Collection: Parenting

'A goldmine of wisdom' CYNDI DARNELL
'Gentle, kind and embracing' JUNO ROCHE
'Interesting and engaging' JUSTIN HANCOCK

Gay, straight, queer, pansexual, demisexual, ace...? Sexuality is complex and diverse, but it doesn't have to be confusing.

This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for understanding, accepting and celebrating your sexuality. Written by two internationally renowned authors and therapists, the book explains how sexuality works in terms of our identities, attractions, desires and practices, and explores how it intersects with our personal experiences and the world around us.

With activities and reflection points throughout, it offers space to tune into yourself and think deeply about your own sexuality. You'll hear from people across the sexuality spectrum and in different relationship set-ups, and be inspired by the ideas of scholars, activists and practitioners. Sexuality is a vast and wonderful landscape - let this book guide you on your journey!

A renowned photographer and a Pura Belpré Honor-winning illustrator join forces for a playful and stylish picture book that's destined to make the world a better place, one word at a time.

Perfectly pitched to the youngest child, Alexi Lubomirski's whimsical text is a gentle reminder that words have power--the power to hurt or to heal, to make someone feel small or feel tall. Carlos Aponte's buoyant illustrations, in dazzling primary colors and bold black line, pair with a dynamic text design to create a visual symphony. An eye-catching appeal to our better natures, this inspired meditation on the purpose and power of words encourages children to choose them well--and use them wisely--to spread kindness, joy, and love.

Slow Pleasure is a practical and philosophical exploration of pleasure, teaching you how to claim, prioritize and integrate pleasure into your daily life.

We live in a world of breakneck speed and it can be intimidating and nearly impossible to slow down. In this crisis of pace, we are often disembodied, disconnected, and forget that we even live in a body! In this beautiful book, pleasure coach and educator Euphemia Russell (they/them) teaches us that, despite our collective challenges, we can cultivate pleasure and connection. Starting with the philosophy of pleasure, Euphemia deepens your understanding and then helps you interrogate what is impeding your ability to feel the whole pleasure spectrum. Slow Pleasure will help you establish a pleasure practice of your own, expand your pleasure dial, help you understand your desires and teach you how to continue to explore the depths and boundaries of your pleasure. Woven throughout the book are reflection questions and pleasure practices that bring you back into your body, make you slow down to listen to yourself, and help you consciously begin to prioritize your pleasure. Slow Pleasure teaches us that pleasure goes way beyond sex and should be cultivated and celebrated in every moment.

Signs & Skymates is your ultimate guide to astrological compatibility--from romance to self-love--from star astrologer and founder of @ScorpioMystique and KnowTheZodiac Dossé-Via Trenou.

Get to know yourself, your partner(s), and your friendships through the full constellation of your astrological self! In Signs & Skymates West African astrologer Dossé-Via Trenou uses her signature whole-chart approach to reveal how your Sun, Moon, Rising, Mercury, Venus, and Mars signs contribute to astrological compatibility--and serve as the basis for romantic and platonic relationships, as well as your all-important relationship with yourself.

Using astrology as a guiding light in her evolutionary approach to compatibility, Dossé-Via invites you to connect to your innermost self, and others, in new and more expansive ways. Through chapters on the role of each chart placement, as well as comprehensive explorations of relationships between different signs, Signs & Skymates dismantles ideas of which signs "go together," encouraging readers to expand their ideas about each sign--including the ones in their own chart. Discover the joys, challenges, and opportunities in your relationships as you deepen your knowledge of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

A reassuring book about feeling surprised.

Written for parents of children from toddlers to teens, this book gives parents a science-based plan to help their children grow up to be emotionally healthy adults.

To build healthy and lasting parent-child relationships, parents need practical strategies that meet their child's needs and address the circumstances that affect their families. A parent's job unfolds and shifts over time. Concerns about sleep become worries about tantrums; anxieties about sharing become fears about grades and acting out in school. These concerns are natural, but many parents struggle to handle it all. Some feel drained, some lash out, and some feel like the worst parents in the world.

