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The Impulsive, Disorganized Child: Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties
Mary Anne Richey - Prufrock Press
Format: Print book
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Impulsive, scattered, lost, unfocused, unprepared, disorganized: These are just a few of the words used to describe kids with executive functioning deficits, which commonly affect many children already diagnosed with ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism. The Impulsive, Disorganized Child:... |
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Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers
Miriam Beloglovsky - Redleaf Press
Format: Print book
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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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How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
Bella DePaulo Ph.D. - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Hardcover
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A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs... |
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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
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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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Watch My Baby Grow
DK - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented... |
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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong
Steve Biddulph - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback
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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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Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked
Paul Raeburn - Scientific Amer Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To
Annabelle Gurwitch - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along... |
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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
Christia Spears Brown - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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A guide that helps parents focus on their children's unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers. Reliance on Gendered Stereotypes Negatively Impacts... |
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What the Fun?!: 427 Simple Ways to Have Fantastic Family Fun
Donna Bozzo - Plume
Format: Print book
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Where is the fun in your family's life Have you sunk so deep in the day-to-day crunch of life, you've forgotten how to make things fun What The Fun! answers every parent's question, What can I do to make my family happy Creating more fun in your days will make you a joy to be around... |
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Commando Dad: A Basic Training Manual for the First Three Years of Fatherhood
Neil Sinclair - Chronicle Books
Format: Book
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As used by Prince William himself, here's the basic training manual for fatherhood recruits!This easy-to-use reference is packed with practical, fieldtested instructions for caring for new troopers, from birth to age three. New dads will learn how to prepare the home for the latest... |
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2013Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, and presents the first detailed look at the shadow world of online escorts, where making a living... |
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Raising Boy Readers
Michael Sullivan - Independent Pub Group
Format: Paperback
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Using stories and anecdotes to humanize the research presented, Raising Boy Readers conveys an understanding of the differences that are common among many boys and how these differences affect reading. It provides practical approaches to promote reading to boys, addressing physical differences,... |
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Newborns: Amazing Sleep from Day One - For Baby and You
Elizabeth Pantley - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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Elizabeth Pantley spins her baby magic She towers above her competitors by showing us what babies really need, and how best to give it to them. James J. McKenna, PhD, Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, University of Notre Dame You have a newborn, so sleep is impossible,... |
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All About ADHD: A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed with ADHD
Thomas W Phelan - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Print book
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By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 MagicFor the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely... |
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Well Played: The Ultimate Guide to Awakening Your Family's Playful Spirit
Meredith L Sinclair - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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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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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
Adam Carolla - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did - without... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Refeathering the Empty Nest: Life After the Children Leave
Wendy Aronsson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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Many parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educational lives of their children, and focus like lasers on their childrens’ well-being.... |
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Blending Families: Merging Households with Kids 8-18
Trevor Crow - Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better... |
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Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic: And Other Opinions I Cant Back Up with Facts
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is officially fed up with the endless mommy fads, trends, studies, findings, and facts about how to raise children. Tiger mom or cool mom? Organic or vegan? "TV is the devil" or "TV is a godsend"? The mother of three young girls, Stefanie has finally... |
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Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience
Samantha Waltz - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That's 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.Blended explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives... |
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Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
Sander L Gilman - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study,... |
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Two Homes, One Childhood : A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime.
Robert E Emery - Avery
Format: Print book
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A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation,... |
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Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now
Ann Imig - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers.Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers... |
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
Ross W Greene - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important... |
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The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality
Avital Norman Nathman - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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In an era of mommy blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook, The Good Mother Myth dismantles the social media-fed notion of what it means to be a "good mother." This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding... |
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Eat, Play, Sleep: The Essential Guide to Your Baby's First Three Months
Luiza DeSouza - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children
Roberta M Golinkoff - American Psychological Association
Format: Print book
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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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Breaking Through!: Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Harriet S Mosatche - Prufrock Press Inc.
Format: Print book
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Even with increased pressure to involve more girls in STEM areas in education, parents are often left wondering what they can do to encourage their daughter's love of science, math, and technology from fading. In Breaking Through! Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering,... |
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make... |
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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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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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman - Harperwave
Format: Hardcover
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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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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. - AMACOM
Format: Print book
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As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,... |
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A Teen's Guide to Custody
Timothy Callahan - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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One of the most important issues that divorcing couples must agree on is custody, a concept that baffles children who are used to living with both parents full time. This resource explains the custody process, how custody decisions are made, and how these decisions will affect the lives... |
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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
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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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Ready, Set . . . Baby!
Elizabeth Rusch - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Big kids Anna and Oliver give young readers the inside scoop on what to expect when a new baby is expected. In a fresh picture book/comic style, Ready, Set . . . Baby offers up a funny, loving, reassuring peek into life as a big brother or sister - with solid information, kid-friendly humor,... |
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Parenting 2.0: Think in the Future, Act in the Now
Tricia Ferrara - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Print book
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2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold WinnerAn indispensable guide that shows parents how to provide their children with a framework to reach their full potential and discover that growth can be an invigorating two-way street. In this rapidly changing world in which divorce,... |
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The Happiest Kids in the World: A Stress-Free Approach to Parenting-the Dutch Way
RINA MAE ACOSTA - EXPERIMENT LLC
Format: Print book
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The secret to raising the happiest kids in the world? Whatever it is, it's somewhere in the Netherlands . . . Would parents rather their children be successful or happy? Kids in the US face lots of pressure to excel - often at the expense of happiness. But does it have to be this... |
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Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
Erica Komisar - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing... |
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