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Parenting Isn't for Dummies!
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New Baby
- Child Development
- Sleep
- Play
- Discipline
- Sibling Rivalry
- Toilet Training/Bedwetting
- Childcare
- Doctor/Dentist
- Death
- Divorce
- Personal Safety
New Baby
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This reference book published by the American Academy of Pediatrics addresses parenting and medical concerns.
- Cole
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Learn about some of the changes both in household activities and feelings that accompany the arrival of a new baby.
- Hiatt
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Joey finds that he can connect with his new baby brother by speaking his own special language with him.
- Lewis
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A mother describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl.
- Mario
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When her mom brings home a new baby, a little girl thinks she would rather have an iguana until she starts to know her baby brother.
- Rockwell
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A young boy describes how a new baby is growing inside his mommy and tells what it is like when his new sister comes home from the hospital.
Child Development
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This video hosted by Rob Reiner discusses the new research in brain development that stresses the relationship between caregiver and child in the critical first years of life.
- Greenspan
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Child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan presents practical, concrete advice for parents.
- Melina
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Learn about different types of adoption, including international and open adoption and about issues regarding attachment and bonding.
- Pollack
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Pollack offers advice to help parents understand, connect with and support boys today.
- Spock
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This updated classic manual for parents covers child development from birth through adolescence and stresses the importance of trusting yourself.
Sleep
- Bang
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This simple countdown to bedtime includes the comforting illustrations of a loving father and child, toys and other objects in the nursery.
- Brown
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Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
- Ferber
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This guide to sleep disturbances discusses situations such as difficulty falling asleep, nighttime awakening, night fears and irregular sleep patterns.
- Fox
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As darkness falls, parents everywhere get their children ready for sleep.
- Spinelli
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When Mama arrives home, she and her child enjoy a series of activities together before bedtime.
Play
- Cole
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This collection of games and songs to enjoy while traveling, includes word games, memory games, license plate games, writing games, geography games, jokes and riddles.
- Dexter
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This book and the others in the Tools for Everyday Parenting series contain numerous inexpensive ideas to enchant and teach children.
- Kohl
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Here are over 125 activities and projects for hours of fun without a lot of expense.
- Silberg
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Here, and in her other books, Silberg describes simple games, rhymes, and songs that encourage healthy interaction between parents and children.
Discipline
- Cline
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Psychiatrist and educator authors offer practical tips for helping children learn problem-solving at the earliest possible age, when the cost of failure is still small.
- Faber
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The author advocates mutual respect by increasing communication skills and cooperation.
- Kurcinka
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The author offers reassuring and helpful advice for parents of kids who are special in a variety of ways.
- Madison
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The author describes discipline for early childhood based on children's developmental stages and gives tips about applying discipline in common situations.
- Nelson
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This common-sense approach to child rearing focuses on non punitive discipline.
- Sears
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This compassionate guide presents discipline as an integral part of a parent's whole relationship with a child.
Sibling Rivalry
- Faber
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This updated classic guides the way to peace and tranquility with humor, compassion and understanding.
- Petertyl
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Carly works through feelings of anticipation and fear when her parents travel to another country without her to adopt her baby sister.
- Polacco
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After losing running, climbing, throwing and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
- Yezerski
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Three sisters, who compete constantly to see who is the smartest, fastest, or prettiest, vie for the Queen of the World crown, awarded to the sister who makes the best birthday gift for Mom.
Toilet Training/Bedwetting
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Ashley learns to use her potty and makes the transaction from diapers to big-girl pants. Includes tips for successful potty teaching.See alsoMy Big Boy Potty
- Maizels
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The directors of the Try for Dry program at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago outline some options for parents and offer reassuring advice.
- Warner
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With help from her mother and brother, 6-year-old Lily begins to tackle her bedwetting problem so that she can go to a sleep-over party.
- Ziefert
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In this lift-the-flap story Max learns to use the potty, unlike an assortment of animals who do not. See also Sara's Potty.
Childcare
- Ballard
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Children have a busy day at day care while their parents have a busy day at work.
Doctor/Dentist
- Keller
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Using a classroom setting in which teeth are the students, this book presents information about the structure and care of teeth and the services provided by dentists.
- Marx
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When he goes for his check-up, a little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do.
- Murkoff
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Angus, the lovable Answer Dog, helps young children learn about doctor visits, including what happens at check ups and why.
- Rogers
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Learn what happens during a stay in the hospital, including some of the common forms of medical treatment.
- Wells
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Felix feels bad and does not want to eat or play, so his mother takes him to Doctor Duck, who makes everything better.
Death and Divorce
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Here are eleven true stories about young people who were guided by a hospice counselor to use writing, drawing, games of safe aggression, farewell projects, rituals, and other creative activities to come to terms with death.
- Gellman
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Learn about some of the ways to deal with the many different types of loss, such as loss of possessions, competitions, health, trust, and permanent loss through death.
- Viorst
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In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.
Divorce
- Brown
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Dinosaur characters introduce possible causes and some of the effects of divorce: living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households and adjusting to a stepparent.
- Lansky
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KoKo Bear learns what divorce means, how to deal with changes, how to recognize and talk about her feelings and that the divorce is not her fault. Each page includes tips for parents.
Personal Safety
- Klassen
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Collin is reluctant to go to his friend Justin's house because Justin is being beaten by his father.
- Kleven
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As a way of teaching her little boy about sexual abuse, a mother tells him the story of a child who was lured into the neighbor's house to see some nonexistent kittens.
- Spelman
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Learn what to say and do if someone touches your body when you do not want to be touched, especially when the action involves the touching of private parts.