Trusted Advice You and Your Toddler


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You and Your Toddler includes essential information to help raise a toddler to achieve his or her full potential. It covers key topics such as potty training and dealing with tantrums, and offers a range of tips and guidelines from play time to common illnesses and how to treat them.




The Child Whisperer


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The Child Whisperer teaches how to read unsaid clues that children naturally give every day, and shows how parenting, teaching, coaching, and mentoring children can be an even more intuitive, cooperative experience than ever.




Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children


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OVER 500,000 SOLD IN THE PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES SERIES As parents of adult children, we often worry about whether our children will make good choices when they're on their own. Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children provides you with biblically based prayers and encouraging stories to guide you as you pray for your adult children through anything they face. Parent and author Jodie Berndt understands what it's like to release children into the world and still care deeply about them and everything they're up against in life. In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie shares prayers designed with your adult children in mind, whether they're just leaving the nest, flying well on their own, or struggling to take off at all. Jodie shares advice on navigating all aspects of adulthood with encouraging stories from experienced parents who are praying their children through real-life issues like leaving the church, struggling with health concerns, navigating broken marriages, fighting addiction, dealing with financial problems, and more. In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie addresses some of the most difficult questions that confront parents: How can I support my children when they make decisions I disagree with? Is it too late to start praying for my children? What does the Bible teach us about praying for our children? With the grace and wisdom of someone who's been there, Jodie shares the tools and encouragement you need to find the strength to keep praying, even as you doubt yourself and grieve over your children's choices. Whatever you're praying for, Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children will help you find confidence and peace taken straight from Scripture, guiding you to the bedrock of God's promises as you release your children to God's shepherding care.




Trusted Advice Your New Baby


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Your New Baby provides a guide to caring for a newborn during the first six months. It offers clear and concise instructions on how to feed, bathe, handle, deal with crying, and express love, with additional information on child development, including how boys and girls develop differently and how to adapt care for their needs.




Why Is My Child in Charge?


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Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.




Elevating Child Care


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A modern parenting classic—a guide to a new and gentle way of understanding the care and nurture of infants, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids “An absolute go-to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children.”—Wendy Denham, PhD A Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, Janet Lansbury helps parents look at the world through the eyes of their infants and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating opportunities to learn, discover, and connect with our child. A collection of the most-read articles from Janet’s popular and long-running blog, Elevating Child Care focuses on common infant issues, including: • Nourishing our babies’ healthy eating habits • Calming your clingy, fearful child • How to build your child’s focus and attention span • Developing routines that promote restful sleep Eschewing the quick-fix tips and tricks of popular parenting culture, Lansbury’s gentle, insightful guidance lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent-child relationship, and children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.




Hyper-Parenting


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As parents, we have somehow come to believe that perfection is within our grasp. But our overeager pursuit of perfection is harming our children and our family lives. Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise explore the causes of and solutions to this damaging phenomenon in their timely and intelligent book, Hyper-Parenting.




Trusted Advice Your Healthy Child


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Your Healthy Child addresses common childhood illnesses, their symptoms, and treatment. It includes simple diagnostic detail on 80 typical childhood complaints, ranging from colds to meningitis, with easy-to-follow advice on what parents can do to treat their child, and when to call a doctor. Includes an A-Z index of complaints for easy reference.




Dear Parent


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Internationally renowned infant specialist Magda Gerber, M.A., the founder of RIE, offers a healthy new approach to infant care based on a profound respect for each baby's individual needs and abilities.




Trusted Advice Your Healthy Pregnancy


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Your Healthy Pregnancy focuses on how to care for baby, body, and mind during pregnancy, with advice on diet, exercise, and preparing emotionally for parenthood. Miriam's reassuring advice covers every aspect of physical and mental wellbeing during pregnancy, from keeping fit to stylish maternity wear, working during pregnancy, and how to maintain a sensual relationship for as long as possible.