Collection: Parenting

Get creative and let go of anxiety with coloring--for ages 8 to 12

When kids feel anxious or worried, coloring is a great way to help them find peace, calm, and self-expression. This coloring book for kids ages 8 to 12 lets them take a break from anything that's stressing them out and spend some time filling in 40 different pages with their favorite colors and patterns while their mind rests and recharges.

• Help them find their artistic side--Kids can color with pens, markers, or colored pencils as they celebrate their own style and let their creativity flow!
• Think happy thoughts--Encourage your child to put their mind in a more positive place as they color in cheerful pictures like soothing landscapes, swirly shapes, and cute animals.
• Quiet time anytime--Take this book with you anywhere so you can always give your child a moment to color and relax.
• Single-sided pages--Every illustration is printed on one side of the page so the colors won't bleed through, and kids can save and share their favorite ones.

Give kids the power to make anxious feelings fade away with this meditative coloring book.

The chalky remains of a life cut short filled my hands as I watched my faith slip through the cracks between my fingers. As ordained clergy, I've officiated a lot of funerals. For fourteen years, I shaped burnt ash across congregants' foreheads each year before Lent and reminded them that we all come from dust. To dust we shall return. This day, as I officiated my little brother's funeral, I held the ashes of his body in my bare hands. I'd never done this with anyone else's remains, but I wanted to somehow touch him one last time, to feel his pain and let his torment fall through my fingers, as fragments of his bones clung to my palms. Duster to dust. Computer duster killed my brother.

I stood before the folding chairs of family with swipes of my brother's remains smudged across my black dress, as though I had been teaching a thorough lesson at the blackboard of my university classroom and mistakenly leaned against the chalk. A colander was perched atop my head. This was, indeed, comical. And intentional.

You see, my little brother, Carl, was not religious. In fact, he was anti-religious. He embodied his disdain for organized religion with a profound love for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. As I am a professor of religion, Carl could hold his own with me when discussing world religions, and I would dare say he knew more about Christian history, scripture, and theology than most people who profess the faith. This was in large part because my brother was an intelligent critical thinker, and in small part because he deplored the way most churches treated his queer big sister. But organized religions were not for Carl, so he opted to study and parody them with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Started as a protest against right-wing discrimination, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster holds a light-hearted view of religion and jokingly calls its adherents "pastafarians." So, the colander is a highly esteemed satirical symbol. You know. Because it drains pasta. In addition to omitting any references to god throughout his funeral, I also opted to wear the colander on my head, passing it around whenever anyone wanted to share a memory or a word of comfort. This probably seems blasphemous to many. As an ordained clergywoman, I think it's pretty damn funny.

I needed the levity. Other clergy colleagues offered to officiate, knowing how emotional I would be and seeking to provide me with the care I was extending to so many others. But I couldn't trust anyone with the words and gestures, rituals and lamentations for honoring my little brother.

Trembling under March clouds, the vineyard behind me, farmhouse beside me, family before me, and shiny metal colander rattling above me, I couldn't help but wonder, "How in the hell did we get here? And how can we survive this?"

How'd We Get Here?

Many children worry about doing things on their own, with fears escalating to the point of not being able to leave their parents' side. But staying with a parent isn't always possible, and doing things independently is an important part of growing up. Facing Mighty Fears About Being Apart From Parents teaches 3 steps to manage oversize fears. Fun Facts about separation in the animal kingdom keep children engaged, while a Note to Parents and Caregivers and Supplemental Resource section make this the perfect guide for parents and mental health professionals.

This book is part of the Dr. Dawn's Mini Books About Mighty Fears series, designed to help children ages 6-10 tackle their fears and live happier lives.

Por qué nos llama poderosamente la atención una persona?

Qué factores intervienen en el cerebro para que nuestra sexualidad se vuelva torbellino y explosión?

Cúales son las causas que nos llevan a los celos?

Como sólo él sabe hacerlo, Eduardo Calixto detalla en este libro de manera sencilla, llena de humor y amplísima investigación científica, cómo reacciona nuestro cerebro ante el deseo sexual, el enamoramiento, la pasión erótica, entre otros temas candentes que definirán el porqué de nuestros gustos, fobias, atracciones y tentaciones.

Reconocido ampliamente por su destreza explicativa con temas complejos que tienen que ver con el trabajo de nuestras neuronas, en estas páginas sabrás cómo somos los seres humanos en la intimidad, la convivencia cotidiana y porqué --o porqué no-- elegimos a la pareja correcta.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Why are we at times extremely attracted to someone? What factors interfere in our brain so that our sexuality becomes raging and explosive? What leads to jealousy?

As only he knows how, Eduardo Calixto details in a simple way, full of humor and vast scientific research, how our brain reacts to sexual desire, falling in love, erotic passion, and various other hot topics that define why we have different likes, phobias, attractions, and temptations.

Widely known for his helpful descriptive skills about complex issues and the way our neurons work, in these pages you will find out how human beings behave in intimacy, in everyday interpersonal relationships, and why -or why not- we choose the right partner.

