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Dr. Deborah MacNamara Nourished
Connection, Food, and Caring for Our Kids (And Everyone Else We Love) In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food. Dr. McNamara gives us the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding our children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of attachment. Based on developmental and relational science, qualitative research with families, counselling parents, and her own experience as a mother, MacNamara combines storytelling with science and puts food in its rightful place.
$24.95
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No Drama Discipline Calm & Nurture Developing Mind
The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Inside this guide you'll discover strategies that help parents identify their own discipline philosophy-and master the best methods to communicate the lessons they are trying to impart, facts on child brain development-and what kind of discipline is most appropriate and constructive at all ages and stages, the way to calmly and lovingly connect with a child-no matter how extreme the behavior-while still setting clear and consistent limits, tips for navigating your children through a tantrum to achieve insight, empathy, and repair, 20 discipline mistakes even the best parents make-and how to stay focused on the principles of whole-brain parenting and discipline techniques. Also available: The No-Drama Discipline Workbook.
$25.99
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Joanna Faber, Julie King How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood
From tantrums to technology to talking to kids about tough topics, this book has concrete strategies for these and many more difficult situations. Part One introduces readers to the How To Talk "toolbox," with whimsical cartoons demonstrating the basic communication skills that will transform readers' relationships with children in their lives. Part Two answers specific questions and share relatable stories, offering practical tools for addressing issues such as homework hassles, sibling battles, digital dilemmas, problems with punishment, and more. Readers can turn directly to any topic of interest and find the help they need, with handy reminder pages. These are real solutions to struggles familiar to every parent, grandparent, teacher, and anyone else who lives or works with children.
$26.95
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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids. What do you do with a little kid who...won't brush her teeth...screams in his car seat...pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential emergency first-aid manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.
$26.00
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Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
This bestselling classic by internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children includes fresh insights and suggestions, as well as the author's time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships, including innovative ways to cope with your child's negative feelings such as frustration, anger, and disappointment. You'll learn how to express your strong feelings without being hurtful, engage your child's willing cooperation, set firm limits and maintain goodwill, and use alternatives to punishment that promote self-discipline. You'll understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful praise and be able to resolve family conflicts peacefully.
$25.99
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Scott D. Sampson How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
This book is a timely and engaging antidote, offering teachers, parents, and other caregivers the necessary tools to engender a meaningful, lasting connection between children and the natural world.
$22.95
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How Children Thrive
The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids In this book, Dr. Bertin provides a positive, simple, and empowering approach for raising children of all ages. Bringing together mindfulness, new science on brain development, and the messy reality of being a parent, Dr. Bertin has a created a breakthrough guide that will help children-and their parents-flourish. Research has shown that the key to raising resilient, kind, and independent children lies in executive function, our mental capacity to manage just about everything in life. Through concise, easily applied chapters, Dr. Bertin provides simple strategies for helping your children develop healthy EF while taking care of yourself and enjoying your family.
$26.95
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Healthy Pregnancy Book
Month by Month, Everything You Need to Know from America's Baby Experts The Healthy Pregnancy Book guides expectant mothers and fathers through all stages of pregnancy from preconception through birth, focusing on how to enhance the health of mother and baby. In this uniquely authoritative and comprehensive month-by-month guide, the Searses address emotional and physical changes that take place during pregnancy, baby's brain development, healthy pregnancy habits, pregnancy superfoods, optimal weight gain, fitness, managing stress, sleep, choosing the right healthcare provider, birthing choices, the transition into parenthood, engaging personal stories, and more.
$22.95
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Sally Goldberg Fun Baby Learning Games: Activities to Support Development in Infants, Toddlers and Two-Year-Olds
Fun Baby Learning Games brings a new approach to having fun and learning. Incorporate theory and research-backed activities in a fun and engaging way. Help your infant or toddler nurture his/her skills and reach emerging milestones. Foster development in one or more of the five areas of development - cognitive, motor, social/emotional, language, and self-esteem.
$33.95
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Expecting Mindfully: Nourish Your Emotional Well-Being and Prevent Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum
Unlike other mindfulness resources for moms and moms-to-be, this compassionate book is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a proven program. The authors are leading experts on the emotional challenges of pregnancy and early parenting--and how to overcome them. Guided meditations and gentle yoga practices help you build crucial skills to prevent depression, ease anxiety, and minimize stress during this unique and important phase of your life. Clear suggestions for how to follow the program day by day are accompanied by moving reflections from a "circle of mothers" working through the same steps. In a convenient large-size format, the book features journaling exercises and other practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed). The companion website also includes audio downloads narrated by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg, plus video clips of prenatal yoga practices.
$24.95
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Linda K Murphy Co-Regulation Handbook
Creating Competent, Authentic Roles for Kids with Social Learning Differences, So We All Stay Positively Connected Through the Ups and Downs of Learning Do you know a child who struggles to get started with things or who resists trying something new? Maybe they argue or have trouble joining other kids in conversation and play. Do you hear yourself prompting your child again and again? Do you feel frustrated or stuck, and long for a better way - a more positive way - to engage your child while guiding them toward independence? This book was written for parents, caregivers, professionals and more - to guide you on how to move away from prompting and prodding kids - and toward authentic connections and competent roles.
$14.95
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Julie Tourigny Calm and in Control
Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Young Children's Self-Regulation The better we are at self-regulation, the more successful we will be at life's tasks. Most children learn self-regulation-the ability to remain calm and in control of our thoughts, actions, and emotions-in response to an external event or stimuli, between the ages of three and seven. This book provides simple and effective strategies and activities to help every child in a preschool or kindergarten classroom learn to regulate their emotions and behaviors. Some children may need help recognizing that something is upsetting or overly exciting. Others may have difficulty knowing how to calm down and take control of their emotions or behaviors on their own.
$35.95
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Lori Lite Bubble Riding: A Relaxation Story
Children love to visualize, or imagine, filling their bodies with the colors of the rainbow. Children join the sea child and turtle as they take a bubble ride into the world of relaxation. Visualization, also known as creative imagery, can lower stress, anxiety, and anger. It can have a positive impact on your child's health, creativity, and performance. It can be used to decrease pain and anger. The colorful imagery in this story quiets the mind and relaxes the body so your child can manage stress and fall asleep peacefully.
$19.95
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Laura Davis & Janis Keyser Becoming The Parent You Want To Be
A Source book of Strategies for the First Five Years This book provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parent of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Full of warmth, clarity, humor, and respect, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be gives parents permission to be human: to question, to learn, to make mistakes, to struggle and to grow, and, most of all, to have fun with their children.
$30.00
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