Collection: Parenting

2000 CBC/NCSS Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Norma Simon uses both the neighborhood and the international stage to celebrate children.

Each carefully chosen example and comparison will help to forge a connection to friends and neighbors, other cultures, and faraway lands. As children enjoy this book, the world will grow a little smaller while understanding and acceptance will grow larger.

From the creator of Finding Cooper's Voice comes a powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love

Now updated with an afterword from the author

Kate Swenson's oldest son, Cooper, was diagnosed with nonverbal autism when he was three years old. Kate had always dreamed of having the perfect family and wasn't prepared for raising a child with a disability. Over the years, she felt the frustration and exhaustion from having to fight for your child in a world stacked against them. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she learned that Cooper wasn't the one who needed to change. She was.

It was this transformation that led Kate to acceptance--and ultimately joy. Because of Cooper, Kate became the person and the mother she was truly meant to be. Now she offers support and connection to others on this path. In Forever Boy, she shares her inspiring journey with honesty and compassion, illuminating the strength and perseverance of mothers.

Certified birth doula and hypnobirthing coach Emma Armstrong wants women to have the power to influence their birth experience by tuning into their body and brain.

Organized into five sections--brain, body, birth, baby, and beyond--this is a fresh, inclusive, and empowering approach to the birth experience. Emma brings in her hypnobirthing skills, using short, snappy language and soundbites to make this book fresh and appealing.

Illustrated with Emma's own distinctive drawings, this is an approachable and engaging book that will speak to Emma's 160K+ followers and anyone expecting a baby who wants engaging and informative support.

Give Your Grandmother the Gift of Love, Memories, and Legacy.

Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story is the perfect place for your Grandmother to tell you her special life story while also creating a cherished legacy that you will return to again and again. Imagine reading your Grandmother's words as she shares her journey. Imagine sitting with your children, her grandchildren, and reading her story to them.

This is the Original and Best-Selling Way for Your Grandmother to Share Her Life Story

Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story uses prompts and questions to guide your Grandmother, making it simple for her to tell the stories of her childhood, her teens, and her adult years. This will be her tale, her triumphs, and her challenges.

Imagine Reading About the Details of Her Amazing Life and Journey.

Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason and Hear Your Story Books have used their years of publishing experience to create this popular series of guided journals. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story has been expertly designed to give your Grandmother a gift she will love while also creating a cherished legacy.

• Over 250 expertly created guided prompts to make it simple for your Grandmother to share her memories with you.
• Each question has plenty of room for your Grandma to write and share her life stories.
• Give your Grandmother the original memory-guided journal. Tens of thousands have been bought for and cherished by families all over the world.
• 100% designed, created, and printed in the US.

Order Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story and give your incredible Grandma a forever gift and the gift of legacy.

The first graphic novel that explores postpartum depression. A story of reconstruction and resilience. Marietta and Chuck, madly in love, are expecting a baby. But childbirth marks the end of the fairy tale. Zoe's birth didn't go as Marietta imagined, and the maternal instinct is slow to manifest itself. While she no longer recognizes her body, Marietta feels herself losing her footing in the face of this vulnerable baby for whom she is now responsible. Will she manage to feel like a mother? To love her baby? To stop thinking that a proxy mom would do better than her? A humorful but realist viewpoint on a problem experienced by a significant number of new mothers, with an insight on how to overcome it.

Cómo te sientes hoy? Los niños experimentan diferentes sentimientos en un solo día, pero no siempre pueden nombrarlos o hablar de ellos fácilmente. Esta serie esencial se centra en las seis emociones principales que experimentan los niños muy pequeños. Cada libro utiliza personajes sin género para ilustrar, identificar y hablar sobre un sentimiento en particular, sugiriendo estrategias de cómo afrontarlo donde sea relevante. Perfecto para desarrollar empatía, resiliencia y unaimagen positiva de uno mismo. Gracias a la Dra. Kathryn Lester, profesora de Psicología del Desarrollo en la Universidad de Sussex, por su valioso asesoramiento durante la creación de esta serie. How are you feeling today? Children experience all kinds of feelings in a single day, but they can't always name them or talk about them easily. This book is part of an essential series that focuses on the six major emotions experienced by very young children. Each book uses non-gendered characters to illustrate, identify and talk about a single feeling, suggesting coping strategies where relevant. Perfect for developing empathy, resilience and a positive sense of self. With thanks to Dr Kathryn Lester, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sussex, for her invaluable advice during the making of this series.

Living with a picky eater who won't try new foods? Tried everything to get your child to eat? Renowned childhood nutrition expert, Jill Castle outlines the Nourished Path(R) to Try New Food, a systematic and strategic approach to help picky eaters taste, eat and like new foods, to move parents from frustration to optimism, and picky eaters from cautious to adventurous.