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 again, out in nature, for hours a day. It's cold and wet and uncomfortable--often. But they cope. Even though the weather's terrible and it's dark October through March. And then they grow up to be some of the happiest adults on the planet. So her question was: how?

In The Danish Secret to Happy Kids, Russell dives deep into the parenting culture of Denmark and the other Nordic nations, from parental leave policies to school structure to screen time, uncovering surprising strategies and customs that lead to largely happy, well-adjusted humans over the long term. This fascinating peek behind the cultural curtain allows readers to marvel over infants comfortably sleeping outside in chilly temperatures, school-age kids wielding axes in the woods, and teenagers spending a year or two at efterskole, a special boarding school designed to prepare adolescents for independent life in the real world--a concept that is beginning to be adopted in other nations.

Refreshingly funny and unfailingly optimistic about the new generation of humans growing up in the world right now, The Danish Secret to Happy Kids is a heart-warming love letter to Russell's adopted homeland, a comforting armchair travel read, and proof that we could all use a bit more Viking in our everyday lives.

Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to "Big Sky Country" from the East Coast in a quest to reset her life, she has high hopes for what awaits her.

Great Falls, a farming and military town in central Montana, is not what Lynne imagined when she decided to leave city life behind. But her dream of being more connected to nature in the American West comes alive when she meets Harrison, a handsome rancher thirteen years her senior. Wary but curious, with her dog Willow by her side, she leans into the seasonal rhythms of Harrison's hidden valley and opens her heart to a wild language that moves beyond words. In a modern world where listening is rare, Elk Love explores an intimate place where loneliness gives way to wonder, where the natural world speaks of what matters most.

Updated in 2023.

GOLD AWARD WINNER at the Midwest Book Awards in Family & Parenting

All aboard, parents!

It's time to see your child off on the voyage of a lifetime: the first year of college. The college transition is filled with mixed emotions and is a time of tremendous change for both students and parents. As move-in day approaches, important questions lurk beneath the surface:

What can I do now to help equip my student for success?

What skills and tools should I teach my child to help them prepare to launch?

How will I survive back on shore when I send my student out to sea?

Here is your survival guide! Out to Sea: A Parents' Survival Guide to the Freshman Voyage will help you navigate the emotional and practical aspects of the freshman year. This easy-to-read, informative guidebook is swimming with helpful tips, organized checklists, and real-world advice from parents and experts alike.

Out to Sea will keep your sanity afloat and ensure smoother sailing for you and your student as you embark on this grand voyage. Anchors aweigh!

You'll learn all about:

• What to pack-with handy checklists
• Staying connected
• Communicating and healthy boundaries
• Mentorship parenting
• Money matters
• Orientation
• Academic expectations
• Alcohol and substance use
• Mental and physical health
• Roommate relations
• Campus crime and safety
• What to expect when your student comes home
• And so much more!

The wildly popular DIY dad follows up his instant New York Times bestseller with a fresh batch of geeky weekend science projects for the whole family to enjoy.

Ken Denmead struck a chord with parents and kids across America with his GeekDad blog on Wired.com, which receives more than one million page views per month. His debut book, Geek Dad, was on bestseller lists and in its seventh printing just two months after hitting store shelves. With The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun, he keeps the nerdtastic novelties coming, with projects that teach readers how to:

-Build homemade robots from scratch
-Write and direct simple stop-motion movies
-Hack into mechanical toys to add cool electronic twists, and more

United by the premise that to really understand science and how something works you must design and build it yourself or remake it better, Geek Parents everywhere will celebrate this latest installment of weekend workshop wonders.

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Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Inconceivable is a window into the unfair legal, financial, and medical entanglements that compel many single women and LGBTQ+ couples to take their fertility into their own hands.

Get a proven marriage expert-designed formula to help you resolve arguments in a healthy way!

Do you feel like you and your spouse are tip-toeing around each other? When you disagree, do you often find yourselves in one of these common scenarios - walking away completely or blowing up at one another? Haven't found that missing puzzle piece yet, and feel stuck in the same old rut of arguments that go round and round and never get resolved?

It's time for you to have a healthy way of tackling conflict when it arises. Why? Because you deserve to have a respectful, loving marriage where each of you can hold space for different opinions.

Authors Alisa and Tony DiLorenzo are passionate about helping couples create their own extraordinary marriages. They do this through their books and their top-rated marriage podcast, "The ONE Extraordinary Marriage Show," through which they connect with an audience of over 50,000 listeners around the world. The information in The 6 Pillars of Intimacy Conflict Resolution is based on their personal experience and from seeing the marriages of countless people they have worked with improve. They have learned some hard-knock life lessons and discovered key principles that have kept their marriage (and sex life) alive and flourishing... and they did it together. Let them do the same for you!

Inside, you'll discover:

• How to visualize what's actually happening to you and your spouse during the conflict cycle, and know when to stop, reflect, and redirect before a disagreement spirals out of control
• How to understand the key triggers behind the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that typically arise when you are in opposition with your spouse
• How to recognize patterns in 'how' you argue so you can identify a more effective way to interrupt them
• Effective strategies to handle conflict better and recover from a dispute faster
• And more...

