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The Sandwich Generation's Guide to Eldercare
Kimberly Wickert MRC CRC - Demos Health; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Gold Winner, 2013 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, Family Relationships Category A practical, accessible, and comprehensive guide to the legal, financial, emotional and daily living challenges of caring for aging parents while raising your own family. If you are caring... |
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. .. . Beam gives foster children a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system cant, or wont She advocates for them.-- NewYork Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care What, as a country, do we owe them... |
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Splitopia: Dispatches from Today's Good Divorce and How to Part Well
Wendy Paris - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Engaging and groundbreaking, Splitopia challenges outdated, negative assumptions about divorce with sharp wit, searing honesty, rigorous research, and intimate interviews, and offers guidance for healthier, happier splits.When Wendy Paris announced that she and her husband were separating,... |
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Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest
Jen Doll - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a fresh and exciting new voice,a hilarious and insightful examination of the search for love and the meaning of marriage in a time of anxiety, independence, and indecision.Weddings. Theyre fun, festive, and joyful, and at a time when people marry later in lifeand sometimes not at allthey... |
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Headstarts: 100 Tips for Raising Clever, Confident, Creative Kids
Cindy Pan - Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
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The very latest research on childhood development distilled into 100 easy-to-understand tips to raise clever, confident, creative kids An invaluable aid for parents focused on giving their children the best possible start in life, this guide outlines practical tips to help provide children... |
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Move Over, Mother Goose: Finger Plays, Action Verses and Funny Rhymes
Ruth I. Dowell - Gryphon House
Format: Paperback
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The 150-plus verses in Move Over, Mother Goose. can by used to build self-esteem, learn new concepts, or just have fun. they are perfect for the ''in between'' times in the daily schedule and will be welcomed by parents and teachers.' |
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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
Daniel Le Grange PhD - The Guilford Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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If your teenager shows signs of having an eating disorder, you may hope that, with the right mix of love, encouragement, and parental authority, he or she will just "snap out of it." If only it were that simple. To make matters worse, certain treatments assume you've somehow... |
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The Essential First Year
Penelope Leach - DK Publishing
Format: Book
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Written by Dr. Penelope Leach, the leading international expert on child development information and childcare, The Essential First Year is the one book every 21st-century parent needs. Providing all the tools to nurture and care for an infant-from how to meet the babys physical needs,... |
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The Impulsive, Disorganized Child: Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties
Mary Anne Richey - Prufrock Press
Format: Print book
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Impulsive, scattered, lost, unfocused, unprepared, disorganized: These are just a few of the words used to describe kids with executive functioning deficits, which commonly affect many children already diagnosed with ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism. The Impulsive, Disorganized Child:... |
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Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories
Kay Marner - DRT Press
Format: Paperback
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If there's anything the 32 parent-writers and 15 experts of Easy to Love but Hard to Raise want you to know, it's this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE We've been there. We've done that. We've navigated the system. Some of us succeeded. Some failed. We've been judged by friends,... |
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Twins
Carol Cooper - DK ADULT; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written by two mothers of twins, one a doctor and the other a popular blogger, Twins provides expectant parents with everything they need to know about pregnancy, birth, and the year ahead. Concise and easy to follow, Twins tackles twin terminology, what to buy, preparing and involving... |
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Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone
Penelope Leach - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, the first comprehensiveand objectivebook on the state of child care in America and the world today. Who is caring for todays children How well are they succeeding What does care cost, and who is paying... |
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Adoption (Opposing Viewpoints)
Mary Williams - Greenhaven
Format: Hardcover
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Grade 7 Up–Well-written articles by adoption professionals offer cogent arguments on many aspects of this controversial issue. This second edition features more recent articles than the 2002 volume on the same general subtopics: whether adoption should be encouraged; conflicting... |
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Practical Wisdom for Parents: Demystifying the Preschool Years
Nancy Schulman - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The directors of one of the country’s most admired preschools, the 92nd Street Y Nursery School in New York City, draw on their fifty years of combined experience—as educators, admissions directors, parents, and respected leaders in early education—to give parents of children... |
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Oh, Baby: True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love
Lee Gutkind - InFact Books
Format: Print book
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In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of life - straight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptive - explore the challenges and rewards of parenthood. Here, among other adventures, parents fall hopelessly in love with newborns, secretly fear having made huge... |