This book shows parents how to use a six-step program to build a stronger relationship with their child. It teaches parents how to set parenting goals, prioritize their own emotional health, and create a structure for their family. Having laid that three-step foundation, parents learn the importance of accepting their child for who they are, containing their behavior, and acting as a leader. Prioritizing these six areas and making a plan for them will allow readers to parent proactively rather than reactively and focus on what matters most. No one can be a perfect parent, but you can be a good enough parent, one who shepherds their child toward a healthy, productive adulthood.

Practicing law is hard work, and being a mom is even harder! Are you a mommy and a lawyer? Are your children struggling to understand what you're up to while you're at work? Are you juggling a demanding career and little ones at home? Feeling guilty when you can't be there for every special moment with your child throughout the day? If so, this book is for you!

Molly Bowen wrote Mommy Lawyer to teach her children about her career but, more importantly, to give herself and other mommy lawyers a tool to help children be more understanding and proud of the fact that they have a working mother.

After taking the time to teach them about her career through Mommy Lawyer, Molly discovered that her kids more supportive and less disappointed when she occasionally missed a special day at school or didn't make it home in time to tuck them in. Mommy Lawyer not only provides children with a basic understanding of what lawyers do, it helps children see their working mother's career in a more positive light.

If you're a mommy lawyer trying to balance it all, Molly hopes this book will empower you and your family to engage about your career - and the challenges that come with it - in an effective and beneficial way.

Mommy Lawyer is the first of a series of children's books dedicated to developing a more compassionate and supportive relationship between working parents and their children.

The ultimate laugh-out-loud gift for any pun lover or Super Dad out there!

Q: What super power do you get when you become a parent?

A: Supervision.

Super Dad Jokes is perfect for all heroes out there--from the dad experts to the first-time fathers embracing their most cringe-worthy dad powers! This new edition from USA Today bestselling author Jimmy Niro has over 500 magnificent puns, stories, and anti-jokes--the best way to celebrate and laugh at dad's super (bad) joke skills! The perfect birthday gift, holiday stocking stuffer, or white elephant gag gift from any daughter, son, or partner to the super dad or grandpa who makes their eyes roll with super speed. Arm yourself against the forces of evil and good taste with this heroically funny joke book. It's time to save the world, one joke at a time!

Includes knee-slappers like:

I have a fear of speed bumps, but I'm slowly getting over it.

Q: What is the sleepiest fruit?

A: Napricot.

"Dad, do you want a box for your leftovers?"

"No, but I'll wrestle you for them!"

What does it mean to be nourished?

Nothing could be more basic than food. However, food is only one part of the concept of nourishment, but it has consumed our focus and eclipsed something far more critical for thriving-connection. We have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families is about human relationship and emotional well-being.

In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food. After reading this seminal work, it will be impossible to ever view food as just plain food again.

As parents we need our kids to be receptive to what we offer but the road to the stomach must go through the heart. As relational and emotional creatures, our deepest hunger is one that food by itself cannot fill. In this book, Dr. MacNamara gives us the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding our children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of attachment. Based on developmental and relational science, qualitative research with families, counselling parents, and her own experience as a mother, in Nourished, MacNamara combines storytelling with science and puts food in its rightful place.

In comics-style panels full of facts and humor, this lively picture book investigates the amazing lengths animal mothers go to in caring for their young.

An emperor penguin mom treks up to fifty miles to bring food to her hungry chick. A toothy American alligator carefully carries hatchlings in her mouth, shuttling them safely to the water. A piping plover uses her best acting skills to feign an injury, luring predators away from her offspring. Whether building elaborate burrows, forgoing food for months on end to feed their cubs, toting hundreds of spiderlings on their backs, conducting patient swimming lessons, or fearlessly kicking away hyenas, mothers in the animal kingdom--whatever their species--give it their all (and then some!) to keep their little ones safe, fed, and ready to face the world on their own. This first book in a young series on animal science includes in its back matter a look at the "super" qualities of some of the animals and offers a collection of resources for budding naturalists.