Instead of waiting it out, or worse, sneaking vegetables or bribing kids with dessert, Try New Food walks parents through a step-by-step process to help kids overcome picky eating. By remodeling the feeding environment and creating a child-centered method, parents learn how to engage and help their picky eaters instead of making things worse. As a workbook, resource and guide, Try New Food equips caretakers with the latest research and practical tips for feeding picky eaters with love, patience and healthy food.

Picky eaters aren't destined to be unhealthy eaters! Parents are empowered to move their kids beyond typical and extreme picky eating behaviors. Try New Food maps out a plan for sensible food options, positive feeding, and effective parenting.

Parents will learn:

• The roots of picky eating
• The best way to interact with fussy eaters around food
• How to set up a fun, encouraging eating environment (without pressure)
• The counter-productive interactions (and language) that make picky eating worse (and what to do and say instead)
• When (and where) to seek more help for extreme picky eaters (those children with ARFID)
• A step-by-step food tasting approach
• How to make mealtimes calmer, meaningful and nutritious

Most of all, Try New Food will help families nourish and nurture their picky eaters while cultivating healthy eating patterns and a healthy relationship with food.

Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no--and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then Mattie dies a sudden and tragic death, and Anne feels herself begin to sink back into depression.

Trying to cope, she immediately adopts Milo--a dog who, unbeknownst to her, has already been returned to the rescue by several families due to his aggressive behavior. But even after she realizes Milo is dangerous, she's committed to trying to give him a chance at a good life.

Anne's journey takes the reader from dog school into the deep woods as she perseveres with Milo's lifelong rehabilitation and her unwavering efforts to be a good mother to her sons. Working with Milo strengthens Anne and expands her ability to love. Ten years later, when Milo dies, Anne faces another choice: close the door to that part of her heart, or risk loving another dog after two tragic losses?

The first pregnancy book with an Ayurvedic approach to conscious conception, pregnancy, labor + birth, and postpartum. This robust guide includes more than 50 traditional practices, recipes, and remedies.

Ayurveda, India's ancient and holistic system of health, offers timeless wisdom on the sacred process of bringing life into this world. Ayurveda Mama offers ways to prepare your body, mind, and life before conception, and guidance on how to nourish yourself (and your little one) throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Dhyana includes tips on diet, lifestyle, herbs, and oils so that you experience vibrancy and vitality.

You will:

• Learn traditional Ayurvedic rituals for conscious conception
• Feel prepared for your unique birthing experience
• Be equipped with Ayurvedic techniques to invoke auspiciousness, balance, and ease for labor and birth
• Have the tools needed to assure that your Sacred Window, or postpartum period, is one of the most profound, restorative, and memorable experiences of your life
• Feel assured that you are deeply nourished and cared for so that you can care for your little one
• Includes over 50 supportive traditional practices, recipes for optimal health, instructions for creating your own nontoxic home products, and elixirs to treat common ailments

It's 10pm, the golden hour. You're tired after a long day. The dishes are done, homework finished, and the kids are finally asleep. But no sooner is your head on your pillow before you hear them coming...those feet down the hallway. They're coming for you, coming for your rest, coming for your sanity, coming for your bed! You are losing sleep and patience, but the real concern is the effect on your child. Parents know that sleep is vital but often don't know how to help their child become an independent sleeper without the bedtime battles.

Banish Bedtime Battles presents an easy method to get your school-aged child to sleep in their own bed throughout the night. With expert guidance, you'll help your child develop critical coping skills essential to increasing their confidence and competence at bedtime (and beyond!). Armed with powerful parenting strategies presented in the book, you'll be ready to use your personalized six-week plan to solve your child's nighttime struggles. You'll master specific skills to refine and maintain the new bedtime routine, with plenty of troubleshooting tips. Finally, you can enjoy some well-deserved peace, quiet, and sleep!

The first comprehensive anatomy and yoga practice manual for postpartum pelvic healing--a gender-inclusive guide to poses, practices, and exercises for pelvic-floor, pain, dysfunction, and recovery

Includes full-color photos, 7 weeks of yoga sequences, and an individualized step-by-step guided self-assessment

Pelvic floor pain, injury, and dysfunction are incredibly common among postpartum people--but despite the critical importance of ongoing pelvic support and recovery post-birth, most doctors, physical therapists, and healing professionals simply aren't equipped to offer helpful, personalized advice to ease postpartum symptoms like postpartum pain, discomfort, urinary incontinence, and painful intercourse.

Rebecca Weisman (CIYT, CYT) and Meagen Satinsky (MPT, PYT) offer the first comprehensive anatomy and yoga practice manual geared toward healing postpartum pelvic issues. With full-color images, accessible tools, and step-by-step poses and breathwork exercises, Yoga for Pelvic Floor and Postpartum Health empowers readers to get to know this vital part of their own body--and reclaim agency in caring for their own postpartum recovery, postural support, organ health, and sexual function.

