Parenting
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Virginia Sole-Smith Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that "fat" is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we've all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents worry if their kids care too much about being thin, but even more about the consequences if they aren't. And multibillion-dollar industries thrive on this fear of fatness. We've fought the "war on obesity" for over forty years and Americans aren't thinner or happier with their bodies. But it's not our kids-or their weight-who need fixing. In this illuminating narrative, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents themselves-and offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.
$26.99
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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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Nicholas Kardaras Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance
Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person's developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. The back of the book also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents.
$27.00
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Becky Kennedy Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Known to followers as Dr. Becky, this author is sparking a parenting revolution. This model prioritizes connecting with kids rather than correcting them. Reward charts and time outs are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. Kids need skills for life, ones that account for their complex emotional needs. Dr. Becky shares her parenting philosophy with actionable strategies, to help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership. Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios - including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more - this is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.
$38.50
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Joann Deak, Terrence Deak, Neely Daggett Good Night to your Fantastic Elastic Brain
Go to sleep and grow your brain! During the day, your brain helps you do things like eat, walk, play with friends, and learn new things-and using your brain helps it stretch and get stronger. But did you know that you have the power to grow and train your brain just by going to sleep? In fact, while you're resting, your brain is doing some of its most important work!
$28.99
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Britney Winn Lee, Borghild Fallberg Good Night, Body: Finding Calm from Head to Toe
Bedtime can be full of big emotions for kids! Calm anxious, busy thoughts with this body scan meditation designed to help kids relax and prepare for sleep. This mindfulness practice will help children let go of the worries, stress, and excitement of the day as they reach their arms like a telescope, let their mouths hang like a hammock, dance their fingers like wind chimes, and listen to their hearts beat a reassuring cadence, "you're loved, you're loved." From Britney Winn Lee, author of popular books The Boy with Big, Big Feelings and The Girl with Big, Big Questions, comes another powerful book for helping children navigate stress, form positive self-perceptions, and strengthen their hearts and minds. Good Night, Body echoes the comforting chants of Goodnight Moon as it leads children in greeting, moving, and relaxing each body part. With lyrical text and body-positive illustrations, this mindfulness picture book guides kids in connecting with who they are inside and out. Good Night, Body: Finding Calm from Head to Toe is perfect for children 4 to 8 and their parents and caregivers families who enjoy yoga and mindfulness exercises children who need a relaxing bedtime ritual to smooth the transition from play to sleep children who experience anxiety, insomnia, bedtime fears, and intense emotions
$21.99
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Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson Growing Up Again, 2nd Edition: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Growing Up Again offers further guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their healthy development - and to our own. Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson provide the information every adult caring for children should know - about ages and stages of development, ways to nurture our children and ourselves, and tools for personal and family growth. This new edition also addresses the special demands of parenting adopted children and the problem of overindulgence; a recognition and exploration of prenatal life and our final days as unique life stages; new examples of nurturing, structuring, and discounting, as well as concise ways to identify them; help for handling parenting conflicts in blended families, and guidelines on supporting children's spiritual growth.
$23.95
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Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild
Harriet doesn't mean to be pesky. Sometimes she just is. And her mother doesn't mean to lose her temper. Sometimes she just does. But Harriet and her mother know that even when they do things they wish they hadn't, they still love each other very much.
$10.95
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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, Marc Weissbluth explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child, and helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more. The book helps you analyze ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally and reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age.
$28.00
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Gordon Neufeld Heart Matters
There is much focus today on children's emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor, is now confirmed to be at the core of development and well-being. Yet little is being taught about the nature of emotion or the implications for parenting and teaching and treatment. In this 5-hour DVD, Dr. Neufeld does a brilliant job of putting the pieces together to make sense of emotion, revealing the emotional roots of many behavioural problems, and clarifying the challenges for parents, teachers and helping professionals.
$90.00
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Amanda Laird Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation
By examining the history of period shame and stigma and its effects on women's health and wellness today as well as providing a crash course in menstrual self-care, Heavy Flow aims to lift the veil on menstruation, breaking the "curse" once and for all.
$22.99
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Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need To Matter More Than Peers
Drs. Neufeld and Maté tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. This book will restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful pre-eminence. The concepts, principles and practical advice contained in Hold On to Your Kids will empower parents to satisfy their children's inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth. This revised edition includes chapters on raising children in a digital world, dealing with online bullying, and more.
$26.95
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Jane Yolen, Mark Teague How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? Board Book
Perfect for bedtime reading, children love the laugh-aloud antics of playful Tyrannosaur-sized dinosaur children who stomp and fuss and jump on the bed! Simple verse and hilarious illustrations present common scenes of sly humor as enormous dinosaur children yawn and fuss and throw their toys about-before finally going to sleep. Children will find the name of each dinosaur hidden in the pictures, which are a delight from start to finish.
$10.95
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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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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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Joanna Faber, Julie King 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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How To Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough, bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk . Now, they return with this essential guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. Filled with straightforward advice and written in their trademark, down-to-earth style sure to appeal to both parents and teens, this all-new volume offers both innovative, easy-to-implement suggestions and proven techniques to build the foundation for lasting relationships. From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs, it gives parents the tools to help their children safely navigate the often stormy years of adolescence.
$21.99
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Robyn Silverman How to Talk to Kids about Anything: Tips, Scripts, Stories, and Steps to Make Even the Toughest Conversations Easier
Dr. Robyn Silverman is the host of the How to Talk to Kids About Anything Parenting Podcast, a child development specialist, and mom. In this book, Dr. Robyn takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions, giving you the strategies and scripts to prepare you for life's most challenging conversations. That way your kids get age-appropriate information straight from you, their trusted source, rather than from peers, the media, or the internet. You'll learn how to develop calm, well-thought-out answers to tricky questions on subjects including death, sex, friendship, divorce, money, and more. Drawing on the expertise of dozens of well-known experts, Dr. Robyn's decades of working with children and teens, and her personal experience as a mom, How to Talk to Kids About Anything is a vital resource for parents who value having honest, meaningful conversations with their kids. When you just can't find the right words, this book will be your guide to talking to your kids about anything as they grow from toddlers to teens...and beyond.
$26.99
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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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Jo Witek, Christine Roussey In Your Cozy Bed Board Book
From Jo Witek and Christine Roussey, the team behind In My Heart and the Growing Hearts series, comes this soothing bedtime board book, In Your Cozy Bed. Told from the point of view of a loving parent, a child is gently guided to get ready for bed, say goodnight to favorite toys, and finally settle into sleep. Like the rest of the Growing Hearts series, this book features a die-cut front cover for added appeal and gift ability.
$12.99
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Just Between Us (Family Conversation Cards)
Conversation Cards for the Whole Family This helps the whole family get beyond the chit-chat and deepen the conversation. Housed in an elegant keepsake box, these conversation starters can sit on display at a kitchen table or be tossed into a bag for a road trip. Slip a conversation card into the display window and take turns answering the question. Then flip the card over for more ways to enrich the conversation. With more than 150 prompts, these cards generate many rich opportunities for connection, and because the questions are open-ended, they can be reused again and again.
$19.99
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Dr. Ross W. Greene Lost at School
Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr. Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids.
$27.99
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Elizabeth Crary Love And Limits: Guidance Tools for Creative Parenting
This concise 48-page book represents the "Cliff Notes" to child guidance. Short and to-the-point, Love & Limits is jam-packed with parenting tools. The text models how to use this information to deal with children's feelings and reduce power struggles.
$15.95
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Elizabeth Verdick Naptime - Board Book
Naps are just a little break—but when it’s naptime, many toddlers have trouble settling into sleep. This calming, encouraging book helps young children quiet down so they can get the rest they need. Eyes are closed, lights are dimmed…and (yawn, s-t-r-e-t-c-h) before little ones know it, it’s time to wake up. Cozy illustrations enhance the text. An award-winning author/illustrator team offers a fresh look at the times and transitions all toddlers face daily, giving young children the tools to handle routines with confidence and cooperation.
$15.50
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