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A comprehensive and practical handbook for gay, lesbian, and alternative lifestyle parents shares sensible advice and personal real-life stories about the challenges of twenty-first-century family life, covering such topics as solo parenting, blended families, surrogacy, adoption and foster parenti

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Your child's first days at school and nursery are exciting times, but they can be very daunting - for both your child and yourself. In this book, the author helps you calm any fears with practical advice on preparing your child to be confident and capable of taking these important new steps.

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Iovine and her passel of friends tell mothers-to-be when to skimp and when to splurge, which hand-me-downs are safe and which are sorry. Includes information on where to get the things needed for baby, stocking the nursery and the house, and much more. Illustrations.

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Including:--The rules of love--Problem-solving rules--Baby rules--Toddler rules--Teenage rulesThe Golden Rules of Parenting will make parenting so much easier that our children will grow up happy, confident and cooperative.

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Boys who don't play sports are often the targets of bullying. Through a fascinating assortment of in-depth interviews, clinical case studies, and examples from popular literature, the authors illustrate how these boys are relegated to a second-class social status simply because they can't make a free throw or because they can spell better than they can run.

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The Playful Parent offers a new solution for parents and carers looking for a calmer, happier and smarter way to parent the under-fives.

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Offers advice for coping with the challeges of raising adolescents, including the effects of hormonal changes, defiance, peer pressure, and sibling rivalry.

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This text offers a set of guiding principles that aim to help parents of children at each age - from preschoolers to teenagers - develop the skills they need to reassure and guide them so that they feel secure in their homes, their schools and in their community at large.

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"This classic study of the spontaneous play of young children combines vivid and delightful observations with profoundly important insights. Alison Stallibrass, an expert on children's play and the mot"

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Few parents will be able to resist tracing their own "passages" with the help of this book, and all those who do will find new insight and enjoyment at each stage.

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Living with teenagers can be more stressful and emotional than anything parents have previously experienced. This book discusses about adolescence, based on the advice of experts, interviews with parents and their children.

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"A Penguin Life book"--Title page verso.

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Forget the frump. Wave goodbye to those leggings there's a new breed of mothers on the baby block. Yummy Mummies don't leave their sense of style in the maternity ward the loving hands that rock today's cradles are manicured and moisturised.

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The methods described in this book aim to help parents give children a sense of security and stability and prepare them for the adult world. It shows how to create a family legal system, a family economy and a sense of family identity which work together to provide rules, limits and goals.

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Time out is a vital parenting tool and in this book Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages.

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"Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of"

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Toddler Tantrums is a guide to methods parents use to deal with toddler tantrums. Child psychologist Penney Hames explains why children's emotions run strong at this age with their need to test limits, and she helps you decide what solutions will work best for you and your child.

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A fresh, powerful and practical guide to help concerned parents set appropriate limits on their children while still giving them the opportunity to experience those rites of passage that will allow them to become happy, competent adults.

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Having successfully helped parents to calm and connect with their baby in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg now provides practical advice and handy tips for parents who've made it through the first year with baby and are now faced with a delightful, yet demanding toddler.

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America's Favorite Pediatrician brings the wonderful support and insight of his best-selling Touchpoints to parents of children three to six