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 and explained. Why does your baby's cry sound the way it does? How are your baby's eyes and brain developing? What are the evolutionary reasons for speech-like sounds around the age of four months? Watch My Baby Grow has answers to these questions, as well as an individual story - the early life of baby Melisa - to relate them. Find reassuring information, too, like how to spot the subtle cues that signal growing awareness and ability for your baby. Watch My Baby Grow is the true story of baby Melisa and her family.
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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9781465429773
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Hardcover
The No-Cry Discipline Solution
By Pantley, Elizabeth
Winner of the Disney’s iParenting Media Award for Best Product Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8 In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems: Tantrums Sleep issues Backtalk Hitting, Kicking and Hair Pulling Sibling fights Swearing Dawdling Public misbehavior Whining ... and more! "Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios--from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming--as guides for readers to fashion their own responses.
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on. Esmé Raji Codell--an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher--has the solution. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading. Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade.
Algonquin Books; 1 edition
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9781565123083
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Paperback
Potty Training in 3 Days
By Brucks, Brandi
Potty training can be crappy -- but it doesn't have to be. You CAN potty train your child, and you can teach them the basics in just 3 days. So take a deep breath, keep your chin up, and put your game face on. You are the parent. You can do this. Potty training is not easy. You might feel overwhelmed after repeated unsuccessful potty training efforts, or even clueless about how to get your little stinker to go in the potty. Either way, you've found the right book. Potty Training in 3 Days is a simple guide to potty training your child for the first, last, and only time. During her many years working as a nanny, Brandi Brucks had no clue that your child's "business" would end up being her business, too. But after caring for numerous children of potty training age one thing had become abundantly clear -- potty training was her calling.
Althea Press
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9781623157906
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Print book
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
By Attorney, Emily Doskow
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 to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers: understand the divorce process learn about different types of divorce, including mediated, collaborative, and contested identify and divide property and assets fairly work with mediators or lawyers avoid expensive and painful court battles establish child custody and visitation handle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforced draft a marital settlement agreement deal with divorce emergencies address post-divorce issues negotiate and settle spousal support On every page, this book stresses the importance of minimizing conflict, explains complex legal problems concisely, and provides advice on how to protect your interests--with your dignity and sanity intact.
Watch My Baby Grow
By Dk,
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 and explained. Why does your baby's cry sound the way it does? How are your baby's eyes and brain developing? What are the evolutionary reasons for speech-like sounds around the age of four months? Watch My Baby Grow has answers to these questions, as well as an individual story - the early life of baby Melisa - to relate them. Find reassuring information, too, like how to spot the subtle cues that signal growing awareness and ability for your baby. Watch My Baby Grow is the true story of baby Melisa and her family.
The No-Cry Discipline Solution
By Pantley, Elizabeth
Winner of the Disney’s iParenting Media Award for Best Product Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8 In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems: Tantrums Sleep issues Backtalk Hitting, Kicking and Hair Pulling Sibling fights Swearing Dawdling Public misbehavior Whining ... and more! "Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios--from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming--as guides for readers to fashion their own responses.
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
By Codell, Esmé Raji
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on. Esmé Raji Codell--an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher--has the solution. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading. Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade.
Potty Training in 3 Days
By Brucks, Brandi
Potty training can be crappy -- but it doesn't have to be. You CAN potty train your child, and you can teach them the basics in just 3 days. So take a deep breath, keep your chin up, and put your game face on. You are the parent. You can do this. Potty training is not easy. You might feel overwhelmed after repeated unsuccessful potty training efforts, or even clueless about how to get your little stinker to go in the potty. Either way, you've found the right book. Potty Training in 3 Days is a simple guide to potty training your child for the first, last, and only time. During her many years working as a nanny, Brandi Brucks had no clue that your child's "business" would end up being her business, too. But after caring for numerous children of potty training age one thing had become abundantly clear -- potty training was her calling.
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
By Attorney, Emily Doskow
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 to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers: understand the divorce process learn about different types of divorce, including mediated, collaborative, and contested identify and divide property and assets fairly work with mediators or lawyers avoid expensive and painful court battles establish child custody and visitation handle child support issues, including how support is paid and enforced draft a marital settlement agreement deal with divorce emergencies address post-divorce issues negotiate and settle spousal support On every page, this book stresses the importance of minimizing conflict, explains complex legal problems concisely, and provides advice on how to protect your interests--with your dignity and sanity intact.