Collection: Parenting

It's time to change the way we see babies.
Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria Montessori, The Montessori Baby shows how to raise your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, insight, and a surprising sense of calm. Cowritten by Simone Davies, author of the bestselling The Montessori Toddler, and Junnifa Uzodike, it's a book filled with hundreds of practical ideas for understanding what is actually happening with your baby, and how you can mindfully assist in their learning and development. Including how to:

• Prepare yourself for parenthood-physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.
• Become an active observer to understand what your baby is really telling you.
• Create Montessori spaces in your home, including "yes" spaces where nothing is off-limits.
• Set up activities that encourage baby's movement and language development at their own pace
• Raise a secure baby who's ready to explore the world with confidence.

From the author of the internationally bestselling 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do series and preeminent psychotherapist Amy Morin, comes a guide for couples looking to develop mental strength together and sustain happier and healthier relationships.

When psychotherapist Amy Morin first introduced the world to the concept of mental strength with her internationally bestselling book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, she showed millions of people how to be the strongest, best version of themselves. Now, Morin turns her expert eye to how couples can work together to grow stronger and have better relationships. Relationships play a key role in mental strength, and partners have the ability to help one another build the mental muscle they need to reach their greatest potential--with hard work and the right tools.

With her signature framework, Morin identifies the 13 key mistakes couples should avoid to heal their relationships and develop their mental muscles. Providing resources, original research, and advice for couples looking to grow stronger together, Morin gives readers life-changing steps they can do to improve their own mental strength and work better together as a team. Looking closely at modern-day issues, from social media to the COVID pandemic, 13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do provides easy-to-implement solutions that can help readers deal with the real-world problems that are distressing today's couples. Readers will learn how to accept, experience, and express love by implementing Morin's concrete strategies to thrive as individuals as well as a team.

Each chapter features specific, effective mental strength strategies that can be practiced separate or apart to create positive change. Outlining how to proceed whether or not your partner is on board, Morin will give readers conversation starters, troubleshooting strategies, patient stories, quizzes, and the latest research to develop a better understanding of how they contribute to their relationship and resolve problems as they arise. From managing conflict to maintaining healthy communication to addressing underlying issue, readers will learn how to kick bad habits and become a resilient couple.

A necessary and powerful guide to healthy and secure relationships, 13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do give partners the tools to work together to build mental strength, and a love that lasts.

Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations--on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust--from two of the world's leading marriage researchers and clinicians.

Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort--and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on forty years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.

Interactive activities and prompts provide motivation to stay open, stay curious, and, most of all, stay talking to each other. And the range--from the four skills you need for intimate conversation (including Put Into Words What You Are Feeling) to tips on being honest about your needs, while also validating your partner's own emotions--will resonate, whether you're newly together or a longtime couple looking to fortify your bond. You will discover (or rediscover) your partner like never before--and be able to realize your hopes and dreams for the love you desire and deserve.

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A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed "The Parenting Bible."

For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele's daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk's powerful communication skills to parents of children ages two to seven.

Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom accumulated over years of conducting How To Talk workshops with parents, teachers, and pediatricians. With a lively combination of storytelling, cartoons, and observations from their workshops, they provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the children in your life.

What do you do with a little kid who...won't brush her teeth...screams in his car seat...pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables...throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized by common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.

This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old. And, it will help little kids grow into self-reliant big kids who are cooperative and connected to their parents, teachers, siblings, and peers.

"Rhaina Cohen's moving, intimate portraits of people in unusually devoted friendships upend our cultural narratives about which relationships matter . . . an arresting work of compassion and insight." --Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of Dear Therapists podcast

Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives?

In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner--these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other's caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different walks of life--spanning age and religion, gender and sexuality and more--reveal how freeing and challenging it can be to embrace a relationship model that society doesn't recognize. And they show that orienting your world around friends isn't limited to daydreams and episodes of The Golden Girls, but actually possible in real life.

Based on years of original reporting and striking social science research, Cohen argues that we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them, while we diminish friendships by expecting too little of them. She traces how, throughout history, our society hasn't always fixated on marriage as the greatest source of meaning, or even love. At a time when many Americans are spending large stretches of their lives single, widowed or divorced, or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic," Cohen insists that we recognize the many forms of profound connection that can anchor our lives. A rousing and incisive book, The Other Significant Others challenges us to ask what we want from our relationships--not just what we're supposed to want--and transforms how we define a fulfilling life.

Turn disagreements and conflicts into opportunities for growth, compassion, and reconciliation.

The sixth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice.

Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the ways we act out in anger, frustration, despair, and delusion. In brief meditations accompanied by whimsical sumi-ink drawings, Thich Nhat Hanh instructs us exactly how to transform our craving and confusion. If we learn to take good care of our suffering, we can help others do the same, and reach reconciliation between family members, coworkers, and even nations.