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Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity
Kerry Cohen - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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They have sex too early and for the wrong reasons. They get STDs. They get pregnant too young. They have friends with benefits but with no benefit to themselves. They dont get called. They get dumped. They hate themselves for being unlovable for being needy. They are loose girls they are everywhere... |
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Live Right and Find Happiness
Dave Barry - G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom,* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on - to the next generation, the generation after that, and to those idiots who make driving to the grocery store in Florida a death-defying... |
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A Is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books
Lorilee Craker - Center Street
Format: Paperback
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Pick up a celebrity magazine and you'll see that the art of naming babies has reached new heights of self-expression, with recent choices like Shiloh, Sailor, Apple, and notably, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q. Hewson. Baby namers today want monikers that reflect something personal. Where... |
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Watch My Baby Grow
DK - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented... |
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Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets
Kate Gosselin - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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Kate Gosselin tells the amazing story of how she and her husband, Jon, have survived the overwhelming odds of birthing not only twins but also sextuplets in three years, and how they continue to strive every day to honor Christ while he teaches them to thrive in spite of emotional, financial,... |
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More Mudpies to Magnets: Science for Young Children
Elizabeth A Sherwood - Gryphon House
Format: Book
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Develop the natural scientist in every child with 260 hands-on science activities and ideas. Build science skills such as classification, measurement, time and space relationships, prediction, inference and numbers. |
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Knack American Sign Language: A Step-By-Step Guide To Signing
Suzie Chafin - Globe Pequot Press; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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While learning a new language isnt a knack for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a bilingual author whose parents were both deaf,... |
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How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump
Sarah Swong - The New Press
Format: Paperback
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The day after the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Carlos Sandoval found Ku Klux Klan fliers on the seats of the Long Island Railroad and recounts how his Cuban American niece Lexi's world was "shattered" by the election - she is one of thousands of children wondering if they... |
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Just Two More Bites!: Helping Picky Eaters Say Yes to Food
Linda Piette - Harmony
Format: Paperback
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Turn "Yuck!" into "Yum!"How often do you find yourself begging or bribing your child to eat? Every parent experiences the frustration of picky eating, but how do you know if it's just a passing phase - or cause for concern? Pediatric nutritionist Linda Piette has the answers... |
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Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood
Steve Doocy - William Morrow; English Language edition
Format: Print book
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Dear Prospective Book Buyer,Publishing types tell me that if you're reading this, it means you're looking for a reason to buy this book. Personally, I think the eye-catching cover shot of me in my pajamas is reason enough. (By the way, those are my real kids on the cover, and yes,... |
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Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories
Kay Marner - DRT Press
Format: Paperback
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An anthology of personal essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD, OCD, PDD, ASDs, SPD, PBD and/or other alphabet soup diagnoses that takes the already difficult job of parenting and adds to the challenge. These essays focus on honest feelings, lessons learned, epiphanies, commonplace... |
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Parents in Charge: Setting Healthy, Loving Boundaries for You and Your Child
Dana Chidekel - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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How many times have you said, "How many times do I have to tell you...?" Why do the terrible twos exist and what makes them so terrible -- and for whom? In "Parents in Charge," Dr. Dana Chidekel answers these questions while providing a road map to raising children who will... |
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Weight Watchers Eat! Move! Play!: A Parent's Guidefor Raising Healthy, Happy Kids
Weight Watchers - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The commonsense parent's guide to developing smart, healthy eating habits in their children Whether it's 24/7 snacking, daily fast-food runs, or nonstop video-game marathons, nowadays it's tougher than ever to get kids to eat right and move more. Yet it is possible to encourage nutritious... |
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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong
Steve Biddulph - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback
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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 Adoption Answer Book: Your Compete Guide to a Successful Adoption
Brette McWhorter Sember - Sphinx Publishing
Format: Book
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Building a family is filled with many questions especially when you choose to build yours through adoption Finding answers that really work for you is key to finding the success you have been looking for The Adoption Answer Book explores all the options available to you and gives you the confidence... |
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Down Syndrome Parenting 101: Must-Have Advice for Making Your Life Easier
Natalie Hale - Woodbine House
