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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
LISA SCOTTOLINE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 323
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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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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The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer's Family
Robert B. Santulli MD · Dartmouth; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be close to 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking, personality,... |
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The Learning Tree: Overcoming Learning Disabilities from the Ground Up
Stanley I. Greenspan · Da Capo Lifelong Books; NONE, A Merloyd Lawrence Book edition
Format: Print book
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The Learning Tree offers a new understanding of learning problems. Rather than looking just at symptoms, this new approach describes how to find the missing developmental steps that cause these symptoms. The best solution to the problem comes from knowing what essential skills to strengthen.Using... |
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Raising Passionate Readers: 5 Easy Steps to Success in School and Life
Nancy Newman · Tribeca View Press, LLC
Format: Book
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When neuroscientists cracked the mystery of reading in the 1980s, they pinpointed the simple steps parents can take to help all children become skilled, avid readers. Yet this information still hasn't spread from the research community to the general public, leaving a huge gap between... |
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The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer's Family
Robert B. Santulli MD · Dartmouth
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer's Association, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be close to 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking, personality, and functioning.... |
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Connecting in the Land of Dementia: Creative Activities to Explore Together
Deborah Shouse · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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"Innovative ideas designed so care partners can engage and connect with people living with dementia. " On the dementia journey, each quality moment of connection is priceless. Deborah Shouse and dozens of experts in the field of dementia share ideas that engage the creative spirit... |
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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
Christia Spears Brown · Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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A guide that helps parents focus on their children's unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers. Reliance on Gendered Stereotypes Negatively Impacts... |
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The New Puberty: How to Navigate Early Development in Today's Girls
Louise Greenspan · Rodale Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when a girl has the brain of an 8-year-old and the body of a 13-year-old?A sea change is underway among many of today's girls: They are developing faster and entering puberty earlier than ever before. Just a generation ago, fewer than 5 percent of girls started puberty... |
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Refeathering the Empty Nest: Life After the Children Leave
Wendy Aronsson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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Many parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educational lives of their children, and focus like lasers on their childrens’ well-being.... |
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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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Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Tom Fields-Meyer · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Essential reading for any parent, teacher, therapist, or caregiver of a person with autism a groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the worlds leading experts, who portrays autism not as a tragic disability, but as a unique way of being human. Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist... |
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