How to Fight is pocket-sized with two-color original artwork by California artist Jason DeAntonis.

"Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way." --Amy Schumer

*Fully Revised and Updated for 2021*

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics an award-winning economist and author of Cribsheet and The Family Firm disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.

Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of adulthood--can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices.

When award-winning economist Emily Oster was a mom-to-be herself, she evaluated the data behind the accepted rules of pregnancy, and discovered that most are often misguided and some are just flat-out wrong. Debunking myths and explaining everything from the real effects of caffeine to the surprising dangers of gardening, Expecting Better is the book for every pregnant woman who wants to enjoy a healthy and relaxed pregnancy--and the occasional glass of wine.

An Oprah Daily Best Book of Fall

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes

From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do British parents and the wife of a handsome, successful man from an equally privileged family, Oliver played the parts expected of him. He checked off every box--marriage, children (four), a white-picket fence surrounding a stately home in Connecticut, and a golden retriever named Biscuit.

But beneath the shiny veneer, Oliver was desperately trying to stay afloat as he struggled to maintain a facade of normalcy--his hair was falling out in clumps, he couldn't eat, and his mood swings often brought him to tears. And then, on an otherwise unremarkable afternoon in September, Oliver Radclyffe woke up and realized the life of a trapped housewife was not one he was ever meant to live. In fact, Oliver had spent his entire life denying the deepest, truest parts of himself. In the wake of this realization, he began the challenging, messy journey toward self-acceptance and living a truer life, knowing he risked the life he'd built to do so.

That journey was fraught, as Oliver navigated leaving a marriage and reintroducing himself to his children. And despite the challenges he faced, Oliver realized there was no way for him to go back to the beautiful lie of his previous life. Not if he wanted to survive.

Frighten the Horses is a trans man's coming of age story, about a housewife who comes out as a lesbian and tentatively, at first, steps into the world of queerness. With growing courage and the support of his newfound community, Oliver is finally able to face the question of his gender identity and become the man he is supposed to be. The story of a flawed, fascinating, gorgeously queer man, Frighten the Horses introduces Oliver Radclyffe as a witty, arresting, unforgettable voice.

Foster parents fill a vital role in our society, but it can be hard to find books to read with children that accurately portray their situation. Love You While You're Mine is a sweet, honest look at the foster parent's relationship with the children in their care. This book will help foster parents and children in the foster system to bond and assure children that their foster parent's love extends far beyond their time together.

Gluten-Free Family Adventures is the perfect cookbook for busy families who want to enjoy delicious, easy-to-make gluten-free meals together. Created by Joseph Tito, a devoted dad of twin daughters, this cookbook contains over 75 kid-friendly recipes that make gluten-free cooking simple, tasty, and fun. From breakfast to dinner and snacks in between, you'll find wholesome dishes like Cheesy Big Mac Bites, Rainbow Pizza, and Cookie Baked Oatmeal, designed to satisfy everyone in your family. Each recipe features easy-to-find ingredients and clear instructions, making it a breeze for parents and kids alike to get involved in the kitchen.

With helpful cooking tips and colourful illustrations, this cookbook isn't just about putting food on the table-it's about creating memorable moments and making gluten-free living enjoyable for the whole family. Embrace the adventure of cooking together with recipes that transform mealtime into a shared experience, from Crispy Veggie Chips for snack time to No-Bake Chocolate Bliss Balls for dessert.

Whether you're dealing with gluten intolerance or want to incorporate healthier options into your diet, Gluten-Free Family Adventures makes it easy to bring delicious, family-friendly dishes to the table every day. Say goodbye to complicated gluten-free recipes and hello to fun, flavorful meals that everyone will love!

Are you ready to step into the courage and confidence required to live true to yourself as an LGBTQ+ person?

Or are you ready to live even more loudly and proudly?

Or, are you the parent of an LGBTQ+ person who is looking for guidance on how to support them?

Perhaps you're an ally or advocate who's seeking ways to bolster the queer community and ensure their freedoms?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then this book is for you.

Joyously Free! Stories & Tips for Living Your Truth as LGBTQ+ People, Parents and Allies by Elizabeth Ann Atkins and Joanie Lindenmeyer celebrates personal fulfillment, joy, and the exhilarating adventure of blazing a passionate trail into self-discovery.

The authors and dozens of contributors from across America share personal stories and tips in chapters that explore being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, as well as being the parents and allies/advocates of LGBTQ+ people. These stories appear in chapters that explore same-sex marriage, self-love and affirmation, tips for finding the courage to come out and create a joyous life, and guidance for finding peace and love with spirituality and religion-a topic that has deeply wounded many LGBTQ+ people.

