Instinctive Parenting: Trusting Ourselves To Raise Good Kids

What's the right way to parent? Any playground or online message board will supply as many opinions as there are adults. Every subject from sleep training to time-outs to pacifiers has its supporters and detractors, and every viewpoint can be backed up by a truckload of research and statistics. It's enough to reduce any new parent to tears, but you can end the madness. Ada Calhoun, a young mother as well as the founding editor-in-chief of Babble.com, provides a complete and completely reassuring guide that will calm your fears and make those precious early years a source of joy. Her simple yet profound advice: find what works for you and your family and ditch the anxiety and judgment. Despite what other parenting books and other parents might have you believe, there is no universal "best". Whether you start solids at four months or eight, whether Junior's mac'n'cheese is Day-Glo orange or 100 percent organic is not nearly as important as providing the few absolute essentials (love, food, shelter) while teaching your little one how to be a kind, responsible human being. With its compelling mixture of entertaining, hilarious firsthand accounts and refreshing common sense, Instinctive Parenting will show you how to do that and even show you how to retain your sanity, your friends, your sense of humor, and your personal life, in the process. eBook.

The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan

Never again will new parents have to endure sleepless nights. Dr. Cathryn Tobin, a distinguished pediatrician, has discovered a secret that enables very young babies to sleep through the night. Discover the brand new strategy that solves all of your baby's sleep-time difficulties before they start. The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan will show you how to charm your tiny baby into sleepy contentment, how to avoid the most common bedtime mistakes loving parents make, and how to use your baby's magical window of opportunity (the "WOO") to enjoy soothing, "feel good" bedtimes, starting right now. eBook.

Generation NeXt Parenting: A Savvy Parent's Guide To Getting It Right

You don't need another parenting book promising perfection, or another formula guaranteeing great kids; you need practical advice that shows how to deal with your and your children's hearts. If you're worn out from trying to do too much while giving your child every opportunity under the sun, if you're striving to excel in every way but suffering from a lack of focus, this book is your solution. eBook.

Mom, There's A Man In The Kitchen And He's Wearing Your Robe: The Single Mom's Guide To Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly

Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single mom. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death, single moms face a wide range of questions: When - and what - should I tell the kids? What happens if I love the guy and the kids hate him? In her book, Ellie Slott Fisher, a once-widowed, once-divorced single mother of two, speaks with refreshing candor about balancing dating and parenting. Drawing upon her own experience, the stories of many other women, and the advice of family psychologists, Fisher offers encouragement, strategies, and a healthy dose of humor for the single-but-looking mom. eBook.

The Official Guide to Dysfunctional Parenting

Cry over spilt milk. Remind them to always look happy in front of your friends. Nervously suggest they shouldn't go into the basement after dark and don't explain why. Attend parent-teacher night in a blue bunny suit. Frederick Muench and Gregory Nemec offer a humorous account of all the little things parents can do to put the "fun" in dys'fun'ctional family. Parents of wayward children will no longer have to scratch their heads and wonder where they went wrong. By following this simple straightforward manual parents will know exactly why Susie's in rehab, John's in therapy, and Lucy's incarcerated. In pithy bitingly irreverent text accompanied by 60 funny illustrations, this book includes such useful tips as: * A child can't cry or complain if his mouth is full of doughnuts. * Gifts make up for not being there. * Don't put your kids in your will or they may kill you. eBook.

Do-It-Yourself Family: Fun And Useful Home Projects The Whole Family Can Make Together

The genius of Eric Stromer's book is showing that do-it-yourself projects are a wonderful way to bring your family together. Eric Stromer brings his kid-friendly approach to this fun and practical how-to guide for large and small projects for the whole family. And with every project, motivate your kids -and their friends - to make your home improvement goals their weekend of play and a memorable time with you! Whether you're an experienced do-it-yourselfer or a beginner who's always dreamed of tackling home remodeling projects, let Eric Stromer get you started, keep you going, and help you finish like a pro. eBook.

Chicken Soup For The Soul: Family Matters: 101 Unforgettable Stories About Our Nutty But Lovable Families

Nearly everyone thinks their own family is "nutty" or at least has one or two nuts. With 101 stories of wacky yet lovable relatives funny foibles and holiday meltdowns Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters is often hilarious and occasionally poignant. eBook.

