Collection: Parenting

You're so a-peel-ing! Orange you glad we've got each other? Spread love and fruity puns with this banana-shaped board book based on the Crayola Colors of Kindness crayon pack!

I love you a whole bunch!
You're sweet as cherry pie!
You really are a peach,
And the apple of my eye!

This beautiful, bright board book introduces You're So A-peel-ing, the new Crayola crayon color from the Colors of Kindness box. Shaped like a bunch of bananas, it pairs the yellow color with cheery art, simple text, and a whole bunch of fruit puns. This is a sweet and vibrant way to share kindness and colors with every kid.

Are there children in your life who are experiencing the pain of their parents' divorce? This book will help give advice and information in a gentle and sensitive way. It will help children face their fears, worries and questions when the family is going through a break-up.

Parents, teachers, and gift givers will find:

• language that is simple, direct, and easier for younger children to understand
• information about a divorce in my family
• a helpful book written by a psychotherapist and counselor
• a whole series of books for children to explore emotional issues

The A First Look At series promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers, and encourage kids to ask questions and confront social and emotional questions that sometimes present problems. Books feature appealing full-color illustrations on every page plus a page of advice to parents and teachers.

Does your child struggle with big feelings and become upset easily? Tired of meltdowns, tantrums and shouting?

Do you want to help your child recognise anger and provide them with tools to self manage it themselves before it gets out of control?

In this beautiful picture book, Frustrated, Angry and Mad, Parker finds sharing hard and quickly gets angry. But by learning about stages of anger and using different anger self-regulation techniques, Parker calms his frustration and overcomes his big emotions.

Through real-life examples based on concepts of social emotional learning, this story will help your child be aware of, and understand their big feelings and emotions, recognise anger, and use proven techniques to help control it, all through a fun story without lecturing.

As they follow Parker's story, your child will learn how to better understand their emotions and be empowered to self regulate. They will learn how anger feels and ways to self manage anger.

• Help your child recognize and manage anger and frustration through real-life examples
• Beautiful and colorful full page illustrations
• Teaches your children to talk about their feelings
• Learn self-calming techniques to help improve self-regulation skills for children

Get Frustrated, Angry and Mad now and help your child recognise and control anger today.

Caring for yourself and your relationship with your mom who has BPD.

Growing up with a mom who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is difficult--but it's still possible to have a functioning adult relationship with her. When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder provides you with crucial information for understanding the patterns behind her Borderline Personality Disorder, as well as the tools you need to start your own recovery process.

Find ways to reconcile your complicated thoughts and feelings with straightforward and easy-to-use techniques. You'll also discover a number of sample dialogues that give you blueprints for safe and secure interactions in a variety of situations.

When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder includes:

• You, your mother, and Borderline Personality Disorder--Learn why your mother behaves the way she does and how to maintain a relationship with her--without getting hurt.
• The help you need--Start healing with essential self-care strategies that will help you rebuild your self-esteem, cope with anxiety, protect your family, and more.
• Research-based tools--Get proven advice based on the most up-to-date approaches for managing a relationship with someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder.

Get the help you need moving forward with the compassionate guidance of When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder.

Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death.

Using questions posed in a child's voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natural and reassuring conclusion. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion.

Child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts designed the Just Enough series to empower parents/caregivers to start conversations with young ones about difficult or challenging subject matter. Other books in the series deal with birth, diversity, separation and divorce.

A comprehensive guide to designing homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts--now revised and updated!

Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children--a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid's interests, abilities, and learning styles. But what to teach, and when, and how? Especially for first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists, and suggestions for creative alternative options and approaches. Included, along with all the educational basics, are techniques and resources for teaching everything from philosophy to engineering, as well as suggestions for dealing with such sensitive topics as sex education.

Now revised throughout with all-new updates featuring the most effective and up-to-date methods and reading guides to homeschool your child at all ages, Home Learning Year by Year continues to be the definitive book for the homeschooling parent.

The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can't quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, "I get it."

Help your child prepare for becoming a big brother with this beautifully illustrated story. Follow Mommy as she shows her son just how much fun it will be to teach his new sibling new things, help them grow, and become the best big brother ever.

From teaching a little sibling the wonders of the world to nurturing their growth, the journey of becoming the best big brother ever is full of precious moments. Crafted with love and infused with essential new sibling insights, this padded board book is both a comfort and a guide. Perfect for any soon-to-be big brother navigating the thrilling world of welcoming a new family member.

• Padded Board Book Design: Durable and kid-friendly for repeated readings.
• Sibling Bond Celebration: Focuses on the joy and responsibility of being a big brother.
• Guidance for New Siblings: Helps in preparing children for their new roles in the family.
• Beautiful Illustrations: Enhances engagement and comprehension.
• Emphasizes Family Values: Stresses the importance of love, care, and unity in families.

At Miss Molly's School of Kindness, three naughty fox cubs find out how to be kind to others, kind to themselves, and the importance of being kind to the planet. A perfect way to start conversations with children about kindness, with humor, a fun story, and a cast of lively animal characters.

An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children.

Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls "undisturbed birth" is almost always healthier and safer than high-technology approaches to birth. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during postpartum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship.

*A New York Times Bestseller*
A warm and hilarious memoir by a man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome who sets out to save his relationship.

Five years after David Finch married Kristen, the love of his life, they learned that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explained David's ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, but it didn't make him any easier to live with.

Determined to change, David set out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband with an endearing zeal. His methods for improving his marriage involve excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies, including "Don't change the radio station when she's singing along" and "Apologies do not count when you shout them." David transforms himself from the world's most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest. He becomes the husband he'd always meant to be.

