Naked Parenting


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Naked Parenting: 7 Keys to Raising Kids with Confidence, is parenting stripped down to the bare basics focusing on seven keys to raising kids who are self-sufficient, respectful, and resilient. Nudity not required. It is a sensible, realistic and practical guide for parents with children of all ages. Fun, honest, and easy-to-read, it provides creative tips and ideas that any parent can start using today. The principles of Naked Parenting provide a framework to guide parenting decisions and actions within one's own style of parenting. Simply explained, with straightforward strategies that parents can apply to issues of all kinds.




One Naked Baby


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Illustrations and simple rhymes go from one to ten and back again over the course of a baby's day.




What to Do When You Worry Too Much


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What to Do When You Worry Too Much guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, this book educates, motivates, and empowers children to work towards change. Includes a note to parents by psychologist and author Dawn Huebner, PhD.




The Danish Way of Parenting


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International bestseller As seen in The Wall Street Journal--from free play to cozy together time, discover the parenting secrets of the happiest people in the world What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical book presents six essential principles, which spell out P-A-R-E-N-T: Play is essential for development and well-being. Authenticity fosters trust and an "inner compass." Reframing helps kids cope with setbacks and look on the bright side. Empathy allows us to act with kindness toward others. No ultimatums means no power struggles, lines in the sand, or resentment. Togetherness is a way to celebrate family time, on special occasions and every day. The Danes call this hygge--and it's a fun, cozy way to foster closeness. Preparing meals together, playing favorite games, and sharing other family traditions are all hygge. (Cell phones, bickering, and complaining are not!) With illuminating examples and simple yet powerful advice, The Danish Way of Parenting will help parents from all walks of life raise the happiest, most well-adjusted kids in the world.




The Parenting Habits of Werewolves


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One omega. Two alphas... and two babies. Let the romancing begin! Devlin's come a long way since he was asked to choose between two alphas and chose them both, but it's not only his kids that have some growing up to do if their family is going to make it. Rami, Naveen and he have moved on from their less than perfect beginning: they have two babies they love, Rami’s in college, Devlin’s researching at university like he dreamed, and Naveen is devoted to teaching their girls Urdu through the three single nursery rhymes and five phrases he knows in the language—also, diapers. But while the alphas are comfortable with their relationship and Devlin is happy enough to gate-crash, they still have a lot of exploring to do—in bed and out of it—before they find a way to be together that can last forever. It will all come down to whether they can learn from their past mistakes and trust each other to do better, but when you have been hurt as badly as Devlin has, trust is an expensive coin to spend. "The Parenting Habits of Werewolves" is the conclusion to the Werewolves of Windermere trilogy, which must be read in order.




Positive Parenting from A to Z


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"A valuable book for the busy parent. Karen Joslin knows how to use both love and power in parenting, and presents easily understood solutions to common problems." GLENN AUSTIN, M.D., F.A.A.P. Former President, American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting expert and mother Karen Renshaw Joslin provides concrete age-specific solutions to more than 140 child misbehaviors. With this reassuring guide, alphabetically organized for easy access, you can: look up the problem and immediately pinpoint the case, learn specfically what to do, according to your child's age, know the exact words to say with actual dialogue examples, and more.




Crunchy Parenting


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If you want to learn about crunchy parenting, then get "Crunchy Parenting." • Learn how to achieve a natural, crunchy birth without pain medication • Find out the best ways to welcome your new baby into the world in a crunchy way • Become informed about the many benefits of breastfeeding your baby • Get helpful tips to help you reach your breastfeeding goals as a crunchy mother • Educate yourself about the potential problems of breastfeeding and how to combat them • Learn how to continue feeding your baby a healthy and crunchy diet once it is time to introduce solids • See why crunchy parents choose to cloth diaper their children • Read about the different cloth diapering options available out there for crunchy parents • Find out how to properly care for your cloth diapers as a crunchy parent • Discover the many benefits of babywearing that crunchy parents utilize • Get important safety information regarding babywearing • Use tutorials to learn how to use a woven wrap to wear your baby • Find out how crunchy parents get more sleep through co-sleeping • Become informed on how crunchy parents safely share the bed with their little ones • Discover the truth about circumcision and why it is so accepted in our society • Read all about how you can protect your child’s right to bodily autonomy • See how the dangerous secrets of vaccines are hiding in plain sight • Learn about how to boost immunity in crunchier, more natural ways About the Expert Madi Haire is the mother of two amazing children – Adam and Zelda. She gave birth to both of them naturally without pain medication and have experience with tandem-breastfeeding. She and her husband both work from home so that they can all stay together as much as possible. Through in-depth research, they have found that the best parenting choices tend to be the more natural and crunchy ones. Some of their crunchy parenting choices (that are all completely backed up by research) include breastfeeding, co-sleeping, respecting their children’s rights to bodily autonomy, and babywearing. Haire is also the leader in her local babywearing group and always aims to help provide gentle education to parents in order to help them make well-informed, evidence-based, and natural decisions. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.




