A first-year child care manual with information on baby's monthly growth and development, feeding, sleeping habits, illness, and safety.

Provides guidance for raising male children, covering male biology, what boys need from their mothers and fathers, the importance of a "tribe," the passage into manhood, and how to teach boys about discipline, values, morality, spirituality, sex, and love.

As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...

Describes simple but effective ways to reduce the antagonism between siblings.

Advice for understanding a three-year-old including toilet training, eating habits, friendships, fears, language skills, and nursery school.

Who's in charge at your house? Welcome to the 25th Anniversary of 1-2-3 Magic : Effective Discipline for Children 2-12. Thousands of parents have said, "It works like magic!" The 1-2-3 book has sold over 1,250,000 copies, been translated into 20 languages, adn it is consistently the #1-selling child discipline book on Amazon.com. Why? 1-2-3 Magic is simple, easy-to-learn, and it works--quickly. The brand-new 4th edition of this evidence-based program...

Describes a step-by-step program designed to help parents deal with some of the common problems that occur throughout childhood, from toddler through preteen years.

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In asking, what are the effects of children on their parents, journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's...

"Ellen's personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives...