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Parenting: Birth to Twelve Months |
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The Balanced Mom: Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Self Bria Simpson You can be a great mom and still have a life of your own. Your kids will only benefit from seeing you as a whole person and will develop greater independence and a stronger sense of who they are as people. This book offers dozens of simple tips to help you maintain strong relationships with your kids and live your life in ways that reflect your true values. 2006, New Harbinger |
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Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior Nancy L. Segal This elegantly written study cogently distills and makes available to the general reader a wealth of research from the fields of behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, and social science. The author contends that studies of twins demonstrate that genetic influence affects virtually every human characteristic including IQ, personality, longevity, sociability, math skills, and athletic prowess. 2000, Plume |
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The First Three Years of Life Burton White This detailed guide to the month-by-month mental, physical, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers has supported and guided hundreds of thousands of parents. Completely revised and updated, it contains the most accurate information and advice available on raising and nurturing the very young child. 1995, Fireside |
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The First Twelve Months of Life: Your Baby’s Growth Month By Month Frank and Theresa Caplan Covering an infant’s mental, physical, language, and social development from the first week of life to the twelfth month, this guide describes a sequence of events, not a timetable. It also includes growth charts summarizing developmental milestones. 1995, Bantam |
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For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Proud Suzanne M. Johnson, Elizabeth O'Connor The authors, both developmental psychologists, are co-parenting two daughters. Their book offers help on explaining lesbianism to children and explores what lesbian parents can do to help children explain their family situation to their peers. The book also addresses the complexity of dealing with the attitudes of the outside world, including relatives, school, and doctors or mental health specialists. 2001, The Guilford Press |
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What Every Baby Knows T. Berry Brazelton In this book, Dr. Brazelton takes five families and follows them over two years. These family histories serve as the framework for the book’s illuminating discussions of such crucial family issues as sibling rivalry, divorced parents, prematurity, colic, encouraging independence, late speech development, and more. The book offers the reader answers to their questions about the real day to day issues that his or her own family faces. 11988, Ballantine Books |
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What to Expect the First Year Heidi Murkoff, et.al. The authors have made the first year easier for parents by advocating a common sense you-can-do-it approach to parenthood. The book is encyclopedic in its coverage leading parents from month-to month, check up to check up, even feeding to feeding. Sections cover sleeping habits, infant illnesses, safety, traveling with baby, first food recipes, common home remedies, and a chart of common childhood illnesses. 2003, Workman Publishing This book was a Pick of the Month! Read David's full Book Review. |
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When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It Ron Taffel This book is a hands-on practical guide to understanding child rearing differences between parents and how to work through conflicts arising from these. It is filled with real life examples from Dr. Taffel's practice and offers practical and reasonable guidance that helps both parents feel that they are, after all, on the same side. 2002, The Guilford Press |
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Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five Penelope Leach Each developmental stage – newborn, settled baby, older baby, toddler, and young child – is discussed in terms of feeding, teeth and teething, growing, excreting, crying, sleeping, playing, and everyday care. With her commonsense child-positive approach, Leach carefully dispels negative parenting attitudes and teaches readers how to stop, listen, and learn from their children. 1997, Knopf |
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