Format: Book
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About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award Winner, Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book! Down Syndrome Parenting 101 is a savvy book for parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone who shares life with a person with Down syndrome! It's full of uplifting advice and best practices... |
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The Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers
Dawn Dais - Seal Press
Format: Print book
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They're getting bigger. And you're not getting any more sleep.Second in the Sh!t No One Tells You series, in The Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers Dawn Dais tells it like it is - again - offering real advice for parents of growing children. Filled with tips, encouragement, and a strong... |
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The Gift of Motherhood: 10 Truths for Every Mother
Cherie Carter-Scott - Broadway; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by her relationship with her own daughter and informed by the numerous parents and teens she’s helped in her family workshops, Cherie Carter-Scott culls the ten truths she's observed about this special role:1. Having a child changes your life.2. Motherhood is an experience... |
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Read with Me: Best Books for Preschoolers
Stephanie Zvirin - Huron Street Press
Format: Paperback
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This authoritative guide—with a core focus on reading readiness and helping position children to succeed in school—offers more than 300 age-appropriate and subject-specific book selections from librarians for reading time with children. From board and picture books to hot new books,... |
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A Dictionary of First Names
Patrick Hanks - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the ultimate first name handbook, a delightfully informative, comprehensive survey of over 4,500 European and American names (with two appendices covering the most common Arabic and Indian names) . The real charm and value of this reference lies in the wealth of fascinating additional... |
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I'm Pregnant!
Lesley Regan - DK ADULT; 3 Rev Upd edition
Format: Paperback
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With clear, authoritative advice free of medical jargon, I'm Pregnant! is a week-by-week guide to pregnancy, covering the moment after conception to the feeding of a newborn baby. Dr. Lesley Regan draws on her professional expertise and personal experience to explain week-by-week what... |
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Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating
Laurie Davis - Atria Books; Original edition
Format: Book
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One in five relationships starts on an online dating site, but little straightforward guidance exists for users. Enter digital dating whisperer Laurie Davis . . . In a world where we communicate as much via texts as we do through body language, this book empowers readers to log on and double... |
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman - Harperwave
Format: Hardcover
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After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers.... |
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"What are you reading?" That's the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors... |
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Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids
Anne K. Fishel Ph.D. - American Management Association
Format: Print book
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Sports, activities, long hours, and commutes - with so much to do, dinner has been bumped to the back burner. But research shows that family dinners offer more than just nutrition. Studies have tied shared meals to increased resiliency and self-esteem in children, higher academic achievement,... |
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Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over
Deirdre Bair - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first book to reveal the truth about the exploding phenomenon of late-life divorce, which has resulted in a seismic shift in modern relationships. Now, in a finger-on-the-pulse examination of this growing trend, Deirdre Bair, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National... |
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs... |
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Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year
Laura Brodie - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Book
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After years of watching her eldest daughter, Julia, struggle in a highly regimented public school system, Laura Brodie was determined to teach her ten-year-old at home for a year. Although friends were skeptical and her husband predicted disaster, Brodie had visions of one ideal year of learning.... |
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show... |
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Ready, Set, Go!: A Gentle Parenting Guide to Calmer, Quicker Potty Training
SARAH OCKWELL-SMITH - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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A calmer, simpler approach to potty training If you're like most parents, you're as nervous about potty training as your little one is. But help is on the way. This supportive guide provides step-by-step advice for a compassionate and emotionally aware process - one that focuses on positive... |
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The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids
Tom Hodgkinson - Tarcher; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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This wise and funny book presents a revolutionary yet highly practical approach to childcare: leave them alone. "The Idle Parent came as a huge relief to the whole family. Suddenly, it was okay to leave the kids to sort it out among themselves. Suddenly, it was okay to be responsibly... |
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You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations
Michael Ian Black - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Youre not doing it right. Michael Ian Black has been hearing these five words all his life. And nowon the eve of his fortieth birthdayhe is finally beginning to wonder why. . . . As a husband and father living in the suburbs, Michael asks the question so many of us ask ourselves at one point... |
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When Did I Get Like This?
Amy Wilson - WilliamMr; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Amy Wilson’s hilarious, tender memoir…had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project From the creator and star... |
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Equally Shared Parenting: Rewriting the Rules for a New Generation of Parents
Marc Vachon - Perigee Trade; 1 edition
Format: Book
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An empowering guide to the Equally Shared Parenting movement, for the millions of Generation X/Yers looking to discover a new model for parenthood. Equally Shared Parenting arms readers with the tools to create a balanced life that is rarely experienced by the parents of young children-an... |
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
DEBORAH REBER - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are - these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing... |
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Autism Solutions: How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child
Ricki G. Robinson - Harlequin; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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For twenty years Dr. Ricki Robinson has been providing hope and help for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her integrative, strengths-based approach to treatment includes a thorough evaluation of your child's medical, developmental, social, emotional, behavioral and educational... |
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What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
Judith S. Wallerstein - Hyperion; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce gave us new and important insight into the long-term effects of divorce on children who have grown into adulthood. What About the Kids? is a new book that tells parents in unprecedented detail how to help their children over the long haul-what to say, what... |
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Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
TOM PAPA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human functioning have made him an invaluable asset to me as a friend and colleague. Because he sees nothing, knows nothing and understands nothing, I always seek... |
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Birth Order & You: Discover how your sex and position in the family affects your personality, career, relationships, and parenting. (Self-Counsel Personal Self-Help)
Lois Richardson - Self-Counsel Press, Inc.; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Are you the oldest, middle, youngest, or only child? Discover how your sex and position in the family affects your personality, career, relationships, and parenting. |
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The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
Marcy Cottrell Houle M.S. - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal - how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar... |
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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
Adam Carolla - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did - without... |
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Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge
Etan Thomas - NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved NBA player, poet, youth advocate, and devoted dad Etan Thomas speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a participant in President Obama's Fatherhood Initiative, Etan has reached out to young men (often young fathers) in the juvenile... |
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Family Reunion Planning Kit for Dummies
Cheryl Fall - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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This is the most complete reference to planning a family reunion! The accompanying CD features planning tools, genealogy software, and more! Don't be without this step-by-step guide that walks you through everything you need to know about planning a successful family reunion. You'll... |
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Riding The Rails
Errol Lincoln Uys - TV Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the wheels, hearing that old steam whistle blowing for crossings and towns." -George Phillips in Riding the RailsAt the height of the Great Depression,... |
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SOS: Help for Parents, Third Edition
Lynn Clark - SOS Programs & Parents Press
Format: Paperback
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SOS Help For Parents (updated in 2013) improves the behavior and emotional adjustment of children, ages two to twelve. To see SOS Videos and all SOS Books, click on (by Lynn Clark Author) just below the Main Title of this book. Used internationally by parents, educators, and counselors,... |
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The Baby Wait: Lessons Learned While Trying to Become a Mum
Lyn Sharkey - Orpen Press
Format: Print book
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The author of The Baby Wait has struggled with fertility issues for the past eight years. She believes that every woman needs to educate herself about her own fertility and has written this book to be the guide she wished she had when she began her journey to conception. |
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Baby Care Basics
Jeremy Friedman - Robert Rose Inc., 2015.
Format: Print book
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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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Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
Jessica Seinfeld - Collins; 1st edition
Format: Book
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It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
Emily Doskow Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. If you can't work out custody and support, you'll... |
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Fix It!
George Birkett - Childs Play Intl Ltd; Brdbk edition
Format: Book
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Who's going to mend these broken toys? Which tools will we need? And when they're fixed, where shall we keep them? Helping with real tasks is a natural progression from pretend play, and is a crucial stage in a child's development. Achieving a shared goal encourages a sense... |
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Stepparenting
Jannette Lofas - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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Jeannette Lofas draws on her twenty-year track record of counseling and coaching stepfamilies and provides up-to-the-minute advice on the many baffling and emotional issues that cause two out of three to fail. Lofas’ research rates her methods at an 84% success rate. |
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Cook It!
