Family & relationships / Education / Child Development

The Wonder Weeks. How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward

by Hetty van de Rijt & Frans Plooij

"The Wonder Weeks. How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward" describes in easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental...

Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

by Lois J. Carey

Lois Carey explores the application of sandplay therapy as she learned it from Dora Kalff, among others, and shares her professional experience in a chapter on equipping the office with miniatures and also with...

Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking: Practical Solutions to the Most Common Preschool Behavior Problems

by PhD, Jerry Wyckoff & Barbara C. Unell

Discipline without Shouting or Spanking is a practical guide that shows parents how to manage the most difficult part of parenting.  It provides proven methods for handling more than 30 of the most common forms...

YOU: Raising Your Child (Enhanced eBook)

by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz

Now available as an enhanced e-book, YOU: Raising Your Child will include 12 videos that feature Dr. Oz and pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg answering real parents' questions about child-rearing.  They talk...

Kind: Kids Independent, Not Dependent

by Melodie Dupuis

Synopsis: KIND: Kids Independent, Not Dependent is a vibrant book, packed with information and examples to help parents understand human development and use this understanding to raise confident kids. Author...

Add / ADHD Breakthrough

by Enza Lyons

ADD / ADHD Breakthrough is about transforming children struggling with learning challenges to succeed at school and in life. Clearly you can see these children are intelligent, just stuck. Enza Lyons shares...

Raising Your Spirited Child

by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

The spirited child—often called "difficult" or "strong-willed"—can easily overwhelm parents, leaving them feeling frustrated and inadequate.Spirited kids are, in fact, simply "more"—by temperament, they...

Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child

by Maurice J. Phd Elias, Steven E. Psyd Tobias & Brian S. Phd Friedlander

Have you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating your children in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? The authors of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting call for a new Golden Rule: Do unto your...

Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding How Your Children See the World

by Barbara Meltz

Wouldn't parenting be easier if you could see into the mind of your child?

Learn to hear what your child can't or won't tell you--and

Understand Behavior

Build Values

Nurture Closeness

Solve Problems

In her popular...

You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

by Rahima Baldwin Dancy & Rahima Baldwin

Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be...

Bullying: Brilliant ideas for keeping your children safe and happy

by Dr Sabina Dosani

Bullying behaviour comes in many shapes and sizes, and being bullied in childhood can have lifelong effects. Recent UK research indicates that 1 in 4 primary school children and 1 in 10 secondary school children...

The Art of Roughhousing

by Anthony T. Md Debenedet & Lawrence J. Phd Cohen

Everywhere you look, physical play—what some might call “roughhousing”—is being marginalized. Gym classes are getting shorter. Recess periods are being eliminated. Some new schools don’t even have...

Raising Children Who Think for Themselves

by Elisa Medhus

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

YOU: Having a Baby: The Owner's Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy

by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz

Few life experiences feature emotional swings as extreme as those of pregnancy—it’s a monumental mix of both intense excitement and skip-a-beat anxiety. How do you respond to such a situation? If you’re...

Playing Together: 101 Terrific Games and Activities That Children Ages Three to Nine Can Do Together

by Wendy Smolen

Ideal for vacation time, trips, family get-togethers, and days when your kids just can’t find anything to do, Playing Together is a treasure trove of parent-friendly projects with kid-tested results.

Smolen...

Backtalk: 3 Steps to Stop It Before the Tears and Tantrums Start

by Audrey Ricker & Carolyn Crowder

"So what? All the other kids get to do it!"

Few behavioral problems challenge and frustrate parents, caregivers, and teachers as does verbal rudeness in children of any age. Reinforced by the wise-cracking kids...

Baby Play and Learn: 160 Games and Learning Activities for the First Three Years

by Penny Warner

Baby Play & Learn was created by child-development expert Penny Warner who offers 160 ideas for games and activities that provide hours of developmental learning opportunities.  It includes bulleted lists of...

How to Raise a Brighter Child

by Joan Beck

THE LATEST STUDIES PROVE SOONER IS SMARTER

• How much is a child capable of learning before the age of six?

• What happens to a child's brain during the preschool years when the body is growing so rapidly?

• How...

Loving Lefties: How to Raise Your Left-Handed Child in a Right-Handed World

by Jane M. Healey

For a left-handed child in a right-friendly world, tasks that should come easily can seem confusing and frustrating. Parents of the more than 400,000 lefties born annually in the United States have had no resource...

Sports Her Way: Motivating Girls to start and Stay with Sports

by Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson, a longtime coach and former college gymnastics champion, has written the practical guide for parents who want to encourage their daughters to start -- and stay with -- sports as a pathway to a...