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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

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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Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Lgbtqia Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond

John Sovec - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

The coming out process for LGBTQIA adolescents can be a terrifying moment, not only for themselves, but also for their family and friends. When intense emotions are running the gamut of concern, shock, joy or even anger and acceptance, it can be tricky to process how you feel while giving...
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Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Leah Hazard - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus - from birth to death, in sickness and in health, throughout history and into our possible future - from midwife and acclaimed writer Leah HazardThe size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb - with no less power and potential....
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Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad

Jordan Shapiro - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason - becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother.Drawing...
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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: Hardcover

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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The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under PressureIn teenagers, powerful emotions...
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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture...
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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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Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens Aren't Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them

Heather Turgeon MFT
Format: Hardcover

An intimate glimpse inside a silent epidemic that is harming teens and how parents can help them reclaim the restorative power of sleep.If you could protect your child from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their...
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The Science of Pregnancy: The Complete Illustrated Guide From Conception to Birth

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Follow the amazing journey of the earliest stages of human life, with month-by-month development shown in unprecedented detail.The complex concepts and processes of emerging life are demystified with clear, jargon-free text, while exclusive 3-D images, extraordinary photographs, and detailed...
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