"When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it's our job to share our calm, not to join their chaos." --L.R. Knost

This soothing board book by child psychologist, professor and author Dr. Jillian Roberts was written to remind us that the little people in our lives need us to be their calm. To recognize their big feelings, teach them how to honor them and let them go. A valuable tool to help young ones learn to co-regulate, Calm is just as much for babies as it is the adults in their lives.

A knitting book with a difference! Rhymes and photos bring a thorough introduction to knit stitch and purl stitch, followed by simple, enticing patterns for animals. The patterns are easy and exciting to make, and the completed projects are fun to play with. More complicated instructions and patterns follow in the second half of the book.

Thoroughly revised--combining both the original First Book of Knitting for Children with the authors' followup Knitting for children--this book is for both children and adults as an invaluable resource for learning how to knit. Clear instructions, interesting patterns, and artistic photographs make this a must for anyone with an interest in knitting.

Recommended for all ages!

Positive, practical and realistic, this book offers a wealth of information on women, dating and relationships for men with Asperger Syndrome (AS).

Many AS men are totally confused and bewildered by women and relationships and find it hard to know what to do, what to say and how to get it right. For these men, understanding the emotional side to relationships and women's needs can be a complete mystery and they often get it disastrously wrong. This practical handbook provides the answers to Asperger men's most frequently asked questions about women, dating and relationships, helping them to understand the way relationships work and increasing their confidence and ability to have successful relationships.

This comprehensive handbook is essential reading for men with Asperger Syndrome (and their partners). It will also be of immeasurable use to counsellors and other professionals working with such individuals.

Spark conversation and grow closer with these 400 questions for couples.

Having fun together is a paramount part of a strong and happy relationship.This book of questions is full of insightful and revealing topics, so you and your partner can connect and have a blast discovering what makes each of you unique and a great match for each other.

Go beyond other relationship books for couples with:

• ALL KINDS OF CONVERSATIONS: Discuss a variety of questions, from your favorite movies and meals to your most important memories and feelings about intimacy.
• NO PRESSURE: The flexible format means you can tackle these questions in any order, whenever you have the time. Answer a whole bunch at once, or once in a blue moon--it's up to you.
• QUESTIONS FOR COUPLES AT EVERY STAGE: Stay connected and show you care, whether you're newly dating, long-distance, or a longtime couple just looking to spice things up.

Discover more about yourself, your partner, and your relationship with these fun and meaningful questions.

Congratulations, the day has finally arrived! You're officially a GROWN UP! Which is great in theory, but maybe a bit more stressful in practise...

Here's what's coming towards you very quickly...

You're going to have to learn how to cook, clean, find a job, fix your car, live away from home and manage your money. You'll need to eat the right stuff (sorry, but noodles 24/7 just won't cut it), ace the job interview, impress your boss and fix your flat tire on Monday morning so you get to work or college on time. Ideally you'll make more money than you spend, make new friends, maybe even start your own business and create a life you love.

These are all the important life skills we need to know as an adult, that we're NOT taught in school!

Right, don't panic! You're in the right place. This book will share with you the proven tips & strategies to make your adulting days the best days of your life.

In Adulting for Beginners you'll discover:

• The basics you need to stock your kitchen with to always have something to eat
• Easy meal plans and ideas to keep your body healthy, even if you hate cooking.
• How to do useful stuff like do your laundry, how to fix your toilet and never run out of toilet paper
• First aid tips, better health strategies, and how to make exercise fun
• How to choose the right apartment, house, and flatmates to avoid trouble
• Exactly how to find a job, negotiate your salary and get on the promotion fast track even if it's your first job!
• How to change your oil, fix a flat tire and look after your car even if you're not a mechanic!
• When to create a rainy day fund, 401Ks and how to manage debt without stress
• How to expand your income by becoming an entrepreneur and creating passive income opportunities
• How to make money, pay your taxes and prepare to buy a house in the future.
• And tons more grown up survival tips and tricks in this guide for students, graduates, girls, women, men and boys!

With this book you'll be able to look forward to many happy years as a successful and happy adult. So grab a copy today.

An awesome high school graduation gift

The book is also the perfect high school graduation, new job and college gift. It's packed full of adulting life hacks to help your daughter, granddaughter, niece or friend succeed in the world.