The First National Bank Of Dad: The Best Way To Teach Kids About Money

To most kids a savings account is just a black hole that swallows birthday checks. David Owen, a New Yorker staff writer and the father of two children, has devised a revolutionary new way to teach kids about money. In The First National Bank of Dad, he explains how he helped his own son and daughter become eager savers and rational spenders. He started by setting up a bank of his own at home and offering his young children an attractively high rate of return on any amount they chose to save. 'If you hang on to some of your wealth instead of spending it immediately', he told them, 'in a little while you'll be able to double or even triple your allowance.' The first step in making children financially responsible, he writes, is to take advantage of human nature rather than ignoring it or futilely trying to change it. 'My children are often quite irresponsible with my money, and why shouldn't they be?', he writes. 'But they are extremely careful with their own.' He also describes at length what he feels is the best investment any parent can make for a child -- an idea that will surprise most readers. eBook.

What My Parents Did Right!: 50 Tips To Positive Parenting

The message of this powerful book is that you don't have to be a perfect person to be a great parent. In it you will find fascinating stories written by people like John MacArthur Jr., Kay Arthur, Joni Eareckson Tada, Janette Oke, Gary Smalley, Frank Peretti, and many more. From them you'll learn more than fifty tips to positive parenting - tips you can incorporate in your own family today - principles that will help ensure that you, too, do something right! eBook.

Positive Parenting For Bipolar Kids: How To Identify, Treat, Manage, And Rise To The Challenge

The Definitive Resource on How to Identify, Treat, and Live with a Bipolar Child. More than three million American children suffer from some form of bipolar disorder, a life-impairing illness that can cause wild mood swings and even episodes of rage. But as a parent, can you tell the difference between a tempermental, moody child and one facing serious mental illness? Now, in the most complete and authoritative guide yet, Janet Wozniak, M.D., and psychiatric nurse Mary Ann McDonnell offer their unmatched expertise along with the latest information on this difficult condition. From medication to coping strategies, this accessible book offers inspiration, encouragement, and invaluable wisdom for all involved. eBook.

Are We Having Fun Yet?: The 16 Secrets Of Happy Parenting

Based on 20 years of successful workshops, the founder of 'Mothers Matter' shares a wealth of advice and practical tips for both new and experienced parents on how to raise happy children - and have fun doing it. Twenty years ago, Kay Willis, a New Jersey mother of 10 children, realized that mothers needed a forum to learn from each other and increase their skills, confidence, and enjoyment as parents. As the founder of Mothers Matter, an educational organization which helps thousands of parents across the country, Willis offers workshops for new and single parents, working mothers and fathers - and even grandparents. Believing that parenting is a profession, and that no other profession makes as important a contribution to society, Willis has distilled the shared wisdom of her fellow parents into this concise and wonderful guide. eBook.

101 Family Vacation Games

This book brings together new and old games from around the world, providing endless opportunities for family fun. Best of all, the games are free! There are games to play at the beach, while camping, in the car, on the plane, at vacation homes, and elsewhere. Sample games include Word Tennis, Treasure Hunt, and Storytelling Starters. The games are designed for children aged 4 and up. eBook.

365 Fun Things To Do With Your Family!

Happy memories make a happy childhood. So dig into 365 Fun things to do with your family today - and make happy memories that'll last a lifetime for your kids! eBook.

Stay-At-Home Survival Guide

Melissa Stanton's The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide is an all-encompassing truth-telling how-to book that addresses the many practical and psychological issues facing stay-at-home moms today. How do you create time for yourself? Is there really time to do it all (feed the kids keep them busy clean the house balance the checkbook and take a shower)? How do you deal with the absence of the ";professional you"? eBook.

Rules for School

Scared of school? Don't worry. You can be cool and rule! School is hard! There's a lot to know, like where to sit on the bus, how to find your way around the halls, and what to do to make sure you stay on your teacher's good side. Lucky for you Alec Greven has just turned eleven, and he's seen it all. Alec passes down his sixth-grade wisdom and gives advice that will help every student who's starting out or just started out on the wrong foot. Want to rule the school? Alec tells you how! Digital. Also available in Hardcover here!

And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement For Parents Of Teens And Preteens

The bestselling author of "='And Then I Had Kids' offers encouragement and guidance to parents of teens and preteens. Drawing from her experiences raising five teenagers, she offers parents a unique blend of insight, compassion, and advice. Yates empathizes with parents and, at the same time, helps them consider their teenagers' perspectives and needs. eBook.

