parenting

Offers parents, educators, and health professionals advice on how to talk with kids about how alcohol and other drugs interact with their minds and bodies, providing information on each type of drug and their side effects.

Describes for teenage parents how to discipline young children using teaching strategies rather than punishment and offers the advice and comments of young parents themselves.

Describes for teenage parents the development and special needs of children from one to three and offers advice and comments from many young parents themselves.

Discusses the issues that often lead to conflict between mothers and daughters with the inset of the teenage years, and offers advice on how to solve problems and develop a close mother/daughter relationship.

Provides parents with advice on helping their teenager uncover his or her talent, skill, or interest and discusses the benefits of doing so.

Ed Wintle, an early-forties gay man living in Manhattan, chronicles his attempts to deal with his thirteen-going-on-thirty niece during the year she spent living with him.

Offers parents of teenagers advice and strategies to help them deal with the many challenges they face as their children grow up.

Mary Anne enjoys babysitting, but she learns that taking care of a baby is a big responsibility when she has to play pretend parent to an egg "baby" for a special class at school.