Georgie Birkett - Childs Play Intl Ltd
Format: Paperback
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Who's home for dinner? What shall we cook? What do we need to buy? And don't forget the washing-up! Helping with real tasks is a natural progression from pretend play, and is a crucial stage in a child's development. Achieving a shared goal encourages a sense of responsibility,... |
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Beyond Time-Out: From Chaos to Calm
Beth A. Grosshans Ph.D. - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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The covers of such magazines as Time and Newsweek have described parents as living in “mayhem” and “madness” with their children. TV’s Supernanny regularly captures kids wildly, unbelievably out of control. How did our families get to such a state? Child psychologist... |
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The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential "if only he'd just apply himself" or "if only she'd work just a little harder"? How often have you said the same thing to your son or daughter? Or perhaps you have a coworker... |
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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
Marilyn Irvin Holt - Bison Books
Format: Paperback
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"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan... |
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Talking to Your Kids About Sex: turning "the talk" into a conversation for life
Laura Berman - DK
Format: Paperback
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Teaching your child about sex can be a rewarding, relationship-strengthening experience. You just need to be equipped with the right tools: clear, easy-to-explain information; critical questions to ask; good timing; and a sense of humor. Often touched on only lightly in schools, sexual... |
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I'm OK! Building Resilience through Physical Play
Jarrod Green - Redleaf Press
Format: Print book
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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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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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Raising Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide
Jamie Loehr - Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback
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Rasing Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide is an information-packed guide that leads parents through the ever changing maze of new behaviors, developments, and challenges present in a child's first six years. It is filled with essential information, expert advice, practical solutions,... |
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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
Rene Denfeld - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group—they called themselves a "family"—was arrested for a string of violent... |
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Cool Names for Babies
Linda Rosenkrantz - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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The up-to-the minute word on what's hot and what's not from "the arbiters of hip baby names."-The Wall Street JournalAs America's leading baby-name experts, Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz hear the same question again and again: "What are the cool... |
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Knack Baby Sign Language: A Step-By-Step Guide To Communicating With Your Little One
Suzie Chafin - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Print book
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Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars, Knack Baby Sign Language provides a user-friendly, efficient method... |
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Toddle on Over: Developing Infant & Toddler Literature Programs
Robin Works Davis - Alleyside Press
Format: Paperback
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Design 52 quick, lively storytimes to nab the attention of your youngest audiences. Contains information on how to choose and use age-appropriate picture books and media, an annotated list of recommended titles, fingerplays, props, songs and story souvenir ideas with patterns. Themes... |
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Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy
Jennifer Grayson - Harper
Format: Print book
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Since the rise of artificial formula, we have turned a biological process into a never-ending controversy: A mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son on the cover of Time magazine sets off a firestorm. Facebook takes down photos of women nursing, citing the content as "offensive."... |
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Cozy's Complete Guide to Girls' Hair
Berk, Sheryl - Artisan
Format: Book
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Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month ClubStyling girls' hair is easy with advice from the owner of Cozy's Cuts for Kids. Little girls love to have pretty hair, and parents and grandparents can spend hours trying to achieve the best styles for their daughters. This book... |
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What to Expect the First Year
Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed - and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the completely revised third edition... |
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Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Gross Junior Edition
David Borgenicht - Chronicle Books
Format: Book
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Leave it to the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series to serve up a hilarious and totally "gross" handbook that will guide kids through all things slippery, slimy, and stinky. Find out how to survive boogers, bloody noses, barfing emergencies, and more. The tips... |
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Diapers Are Not Forever
Elizabeth Verdick - Free Spirit
Format: Print book
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Learning to use the potty takes patience and practice, and this charming, straightforward book helps pave the way. Young children learn how to use the potty and why it's time to do so, while gaining the courage and confidence to face this important milestone in their lives. When little... |
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The Kids Will Be Fine: Guilt-Free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Women
Daisy Waugh - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bracing, hilarious manifesto for motherhood as it ought to be: spontaneous, loving, and just a little bit selfishPre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood--which even under the best... |
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving From Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Punished by Rewards and The School Our Children Deserve builds on his parenting theories of working with children rather than trying to control them, argues against practices that teach children that they must earn a parent's approval, and presents techniques that promote... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names, 2nd Edition
Marcia Layton Turner - ALPHA; 2 Original edition
Format: Paperback
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From Atticus to Zuzu ... With 10,000 additional names and 50 additional lists (200 total), this latest edition is the most comprehensive guide to naming newborns on the market-and the most fun! With specialized lists-from world leaders to favorite characters from children's literature,... |
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Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours
Kevin Leman - Revell
Format: Paperback
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This bestseller equips parents with 7 principles of Reality Discipline--a loving, no-nonsense parenting approach that really works. |
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Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption
Scott Simon - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPRs award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. Its a book of unforgettable moments when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures... |
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Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return
Mary Ellen Geist - Springboard Press
Format: Print book
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Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment... |
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