Best of
Parenting

1988

How to Teach Your Baby to Be Physically Superb


Glenn Doman - 1988
    How To Teach Your Baby To Be Physically Superb was designed to help you maximize your child's physical capabilities. The authors clearly explain each stage of mobility and show how to create an environment that will enable your baby to more easily achieve that stage. Full-color charts, photographs, illustrations, and detailed easy-to-follow instructions guide you in creating an effective home program.

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People


Jane Nelsen - 1988
    Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen have helped hundreds of thousands of parents raise capable, independent children with Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World. On its tenth anniversary, this parenting classic returns with fresh, up-to-date information to offer you inspiring and workable ideas for developing a trusting relationship with children, as well as the skills to implement the necessary discipline to help your child become a responsible adult.Those who think in terms of leniency versus strictness will be surprised. This book goes beyond these issues to teach children to be responsible and self-reliant—not through outer-directed concerns, such as fear and intimidation, but through inner-directed behavior, such as feeling accountable for one's commitments. Inside, you'll discover how to instill character-building values and traits in your child that last a lifetime.

ACOA's Guide to Raising Healthy Children: A Parenting Handbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics


James L. Mastrich - 1988
    For the adult children of alcoholics, it can be next to impossible. But now ACOAs have their own child-raising guide. Dr. Mastrich shows readers how to end the cycle of alcoholism by being a confident parent.

Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting


K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau - 1988
    Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.

The Victory Garden Kids' Book


Marjorie Waters - 1988
    Uses the experiences of a group of children, aged three to thirteen, working through an entire season in their own garden, as a background for general information on buying plants and seeds, using tools, planting and watering, and picking the harvest.

The Jewish Sabbath: A renewed encounter


Pinchas H. Peli - 1988
    In it, Peli explores the meaning of the Sabbath, and discusses some of the classical Jewish sources on the subject. He also examines its relevance in contemporary life. Among the topics he writes about are Sabbath and the modern problem of leisure, creation as revelation, and holiness in a secular world.

Sharing Nature with Children II


Joseph Bharat Cornell - 1988
    In his second book, a companion to Sharing Nature with Children, with even more games and activities, Joseph introduces his remarkable technique of Flow Learning, showing how to match nature activities to the interest and energy levels of children.

Basic Montessori: A Manual to the Teaching Methods and Theory


David Gettman - 1988