Parenting category: 8337 books
Your Child Your Genius
Maximise Your Child's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Children have a voracious appetite for knowledge and a hunger to learn. Their minds, from when they are born until they are about 12 years old, have the ability to absorb an incredible amount of information. So how you can, as a parent, optimise this period to mould your child’s mind, foster good learning...
Your Baby Is Speaking to You
A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies...
I Heart My Little A-Holes
A bunch of holy-crap moments no one ever told you about parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Following the success of Go the F**k to Sleep, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, and Ketchup Is a Vegetable, a collection of funny, warm, and charmingly profane tales from the frontlines of parenthood by the author of the popular Baby Sideburns blog.
Once upon a time you and your partner had a...
Someone Could Get Hurt
A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America
No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online....
Sh*t My Kids Ruined
An A-Z Celebration of Kid-Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
A pictorial tribute to the filthy, distasteful, gross, and painful moments of parenthood, and the children who make it all possible.
Kids: they are the light of your life—and the enemy of all things fragile, intact, and clean. But why cry over spilt milk . . . or paint . . . or the entire contents...
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)
How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work-and why we...
by Elisa Medhus M.D., M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Raising Children Who Think for Themselves offers a new approach to parenting that has the power to reverse the trend of external direction in our children and help parents bring up empathetic, self-confident, moral, independent thinkers. Children who are externally directed make decisions based on...
Untangled
Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An award-winning guide to the sometimes erratic and confusing behavior of teenage girls that explains what’s going on, prepares parents for what’s to come, and lets them know when it’s time to worry.
Look for Under Pressure, the companion guide to coping...
Positive Time-Out
And Over 50 Ways to Avoid Power Struggles in the Home and the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Discover the Power of Positive Time-Out
Time-out is one of the most popular disciplinary techniques used in homes and schools today. But instead of being the positive, motivating, experience it should be for children, it is often punitive, counterproductive, and damaging to their gentle psyches.
In...
Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing
A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Gripping, raw, and beautiful, this book reveals the struggles and rewards of caring for a child with severe disability and helps professionals work more sensitively and effectively with families of children with special needs. Written with grace and candor by special education professional Beth Harry,...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings
How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, author of PEACEFUL PARENTS, HAPPY SIBLINGS, has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world, thanks to her simple, insightful approach that values the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though,...
Brave Dad
Raising Your Kids to Love and Follow God
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Become the Dad Your Kids NeedThe rewards of being a brave dad are great. But no guts, no glory. First you have to be willing to follow God's job description for dads as given in the Bible. In Brave Dad you'll receive guidance on...the starting point of being a godly dad—loving your wifehow to raise...
Mommy Man
How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek to Gay Superdad
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates...