child rearing

A guide to potty training for parents, which covers how to identify a child's personality type, determine readiness, and provides various approaches based on personality type readiness; and also discusses possible training interruptions and setbacks.

A guide to raising boys, combining the best of past and present knowledge to answer questions about teaching boys healthy sexuality, discipline, values, respect, intimacy, and self-reliance.

"[This book] explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic education system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain futures--and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness"--Dust jacket.

"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most"--Provided by publisher.

A first-year child care manual with information on baby's monthly growth and development, feeding, sleeping habits, illness, and safety.

The author, educated in an all-girls school, succeeded in achieving her dreams in male-dominated fields and now reflects on the aspects of her upbringing and education that contributed to that success. Describes the skills, traits, and tools girls need today to succeed, such as competitiveness, collaboration, empathy, adaptability, grit, resilience, audacity, and self-confidence. Draws on research and personal experience to offer parents and educators practical advice for helping girls nurture their innate talents, thrive, and find joy and purpose in their lives.

Offers parents advice and guidance to teach babies and toddlers American Sign Language for improved communication before the possibility of speech.

"Combining . . . scientific research with a host of . . . activities, the authors show [readers] how to access nature with [their] children. From making the most of local parks, woodlands, the beach, and[their] own back garden, 'Growing Up Wild' gives [readers] easy ways to get out there, connect with nature, and have fun together"--OCLC.

Presents a collection of fifty stories that help young children cope with various difficult situations including teasing, fear of the dark, or moving to another town.