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave

Alice Gregory - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Book

Sleep is vital to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, our wellbeing, and our mental and physical health. It is essential for life itself.

In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory explores every aspect of sleep,...

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The 36-Hour Day, sixth edition: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss

Nancy L Mace - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been the "bible" for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. This book offers much-needed information and support to millions of people throughout the world. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia,...
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Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

David Flink - William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Print book

An innovative, comprehensive guide - the first of its kind - to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently,...
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Mothers of the Military: Support and Politics during Wartime

Wendy M Christensen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Mothers of the Military examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers...
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Motherhood Smotherhood: Fighting Back Against the Lactivists, Mompetitions, Germophobes, and So-Called Experts Who Are Driving Us Crazy

JJ Keith - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

What's the first thing a woman does when she thinks she might be pregnant? She Googles. And it goes downhill from there. While the internet is full of calming and cheerily supportive articles, it's also littered with hyper-judgmental message boards and heaps of contradictory and scolding...
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Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 8th Edition

Glade B Curtis - Da Capo
Format: Print book

In print for twenty-five years, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies worldwide as an established go-to resource. The book's trademark week-by-week formula helps expectant parents easily and effortlessly compare the details of their pregnancy with the same weekly schedule...
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Sulky, Rowdy, Rude?: Why kids really act out and what to do about it

Bo Hejlskov Elvén - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Print book

Children can go through difficult phases - this is a natural part of growing up. Conflicts and arguments are nothing exceptional, but rather a part of everyday family life. The authors of this practical and imaginative book show how parents can create consistent and effective structures,...
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