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1) The 3 Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting: Proven Tools to Help You Raise Smart and Savvy Online Kids
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
234 p.
Language
English
Description
How can we protect our kids online-and teach them to protect themselves?
In just a generation, childhoods have changed radically. More than half of children in the US now own a smartphone by the age of eleven; and the latest data shows teens spending an average of seven hours a day on screen media. As parents, we can feel overwhelmed by this rate of change, and concerned that we don't understand what our children are doing online.
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3) How to stop losing your sh*t with your kids: a practical guide to becoming a calmer, happier parent
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First.
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stop the yelling, lose the guilt, and become a calmer, happier parent. Drawing on evidence-based practices, here is an insight-packed and tip-filled plan for how to stop the parental meltdowns. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help readers feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it. "Using a powerful combination of humor and reality checks, Naumburg helps parents unpack their unique stressors...
Author
Publisher
Pear Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Second edition, updated and expanded edition.
Physical Desc
i, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of Brain Rules extends his popular plan to infants, sharing what the latest science says about raising smart and happy children, in a book that includes such advice as: TV is harmful for children under 2, the best predictor of academic performance is a child's level of self-control, praising effort is better than praising intelligence and much more. --Publishers description.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why does my child seem to worry so much? Being the parent of a smart child is great-until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations ruin wild and experience fears beyond their years. So what can you do to help? In Why Smart Kids Worry, Allison Edwards guides you through the mental...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An NPR Science Desk correspondent challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are being used effectively throughout the modern world.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xxi, 293 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages two through eight. In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ultimate guide to raising our daughters right-from parenting authority and trusted family counselor Dr. James Dobson.Peer pressure. Eating disorders. Decisions about love, romance, and sex. Academic demands. Life goals and how to achieve them. These are just some of the challenges that girls face today-and the age at which they encounter them is getting younger and younger. As a parent, how are you guiding your daughter on her journey to womanhood?...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1980
Edition
20th anniversary ed., updated.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details a program for improving communication between parents and children, providing sample dialogues, role-playing exercises, and humorous yet illuminating cartoons.
Author
Edition
5th ed.
Physical Desc
335 pages.
Language
English
Description
This reassuring month-by-month overview gives you the tools you need to support your partner and prepare for the joys and challenges of fatherhood. It concludes with two special sections: on on labor and delivery, and the other covering the first few months after your baby's arrival.
18) The Montessori baby: a parent's guide to nurturing your baby with love, respect, and understanding
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
278 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time to change the way we see babies. 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. Cowritten by Simone Davies, author of the bestselling The Montessori Toddler, and Junnifa Uzodike, it's a book filled with hundreds of practical ideas for understanding what is actually happening with your...
Author
Publisher
Oliver Nelson
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raising positive, drug-free kids in a negative world is not easy, but in the long run it's easier than raising negative ones. Now, the bestselling motivational author reveals his simple prescription for success with children, step by positive step.
Drawing on the most comprehensive measurable results ever made available to an author-his "I CAN" course, taught in more than five thousand schools with more than three million participants-and his own...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Turn your home into a Montessori home-and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.
It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two" into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery.
With hundreds of practical ideas for every aspect of living with a toddler, here are five...