Conflict is a natural occurrence in all thriving relationships. And if you weren't taught how to handle it effectively, you're not to blame. Break the cycle of dysfunctional arguments today.

Get The 6 Pillars of Intimacy Conflict Resolution today and learn how to constructively resolve conflict that will deepen your connection with your spouse.

Using Your Head as Well as Your Heart to Raise School-Aged Children

This 4th edition of Common Sense Parenting(R) offers parents of children ages 6-16 a menu of proven techniques to use while facing family challenges: a teen who's defiant; siblings who constantly bicker; a child having trouble in school; and parents and kids who don't communicate or have fun together anymore.

Step-by-step strategies aid parents in building good family relationships, preventing and correcting misbehavior, using consequences to improve behavior, teaching self-control, and staying calm.

This updated edition shows parents how to approach discipline as positive teaching rather than punishment. As each new parenting technique is introduced, the authors explain each step, provide many clear examples, and give you an action plan for implementing it in your home. Also addressed are topics of special interest - how to deal with school problems, computer misuse, and Internet and social media dangers.

Letters from Italy is a story of true love that spans an ocean. Against all odds, an orphaned girl and a young dreamer find solace in a romance sparked by a single photo and years of transatlantic letters. From a tiny Italian town in pre-WWII to New York City in her golden age, hopeful immigrants take a chance at living the American dream. Set on the Puglian coast, a world comes alive with images of a fishing village, families from different socio-economic classes, and a love born out of chance.

When they finally meet, Nicoletta and Orazio know they are destined to be together. Framed by the letters they wrote to each other, Letters from Italy takes us on a passage back through time with a romantic young couple whose devotion to one another prompted a bold journey in a foreign land.

Introduce children to 10 common animals--and their babies--that live near lakes with this wildlife-themed board book.

Board books put images and words in the hands of young children who are eager to learn. Feed their curiosity and jump-start their education with the Mamas and Babies series of board books. Let Lake Mamas & Babies capture the interest of your family's youngest nature lovers, ages 0-5. The board book introduces 10 baby critters (and their moms!) commonly found near lakes across North America. Written by award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela, the children's book utilizes full-color photography and short, simple text to present a few facts about each animal.

Read it aloud or put the sturdy book in small hands. Then let the fun begin. The colorful, beautiful design--along with adorable pictures of baby animals--captivate kids and will have them paging through Lake Mamas & Babies again and again.

Beavers, frogs, eagles, and more, the animals represent some of the most beloved lake wildlife, making it a perfect gift for families. Share the fascinating world of nature with infants, toddlers, and young children. These budding outdoors lovers are sure to treasure the Mamas and Babies series!

Inside You'll Find

• Full-color photos of real animals


• Concise yet informative text to interest young readers


• Fun facts about 10 types of lake wildlife

The ultimate LGBTQ parenting handbook, guiding parents and caregivers through transformative steps of Embrace, Educate, Empower, and Love so they can support their teen with open arms and hearts.

Your kid just came out to you, and amid the flurry of emotion or worry you might feel, you know you would do anything to protect their health and happiness. And you are not alone! Heather Hester, coach, advocate, and host of the #1 rated podcast, Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen, combines an honest retelling of her own son's coming-out experience with wide-ranging research, conversations with dozens of professionals, and the unique experiences of other families to provide the ultimate guidebook for parents embarking on this journey.
In Parenting with Pride: Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower, and Love Your LGBTQ+ Teen, Hester provides parents and caregivers with four transformations that gently, but purposefully, walk them through the four pillars toward fully supporting and loving your LGBTQ+ child: Embrace, Educate (or Unlearn), Empower, Love.

With trustworthy information and an accessible, straightforward plan, Parenting with Pride provides actionable yet profound tools and mental shifts to help parents support their teens and themselves and to be a catalyst for change in their communities.

An illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone parenting outside the mainstream, from the author and the illustrator of Special Topics in Being a Human

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 them.

From S. Bear Bergman--advice columnist, educator, and queer dad with fifteen years of parenting under his belt--comes Special Topics in Being a Parent, a witty and insightful collection of child-rearing tips for those in search of realistic ideas about screens and lunches that don't come with a side order of judgment. Using his own choices--and errors--by way of example, Bergman offers suggestions for various stages of the parenting journey, from asking "Are we ready to have a kid?" to talking with children about diversity and difference, to questioning gender expectations placed on both kids and parents. With plenty of humor and compassion, and featuring charming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, this guide helps parents to live their parenting values while enabling their kids to grow their capacities, understand the world, and above all, feel connected and loved.

A beautifully illustrated picture book that encourages readers to count and celebrate all the moms around them!

1 mom waking, 2 moms eating, 3 moms walking . . .

Moms are all around us! This simple counting book encourages readers to count and celebrate all the amazing moms around them--the heroes kids count on everyday! Moms playing; moms relaxing; moms helping each other and their kids. It's a joyful opportunity to celebrate all that moms are and do!

With sweet animal characters and charming art, this is the perfect gift book for new moms and at Mother's Day and all year long.