Parenting
- 25 Things Every New Mother Should Know
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- By Martha Sears, Dr. William Sears
- Hardcover, $12.95
- America’s baby experts offer 25 timeless points for new mothers. This beloved collection of thoughtful, insightful, and practical advice is now made even better with beautiful 4-color illustrations throughout—a great gift!
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- Adopting the Older Child
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- By Claudia Jewett Jarratt
- Paperback, $16.95
- Hundreds of thousands of children in this country are without permanent homes, waiting in foster homes and institutions for families to adopt them. In “a book that social workers and parents have been waiting for” (Child Welfare), Claudia Jewett explains just what is in store for those who decide to open their hearts to a waiting child.
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- Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights
- Why Your Baby is Crying and What You Can Do About It
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- By Sandy Jones
- Paperback, $12.95
- This reassuring guide to the many causes of infant crying enables parents both to make their babies happier and to cope better with their own emotions. Sandy Jones soothes overwrought parents and helps them identify the source of their baby’s suffering.
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- Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors
- How to Live Stronger and Feel Better
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- By Amy Halverstadt, Andrea Leonard
- Paperback, $16.95
- Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors includes more than 100 pages of exercises, divided into four levels of difficulty and illustrated with more than 140 photographs. This book tells you how to asses your readiness for exercise, set personal goals, and advance through the program at a safe and effective pace.
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- Father’s First Steps
- 25 Things Every New Dad Should Know
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- By Dr. Robert Sears, Dr. James Sears
- Hardcover, $12.95
- In Father’s First Steps the Searses discuss 25 important aspects of new fatherhood in an encouraging and lighthearted tone. They offer guidance on issues including bonding with a new baby, supporting the mother in breastfeeding, dealing with nighttime feedings and lack of sleep, sex after baby, and much more. Featuring a stylish four-color design with inviting illustrations, this succinct but inspiring read makes a great gift for new or expectant fathers.
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- Getting to Dry
- How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
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- By Max Maizels, Diane Rosenbaum, and Barbara Keating, Barbara Keating
- Paperback, $14.95
- The experts at the country’s leading center for treating childhood enuresis offer proven techniques to bring bedwetting to a happy end. They cover the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, biofeedback treatment, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules, and they provide friendly advice on how to replace punishment and shame with awards and praise. With diaries, calendars, and other visual aids that help the child share responsibility for a solution, this authoritative book gets parents and children over a most frustrating hurdle.
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- Hello, My Name Is…
- A Guide to Naming Your Baby
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- By Jeff Bradley, Truman and Walker Bradley
- Paperback, $14.95
- With more than 25,000 entries in A-to-Z lists of boys’ and girls’ names, plus loads of informative and entertaining sidebars, Hello, My Name Is. . . is the only book new parents need to choose a name for their baby. This engaging two-color guide includes advice on naming multiples, anecdotes from parents on how they chose their babies’ names, guidance on considering potential nicknames and what a child’s initials might spell, and much more.
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- Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
- Revised Edition
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- By Claudia Jewett Jarratt
- Paperback, $14.95
- Here is compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss. In this revised edition of a bestselling work, Claudia Jewett Jarratt offers warm advice, specific techniques, and innovative ideas for helping children overcome the sadness, anger, and anxiety they feel during a difficult time.
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- Moving with Kids
- 25 Ways to Ease Your Family’s Transition to a New Home
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- By Lori Collins Burgan
- Paperback, $9.95
- Hardcover, $19.95
- The only up-to-date book of its kind on the market, Moving with Kids provides parents with 25 practical and inspiring tips to help them ease their children’s transition and make the move a positive experience. Themes include giving kids a sense of control and involvement in the move, making the physical move less stressful, and creating a sense of belonging in their new home.
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- Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Revised Edition
- The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Before and After You Return to Work
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- By Gale Pryor, Kathleen Huggins
- Paperback, $12.95
- This essential breastfeeding guide for mothers who work outside the home tells the special reasons working moms should breastfeed, how to get started nursing, how to combine breastfeeding and formula feeding, and how to deal with bosses and coworkers. Updates to the second edition include changes in the workplace laws that affect working mothers who breastfeed, new research on working moms and infant attachment, and new material by best-selling author Kathleen Huggins on breast pumps and pumping.
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- Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child
- From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
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- By Patty Cogen
- Paperback, $14.95
- Hardcover, $26.95
- Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child guides adoptive parents—through a reassuring narrative tone and a remarkable depth of information—in promoting a child’s emotional and social adjustment, from the family’s first hours together through the teen years.
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- Smart Love
- The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person
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- By Martha Heineman and William J. Pieper
- Paperback, $15.95
- In the wise and friendly pages of Smart Love, the husband-and-wife team of Drs. Martha and William Pieper, experienced professionals and parents of five, show that putting children’s inner happiness first, rather than their outward behavior, is what will really make them better behaved and, in the long run, more responsible, confident, happy, and successful. With real-life examples, they help parents find the happy medium between “anything goes” and too-tough discipline.
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- The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning, Revised Edition
- How to Bring Breastfeeding to a Gentle Close, and How to Decide When the Time is Right
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- By Kathleen Huggins, Linda Ziedrich
- Paperback, $11.95
- For women who are considering weaning and wondering when or how to go about it, or trying to wean and encountering problems, this fully updated guide explores the hygienic, nutritional, and emotional concerns that make weaning from the breast such an important and often difficult transition. Written by Kathleen Huggins, the best-selling author of The Nursing Mother’s Companion, and respected editor Linda Ziedrich, The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning is an indispensable resource for bringing breastfeeding to a gentle close.
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- Tough Questions
- Talking Straight with Your Kids about the Real World
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- By Sheila and Celia Kitzinger
- Paperback, $12.95
- In Tough Questions the Kitzingers strive to “provide a stimulus for parents to explore what they think and believe, and how they behave with their children.” The book covers all the “biggies” – sex, birth, death, lying, food, war, religion, obedience, friends, and prejudice – and provides parents the encouragement they need to respond to their children honestly and with the courage of their convictions.
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- Unbuttoned
- Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding
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- By Dana Sullivan, Maureen Connolly
- Paperback, $$12.95
- In Unbuttoned, 25 talented women writers take on a subject—breastfeeding—that is as simple and primal as it is complex and controversial. By turns funny, angry, sad, and joyous, their essays hold appeal for the many who have been both challenged and awed by the nursing experience. New mothers and moms-to-be will certainly find themselves relating to these personal stories, while experienced mothers and grandmothers will enjoy reminiscing about their own nursing experiences.
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