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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong
Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong

Steve Biddulph · Random House Inc
Pages: 216
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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The Conscious Parent's Guide to Autism: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Focus and Succeed
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Autism: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Focus and Succeed

Marci Lebowitz OT · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Help your child feel confident and capable!If your child has a diagnosis of "on the autism spectrum," you may be feeling overwhelmed and most likely intimated. Often the focus is on "disabilities" rather than "abilities," and you may be left wondering what...
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The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A mindful approach to raising a confident, resilient son * Promote self-esteem * Encourage positive ... relationship
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A mindful approach to raising a confident, resilient son * Promote self-esteem * Encourage positive ... relationship

Cheryl L Erwin · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The tools you need to foster a positive, supportive relationship with your son! Concerns about self-esteem, peer pressure, and behavior can make raising healthy, happy boys seem overwhelming--but it doesn't have to be. With the help of The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Boys,...
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Family: The Good "F" Word: The Life-Changing Action Plan for Building Your Best Family
Family: The Good "F" Word: The Life-Changing Action Plan for Building Your Best Family

Troy Dunn · Bird Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Troy Dunn shares his tested and proven tools for repairing a broken family. He believes that whether you are just feeling a little stagnant in your home life or are already at your wits end, there are clear steps to restore joy, connectedness and unity within your family or partnerships....
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The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow
The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow

Laura Jana · Da Capo
Pages: 320
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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All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems
All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems

Sean Thomas Dougherty · Boa Editions
Pages: 201
Format: Print book

For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman. His subject matter ranges from basketball to Bjork, from blue collar workers to Biggie Smalls, from Luciano Pavarotti to women...
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Creating Capable Kids: Twelve Skills That Will Help Kids Succeed in School and Life
Creating Capable Kids: Twelve Skills That Will Help Kids Succeed in School and Life

Bruce Howlett · New Horizon Press
Format: Print book

Here is a compelling, thought provoking and practical guide to parenting and educating today's children. It is derived from Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize-winning approach to human development which has proven highly effective at freeing people from the chains of poverty. Educators Bruce...
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I'm OK! Building Resilience through Physical Play
I'm OK! Building Resilience through Physical Play

Jarrod Green · Redleaf Press
Pages: 160
Format: eBook

Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including...
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Mindful Parenting: Simple and Powerful Solutions for Raising Creative, Engaged, Happy Kids in Today's Hectic World
Mindful Parenting: Simple and Powerful Solutions for Raising Creative, Engaged, Happy Kids in Today's Hectic World

Kristen Race · St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition

A mindful approach to parenting that helps children (and their parents) feel happier, healthier, calmer, and less stressed in our frenetic eraRooted in the science of the brain, and integrating cognitive neuroscience and child development, Mindful Parenting is a unique program that speaks...
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The Conscious Parent's Guide To ADHD: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Gain Focus and Self-Control
The Conscious Parent's Guide To ADHD: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Gain Focus and Self-Control

Rebecca Branstetter PhD · Adams Media
Format: Print book

"A guide for parents with kids who have ADHD"--
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Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Barbara Klipper · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback

Those who understand the unique sensitivities of young people with autism spectrum disorder, now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, know that ordinary library programming guides are not up to the task of effectively serving these library users. Klipper...
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Parenting Is Easy: You're Probably Just Doing It Wrong
Parenting Is Easy: You're Probably Just Doing It Wrong

Sara Given · Workman Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Imagine a world where pregnant women are always upbeat and glowing, newborns sleep on cue, toddlers love to have their teeth brushed, and teenagers gaze adoringly at their parents. Impossible, you say? Not according to advertisers who flood the web with stock photos of perfect parents and children....
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Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death: A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness
Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death: A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness

Aroop Mangalik · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost...
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Baby Care Basics
Baby Care Basics

Jeremy Friedman · Robert Rose Inc., 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Despite all the planning in the world, nothing can really prepare a soon-to-be new parent for that big step after the baby is born. All that well-intentioned information and counsel offered by family and friends is just not enough and likely confusing when the stressful days arrive. Written...
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Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder

Lucy Jane Miller · Perigee Books; Revised edition
Format: Book

Revised and updated—the authoritative bestseller that presents the latest research on Sensory Processing Disorder. Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational...
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