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Author
Publisher
Muddy Pearl
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty, and low self-esteem, and the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing lockdowns and yet more life online, has only intensified this. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easygoing children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and worry. How can we help them flourish in these infamously "unprecedented" times? Katharine Hill, UK director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline....
Author
Publisher
Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Moskowitz shares what she has learned both as a parent and an educator about raising children to be enthusiastic and successful learners. Her most important message is that parents can and should play a critical role in their children's intellectual development. Each year, children only spend about 180 days in school; how they spend the remaining 185 days is up to their parents. Children who continue to learn when they are out of school will make...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"El gran libro de salud infantil para cuidar de los más pequeños. Manual práctico, ameno y que lo abarca absolutamente todo acerca de las principales dudas pediátricas que tienen los padres sobre cuidados, enfermedades y urgencias de sus hijos de los 0 a los 3 años: lactancia, sueño, cólicos, chupete o chupón, peso, mocos, fiebre, zapatos, piel, vacunas, caídas y golpes, alimentación complementaria, botiquín, desarrollo psicomotor..." --
"The...
Author
Publisher
Gryphon House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Nurture and encourage young writers in the most natural, developmentally appropriate way--through play! Children learn the skills needed for writing and reading on a continuum, over time and at different ages. Within the same classroom, early writers may make scribbles and draw symbols as representations of their ideas, while ready writers may use creative spelling, recognizable words, and illustrations to express more complex concepts and information....
Author
Publisher
Vantage Point
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this wakeup call for parents about the real world boys inhabit right now, Bloom explains how to teach your boy humility (the swagger anti-venom), to make your home a reading mecca, create an expectation of college graduation, and how to teach your boy to be critical of the media onslaught in his life.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Join Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the gang as you go on a reading and math adventures. Learn about counting; how to share fairly; work on problem-solving; reading and comprehension skills; and how to work in a chronological order.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
NPR superstar Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff introduces a highly appealing idea for a world where frantic overparenting has become the norm, proposing that ancestors may hold the answers to how to naturally master parenting where modern theories have failed.
74) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health -- and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
75) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
76) No-drama discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The authors of the Los Angeles Times bestselling The Whole-Brain Child team up again to offer parents of children aged 2-13 a practical roadmap to effective, productive, and more peaceful discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Refresh
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist and a child psychologist team up in this groundbreaking book that gives parents practical tools to help them raise mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive.
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