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Baby Day by Day
Ilona Bendefy - 2012
Using a unique chronological structure that helps parents navigate baby's first 365 days, "Baby Day by Day" provides new parents with everything they need to know about looking after their child, from birth to twelve months.Written by a panel of pediatricians, child psychologists, nutritionists, and complementary medicine experts, "Baby Day by Day" provides an unbiased approach to baby care that gives the pros and cons of various approaches, including sleep training, managing crying, and breastfeeding issues.Providing answers to common queries and baby dilemmas, suggestions for age-appropriate games and developmentally stimulating things to do with your baby, as well as a comprehensive health section discussing common childhood ailments, "Baby Day by Day" also looks at the most recent discoveries about how babies' minds work and how parents can use these insights to guide their child's development.
The Guy's Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in Your Pocket: 101 Real-World Tips for Teenaged Guys
Jonathan McKee - 2014
. .and just a click away.101 real-life tips including. . .Today’s nerd is tomorrow’s boss.If you have to look over your shoulder to check if anyone’s in the room, you probably shouldn’t be typing it into the search engine.Learn a skill that would help you survive a zombie apocalypse.Losing your temper feels really good. . .for about 17 seconds. Keeping your cool feels even better. . .for the rest of the week.Realize most bad choices usually began five choices ago.If you have a TV in your bedroom, unplug it right now and move it to another room.. . .and dozens more helpful hints provide spiritual, practical, and even humorous advice for navigating the challenges of your teen years with confidence and wisdom. “Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.Romans 12:1–2 msgJONATHAN MCKEE is the author of over a dozen books including Get Your Teenagers Talking, Should I Just Smash My Kid's Phone, and The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide while writing about parenting and youth culture and providing free resources for families on TheSource4Parents.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and his three kids live in California. JonathanMcKeeWrites.com. Twitter.com/InJonathansHead.
The Newborn Handbook: Your Guide to Bringing Home Baby
Smita Malhotra - 2020
This is not just a biological mother's physical prep; it’s a trustworthy source of bottom-line, practical information as you navigate each new and exciting day.
How To Stop Enabling Your Adult Children: Practical steps to use boundaries and get your power back as you stop enabling (Empowering Change Book 1)
Melody Devonish - 2014
This book will start you on your journey to stop enabling. If you just can’t maintain boundaries with your adult child/children, and you find yourself constantly taken advantage of, then this book is for you. Discover the wealth of shared experience that can exist in a parent/adult child relationship that is not dominated by unrealistic expectations, manipulations and resentment. The goal is to empower you, as you understand the enabling cycle and then learn some very practical tools to help you stop. The enabling cycle can be challenged, and change will happen. Getting your power back in your life, and feeling the freedom of being in control of your decisions is an amazingly freeing process. It does however take work, and that is where this very practical book can get you started. You may find that your needs are constantly disregarded, while your adult child expects you to continually be there to pick up the pieces and rescue them again and again. It is time to learn HOW TO put firm boundaries in place in a calm and dignified manner. This book will help you see what lies are keeping you in your current stressful and unfulfilled situation. You will learn how to start the journey towards sharing a mutually fulfilling mature relationship with your adult child. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn
Understanding the Enabler or Rescuer
How the Enabling Cycle Continues and Grows
Boundaries Are Your Friend! Dignified Assertiveness
The Importance of Individuation
It’s Not Cruel To Say ‘No’! Changing Your Thinking (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Practical Steps For Putting Your New Thinking and Boundaries Into Action
Take action right away to start your empowering journey today by downloading this book, "How To Stop Enabling Your Adult Children", for a limited time discount of only $0.99! Tags: enabling adult children, rescuing, relationships, parenting, boundaries, enabling, individuation, cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, self-talk, healthy boundaries
Bringing Up Children
Osho - 2012
Osho responds to a question about the right way to help children to grow without interfering in their natural potentiality.
Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story
Sydney Solis - 2006
Storytime Yoga seeks to enlighten young minds with the magic of yoga while recounting some of the world's most delightful, instructive stories in a way that encourages literacy and vibrant physical health. Designed for parents, teachers and anyone interested in working with kids from Pre-K through 6th grade, it is packed with inspired and yet practical information. Here you'll find classical Hatha yoga poses used as gestural illustrations of a serious of specially rewritten "teaching stores," about the importance of love, generosity, peace and friendship. There are captivating tales ranging from the Rabbit in the Moon (India) to the Magic Pear Tree (China) and the Shipwrecked Sailor (Egypt) along with many more. The product of hundreds of hours of in-class work by Solis, Storytime Yoga is a worthy addition to the library of anyone interested in bringing the radiant health of yoga and storytelling to the youth of the world.
52 Things Kids Need from a Dad: What Fathers Can Do to Make a Lifelong Difference
Jay Payleitner - 2010
However, many have no clue what their kids really need.Enter author Jay Payleitner, veteran dad of five, who’s also struggled with how to build up his children’s lives. His 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad combines straightforward features with step-up-to-the-mark challenges men will appreciate:a full year’s worth of focused, doable ideas—one per week, if desireduncomplicated ways to be an example, like “kiss your wife in the kitchen”tough, frank advice, like “throw away your porn”And, refreshingly…NO exhaustive (and exhausting) lists of “things you should do”NO criticism of dads for being men and acting like menDads will feel respected and empowered, and gain confidence to initiate activities that build lifelong positives into their kids. Great gift or men’s group resource!
Baby on Board: Understanding What Your Baby Needs
Howard Chilton - 2003
Issues explored include breastfeeding, circumcision, colic, immunization, SIDS, postnatal depression, and sleeping with a baby. Intriguing research into babies' senses and what they can perceive is also presented. The informative and engaging advice throughout will help parents avoid panic and achieve a rewarding relationship with their newborn.
Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together: - Gardening Basics - Science and Math - Water Conservation - Self-sufficiency - Healthy Eating
Mel Bartholomew - 2014
In Square Foot Gardening with Kids, Mel reveals his tips, tricks, and fun projects in one of his most cherished pursuits: teaching youngsters to build and grow a SFG of their own. The easy geometry of the gridded box breaks the complex world of gardening into digestible bites for enthusiastic young learners, and the sequence of tasks required to grow plants from seeds is repeatable and reassuring. Kids learn many valuable life lessons when tending their own garden -- such as the importance of following instructions and doing your chores, basic skills like counting and water conservation, and learning to appreciate the nature of food and why it is important to respect it. Most importantly though, they learn that growing your own food is both fun and rewarding.
Twinspiration: Real-Life Advice from Pregnancy Through the First Year
Cheryl Lage - 2005
Incorporating a conversational, humorous tone throughout, Cheryl Lage provides a double dose of user-friendly suggestions, real-life advice, and heartfelt empathy.
Baby. Boom!
Helen Wallen - 2018
Molly's unexpected pregnancy somehow turns her boyfriend into the poncy-vegan-nut-milk-enforcer, but she breezes it, as she breezes everything. (Including still being able to eat avocados much to Emily's annoyance.)Liz quickly realises if she's to move her life on, she needs to get rid of the married man she's in love with... especially now she's realised he's been hiding more than his wedding ring...
Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money
Dave Ramsey - 2014
Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze teach parents how to raise money-smart kids in a debt-filled world.
Flying Changes
Kate Lattey - 2014
Change doesn’t come easily at first, and Jay makes as many enemies as she does friends before she finds the perfect pony, who seems destined to make her dreams of show jumping success come true. But she soon discovers that training her own pony is not as easy as she thought it would be, and her dream pony is becoming increasingly unmanageable and difficult to ride. Can Jay pull it together, or has she made the biggest mistake of her life?
Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing: Straight Talk about First Bras, First Periods, and Your Changing Body
Mavis Jukes - 1998
A guide for pre-adolescent girls to the changes that puberty brings to their bodies, including information about menstruation.