Collection: Parenting

A guide to surviving and thriving through your daughter's teenage years, from Dr Justin Coulson as seen on Channel 9's Parental Guidance.

What is the best thing about being a teenage girl right now? 'My friends!' 'Independence!' 'Discovering who I am.'

What is the worst thing about being a teenage girl? 'My friends.' 'Not knowing what the future holds.' 'Pressure to be perfect and look a certain way.'

What do teenage girls wish they could talk to us about? 'I'm sick of pretending to be happy all the time.' 'My face; if anyone is ever going to love me despite how grotesque my face is.' 'I sometimes don't want to be here.'

There has never been a better time to be a teenage girl. But perhaps there has never been a harder time. We know that connection is at the heart of our teenage daughters' happiness. And we do our best to have strong connections with our girls. But despite this, we often feel a disconnect. Or perhaps, more precisely, a mis-connect.

If you're looking to understand your teen daughter better and deepen your connection with her, this book is your guide. Drawing on cutting-edge psychology research along with interviews and surveys from close to 400 teenage girls, Miss-connection will take you into the world your teen girl experiences and help you connect with her the way she needs you to.

As the girls themselves set out the challenges they face - with social media, friends, boys, identity - you will find connection and solutions.

THE BREASTFEEDING BOOK YOUR DOCTOR RECOMMENDS

Why is breastfeeding the optimal choice? What happens when my family leave is over? What's the safest way to store pumped milk? The American Academy of Pediatrics answers these questions and many more in this invaluable resource for helping you and your baby get the healthiest possible start. Based on the very latest research, this fully revised and updated edition covers everything you need to know about breastfeeding, including:

- the benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and infant
- the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations on breastfeeding
- how to prepare for the first feeding and adjust to life as a nursing mother
- guidance for rooming-in with your baby to strengthen your bond and reduce the risk of SIDS
- helpful tips for pumping and storing your milk
- revised nutrition recommendations for the nursing mother
- ideal ways to establish a breastfeeding routine and what to do when you return to work
- the non-nursing partner's role and how to create a postpartum support network
- solutions to common breastfeeding challenges
- the emotional aspects of breastfeeding

Nursing mothers everywhere will find this book an indispensable guide to helping them maximize the lifelong benefits of breastfeeding, with recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the authoritative source on infant and child care and nutrition.

The author has created a method for delivering energy from the heart of the parent directly into the heart of the child. The key to this is sincerity; the heart is not fooled by mechanical techniques or artificiality, but it immediately responds to truth. You're working with the energy of love.

This book was written as a tool for breastfeeding mothers who are ready to wean their children. Using baby-friendly language and cute illustrations, help your child understand why mommy's milk won't be around for much longer. Not only does this book tackle the physical reasons why they can no longer have mommy's milk, but it also helps the baby understand that mommy will still be there and there are other ways to bond. Follow the characters on their weaning journey on the savannah!

A guided program to address anxiety in children and teenagers from a prominent researcher, psychiatrist, and coach at Mayo Clinic.

Anxiety Coach is a groundbreaking program in book form, for parents of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders or obsessive compulsive disorder. When children have anxiety disorders they are very afraid, nervous, or worried about typical daily experiences that would not bother most children their age. For some kids with OCD, rather than feeling nervous or worried, they feel "grossed-out" by things or feel the need to make things "just-right." In both cases, children feel anxious or upset, even when there is nothing happening around them that would frighten or bother most other kids.

This book is the first of its kind to give parents the tools to carry out exposure therapy with their child at home. It is born from Dr. Whiteside's gold standard exposure therapy program at Mayo Clinic, which pioneers the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders, phobias and OCD with exposure therapy, by offering therapy to children and their parents. Treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD involves helping kids learn through facing their fears in a series of scenarios, showing them that they were more nervous than they really needed to be. Parents are included in exposure therapy in Dr. Whiteside's program, so they can learn what anxiety is, what exposure therapy is and how to use one to treat the other.

Dr. Whiteside wants children and their parents to leave his program knowing how to practice exposure therapy and to be able to use the skills and tools at home.This practical and supportive book will guide them in their efforts to help their children lead happy, healthy, anxiety-free lives.

For families looking for a fun way to introduce their bitty babes to various emotions, this book creatively uses playful characters made of everyone's favorite drink to spark conversations about various emotions in two languages!

