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The Tech Diet for your Child & Teen: The 7-Step Plan to Unplug & ReclaimYour Kid's Childhood

Brad Marshall - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

Are you a parent struggling to set healthy, effective rules around technology in your house? Or have you already set clear parameters but find yourself outsmarted by your tech-savvy kids? Are you sick of hearing technology experts throw statistics and research at you with few practical...
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Manners Begin at Breakfast: Modern Etiquette for Families

Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece - VENDOME PR


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The Happy Kid Handbook: How to Raise Joyful Children in a Stressful World

Katie Hurley - Tarcher
Format: Paperback

With all the parenting information out there and the constant pressure to be the "perfect" parent, it seems as if many parents have lost track of one very important piece of the parenting puzzle: raising happy kids. Parenting today has gotten far too complicated. It's never...
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Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy: The New Science for a Safe Birth and a Healthy Baby

Susan J. Fisher Ph.D
Format: Hardcover

Why the first eight weeks are the most important and how to optimize themWhich prenatal genetic tests are riskfree and which are a waste of moneyWhy miscarriages are common and the preventive steps future moms can takeWhen to be concerned about nauseaWhat pregnant women can learn from their...
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The Best of Me

David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence....
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The Overparenting Solution: Raising Resourceful Children to Meet Today's Challenges

George S. Glass - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Features pragmatic, reasonable advice for how parents can raise their children effectively and lovingly without overdoing it. Today, in the world of Covid-19, parents may be more anxious than ever as they aim to make sense of the changing landscape of education. We see now that within the context...
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What Science Tells Us about Autism Spectrum Disorder: Making the Right Choices for Your Child

Bernier, Raphael A. - GUILFORD PUBN

What have scientists learned about the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ? Can parents do anything to prevent it? Why do different kids have such different symptoms, and what are the best ways to deal with them? Will there ever be a cure? From leading autism researchers Raphael...
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Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change in a Nonlinear Age

Bruce Feiler - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, a pioneering study of the disruptions upending contemporary life and a bold guide for how to navigate life's growing number of transitions with more meaning, balance, and joy. Bruce Feiler...
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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Michelle Icard
Format: Hardcover

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe - and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder - is about having the right conversations at the right...
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How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood

Joanna Faber - Scribner
Format: Paperback

For forty years, readers have turned to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the book The Boston Globe called, "the parenting Bible," for a respectful and practical approach to communication with children. Expanding...
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