Whom Not To Marry: Time-Tested Advice From A Higher Authority

Father Pat Connor knows marriages. Having presided over more than two hundred weddings and conducted pre-marriage and marriage counseling for more than forty years, he's something of an expert. And now he is sharing his wealth of experience with women everywhere on the subject of Whom Not to Marry . Father Pat's philosophy is simple: A love affair may lead to marriage, but love itself cannot make a marriage work. That's why it's important to weed out the bad seeds before you fall in love. Sounds easy enough, but in the early stages of romance, when infatuation trumps judgment, it can be difficult to see the flaws in your mate and to think rationally about your future. That's where this book comes in. A heavenly how-not-to, Whom Not to Marry offers timely and time-honored advice. Life may seem random, but there are many things you can do to make sure your life partner is the right one. It all starts with being honest with yourself. Use your good judgment, Father Pat counsels. Know what you want. Know who is worth loving and who is worth marrying. Once you can do that, you'll stand a much better chance of living happily ever after. eBook.

Connect to Love: The Keys to Transforming Your Relationship

This breakthrough book, based on the voices of real women from all walks of life and groundbreaking new research, shows couples how to grow stronger by understanding what women need from a romantic relationship. In Connect to Love , family counselor and relationships expert M.Gary Neuman explores the problems that women face in their marriages or relationships that might make them dissatisfied with their partners-or willing to stray. eBook.

Confessions Of A True Romantic: The secrets of a sizzling relationship from America's No. 1 romance coach

Confessions of a True Romantic includes the wildly popular Romance Report Card which couples can use to assess their relationship. And if the relationship doesn't make the grade here's everything lovers can do about it from heart-to-heart communication to bringing light fun and ease into an otherwise boring love life. America's Romance Coach tells all... eBook.

Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships Through Insight And Intuition

Building off the idea that when we are happier, we tend to be healthier, Robins explains the phenomenon of how our intuitive knowing fosters healthy relationships that contribute to our physical, mental, and emotional health. This book is designed to aid readers in looking inward and experiencing how their intuitive sixthsense informs their ability to be intimate without the negative triggers of past experiences. Through a considered and thoughtful approach Robins offers insight into cultivating a truly integrated self so that one may lead a more fulfilling and healthfullife. eBook.

The Secret Lives Of People In Love: Stories

The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world. eBook.

The Red Flag Rulebook: 50 Dating Rules to Know Whether to Keep Him or Kiss Him Good-Bye

Tired of dating losers? We were too! So we wrote the ultimate guide to weeding them out. Save time and energy by ditching the duds. In this book you'll find rules to follow to help you snag your dream-date, along with hilarious real-life stories of what can happen when you don't kick the losers to the curb! The Red Flag Rulebook is a varied assortment of unsavoury male personality traits to "red flag", with candid testimonials. eBook.

Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust And Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on infidelity, draws on more than two decades of original research and hundreds of clinical cases to chronicle the human story of what occurs before, during, and after the trauma of betrayal. In 'Not "Just Friends"', Dr. Glass reveals that the disclosure of infidelity is a traumatic event that can reverberate for months - even years. An important therapeutic breakthrough, her trauma recovery approach helps couples cope with the obsessions, volatile emotions, flashbacks, and other post-traumatic reactions of betrayed partners. eBook.

The Power Of Female Friendship: How Your Circle Of Friends Shapes Your Life

In the years after college and before children (and even after that), many women find that they have fewer friends, and new ones are harder to make. Taking his three-parts-of-the-brain theory, Dr. Dobransky breaks down the primal codes of friendship that many women aren't even aware of and gives scientifically grounded advice for understanding how to be a better friend and how to cultivate new friendships. Women of all ages who are searching for deeper relationships or are trying to break free of a toxic friendship will find help and hope in this enlightening and prescriptive exploration of how the brain makes friends. eBook.

Your Special Wedding Toasts

Your Special Wedding Toasts provides everything needed to help all the toast-givers rise to the occasion. It offers new ideas not only for the best man and father of the bride, but for everyone from the maid of honor to guests, and shows how to craft the toast, how to practice it and pitfalls to avoid, such as toasting only the bride or groom as opposed to the couple.This helpful guide includes a brainstorming questionnaire to help collect and organize thoughts and stories, popular and inspiring quotes, examples of successful real-life toasts, plus a collection of original wedding toasts tailored to such special situations as second weddings, outdoor or destination weddings and even post-elopement parties. eBook.

Your Special Wedding Vows

Many couples choose to write their own vows, yet find the task daunting and difficult. Your vows, after all, are the center of your ceremony and should be meaningful and beautiful. Your Special Wedding Vows offers couples new, fresh approaches to finding exactly what they want to say to each other in updated syntax that couples will be comfortable with, rather than old-fashioned, stiff and artificial words. Plus, it includes a worksheet to help couples get started, a large selection of traditional and nontraditional, religious and nonreligious vows, plus real-life examples and original vows for special circumstances such as second weddings, blended families and more. eBook.