Filled with humor and wisdom, The Journal of Best Practices is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart is the key to happy marriage.

At last! Practical advice to help your child's success at school and at home. In this simple, easy-to-understand guide, Marydee Sklar explains how brain development is to blame for children's poor time-management, planning, and organization behaviors. You'll find solutions to day-to-day challenges so you can: - Overcome resistance to starting homework and projects - Let go of micromanaging your child's use of time - Ensure assignments are transported safely to and from school - Manage time spent on smartphones and video games - Forget nagging about chores and homework Written with compassion, Marydee's tips will enable the whole family to calm down and get work done. As an educator, Marydee Sklar has helped families struggling with time management for almost twenty years. She is the author of the Seeing My Time books.

Never Get Angry Again is New York Times bestselling author David J. Lieberman's comprehensive, holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger, and what the reader can do to gain perspective, allowing them to never get angry again.

"An essential instruction manual for anger management, but also a detailed work on how to get along with other people." --Library Journal (starred review)

Take a deep breath and count to ten. Meditate. Visualize your happy place.

You've probably heard all of these anger management techniques and more from friends, family, and experts, but somehow they miss the mark when it comes to coping with the complex emotion of anger.

Let's face it: if anger-management techniques were effective, you wouldn't be reading this book. These clumsy attempts to maintain calmness are usually futile and sometimes emotionally draining. The fact is, either something bothers us (causing anxiety, frustration, or anger), or it doesn't. A state of calm is better accomplished by not becoming agitated in the first place. When we fight the urge to blow up or melt down, we fight against our own nature.

Internationally bestselling author David J. Lieberman understands that a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the handle. In Never Get Angry Again, he illuminates the underlying emotional, spiritual, and physical components of anger, and gives the readers simple, practical tools to snuff out anger before it even occurs.

A parent-tested guide for moms who want to breastfeed AND sleep through the night

With this ultimate beginner's handbook to raising a baby you can breastfeed like any good attachment parent and then ease your baby into sleeping through the night like the best of the "we-still-go-out-for-date-night" parents. Because here's a little secret: You don't have to pick one or the other. You can do both!

Writer and new-mom coach Susan Vukadinovic has met with hundreds of mommas at pre-natal and new-baby workshops, and she has woven together their collective, common-sense wisdom in this new book for new parents of the 2020s.

Inside you'll find tips for breastfeeding, sleeping and weaning to solids. And there's a little bit more but not too much more because-let's be honest now-you've got this. We both know you don't need a comprehensive book that covers *everything*. This book covers just the big stuff, with parent-tested and parent-approved step-by-step instructions that will take you from pregnancy and the minutes after birth all the way to your baby's third birthday.

With the right information and support, you can totally nail your new parenting gig.

The Baby Whisperer gives new parents everything they need to tackle the challenges of sleep, eating habits, tantrums, growth issues, and more!

The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems is an in-depth look at the most challenging issues faced by parents of babies and young children today. The book goes beyond the basics introduced in her first two books, becoming a compendium of specific and targeted parenting strategies. Each chapter tackles a different topic, from teaching babies to sleep, feeding techniques, potty training, and much more. Hogg will also discuss her two new Baby Whispering concepts, which are being patient and conscious and learning to detect "prime times"--windows of opportunity for sleep training, introducing bottles (in breast-fed babies), sippy cups, toilet training, and much more.

Once you learn how to translate banguage, the "baby-language" your infant uses to communicate needs, feelings, and opinions, you can see your child for who he or she really is--an understanding that will serve you well as your child blossoms into the toddler years. By helping you establish a daily routine and tailor your parenting strategies according to your child's unique personality and stage of development, Tracy will teach you how to:

- Employ the Twelve Principles of Problem Solving--simple troubleshooting techniques for everyday situations

- Avoid, or remedy, accidental parenting--inadvertent adult behavior that often leads to such common parenting challenges as sleep problems, poor eating habits, separation anxiety, and tantrums

- Identify windows of opportunity for teaching babies how to get to sleep on their own, introducing bottles to breast-fed babies, toilet training, and other growth issues

For Tracy's fans, this book will be a welcome addition to the Hogg library; for readers unfamiliar with her philosophy of care, it will open a new world of understanding and insight.

Help your child exceed the Common Core standards with the revised and updated What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know

Designed for use by parents and teachers, this groundbreaking first volume in the Core Knowledge Series provides kindergartners with the fundamentals they need to prepare them for a lifetime of learning. It sets out the elements a parent or educator should look for in a good kindergarten program and introduces activities that help a child take the first steps in learning to read and write. Featuring a new Introduction and filled with age-appropriate questions and suggestions that stimulate thinking and build vocabulary, this revised and updated edition of What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know also includes

- Favorite poems--read and recite together from Mother Goose, A. A. Milne, Langston Hughes, and more, all beautifully illustrated
- Beloved stories and fables--read aloud from "The Three Little Pigs," "The Ugly Duckling," "Cinderella," Winnie-the-Pooh, "The Velveteen Rabbit," and many more, including multicultural folktales from African, Japanese, and Native American traditions
- Familiar sayings and phrases--impart traditional wisdom such as "Where there's a will, there's a way" and "Better safe than sorry"
- History and geography--a friendly introduction to our world, complete with simple questions and fun activities
- Visual arts--painting, drawing, cutting, and pasting go hand in hand with learning about color and helping a child look at and talk about great works of art
- Music--many musical experiences for parents and children to participate in, along with dozens of songs to sing and dance to
- Math--lively and interesting exposure to concepts and operations that provide a springboard to later mastery
- Science--activities that let children observe, experience, and get their hands dirty while exploring the wonders of nature