Child care and upbringing: advice for parents

Help for parents that tackles the real causes of childhood obesity and offers practical solutions.

In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of lifestraight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptiveexplore the challenges and rewards of parenthood.

The most recent and respected research on how temperament can affect a child's progress toward developmental milestones and responses to new experiences Research shows that many challenging behaviors are connected to a child's inborn temperament, the unique set of characteristics that each child is born with.

Offering parents realistic expectations about toddler behavior, this guide provides detailed, how-to advice for teaching kids to share and for intervening when toddlers have difficulty sharing.

At eighteen months, Ashley Ruben still didnt talk.

For new babies, there are the first-year milestones that everyone talks aboutbabys first smile, first steps, and first wordsand then there are all the firsts that everyone conveniently forgets to mention.

The classic Activity Cards are now in a book!

Beyond Breathing is a story of a mother's loss of her 13 year old daughter, Jena, to Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal genetic disease.

A child's sensory system affects their ability to learn, play, socialize, and function.

Stemming from a wealth of both professional and personal experience, this guidebook combines real-life stories of challenges and successes with practical ideas for handling autism, every day.

Good Night Sleep Tight Workbook is the essential companion to the best selling book, Good Night Sleep Tight, by The Sleeplady, Kim West.

Ten-year-old Aldo lives with his family in Colorado.

How to Survive Your Babys First Year is here to help make that first year with a new baby a lot easier.

This handy guide contains hard-won advice from real parents who made it through the trials and triumphs of that stressful first year.

How to Survive Your Teenager offers words of wisdom and entertaining stories on teenagers from the real 'pros' everyday parents across the country who have raised a teenager and survived to tell their story.

Barry Kaufman's life has been spent helping others cope with severe adversities and traumas.

In 1979, the classic bestseller Son Rise was made into an award-winning NBC television special, which has been viewed by 300 million people worldwide.

What do children really want their parents to know, and what do children need to grow into thriving adults?

Here is all the information parents could ever need to create a safe environment for their children.

Over 100 games and activities designed for use from birth to one year are a gift from Vicki Lansky, tried and true advice-giver and author of more than two dozen books on parenting.

Parents will learn how to set the stage, recognize readiness, choose a potty seat, dress their child for success, deal with an uncooperative child, find productscloth or disposable, handle accidents, understand the issues, use rewardsor not, cope when traveling, and deal with bed-wetting.

First created by Planned Parenthood/Mar Monte in the late 1980's, this well loved, updated guide insures that children will be given accurate, age-appropriate information about sex.

For parents who do not know how or where to begin this discussion, here are ideas to get them started.

Teenagers reimagines the way people think about adolescents.

As children grow in this world, we need to provide them with tools and methods to ensure that they are the best human beings that they can be.

Most of us expect to meander through the motions of love, marriage and (textbook) baby in the carriage, but once in a while life has something a little more special in store.

Building on the success of the 20 000 sales of the Terrific Toddlers books, this new book has updated and expanded the original books and added key sections in each chapter for parenting the school years (ages 5 to 12) and the teen years (ages 13+).

The digital world is a place where even the most informed parents and teachers can feel one pace behind children.

How can you help your children do well at school and beyond?

'Warning: so funny, even the strongest pelvic floors will be tested' - Net Mums'A very funny, honest look at the ups and downs of parenting.

A book for parents of teens or preteens, teachers and professionals.

Weaning Sense demystifies the weaning world helping you grow healthy tummies and happy babies (and mums) in no time!

Jane Teverson expertly explains how counselling theory can be used by parents throughout the child's life, from infancy to adolescence, and makes a case for compassionate parenting.

The recent pandemic has turned family life upside down.

The impact of finding out your child is disabled can be wide ranging.

Wenn die Familie mich wahnsinnig macht:Toxische Beziehungen erkennen und lösenIn einer Welt, in der Beziehungen einen so bedeutenden Teil unseres Lebens ausmachen, können toxische Bindungen einen verheerenden Einfluss auf unser Wohlbefinden haben.

What parent hasn't longed to improve his or her relationship with children?

Creative Play the Steiner Waldorf Way is the ideal book for parents who want their children to develop their creativity and imagination through play.

At least once a year, around the time of examination results, the papers are full of stories of how boys are underachieving in comparison to girls.

sound strategies for identifying and supporting highly able children advice on how to develop a meaningful dialogue with school extensive lists of recommended fiction information on where to find additional help, and what activities are available a wealth of practical advice under separate subject headingsAble and Talented specialist Barry Teare brings parents and carers right up to date with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children.

Make sleeping, eating, dressing and other everyday activities easier, while strengthening your bond with your child.

Catherine Crawford, a mother of two young daughters, is tired of the indulgent brand of parenting so popular in of her trendy Brooklyn neighbourhood.

Constipation, Withholding and Your Child is a positive, accessible guide to dealing with the common problems of stool withholding, soiling and wetting in young children.

What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do?

Finding out that your child has Asperger's Syndrome or Autism can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.