The Food of Love is a fresh and funny look at motherhood.
Acclaimed author, cartoonist, and mother Kate Evans explores all aspects of attachment parenting, breastfeeding, and babycare using the perfect mix of words, pictures, personal insights, and humor. She explains everything you’ll need to know to breastfeed successfully, and a lot more . . .
So, what’s so special about breastmilk, anyway?
See step-by-step instructions for your first feeds.
Learn how often to feed your baby.
Breastfeed in your sleep.
Beat the baby blues.
Discover why babies cry.
Find help for breastfeeding complaints.
Check out “The Mama Sutra”: breastfeeding positions.
Bonus: the book is square, so it’ll stay open, and you can read it when you’ve got both hands full!
A wonderful book that tells how to make a lifebook for the foster or adopted child. Includes how to word delicate life stories, what information to include, and how to include the child in the lifebook process.
Here is a practical, compassionate book parents can turn to when they first recognize that their child has a “problem” ?? but aren’t sure what it is or where to seek help.
At this very moment, millions of children across the U.S. are falling behind in school, acting out impulsively at home, having problems making friends, suffering dramatic mood swings, and more. Their parents are frustrated and afraid, aware that something’s wrong, but not sure where to turn for help or how to cope with their child’s behavior. “Is it a learning disorder, ADHD, anxiety disorder, or some combination?” they wonder. “Are these moods and behaviors normal or abnormal? Will my child outgrow them?”
This book by a noted neuropsychologist explains the different and overlapping symptoms of learning, mood, and behavior disorders and guides parents in getting the right diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Newby demystifies the process and empowers parents. Step by step, he explains:
??How to observe and chart your child’s behavior??a critical diagnostic tool
??What to expect during the evaluation and treatment process
??How to partner with medical and school professionals to assist your child and what to do when conflicts arise
Clear and comprehensive, this supportive guide will be every parent’s first line of defense in helping a troubled child.
PERFECT FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PARENTS AND EDUCATORS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN AND SUPPORT THE “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” ACT! Written from the hearts of educators who want to help parents advocate for their child’s education, this stirring account provides a framework of principles and values that both parents and educators can use to ensure that every school meets and exceeds its ideals. It explains health and achievement essentials, and how these can be engendered in schools to foster successful environments where all children can be personally and academically enriched. This book demonstrates the responsibilities placed upon parents, families, schools, and communities to promote productive learning environments, and exemplifies how they can work together to accomplish these goals. Real-life experiences and examples are also included to enhance and illustrate chapter themes. For those who value effective education and want to support children, this book is an inspiring guide for consideration.
The problem of child abuse has become increasingly evident in North America and Western Europe. Many countries are now struggling with issues involving the definition of child maltreatment, reporting requirements, processes for responding to reports, substantiation rates, and services to abused children and their families. This book illustrates alternative approaches to dealing with these problems by examining and comparing the designs of child abuse systems in nine countries: the US, English, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium, and Sweden.
Residence placement can create guilt problems for family members. What do you say when you go for a visit? How can we make it a positive help to our loved one? This book gives a great deal of practical help in the important area of keeping touch with the loved one after placement in a care facility.
This book reflects the pride parents feel, and says the things they would say if only they could find the right words.
A book for children and adults to embrace the idea of having more than one home. Follow Princess Emma on her many upcoming adventures.
This delightful gift book celebrates the sisterly bond with wise, funny, and touching reflections from writers both classic and contemporary.
