parenting

In the animal world, parents look after their babies. They want to make sure the babies are strong and ready to survive in the wild. This book explores how animal parents teach their young to hunt, stay safe from predators, and eventually learn to fend for themselves.

While playing at the beach with friends, a young boy describes the different ways in which his two mothers help him.

Seventeen-year-old Faith shepherds her neglectful, drug-addicted mother through her pregnancy and then kidnaps the baby, taking on the responsibility of being her baby sister's parent while hiding from the authorities.

takes on technology, standardized testing, overstimulation, academic pressure, marketing to children, over-diagnosis and much more, calling on everyone who loves children to combat these threats to childhood and find creative ways to help children flourish. Every parent, teacher, and childcare provider has the power to make a difference, by giving children time to play, access to nature, and personal attention, and most of all, by defending their right to remain children.

Presents advice and tips on how to be happy during motherhood, including insights about how to deal with expectations, other mothers, and spouses.

Because his own mother is too young to take care of him, Umande, a newborn gorilla, is fed and cuddled by human zookeepers until a surrogate mother is found.

A parenting guide to helping children use homework time to learn eight critical life skills including concentration and focus, time management, decision-making, goal-setting, and self-reliance.

Explores how single moms have developed a new form of parenting that rejects social judgments about family structure and gender stereotypes and stresses the importance of communication, community, and love, resulting in a generation of young men that are socially savvy, generous, caring, and masculine.

The author reveals the true story of her teenage daughter's recovery from anorexia nervosa that introduces a home-based treatment method developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London by Christopher Dare in 1987.

The author offers advice for single mothers on taking care of their children while re-entering the dating scene.