Joyously Free! touches on the emotional turmoil and lack of fulfillment experienced by those restricted by fear, secrecy, and societal judgment.

The authors hope that this book can serve as a beacon of hope and empowerment that helps people everywhere live Joyously Free!

Excerpt:

Joyously Free!

These two powerhouse words are splashed in big, bold letters amidst exploding rainbow clouds on the cover of this book for a reason:

Liberating your mind, body, and spirit as an LGBTQ+ person to live and love as you truly desire opens the gateway to experience pure joy on every level.

You can also do this as a parent, ally, and/or advocate while helping others achieve peace and sovereignty over their lives.

Yes, it can be scary, difficult, and seemingly impossible.

And if it were easy, you and they would already be Joyously Free!

As with any goal, it helps to have a guide, and here we are. We want you to have fun... be creative... and never stop believing until you're living your dream in vibrant, 3-D reality.

So, when you open this book, you're looking into a portal of infinite possibilities to unleash your wildest imagination and script your LGBTQ+ dream life and love, starring the most powerful, peaceful YOU!

The traditions and celebrations described in this book provide an opportunity to pause and reflect on our natural world's dependence upon the cycles of the Earth and Sun. The suggested readings and activities provide a framework for celebrating what we know about these cycles and for sharing our curiosity about what we still have yet to learn, inspiring a sense of wonder about our universe and our place within it.
An actor, artist, and educator, Jim Donovan shares the traditions and practices he and his family have developed over the years in a helpful, informative, and entertaining guide for those who would like to establish their own traditions celebrating the seasons. Jim provides a step-by-step guide to celebrating the Summer and Winter Solstices. The book includes specific readings and activities accompanied by engaging photographs:
Learn how to make and decorate your own grapevine wreath, the centerpiece of the Solstice celebrations.
Follow a detailed description of how to celebrate the longest day and the longest night, including how to make special foods like the Winter Solstice Rice Loaf and how to make special Summer Solstice crafts with children.
Enjoy classic poems and original readings, selected especially for each season.
Learn about how to incorporate the cycles of nature into daily living, with many resources to start your own celebrations

Perspective - something we all strive to achieve but few of us remember at the end of the day. A Day in the Life looks at a snapshot of twelve intersecting stories, hoping to paint a expanding picture in the process.

Can one moment change you life forever?Karl Thomas lives a simple, almost idealistic life. Despite that fact, he is determined to complicate it. Even if he doesn't think like the typical nine year old, he encounters normal boyhood issues while growing up with his older brother Mark, in their hometown of Canton, Ohio.At the end of his summer vacation before fourth grade, Karl faces a challenge to impress Sonya Thurston, his lifelong neighbor and best friend. Like many childhood experiences, this plan is silly and seemingly harmless, but it also has the potential for unintended consequences.In a story of what if's, "One Degree" follows the lives of Karl, his friends, and family as they react to life challenges at pivotal moments in two possible story lines.

Raised in a strict Catholic family, Luca seemed destined for priesthood. His safe spiritual world is shattered after just one kiss with a college roommate. Luca enters a period of self-discovery as his journey of love opens his eyes to joy he never thought possible. Along with his new-found love comes unfathomable pain and self-doubt. Years later, a newly ordained bishop is at the pinnacle of his career when a chance encounter with a lover from his youth threatens to upend his prestigious career and comfortable life. His vow of celibacy and vocation are called into question as he struggles with his faith, loneliness, and need for love. How do these seemingly disparate characters come together to make sense of the unexpected twists and turns in their lives? How do they balance their bodily desires with their soul's search for meaning?

Si estás explorando tu género, quieres apoyar a un ser querido, ser unx aliadx, has escuchado hablar sobre personas LGBT en las noticias, o tienes curiosidad por las personas no binarias, de género queer o transgénero. No tengo ninguna duda de que eres una persona solidaria y de mente abierta.

Este libro es para personas no binarias y para aliadxs: Para leerlo, para obtener validación y diferentes puntos de vista para conversar, y para compartir este libro con tus vecinxs, tu comunidad, tus conocidxs y cualquier otra persona que desee comprender mejor y empatizar con lxs demás.

Después de leer, tendrás una comprensión más profunda acerca de:

La diferencia entre género y pronombres

Por qué lo no binario es, al parecer, tan visible ahora

Cómo gestionar la salida del armario de una persona

Pasos a tomar si quieres ser unx aliadx

Dónde encontrar una comunidad de personas con ideas afines

Los beneficios de desafiar el pensamiento en blanco y negro

Esta lectura se sumerge de forma sencilla pero escueta en temas complejos y matizados sin juzgar, avergonzar, ni ocupar cientos de páginas.

Ten conversaciones más significativas con tus seres queridos y disfruta de este gran experimento que es el ser humano.