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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
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"A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults. What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive...
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Offering "parent-tested, pediatrician-approved advice," Heading Home With Your Newborn has everything you'll need to prepare for the first few months of your infant's life. Written by two pediatrician-moms, this award-winning book includes information on everything from your baby's appearance, health, feeding, and sleeping habits to changing, dressing, traveling, sickness, and more!
Presents advice on caring for a newborn baby during the first eight...
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Folded Wisdom is an inspirational testament to the depth of a father's love for his children, and an intimate look into beautiful, raw, human communication. Within the pages of this book, Joanna Guest shares the insightful notes her father drew for her and her brother Theo every day for nearly 15 years.
For her entire childhood, Joanna's father, Bob, had a ritual: wake up at dawn, walk the dog, and sit down at the kitchen table with a blank pad of...
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In this poignant and timely memoir, Melanie Merriman shares her struggle to care for her fiercely independent aging mother. When her father dies, Melanie commits herself to making the rest of her mother's life the best it can be. She brings knowledge to the situation--as a hospice consultant, she has studied aging, illness, and the intricacies of the healthcare system--and she has a sister who is willing to help. But even with these advantages, Melanie...
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If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.
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As seen on the Today Show, Dynamic Aging isn't that same old senior fitness, senior stretching, senior strength book you've seen again and again. This book is about using simple exercises to feel better and get back to living vitally no matter your age.
Don't blame your age if you're feeling creaky. It could just be the way you're using (or not using) your body. ―Washington Post on Dynamic Aging as a Book for the Ages
Movement is a powerful tool...
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