Bergman, S. Bear
Summary: "Being a parent is enormously joyful, but it is also an enormous amount of work. Parenting requires you to make dozens of decisions a day, every one of which in some way shapes the person your child will grow into. It can be difficult to know in these moments whether you're on the right track. Progressive parents especially can feel adrift when caregiving in ways that were not modelled for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2024
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Summary: "Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney explains why parenting is harder and children are less happy than a generation ago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2024
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Summary: "An evidence-based, social justice-minded exploration of modern parenting, from an award-winning science journalist and cofounder of SciMoms. How can we raise happy, well-adjusted kids today amid so much injustice and uncertainty? This is the question at the heart of the progressive parent's dilemma. Fortunately, award-winning science journalist Kavin Senapathy has the answers.In this lively,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "The honest, relatable, actionable roadmap to the practicalities of parenting a disabled child, featuring personal stories, expert interviews, and the foundational information parents need to know about topics including diagnosis, school, doctors, insurance, financial planning, disability rights, and what life looks like as a parent caregiver. For parents of disabled children, navigating the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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Summary: From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children's behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children. Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: The Simplest Baby Book in the World is the illustrated grab-and-do guide that helps today's moms and dads gain confidence in their ability to be great parents. It makes raising a baby easier by curating and distilling down to their essentials the best-of-the-best advice on topics like sleep training, feeding and safety from doctors, nurses, parents and nannies. You will quickly and easily find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simplest Company 2021
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Summary: "What do you do when your child comes to you with a question about anxiety, death, divorce, beauty, or race? Poised to become the quintessential conversation resource for parents, How to Talk to Kids About Anything provides powerful words, actionable steps, inspiring real-life stories, and pivotal advice to tackle these difficult conversations with kids. Dr. Robyn Silverman of the How to Talk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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Summary: Covering everything from burping and naptime to filing for paternity leave and setting up a safe play area, this is the complete survival manual for first-time dads. Discover more than 100 things dads can do to help their baby--and their partner--thrive in the first year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Callisto Publishing, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 BENAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: The book gives parents practical tools to help children of all ages go from behaviors like defiance, meltdowns, and power struggles to being responsible, confident, kind, resilient, prepared to make good decisions, focused and motivated, and equipped to develop healthy relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Refresh 2024
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Summary: "A humorous field guide to responsive parenting and trying not to be the reason your kid needs therapy, by MAJOR TikTok star Gwenna Laithland"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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Summary: "A guide for parents to raising children who have been diagnosed as 'different' - written by a parent and expert in educational psychology, with guidance on how to understand your child's strengths and challenges, set realistic and ambitious expectations and support and challenge them when needed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 WINSummary: "Alec Lace, host of the popular parenting podcast First-Class Fatherhood, shares the collected wisdom from dozens of guests, on topics ranging from finances and discipline to faith, service, and self-care."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 FIRDiamond, Rebekah
Summary: "A down-to-earth, actionable guide that culls through the chaos of information and misinformation into digestible, accessible chapters that balances proven science with the demands of being a busy new parent of toddler. Congratulations! You've survived the first twelve months of parenthood, along with all the joys, worry, and sleep deprivation they bring. Welcome to the toddler years--and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.123 DIAFinkelstein, Jo-Ann
Summary: "An invaluable guide to understanding and dismantling sexism for parents trying to raise confident and powerful girls in a culture that often demeans them. We live in a world of mixed messages for women: You can be anything you want to be, but don't expect to be paid equally for it. It's what's inside that counts, but be sure to wax, bleach, and slim down what's outside first. Most parents find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2024
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Summary: "From the author of Hold On, But Don't Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account of a mother who navigates the cacophony of best practices and urgent advice from parenting authorities in search of a way to support her teen as he maps his own path to mental health"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 KUZMazzanoble, Shelly
Summary: "Gather your party, moms and dads; it's time to level up your parenting game. For years, millions of fans have looked to the beloved roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons for fun, friendship, and entertainment. And now parents and parents-to-be can use it to gain inspiration and how-to when it comes to their most challenging and rewarding role yet. Dungeon Masters are not just expert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2024
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Summary: A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation. Many complained they had no control over their lives. Some stumbled in high school or hit college and unraveled. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist who helps kids gripped by anxiety or struggling to learn....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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Summary: "Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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Summary: As the global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher. After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice-- with few resources to guide them. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Pressman, Aliza
Summary: Drawing on nearly twenty years' experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that's aligned to their own values and their children's unique temperaments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2024
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Summary: "Project Management for Parents helps strengthen families, reduce stress, and streamline busy lives with techniques used by billion-dollar companies. Hilary Kinney provides an accessible, repeatable project management framework that can transform anyone's approach to household, school, and work tasks in three steps: (1) Build Teamwork, (2) Establish Your Approach, and (3) Succeed as a Family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these "fails" has in common for our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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Russell, Helen
Summary: "What do Vikings know about raising children? Turns out, quite a bit. After a decade of living in Denmark, and raising her three kids there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic kids (or mini-Vikings) are different from children raised in other parts of the world. They eat differently. They learn differently. They play, dress, and even sleep differently. They run, jump, climb, fall and get up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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Summary: "Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as the founder and leader of Success Academy Charter Schools, one of the country's most highly regarded networks of schools, but while most people know Eva for her success in educating 20,000 mainly low-income students who are routinely accepted to our nation's best universities, she has also been responsible for raising three children of her own....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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