The Kind Mama


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When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once pregnant, women just accept that carrying a baby will be the gassy, swollen, irritable, sleepless nightmare that has become the new normal—and then assume that new motherhood will be just as challenging, from breastfeeding woes to screaming fits. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Kind Mama, Alicia Silverstone has created a comprehensive and practical guide empowering women to take charge of their fertility, pregnancy, and first 6 months with baby. Drawing on her own experience, as well as that of obstetricians, midwives, nutritionists, holistic health counselors, and others, Silverstone offers advice on getting one's "baby house" in order through nutrient-rocking foods that heal and nourish, and, once pregnant, gentle ways to boost comfort, energy, and health during each trimester. She helps readers navigate everything from prenatal testing and birth plans to successful breastfeeding and creating a supportive "baby nest." The result is an authoritative, one-stop guide that empowers women to trust their instincts during this vital milestone, while helping them embark on a healthy and more vibrant path to motherhood.




Parenting with a Purpose


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Parenting With A Purpose Parenting is not about ownership; it is about stewardship, and stewardship is about doing a job for God. Parenting is not about being glorified; it is about glorifying God. Parenting is not about lifting up children or being lifted up by children; it is about lifting up Christ by, "Bringing children up in the training and instruction of the Lord." When the objective of parenting is to glorify God, God gets the glory and parents get the joy. And there is no joy like the joy that a parent experiences when his child grows like Jesus grew, "In wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." Walter E. McDonald currently teaches a young adult Sunday school class for parents with children in elementary school and middle school. He was ordained a deacon in 1978, and he has been teaching Sunday school since 1965. He has taught children, youth, high school students, college students; young married couples, single adults, and senior adults. He has also worked with youth mission groups such as Royal Ambassadors and Shepherd Boys. His approach to teaching, no matter what age group he teaches, has always been that of the Apostle Paul written in 1 Corinthians 2:2, "For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." (KJV)




The Baby Planner


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The Nanny Diaries meets The Wedding Planner in this smart, dishy novel from the author of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives—featuring a woman who runs San Francisco’s premier baby planning company and the mommies-to-be who seek out her services. Katie Johnson may make her living consulting with new moms on the latest greatest baby gadgets no parent should be without, or which mommy meet-ups are the most socially desirable, or whether melon truly is the new black, but the success of her marriage to her husband, Alex, depends on controlling her own urges toward motherhood. He's adamant that they stay childless. Sure, Katie understands that he's upset over the fact that his out-of-town ex-wife rarely lets him see their ten-year-old son, Peter. But living vicariously through her anxious clients and her twin sisters' precocious children only makes Katie resent his stance more deeply. While helping a new client—Seth Harris, a high tech entrepreneur who must raise Sadie, his newborn daughter, as a single parent after the tragic death of his wife in childbirth—maneuver the bittersweet journey from mourning husband and reticent father to loving dad, Katie’s own ideals about love, marriage, and motherhood are put to the test as she learns ones very important lesson about family: How we nurture is the true nature of love. "Josie "Brown takes baby mania to its illogical, hysterical extreme in this bubbly romp. But what begins as a light foray into Bugaboo country turns into something bigger than a satire of status-obsessed Bay Area yummy mummies as Brown takes a dark look at the fears of parenthood and family, with Katie's heartbreaking longing for a child unveiling a disturbing reality about her marriage and family. Still, the message from the somber realities is one full of hope: love makes a family, commitment keeps it together." —Publishers Weekly "We love Josie Brown. Plain and simple. We first fell for her when we read the impossibly delicious Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, and now we’re falling all over again after consuming her latest fun, funny and completely satisfying novel, The Baby Planner." -- Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke