Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Reading People
How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior -- Anytime, Anyplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Did you know that when you walk into a room, everything about you--from what you're wearing to the way you sit to the way you speak--says something about you? Do you realize that as you're taking stock of someone, he or she is also taking stock of you?
For fifteen years, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, America's...
Raising Happiness
10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain.
Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience...
Glitter and Glue
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
***NEW YORK TIMES *BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.
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When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s...
by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Unnerved by the ceaseless demands of your toddler? Concerned that your two-year-old isn’t developing on schedule? You clearly need to spend some time with Tracy Hogg. Nicknamed the “baby whisperer” by grateful parents because of her extraordinary gift for understanding and connecting with children,...
Married to Distraction
Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club!Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections,...
Jo Frost's Toddler Rules
Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
**From the beloved TV disciplinarian and bestselling author of Supernanny comesan amazingly simple five-step program to help parents tame tantrums, prevent bad behavior, and create long-term peace and stability in the home.
SILVER MEDAL WINNER, NATIONAL PARENTING PUBLICATIONS AWARDS
Jo...
Playful Parenting
An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Parents have heard that play is a child's work—but play is not for kids only. As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., demonstrates in this delightful new book, play can be the basis for an innovative and rewarding approach to parenting. From eliciting a giggle during baby's first game of peek-a-boo...
The Baby Food Bible
A Complete Guide to Feeding Your Child, from Infancy On
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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 thirty years. As a result, by the...
The Dream
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
“Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.”
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein’s selfless mother struggles...
The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard...
by Gail Sheehy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed...
by Terrence Real
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
In his extraordinary new book, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy–you’re right!
Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they have become powerful, independent, self-confident,...
Best Friends, Worst Enemies
Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Friends broaden our children’s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful...
The Soul of Discipline
The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Warm, Firm, and Calm Guidance- From Toddlers to Teens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries...