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2019.
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English
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"With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge: decision making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance...
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English
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Perfect for expecting parents who want to prepare themselves for the challenging toddler years (which starts around eight months of age), this essential guide, a national bestseller by respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, not only helps reduce tantrums but makes happy kids even happier by boosting patience, cooperation, and self-confidence.
Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so...
Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Cure your kids of the entitlement epidemic so they develop happier, more productive attitudes that will carry them into a successful adulthood. Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers...
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English
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"A warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the lifecycle of one family -- as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid...
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Effective parenting strategies volume program 3
Publisher
Bell Marker
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Pre-teens and young teenagers are still developing an understanding of how they fit in the world around them. They often strive to assert their own opinions and autonomy, but they can ignore some of the most basic rules and standards in the process. Helping kids in this age group mature may at times give even the most patient adult a huge headache, but it is an important and worthy undertaking. In this video, Deborah Gilboa, MD ("Dr. G") offers insightful...
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English
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Magda Gerber, founder of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), describes the RIE approach to parenting, which involves observing your child and "trust[ing] him or her to be an initiator, an explorer, a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An analysis of ways in which modern education, popular culture, political culture, and technology wittingly or unwittingly enslave children to compulsions. The book seeks to elaborate on the concept of freedom as for something and not merely from something, while laying out the case for lost wisdom and the meaning of being fully human"--
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