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29 Rules for Smart Parenting: How to Raise Children without Being a Tyrant

Rolf Arnold - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

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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The Amazing Baby Name Book: A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A-Z

AMY EPHRON - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

"Reading The Amazing Baby Name Book feels like discussing name choices with your best friends. A great read when you're looking for a name for a baby (or a pet or a movie character) , from the traditional to the unique and unexpected. But also great to read when you have nothing...
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Teach Your Baby to Sign, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers - Includes 30 New Pages of Signs and Illustrations!

Monica Beyer - Fair Winds Press
Format: Print book

Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.You may feel like you can't possibly be any closer with your young child, but the truth is, you can--through sign language.The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have the verbal...
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Enough About the Baby: A Brutally Honest Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

Becky Vieira - Union Square & Co.
Format: Paperback

An unapologetic guide to the first year of motherhood, Enough About the Baby is a newborn book for women who recognize the necessity of self-care - even if sometimes the rest of the world does not.. Superheroes don't have babies; real and imperfect non-superhumans do. When we come to terms...
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life

Susan Senator - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging,...
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Above Ground

Clint Smith - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.. Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming...
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"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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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

Most resources available for parents come out of the medical model of disability--from psychologists, educators, parents, and doctors--offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism. Furthermore, it is widely believed that many autistic girls and women are underdiagnosed, which...
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Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care

Anne Basting - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as she introduces a proven, drug-free method that uses the creative arts to bring light and joy to the lives of elders. Caregivers for older adults...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce

Emily Doskow Attorney - ?NOLO; Ninth edition
Format: Ninth Edition

Divorce guidance you can count on Divorce is never easy, but with the information in Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce, you can make the process as simple, inexpensive, and conflict-free as possible. With compassion and expertise, family law attorney Emily Doskow explains how to make...
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