Parenting and Families

Part 1
The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents
by Stacey L. Bradford
A practical approach to affording your kids from cradle to college. Bringing home your bouncing baby boy or girl should be an exciting time of celebration - not cause for worry about how you're going to pay for feeding, clothing, and caring for your new

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It's a Boy! Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Teresa Barker
It's a Boy! provides expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social, emotional, and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years. Exploring the many ways in which boys strive for masculinity and attempt to define themselves

Characteristics of the Age
Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy
by Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
Just as the tides have their rhythms, so does human behavior have its own predictable rhythms. As the child grows older, good ages alternate with bad; times of equilibrium alternate with times of disequilibrium; and periods when behavior tends

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The Baby Food Bible: A Complete Guide to Feeding Your Child, from Infancy On
by Eileen Behan
The Time To Encourage Healthy Eating Habits And Smart Food Choices For Your Child Is Now. Unhealthy food is everywhere - colorfully packaged, cheap, and full of fat, calories, and sodium. It's no wonder childhood obesity has become an epidemic in the last

A Creative Journey
The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
by Amanda Blake Soule
When you learn to awaken your family's creativity, wonderful things will happen: you'll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will

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The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
by Peg Tyre
From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they're diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often.

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The Possibility of Everything
by Hope Edelman
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.

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Homecoming; Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
by John Bradshaw
Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often lose it in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it's worth the struggle?

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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly

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Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old
by Joseph Allen, Ph.D., Claudia Worrell Allen, Ph.D., J.D.
Do you sometimes wonder how your teen is ever going to survive on his or her own as an adult? Does your high school junior seem oblivious to the challenges that lie ahead? Does your academically successful nineteen-year-old still expect you to just take

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Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
by Kim John Payne, M.Ed., Lisa M. Ross
Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war ... on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed - with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time - children feel the pressure.

Introduction
Classic Biblical Baby Names: Timeless Names for Modern Parents
by Judith Tropea
The perfect name is one of the first and most important gifts parents can give their children - and often one of the most challenging decisions of parenthood. Expectant parents who want their child's name to be meaningful will find Classic Biblical Baby

Becoming the Cool Parent Your Kids Really Need
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
by Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT
You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It's about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids' behavior

The Seven Secrets to Raising Healthy Boys
Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
by Meg Meeker, M.D.
In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow.

Preface, Part 1
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives
by Deborah Tannen
New York Times bestselling author Deborah Tannen is renowned for illuminating the way we communicate - and revolutionizing relationships in the process. What she did for women and men in You Just Don't Understand, and mothers and daughters in You're

Introduction, Part 1
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
by Meg Meeker, M.D.
In September 1979, my father spoke a single sentence that changed my life. I had graduated from Mt. Holyoke College earlier in the year and had been rejected from several medical schools, so I was living at home pondering Plan B.

Discovering the Key to the Sense Types, Part 1
Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child
by Priscilla J. Dunstan
During the months of pregnancy, many of us fantasized about the bond we would soon have with our child. We imagined cooing to each other, holding each other close in a bubble of mutual wonder, fascination, and intimacy.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is the aim of this volume to elevate both the honor and the remuneration of all employments that sustain the many difficult and varied duties of the family state and therefore to render each department of woman's profession as much desired and respecte

Quit Your Worrying!
by George Wharton James
A worrying parent is at once an exasperating and a pathetic figure. She - for it is generally the mother - is so undeniably influenced by her love that one can sympathize with her anxiety, yet the confidant of her child, or the unconcerned observer

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
by Jacob Abbott
It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority, as the basis of the parental government