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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
David A Greenwood - Sterling
Format: Print book
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We know that Attention Deficit Disorder makes it tough for children to focus in school. But what happens when those kids grow up? How can they make the transition to a successful professional life? And how can newly diagnosed adults meet the challenges of the workplace? David Greenwood,... |
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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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Reasons to Smile: Celebrating People Living with Down Syndrome
Andrea Knauss - Schiffer Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This compilation of 56 encouraging and eye-opening short writings by a variety of authors across the globe celebrates the lives of people living with Down syndrome. Together with 56 inspiring "slice of life" photos, these candid true stories, including the renowned "Welcome... |
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29 Rules for Smart Parenting: How to Raise Children without Being a Tyrant
Rolf Arnold - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The 29 Rules for Smart Parenting are intended to help the reader to become more effective as parents and teachers. On this basis, any advice to establish a friendly relationship with your children misses the fundamental point in the parenting challenge: the responsibility felt and lived.... |
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Alan I. Rosenblatt - American Academy of Pediatrics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Prepared under the editorial direction of 2 distinguished pediatricians who are autism experts—one... |
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Diaper Dude: The Ultimate Dad's Guide to Surviving the First Two Years
Chris Pegula - TarcherPerigee
Format: Print book
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Dude, you're a dad now!Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don't have to lose yourself when you become a father.Once... |
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Understanding Autism in Adults and Aging Adults: Improving Diagnosis and Quality of Life
Theresa M Regan - IndieGo Publishing LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Autism is a childhood condition ... right? Not right. Children with autism grow into adults with autism. The great strides we have made in understanding childhood autistic behaviors and interventions have lagged dramatically behind the needs of aging autistics. What of the young adult trying... |
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Banish Boredom: Activities to Do with Kids That Youll Actually Enjoy
Rebecca Green - Gryphon House Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Banish Boredom helps parents find activities that they enjoy, while their children learn and have fun. Based on her popular blog, Not-So-SAHM, Rebecca Green takes readers on an inspiring journey using beautiful color photos that she took of her children doing activities she describes in the book.... |
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Heading Home With Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality
Laura A. Jana - American Academy of Pediatrics; Third Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The new edition of this bestselling guide to newborn care has been fully revised and updated. Written by two pediatricians and focusing on the first few months of an infant's life, Heading Home With Your Newborn, 3rd Edition, includes new information on breastfeeding and the involvement... |
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Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life
Miriam Liss - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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While the current conversation about work-family balance and having it all tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting... |
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Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families
Lori L. Tharps - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.Colorism and color bias - the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the lighter color... |
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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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Welcoming Strangers: Nonviolent Re-parenting of Children in Foster Care
Jane Fitz-Gibbon - Transaction Publishers
Format: Print book
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Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex... |
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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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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Print book
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Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expecting is a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It's read by more than 90% of pregnant women who read... |
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Parenting Difficult Children: Strategies for Parents of Preschoolers to Preteens
Michael Hammond - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Parenting young children is a challenge, and dealing with difficult or problem behavior can set up an atmosphere of tension and strife - not just between the child and the parents, but between parents as well. Parenting Difficult Children provides a method of removing that tension with... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2017
Bob Sehlinger - Unofficial Guides
Format: Print book
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Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs deeper and offers more than any other guide.The Unofficial Guide... |
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Nancy Jo Sales - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerInstagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair... |
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29 Rules for Smart Parenting: How to Raise Children without Being a Tyrant
Rolf Arnold - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The 29 Rules for Smart Parenting are intended to help the reader to become more effective as parents and teachers. On this basis, any advice to establish a friendly relationship with your children misses the fundamental point in the parenting challenge: the responsibility felt and lived.... |
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