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"Today's youth sports experience provokes countless questions for well-intentioned parents. How young should kids start playing sports? Should they specialize-and when? What should a parent do when their kid is not getting the playing time they think their child deserves? How do parents encourage children without overwhelming them? And most importantly: how do we ensure our kids both reach their true potential on the playing field, and are well-prepared...
23) Love you forever
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28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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A boy grows into adulthood with the support of his mother's love.
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311 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In all the writing and reporting KJ Dell'Antonia has done on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up again and again: parents crave a greater sense of happiness in their daily lives. In this optimistic, solution-packed book, KJ asks: How can we change our family life so that it is full of the joy we'd always hoped for? Drawing from the latest research and interviews with families, KJ discovers that it's possible to do more by doing less,...
26) Because
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A little boy argues that "because" is a perfectly acceptable response to a question, in spite of what his mother says.
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xv, 281 pages ; 24 cm
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The renowned child psychologist explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is -- his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction -- get comfortable with it, and then help him or her pursue and live a life that is congruent with it. But parents also want to have influence....
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xvi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
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Presents an essential guide to the art of talking with children that demonstrates how a change of voice can transform conversations and ease parent-child relationships, sharing strategies for communicating with kids at different age levels.
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239 pages ; 23 cm
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"An authentic and accessible guide to understanding--and engaging in--today's gender conversation. The days of two genders--male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink--are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men or women, instead living outside...
33) Dogtooth
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Greek
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A group of teenagers are confined by their parents in a country estate.
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a parent's musings about what a child will become, knowing that the child's kindness, cleverness, and boldness will shine through no matter what, as will the love they share.
35) Nocturne
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A parent and child enjoy the nighttime world together before bedtime.
36) I am small
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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From the eyes of a baby penguin, the world is a great big place.
38) Wait! wait!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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A young child learns that although creatures that appear can also disappear, parents will always be there.
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"If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then ... read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. It's not always pretty but it's real. Whether she's stuffing cabbage in her bra ... dealing with defiant yet determined daughters ... yelling at the F.B.I. ... or explaining the birds and the bees to her preschooler...
40) Everything
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"One little koala discovers that a mother's love makes everything better, from unhappy tears to twinkly smiles."--Back cover.
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