Parenting for Dummies

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Sure, sure. Sperm meets egg and nine months later, a baby is born. Everyone knows that part. But once you are actually responsible for that new little human, you discover how much you don't know. How to survive someone else's childhood? With a lot of patience, a sense of humor, and some good, solid advice.Created by the parents of four children, and filled with words of wisdom that could only come from experience, this audio covers everything from discipline to traveling with children, pediatrician visits to dining out with a child. It cuts through the psychobabble and confusing "expert" advice to provide practical, simple, tried-and-true parenting techniques - all reviewed by a panel of medical professionals and
parents. A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetry - both the well loved and the obscure -- to enrich and enliven a child's imagination. The unusual breadth of readings illustrates lives defined by high standards of personal character, such as courage, honesty, fairness, responsibility, compassion, empathy, generosity and love. 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 are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling their spirited child. Raising Your Spirited Child will help you:
Understand your child's - and your own - temperamental traits
Plan for success with a simple four-step program
Discover the power of positive - rather than negative - labels
Cope with tantrums and blowups when they do occur
Develop strategies for handling mealtimes, bedtimes, holidays, school and many other situations
Filled with personal insight and authorative advice, Raising Your Spirited Child can help make parenting the joy it should be, rather than the trial it can be. "This book is a major work on temperament and parenting that should be in every family library."
--Nancy Melvin, associate dean for graduate programs and research, Arizona State University College of Nursing Combining the practical with the personal, The Mother-Daughter Book Club tells the story of 10 mothers and their preteen daughters and how their relationships were enriched through a monthly reading club. With step-by-step guidelines, stories, anecdotes, reading lists, sample themes and related activities, it offers practical instructions for starting a book club while encouraging mothers and daughters to learn to talk openly with one another. At a key stage of their daughter's development, mothers will find a hopeful antidote to depression, eating disorders, self-destructive behavior and other problems facing adolescent girls. Most important, The Mother-Daughter Book Club shows that reading, learning and spending time together helps girls build self-esteem. With suggested reading lists from authors and experts ranging from Kaye Gibbons, Joyce Carol Oates and Tipper Gore to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Beth Winship and Ann Martin, The Mother-Daughter Book Club has the potential to inspire whole networks of reading clubs nationwide.