This advice book for parents and guardians gives tips on how to interpret baby cries, gestures, and facial expressions. The author divides babies into basic types (Angel, Textbook, Touchy, Spirited, and Grumpy) and then gives specific advice on how to interact with babies of each type.
Goes beyond the basics presented in the author's first two child-care guides to offer a series of specific, targeted strategies for solving common challenges faced by parents of children up to three years of age, including feeding problems, sleep troubles, and behavior issues, in a volume complemented by real-life case stories. 125,000 first printi
The author of the bestselling book SECRETS OF THE BABY WHISPERER shares her thoughts on the challenges and joys of parenting a toddler. Topics covered include safety issues, socialization, and toilet training,
Based on interviews with divorced parents, children, therapists and psychologists, the author offers 10 solid principles to enable all involved to function as a family even though they no longer live together. This is a new approach to maintaining strong family relationships after a divorce.
Ron Taffell, family therapist and author of PARENTING BY HEART and WHY PARENTS DISAGREE, offers advice about how to keep your child from losing his or her good sense and morals in today's troubled times.
The former chairwoman of the NAACP and widow of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers draws from her own extraordinary life to share inspiration and advice on everything from triumphing over adversity to achieving selfhood.
This parenting guide explains how adolescents today are influenced by powers outside the home to a much greater degree than in previous generations. The authors suggest practical ways that parents can reinforce positive behavior by extending their own influence to this "second family."
Having successfully helped parents to calm and connect with their baby in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg now provides practical advice and handy tips for parents who've made it through the first year with baby and are now faced with a delightful, yet demanding toddler. In Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers Tracy's unique ...
Based on interviews with divorced parents, children, therapists and psychologists, the author offers 10 solid principles to enable all involved to function as a family even though they no longer live together. This is a new approach to maintaining strong family relationships after a divorce.
"The friendliest parenting guide to come along in a long time."-Child Magazine. How do you help your child open up to you? With so little time in a busy day, how can a parent find that elusive "quality" time? What discipline techniques work for young children, and why?An empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and ...
This groundbreaking book unlocks the secrets of infant language so any parent, grandparent, or caregiver can interpret what a baby is "saying" and give her what she needs. 2 CDs.
Parents start out with so many expectations and have so much advice floating around them. But, what happens if you follow all the "expert" advice and still have a cranky, sleepless baby on your hands? Drawing upon her 20 years as a nurse and midwife, Hogg outlines simple programs for parents to fully understand their babies' unspoken needs not ...
Based on the landmark "Divorce After 40" study, Our Turn reveals that for a majority of women over 40, divorce is a catalyst for self-discovery and growth. Women share inspiring stories of how they have mapped new paths for their futures.
Based on the landmark national Divorce after 40 study--how divorce can be a catalyst for self-discovery, change, and growth. This collection of stories of courage and rebirth--of women taking control of their own lives--is sure to affect every woman who reads it.
Debunking the 13 myths of "perfect parenting", Dr. Ron Taffel gives parents back the confidence they need to nurture today's fast-forward kids. In the face of too much advice, too many pressures, and never enough time, Taffel shows parents how to connect with their children and how this connection can last from day care to dating. First serial to ...
This parenting guide explains how adolescents today are influenced by powers outside the home to a much greater degree than in previous generations. The authors suggest practical ways that parents can reinforce positive behavior by extending their own influence to this "second family."
Our chemist, our window cleaner, our colleague - they populate our days but we often take them for granted. Yet these are the people who bring novelty and information into our lives, allow us to exercise different parts of ourselves and open us up to new opportunities. In their unprecedented examination of people on the periphery, Karen Fingerman, ...
A biography of the woman who set many records as a pilot. Discusses the mystery surrounding her disappearance while attempting to fly around the world.
From "The Baby Whisperer" come her two groundbreaking, national bestselling guides for parents to connect and communicate with their babies and toddlers--now available in this beautiful boxed set.
Advice for rebuilding families after divorce. These daily meditations focus on the inner conflicts experienced by divorced parents. By addressing the personal and spiritual issues that confuse them, parents can communicate their feelings to their children and show those children that they are still part of a family that loves them.
Parenting by Heart is an empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and practical, compassionate solutions. Filled with specific advice tried by thousands of families, this authoritative guide shows what actually works rather than what theoretically should work. Here is the step-by-step guide with hundreds of tested solutions ...
Tracy Hogg knows babies. Her incredible sensitivity and ability to read infants' cries, coos and assorted baby noises quickly earned Tracy the admiration and gratitude of high-profile couples, including a host of celebrities. The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems provides solutions to hundreds of baby care problems, including the Big Three: ...
Tracy Hogg's incredible sensitivity and ability to read infants' cries, coos and assorted baby noises quickly earned her the admiration and gratitude of high-profile couples, including a host of celebrities. In her bestselling book Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Tracy demystified the magic she performed with some 5,000 babies. This handbag-sized, ...
Presents accounts of three notable ocean voyages: the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, Magellan's trip around the world, and the 1838 steamboat race across the Atlantic.
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