Help our boba friends learn about their emotions using a mood board.

Social emotional awareness and development is something that is important for all of us to develop and learn about, especially our children. Boba Emotions introduces children to a range of different emotions in both English and Chinese. Children and adults alike will be delighted to find their favorite boba drinks playfully expressing different emotions as they turn each page. The book is full of eye-catching and vibrant pictures that improve observation skills, build vocabulary, and encourage reading.

Boba Emotions squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as practice with observation and reenactment skills as children discover and act out emotions while reading and understanding a graph. Also included is a bilingual chart including a range of 64 emotions organized on a grid, showcasing a spectrum of pleasantness and energy levels.

Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Chinese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture paired with the important topic of emotional awareness. The vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork make learning and talking about emotions so much fun for everyone!

Gold-medal winner of a Next Generation Book Award, silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award. As featured on the PBS NewsHour

"A gem of a book."-- LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

A step-by-step guide to raising confident, open-minded kids in an age of religious intolerance. Relax, It's Just God offers parents fresh, practical and honest ways to address issues of God and faith with children while promoting curiosity and kindness.

A rapidly growing demographic cohort in America, secular parents are at the forefront of a major and unprecedented cultural shift. Unable to fall back on what they were taught as children, many of these parents are struggling, or simply failing, to address issues of God, religion and faith with their children in ways that promote honesty, curiosity, kindness and independence.

The author sifts through hard data, including the results of a survey of 1,000 nonreligious parents, and delivers gentle but straightforward advice to both non-believers and open-minded believers. With a thoughtful voice infused with humor, Russell seamlessly merges scientific thought, scholarly research and everyday experience with respect for a full range of ways to view the world.

Relax, It's Just God goes beyond the numbers to assist parents (and grandparents) who may be struggling to find the right time place, tone and language with which to talk about God, spirituality and organized religion. It encourages parents to promote religious literacy and understanding and to support kids as they explore religion on their own -- ensuring that each child makes up his or her own mind about what to believe (or not believe) and extends love and respect to those who may not agree with them.

Subjects covered include:
- Talking openly about our beliefs without indoctrinating kids
- Making religious literacy fun and engaging
- Talking about death without the comforts of heaven
- Navigating religious differences with extended family members
- What to do when kids get threatened with hell

Are you searching for a way to help children deal with the death of a loved one?

Feeling All My Grief focuses on universal truths about death. It reassures kids that it's okay to feel sad, angry, scared, worried, confused, or a mix of feelings when someone we care about dies. When we give ourselves time to heal, we can soon make space for gratitude, happiness, and love as well.

Key Features:

- Secular, non-religious, and non-scientific

- Written in soothing, rhythmic rhyme

- Validates all types of feelings and ways of dealing with grief

- Avoids euphemisms so as not to confuse young children

- Vibrant and endearing illustrations with diverse characters

- Approved by grief counselors and professionals

- Includes a grief journal at the end with reflection prompts

- Best for children ages 3-6 years old

Death is never easy to talk about. Let's help children process grief in a healthy way, so they can look forward to brighter days. If you're still not sure if this book is right for you, you can download the e-book to help you decide, or you can watch our read-aloud videos. We'd love to hear from you.

Based on Gregory Lang's New York Times bestselling original series! The perfect gift of love or sweet keepsake to show why grandsons are so special!

Celebrate the grandsons in your life with Why We Need Grandsons, a heartfelt children's books for ages 3-7 that is the perfect gift to remind your grandson of how much you love him! Brought to you by the same team behind the New York Times bestseller Why a Daughter Needs a Dad, this next book in the series features gentle rhyming text, adorable animal illustration, and a genuine message of love.

In this world we call home, there's all kinds of joy

From sunsets to kittens to your favorite toys.

But there's nothing we've seen quite like you, my sweet boy

Our bright-eyed and beautiful grandson.

Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. He looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties, and contradictions within an experience that often goes under-discussed. At once intimate and expansive, Mann chronicles his own life with his young daughter, but also looks outward to the cultural and political baggage that surrounds and permeates these everyday experiences. Moving through memoir, lyric essay, literary analysis, and pop culture criticism, Attachments treats the subject of fatherhood with the depth, curiosity, and vivid emotion that it deserves.

A National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.

