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"From North Point Ministries founders and married couple Andy and Sandra Stanley comes Parenting: Getting It Right, a faith-based parenting guide for our times, one that honestly explores the challenges and distinct stages of raising children, while equipping and inspiring parents to lead their families with confidence and grace"-- Provided by publisher.
"Am I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this...
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"Life among the savages by stand-up comedian and family man Tom Papa. How do you deal with a whole host of characters and their bizarre behavior? Especially when you're related to them? There are aunts with mustaches, grandparents who communicate by yelling, and uncles who use marijuana as a condiment. Tom Papa is here to help you make sense of it all. Your Dad Stole My Rake is a hilarious and warm book that saws deep into every branch of the family...
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One evening, while his three-month-old son Charlie briefly slept, Matt Coyne staggered to his desk, opened his laptop, and wrote a side-splittingly funny Facebook post about early fatherhood: Comparing his diaper-changing skills to that of a Formula One pit crew, birth to a Saw movie, and the sound of a baby crying at 3am to 'having the inside of your skill sandpapered by an angry Viking,' he shared his observations with friends and family-and soon,...
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A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, mindfulness mentor, parenting coach, and mother of two Hunter Clarke-Fields offers parents practical and breakthrough strategies for conflict resolution and positive communication. Parents learn to break free from ingrained "reactive parenting" ha...
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Sasquatch Books
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2018
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"A good-health handbook for parents of children from birth through age four that helps new or anxious parents feel confident, and with a special emphasis on the first couple of years of baby's life. This handbook for parents of newborns and children up to the age of four is a breath of fresh air in the parenting category. Dr. Luke Voytas is a practicing pediatrician (and father of two young kids) who helps new parents to feel confident and secure...
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Lifetree Media Ltd
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[2019]
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"The baby and toddler years are the most important period for any child's emotional and psychological development. Parents naturally want to do what's best for their kids, but they often struggle to know what that is, especially when dealing with the big "battlegrounds" of sleep, feeding, and managing aggression. The latest scientific research indicates that it is through a strong and stable sense of connection to their parents that children learn...
13) Duct tape parenting: a less is more approach to raising respectful, responsible, and resilient kids
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There's a new set of 3Rs for our kids--respect, responsibility, and resilience--to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed, these skills let kids take charge, and let parents step back, to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside, Vicki Hoefle encourages a different, counter-intuitive, yet much more effective, approach to parenting: for parents to sit on their hands, stay on the sidelines--even...
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"We're never going to measure up to the 'perfect parent' model we've built up in our heads: a Frankenstein version of mom and dad cobbled together from our childhoods, our parents, cultural ideals, social media, and everything in between. We want to be good parents, but our pasts hold us back. If you're thinking: 'I can't be a good parent because I had a shitty childhood, bad parents, or a traumatic experience,' stop! Let go of what came before and...
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In Unlocking Parental Intelligence, long-experienced psychoanalyst, Laurie Hollman, PhD, encourages parents to find the significance behind their child's behaviors by becoming "meaning-makers." Parental Intelligence is explained through compelling and empathic story-telling that answers parents' questions: "Why do children do what they do? " "What's on their minds?" "How can parents know their child's inner world?"
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18) Eat Sleep Tantrum Repeat: How to Parent Like a Pediatrician and Keep Your Toddler Happy and Healthy
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"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 whole new set of challenges. From toilet training, picky...
19) The progressive parent: harnessing the power of science and social justice to raise awesome kids
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"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, accessible exploration of modern parenting, Senapathy guides...
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"Being a good parent is one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, jobs a person can have in his or her lifetime. Being the parent of a teen is an especially daunting phase of the journey. As parents begin to notice the significant changes that come with adolescence (physical changes brought about by puberty, the constant angst and moodiness, and of course the classic eye-rolling and the I-know-it-all attitude), they wonder just what happened...
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