Essential Guide To Wedding Etiquette

A wedding is a minefield of social rules, for everyone from the bride and groom to the wedding party, the mothers, fathers and extended families. This comprehensive guide by one of the leading experts in the wedding category will help everyone involved. eBook.

Good Things You Can Learn From A Bad Relationship

Dispensing priceless advice such as "Never break up with someone who has just completed a class in assertiveness training" and "When someone says they want you just for sex-chances are they want you just for sex," this hilarious parody of clichéd, saccharine relationship books offers an inspiringly jaundiced view of love. Playfully illustrated with images that appropriate scenes from a lifetime of failed relationships to produce intelligent, droll comments on the nature of love, this self-help book for the love weary is ultimately informative-if in unexpected ways. Paperback.

Are You Made For Each Other?: The Relationship Quiz Book

Put your partner to the test and find out just how well you know one another. After more than thirty years of research into how relationships work and where they often go wrong, Allan and Barbara Pease devised this clever quiz book to help you determine how compatible you and your partner are. A unique blend of in-depth research, witty insight into human nature, and humor, Are You Made For Each Other? will help your relationship--and make you laugh as you learn. eBook.

Healing A Broken Heart: A Guided Journal Through The Four Seasons Of Relationship Recovery

The loss of a love is a nearly universal emotional crisis. At first, friends and family are there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but after a few months there's an expectation that we just need to get over the crisis and move on. Thus, un-processed, painful feelings are buried, leaving us numb. Healing a Broken Heart guides those of us grieving for a lost love through four metaphorical seasons of recovery with provocative questions to help move us forward. Punctuated throughout with poems and moving meditations, the thoughtful, interactive approach of this book offers the time and space we all need to heal when our hearts are broken. eBook.

The 100 Best Love Poems Of All Time

This essential anthology is ideal for the romantic - and will inspire any cynic. The poets included range throughout the history of world literature: from the Classics, and Renaissance, to the Romantics, and 20th century giants, right down to the present day. Each poem features a brief introduction which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance. eBook.

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating And Sex

Whatever your own dating nightmares are, take it from the professionals, things can get worse. Learn how to remove stubborn articles of clothing, slip away from a blind date, and get rid of unsightly stains. Discover the secrets of dealing with a bad kisser, and of surviving a meeting with your date's parents. Hands-on, step-by-step illustrated instructions help guide you through these and many more perils d'amour. Tasteful and useful, and with an appendix of great pickup lines, breakup lines, and all-purpose excuses, this is the book you need when you wake up next to someone whose name you can't remember. eBook.

The Unwritten Rules Of Friendship: Simple Strategies To Help Your Child Make Friends

This practical and compassionate handbook helps parents sharpen any child's social skills by identifying the "unwritten rules" that govern all relationships. eBook.

Quoting: Friendship

A collection of some of the greatest quotes about Friendship, with iMinds insightful knowledge series. "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."Aristotle. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. eBook.

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends: Revised And Updated

For nearly twenty years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This new edition brings the art of having a conversation up to date. By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a great conversation with anyone anywhere! And you'll learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding conversation pitfalls. eBook.

Green Bride Guide: How To Create An Earth-Friendly Wedding On Any Budget

Your Wedding: Beautiful and Sustainable. Just Like Your Marriage, The Green Bride Guide has everything eco-conscious couples need to make their event more sustainable. Green wedding veteran and environmentalist Kate L. Harrison offers hundreds of eco-friendly choices in one handy reference. Whether you want to include just a few green elements in your decor or have a carbon-neutral wedding with local organic food and a peace silk dress, you'll find the resources you need to pull it off with panache. And you can plan a gorgeous green event on any budget - Kate offers options in every price category. The Green Bride Guide is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in planning an elegant, exciting, eco-friendly wedding. eBook.

Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists

In addition to her wedding planner, every bride needs this checklist book to keep track of the thousands of details of planning a wedding. The Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists vastly outdoes its competition with attention to detail, complete question lists, more realistic suggestions and presenting topics to the bride in the order in which she will need them. The Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists includes twenty-first century wedding options and brings technology to the forefront knowing that 94 percent of brides and grooms use their computers to plan their weddings. eBook.

Collaborative Divorce Handbook: Helping Families Without Going to Court

"Collaborative lawyering is a promising new way of resolving disputes through joint problem solving rather than adversary litigation that has particular appeal for divorce cases. Whether you are a client who seeks to learn more about it or a lawyer using it who desires a wise guiding hand, this book is an invaluable resource." Frank E. A. Sander, Bussey Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School. "Family law is changing. As more people realize that the adversarial process is expensive, degrading, and stressful, they look for alternatives and find it in various forms of alternative dispute resolution. Woody Mosten is the nationally recognized leader of this movement, and his book on collaborative practice literally will be 'The Handbook' we will all follow." Garrett C. Dailey, Esq., CFLS, AAML, president, Attorney's BriefCase, Inc. eBook.

Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well

One out of every two modern marriages ends in divorce, and 75 percent of those divorces are initiated by wives. Author Ashton Applewhite is one of these women, having sued for divorce after enduring an unfulfilling ten-year marriage. Cutting Loose is a wonderfully appealing book for women who want to leave their marriage but fear the consequences.Cutting Loose also answers the crucial questions: How do you finally decide to make the big break? What is getting divorced really like? What are the shortcomings of the legal process? What about custody and child support? financial and emotional survival? and how does a woman's self-image change during and after divorce? eBook.

Thriving After Divorce: Transforming Your Life When A Relationship Ends

The end of a significant relationship initiates painful and powerful change in one's life, daily habits, and even in one's personal identity. In Thriving After Divorce, author and relationship coach Tonja Evetts Weimer offers readers a grounded approach to growing through the difficult life transitions that arise from the breaking of our most defining partnerships. eBook.

Surviving Separation And Divorce

The weeks following your separation may prove to be the most difficult weeks of your life. But with a little help and support, you'll find the strength you need to get through the divorce process and move on. Author Loriann Hoff Oberlin understands the rough road to starting over. A survivor herself, she shares her personal experience as well as her professional expertise as she shows you how to rebuild your life, step by step. Surviving Separation and Divorce, 2nd Edition provides you with markers for the legally and emotionally taxing journey ahead. eBook.

Divorce Wars

Think the worst won't happen to you? Divorce can turn even the most sensible and perfectly nice people into malicious cutthroats. And while divorce is never easy, it can get downright nasty if your spouse wants to turn the process into the fight of his or her life. Here, Jeffery M. Leving, one of America's most prominent and experienced divorce lawyers, shows you how to win any divorce fair and square, even when your spouse brings out the heavy artillery. By giving real-life examples, Leving provides essential advice on everything from picking the right lawyer and devising a winning settlement strategy to getting the most from your day in court and dealing with an ex-spouse. Divorce Wars will help ensure you are acting wisely and effectively at every stage of the process, and will help you and your children survive even the most painful and difficult divorce.

On Your Own Again: The Down-To-Earth Guide To Getting Through A Divorce Or Separation And Getting O N With Your Life

Every year, more than two million North Americans experience the trauma of separation and divorce. Now, at last, On Your Own Again provides down-to-earth help for readers seeking to survive a shattered relationship and build a new life. Written in Dr. Anderson's own personable, reassuring voice, this guide explains the four emotional stages undergone during and after separation and gives every reader the feeling, "He's talking about me". Dr. Anderson offers compassionate, practical, step-by-step advice. In no-nonsense language, often leavened with humour,he provides tools that can be used by readers to help cope with the loss and to speed recovery - so that they may lead rich, rewarding lives on their own again. eBook.

Daily Meditations for Surviving a Breakup, Separation or Divorce

365 inspiring and supportive daily readings, quotes and affirmations will help you recover from the pain of a breakup, separation or divorce.  Gain momentum towards a more positive and productive state-of-mind. Tried and true--these meditations are already used in support groups around the nation.  A daily dose of e-sanity is a click away! eBook.

The Truth About Children And Divorce: Dealing With The Emotions So You And Your Children Can Thrive

he Unexpected Legacy of Divorce gave us new and important insight into the long-term effects of divorce on children who have grown into adulthood. What About the Kids? is a new book that tells parents in unprecedented detail how to help their children over the long haul - what to say, what to do, what to expect - every step of the way. Tapping into the latest findings on how children develop, this clearly written guidebook helps parents understand why children at different ages react the way they do to divorce and how to head off trouble before it begins. The book follows divorce chronologically so parents can find advice for whatever stage of the experience they are in, including how to help older children many years after the breakup. What About the Kids? is the ultimate resource for any person wishing to ease the effects of divorce on children, and for all divorced parents who want to ensure their children's future happiness. eBook.