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"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
3) The Montessori baby: a parent's guide to nurturing your baby with love, respect, and understanding
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"Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria Montessori, The Montessori Baby shows how to raise your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, insight, and a surprising sense of calm... Including how to prepare yourself for parenthood physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Become an active observer to understand what your baby is really telling you. Create Montessori spaces in your home, including "yes" spaces...
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Ehrenreich's core philosophy holds that aging people have the right to determine their quality of life and may choose to forgo painful and generally ineffective treatments. She presents evidence that such tests as annual physicals and Pap smears have little effect in prolonging life; investigates wellness trends, including mindfulness meditation; and questions the doctrine of a harmonious "mindbody" and its supposed natural tendency to prolong life....
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Power struggles between parents and teens are nothing new, but chronic control battles are destructive to teen development as well as the entire family. According to psychotherapist Neil Brown, these battles occur as the result of self-perpetuating negative relationship patterns. This book will help you understand and end the painful tug-of-war with your teen and foster a peaceful and loving home environment.
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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
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A comprehensive reference for parents and educators explains the origins of substance abuse while offering advice for how to identify risk factors and take steps to prevent vulnerable teens from developing an addiction disorder.
Lahey was born into a family with a history of alcoholism and drug abuse; despite her desires to thwart her genetic legacy, she didn't find sobriety until her early forties. Now she provides a comprehensive resource parents...
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The follow-up to Real Baby Food, a new book on the hottest topic for new parents-baby-led weaning-from the food editor at Parents magazine, with more than 100 recipes and ideas.
Want your baby to have a natural, flavor-filled, and family-friendly transition to solid foods? Feeding your baby a variety of healthy, wholesome solid foods, rather than relying solely on purees, is thought to promote motor skills and establish lifelong healthy eating habits....
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"Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant and toddler environments. Captivating classroom stories and proven science provide the context for how this...
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Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed-and now, so has the new-baby bible.
Announcing the completely revised third edition of What to Expect the First Year. With over 10.5 million copies in print, First Year is the world's best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies...
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"A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better--and for good. There's no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It's a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be...
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It's not just how much time you have with your kids, but how you spend that time that matters in the life and legacy of a family. No Regrets Parenting focuses on the simple truth that the long days of busy parenting race quickly by and, looking back someday, the years with kids will feel far too short. Written by renowned pediatrician, celebrated author, and distinguished parenting expert, Dr. Harley Rotbart, No Regrets Parenting, Updated and Expanded...
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"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
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Homework can be one of the most frustrating of all problem areas for chidlren and parents. In this helpful guide, Rosemond warns against parental interference and demonstrates ways to help children learn to work on their own and to take responsibility for getting the work done themselves.
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I would like to thank my family and friends for believing in me and for encouraging me to see this adventure through. Thank you Duane for making the book come alive with your illustrations. This book is dedicated to my dad who always told me to BELIEVE. Thank you daddy. Finally, I want to thank GOD for giving me the ideas and words to put down on paper. SOMETIMES OUR LIVES CAN BE SCARY AND EVEN A LITTLE CONFUSING: SOME PEOPLE CAN BE CRUEL AND HATEFUL...
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This book takes you on a journey from when Sammy finds out that his mom and dad are expecting a new baby. He finds the cutest way to begin welcoming her into his life. It is my hope for this book to make welcoming a baby into the family a bit more interesting. Children are so creative and loving naturally. I pray this book is a blessing in your life and think it is one the whole family can enjoy.
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Families are Forever: Communication Endorsements *I have read much of the book Families are Forever: Communication and I have found useful information in each chapter! This book has really opened my eyes to the way that I communicate with those in my life. I am very aware now that how I say what I say determines what others hear. I raise my glass to better communication! Bethany, Narrows, Virginia *Families Are Forever: Communication brings together...
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Father, Papa, and Dad are synonyms of a pivotal character in homes from time immemorial. It means several things to different peoplelogical or illogical, appropriately or erroneously. However, what is its truest meaning in the heart of the one who instituted the officeAlmighty God? The True Meaning of Dad promises to take you through a revealing journey into His heart, opening up what He originally had in mind right from Creation. It enables you to...
19) To My Future
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To My Future... is a book of short stories that everyone can relate to. The story "My Firstborn, Janese" is of a mother who is pouring out her love for her child. This story will make you have tears in your eyes and tug some strings in your heart. It does not matter if you are woman/man who is considering becoming a first-time parent. When you start thinking about the feeling, you will relate. Even if you are married or dating or is going through...
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Preston Browning Jr. entered the world in 1929, a few months before the Crash and the onset of the Great Depression. In Culpeper, Virginia, Browning grew up amid the pervasive poverty of the times where he recalls being labeled by his father as the world's worst grouch, led in song by Miss Lizzy Lovell who banged on the piano at the local Episcopal church, and seated astride a cow who needed a lot of convincing to take him for a ride around the pasture...
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