Dr. Kevin Leman's ever-popular book on birth order is getting a new look and updated writing. With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with ...
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged? Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Jeanne Safer takes us into the ...
With more than 1 million copies sold, Sisters changed the face of photo-essay books and spoke volumes to every person blessed with a female sibling. Now the updated and revised edition of highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, a moving portrayal of the profound relationship between sisters, is available in a charming Miniature Edition.
The Everything Twins, Triplets, and More Books provides valuable information on: - Knowing what to expect from trimester to trimester - Making the decision to breastfeed - Creating schedules for sleeping and eating - Getting organized with the proper supplies - Finding support from family and friends
What she did for women and men in "You Just Don't Understand," and mothers and daughters in "You're Wearing THAT?, New York Times"-bestselling author Tannen now does for sisters in a groundbreaking book that explores this powerful and perplexing relationship.
Most parents try to treat their twins as individuals, but most unwittingly undermine their best intentions because they lack a practical set of guidelines for raising emotionally healthy multiples. Drawing on her unique experience as a twin, the mother of twins, and as a psychotherapist, Dr. Joan A. Friedman outlines the seven key concepts for ...
Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions leading to anguish and confusion in the playground, in the home and in the boardroom. A woman's experience negotiating her feelings towards a sister shapes her psychology as forcefully as do her relationships with her parents. By exploring sisterhood, Terri Apter reveals ...
The bond between sisters is like no other. It is a deeply shared sense of love, loyalty, and devotion that is uniquely shared by sisters alone. A sister is there when you hurt, and she's there to share your joy. Sisters share secrets, sorrow, celebrations, and successes. Many relationships come and go, but sisters are sisters forever. The pages of ...
After Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey from Carlisle, Iowa gave birth to seven babies in November 1997, the couple hired an agent to handle the flood of media attention they have received as a result. Here, they tell the details of how they came to have four boys and three girls, and what their typical day is like. The McCaugheys cite their faith in God ...
This is an insightful new guide on one of childhood's greatest challenges. The teasing, squabbling, competition and ferocious fights of brothers and sisters can drive any parent to frantic desperation. At the same time, Drs Brazelton and Sparrow point out, siblings are learning from one another and deep, close relationships are forming that will ...
From pregnancy to health issues, to eating, sleeping, bathing, and leaving the house, "Juggling Twins" is packed with the detailed, authoritative information that parents of multiples crave.
Sisters are wonderful, and sisters are terrible. Depending on the day, the mood, the weather, or the time of day, a sister can be a companion, an adversary, an enemy, or a soulmate, but no matter what, a sister is always a best friend, and the combination of animal photos and quotes in this delightful gift book celebrate the unique duality of ...
Since 1994, Siblings of Children with Autism has been helping parents meet the needs of siblings in families of children with autism. During many years in clinical practice, the authors have worked with hundreds of families and seen firsthand how siblings can become overshadowed by the intensive focus on a child with autism. This common occurrence ...
Dr. Segal brings together cutting-edge information and illustrative case histories of twins and their families to explore ways in which twins enhance our knowledge of human behavior and physical development, while shedding new light on evolutionary psychology. Foreword by Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., Ph.D.
This is a practical guide for rebuilding a healthy relationship with your adult siblings. Rivalry, jealousy, pent-up anger, decades-old grudges, tension, and strife for many brothers and sisters, these emotions remain well into adult life. Often, they can overshadow the love that siblings genuinely feel for each other. Drawing on his extensive ...
The author proposes that your birth order--whether you were born first, second, or later in your family--powerfully influences what kind of person you are, who you marry, the job you choose, and the kind of parent you'll be.
In an authoritative and delightfully readable combination of clinical research and children's own descriptions, this superb book provides a detailed evaluation of what parents can expect from their children's relationships with each other at each stage of development.
When The Sibling Bond was first published, the word sibling was almost synonymous with the word rivalry. But Stephen Bank and Michael Kahn changed all that with this pathbreaking book, which provides a rare glimpse into the inner lives of siblings and explores their unique and enduring relationships. . Updated with a new introduction by the ...
This book is essential reading for all sisters. It's an enchanting collection of feelings, insights, and beautiful reflections, celebrating one of life's most special bonds. For those who have been graced with the companionship of a truly wonderful sister... this is the gift you've been waiting for.
A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Indivisible by Two introduces us to an assortment of memorable characters, from the 'Fireman Twins' - brothers who, though reared separately, are astonishingly ...
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