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Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Adele Faber · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Book

The 1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings. Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves,...
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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Hanna Rosin · Riverhead Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, by almost...
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Barbara Ehrenreich · Twelve
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL CAUSES describes how we over-prepare...
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Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face

M.D. Christopher Johnson · New Horizon Press
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

Perhaps the most difficult words parents will ever hear are "Your child is critically ill." Now Dr. Christopher Johnson, the former director of Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, gives parents a helpful guide to answering the painful questions that come when a child...
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Immunizations & Infectious Diseases: An Informed Parent's Guide

Margaret C. Fisher MD FAAP · American Academy Of Pediatrics; 1 edition
Pages: 447
Format: Paperback

Informed by the expertise of the American Academy of Pediatrics, this authoritative guide to immunizations and infections in children covers a wide range of subject matter in easy-to-understand terms. Divided into four parts, this resource covers immunizations, antibiotics, prevention,...
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Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

Maia Szalavitz · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The troubled-teen industry, with its scaremongering and claims of miraculous changes in behavior through harsh discipline, has existed in one form or another for decades, despite a dearth of evidence supporting its methods. And the growing number of programs that make up this industry are today...
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The Learning Habit: A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting that Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life

Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman · A Perigee Book
Pages: 206
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works - and what doesn't Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments, and seemingly endless amounts of "screen...
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Alphabet Kids - From ADD to Zellweger Syndrome: A Guide to Developmental, Neurobiological and Psychological Disorders for Parents and Professionals

Robbie Woliver · Jessica Kingsley
Pages: 478
Format: Print book

From ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to ZS (Zellweger Syndrome) -there seems to be an alphabet disorder for almost every behavior, from those caused by serious, rare genetic diseases to more common learning disabilities that hinder children's academic and social progress.Alphabet...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack...
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Ready to Learn: How to Help Your Preschooler Succeed

Stanley Goldberg · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Do you tell your preschooler one thing and they do the opposite? Are they easily distracted or unable to focus? If you suspect that your child may have a learning problem--or if you simply want to help them be ready--here is the book to read before he or she enters the school system: a realistic,...
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If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents

Edna B. Foa · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. This book is an essential guide for parents, teachers, or other adults involved with teenagers who may e affected by these disorders. By bringing together...
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