In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an acute awareness that the mysterious mother she'd never met might be dying somewhere in South Korea.

After contacting a grizzled private investigator, O'Neill took his suggested homework to heart when he disappeared before the job was done, picking up the trail of clues and becoming her own hell-bent detective. Despite COVID-19, the promise of what she might discover--the possibility that her biological mother was her kind of outlaw, whose life could inspire her own--was too tempting.

Written like a mystery novel, Woman of Interest is a tale of self-discovery and fugitivity from convention that features a femme fatale of unique proportions, a former CIA operative with a criminal record, and a dogged investigator of radical connections outside the nuclear family. O'Neill gorgeously bends the detective genre to her own will as a writer, stepping out of the shadows of her own self-conception to illuminate the hopes of the woman of interest she is both chasing and becoming.

The classic New York Times bestseller from actor/comedian Paul Reiser, a book that the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an out-loud laugh on every page," is now available in trade paperback for the very first time. For fans of Reiser's long-running sitcom Mad About You, with Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria, for readers of comic memoirs like Tina Fey's Bossypants, and "for the couple considering parenthood as well as for parents who are decades past their days of diaper changing...this book hits home and hits the funnybone" (Chicago Tribune).

Broken Child Mended Man is a raw, but compelling memoir touching on childhood neglect, years in foster care, and overcoming the odds to become a success story. Highlighting the ups and downs as a ward of the state during his formative years, Adam manages to reveal human resilience in its most authentic form. Through a life of trial and error, the author displays bountiful courage to achieve life's milestones without a role model. Broken Child Mended Man is one of this year's best surprises for readers from every walk of life. The surprisingly positive message throughout the book will help any reader establish solid footing as they seek purpose and the will to persevere through life's hardships.

Expert advice for caring for babies and toddlers!
From learning how to change a dirty diaper to pleasing a picky eater, it can sometimes be difficult to navigate parenthood--especially if you're new to it all. Featuring advice from top childcare experts, The Only Baby Book You'll Ever Need provides you with answers to every parenting question that crosses your mind! Each chapter teaches you all about the different stages of development and how you can raise a healthy and happy child. This indispensible guide also offers easy-to-understand instructions and parent-tested strategies on:

• Choosing a pediatrician
• Babyproofing your home
• Figuring out your baby's sleep patterns
• Potty-training your toddler
• Pleasing a picky eater

With parenting advice for both babies and toddlers, this one-stop resource includes only the most important tips and advice so that you are truly prepared for the years ahead.

From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden ("Powerful, beautifully written"--Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry--personal and scientific--into what happens--mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound process tells us about the way we live now.

"I read your book, or more accurately devoured it! Loved it . . . It will be the new classic text in Motherhood Studies." -Andrea O'Reilly, founder, Motherhood Studies

"The best book I've ever read about motherhood. Matrescence is essential reading, bloody and alive, roaring and ready to change conversations." -Jude Rogers, The Observer (UK)

In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of "matrescence" - the wholeness of becoming a mother.
Drawing on her own experiences of twice becoming a mother, as well as exploring the latest research in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology, Jones writes of the physical and emotional changes in the maternal mind, body, and spirit and shows us how these changes are far more profound, wild, and enduring than have been previously explored or written about.
Part memoir, part scientific and health reporting, part social critique, ecological philosophy, eco-feminism and nature writing, Matrescence is a kind of whodunnit, ferreting out with the most nuanced, searing and honest observations, why mothers throughout this heightened transition are at a breaking point, and what the institution of intensive, isolated motherhood can tell us about our still-dominant social and cultural myths.

"Jones seems to come as close as it's possible to describing this indescribable moment in a woman's life." -Joanna Pocock, The Spectator (UK)

Designed for all professionals working with parents and families of young children, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for building trauma-responsive family engagement in your school or program. Throughout this book, you'll find:

• Evidence-based practices that promote trauma-response family engagement.
• Exercises and tools for identifying the strengths and learning edges within your program, school, or agency.
• Vignettes from people and programs striving to create trusting, asset-focused partnerships with families that improve equity and promote culturally responsive practices.
• Reflective inquiry questions and sample conversations to help you examine your own practices.

With concrete examples and easy-to-implement strategies, this critical book helps readers put theory into practice while providing essential support for individuals and groups both new to and experienced with trauma-responsive practices in early childhood.