• Part 1: Anatomy reviews the anatomy of the pelvis and surrounding regions, with a special emphasis on helping you develop a deeper, more knowledgeable, and more loving connection to your own body
  
• Part 2: Sequences of Asana for Practice introduces Iyengar yoga and breathwork practices to support pelvic healing--and guides you through a flexible 7-week asana sequence that you can do on your own time and come back to again and again
  
• Part 3: Special Topics addresses specific pelvic concerns like painful intercourse, perineal tears, Cesarean delivery, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis rectus abdominis, urinary issues, pelvic pain during menopause, low back pain, postpartum depression and anxiety, and more
  

Yoga for Pelvic Floor and Postpartum Health is appropriate for any stage of your postpartum journey--whether you gave birth vaginally or by Cesarean, ten days, ten weeks, or ten years ago. With a guided self-assessment, full-color and 3-D layered graphics, and compassionate, expert counsel, readers can return to specific poses and sequences again and again on their pelvic healing journey.

Humorous art keeps children focused as they practice contemporary cursive handwriting. Addresses all 26 letters of the alphabet through writing letters, words, and sentences. Also includes step-by-step letter formation, writing upper- and lowercase letters, writing numbers, short paragraphs, and more!

Does your child have difficulty meeting deadlines, staying organized, or keeping track of important information? Do they tend to forget details? Are they prone to emotional meltdowns? This book will become your go-to, all-inclusive guide to helping children manage issues with these executive functions, a set of related yet distinct mental skills that allow us to stay on target as we work toward our goals.

Packed with encouragement, strategies, overviews, case studies, tips, and more, this newly revised edition offers science-based information explained in accessible, everyday language. You will find down to earth examples and a flexible framework that allows you to think on your feet and adapt the strategies to any child or situation.

In addition to providing approaches for helping your child to manage demands in the short run, this book offers strategies for building independent skills for long-term self-management. Covering what you need to know, as well as what you can do, Late, Lost, and Unprepared gives parents the support they need to help their child become productive and independent - today and in the future.

Discover simple ways children can look after themselves, from naming feelings and moving their body, to building boundaries, and caring for their friends!

Learning to look after yourself is an important part of growing up, and it can also be fun! By being mindful of their mental, physical, and social wellbeing, children can be more confident in navigating tricky situations and new experiences. Whether it is taking care of their senses, learning about respect, or unwinding when they feel overwhelmed, this book is packed full of helpful ideas and tips for little ones and their grown-ups.

Written by clinical psychologist and author, Nancy Shapiro, who believes that teaching children how to care for themselves can help them in later life, this book's impactful information is balanced out by cute and bright illustrations from Vânia Sacramento.

This book will teach little ones about:

• Sleep
• Caring for their senses
• Nutritious food
• Being active
• Learning new skills
• What to do when something doesn't feel right
• Checking in with their body
• Friendships
• Boundaries
• Time alone and time with others
• Asking for help
• Knowing their opinion and how to say 'no'
• Expecting respect
• Naming their feelings
• Communication
• Caring for other people
• Unwinding

Wonderful Me is a fantastic first introduction for kids to key topics and skills that will help them to care for themselves as they grow and navigate the world they live in. With a sunny and cheerful color scheme, this book is comforting yet revolutionary, at a time when it's becoming more important than ever to teach children these vital skills.

Pregnant and alone, I felt abortion was my only option. When I couldn't bring myself to go through with the abortion, I set out on a lifetime's journey as a Jewish birth mother. Twenty-plus years later, I not only speak to other women about being a Jewish Birthmother and my experience with adoption, but I also discuss my fight through the life in which I have lived.

I ran from telling my story because of the shame - ashamed of myself and afraid of shaming my family. I ran for many years, but now I stand strong. It's time to break the stigma!

As the rate of children with anxiety climbs steadily, teachers and parents need ways to help children manage their anxiety while at school. In Helping Children Manage Anxiety at School, author Colleen Wildenhaus uses her experience as a parent and teacher to help parents and teachers understand anxiety, create a classroom environment that supports positive mental health, and offers a guide for creating a plan for the anxious child.

How do you help the child who refuses to go to school, sits alone rather than with peers, or defies all requests to complete assignments? While these situations often lead teachers and parents to identify their child's reactions as misbehavior, the truth is anxiety is often the root cause. Using real-life scenarios, easy to implement strategies, and hands-on exercises, parents and teachers will learn that anxiety is treatable with the right tools, allowing them to provide the necessary guidance and support to children who need it most.

Using the information in this book, parents and teachers will have the knowledge to help an anxious child increase their confidence and independence, reestablish peer relationships, improve their emotional well being, and see a rise in their academic abilities. With the purchase of this book, you gain access to over 20 free printable PDFs focused on supporting the anxious child.

Backed by years of personal experience and success, Helping Children Manage Anxiety at School gives parents and teachers the strategies and information they need to positively support the mental health of children in the classroom.