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"From Joan of Arc to Queen Elizabeth I, to Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, to Sally Ride and Jennifer Aniston, history is full of women without children. Some chose to forego reproduction in order to pursue intellectually satisfying work--a tension noted by medieval European nuns, 1970s women's liberationists, and modern professionals alike. Some refused to bring children into a world beset by famine, pollution, or climate change. For others, childlessness was involuntary: infertility has been a source of anguish all the way back to the biblical Hannah. But most women without children didn't--and don't--perceive themselves as either proudly childfree or tragically barren. ... It is women ... whose ambivalence throughout their child-bearing years ... makes their choice for them that make up the vast majority of millennials without children in the United States. Drawing on deep archival research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy O'Donnell shows modern women who are struggling to build lives and to figure out whether those lives allow for children that they are part of a long historical lineage"--

"Any parent or teacher who has ever walked out of a concerning appointment with their child's doctor or teacher has experienced a heady mix of emotions--fear, love, confusion, concern, sadness, and perhaps even anger. While every parent hopes for a healthy child, the reality is that children face many common challenges, including medical issues like ADHD, asthma, food allergies, autism, school failure, depression, and developmental delays, throughout their formative years. As the role of a parent becomes one of a caregiver, it can be overwhelming for parents and children alike, particularly if money, time, access, or any combination of those are in short supply. As a balm, Dr. Kelly Fradin offers Advanced Parenting, based on her experience as a complex-care pediatrician. In this crucial guide, parents will find empathy and support as well as evidence-based practical guidance. Of greatest import is the need for tools with which to manage the emotional stress that comes from having a child who deviates from the norm, as well as coping with uncertainty and navigating the business of care. Readers will discover ways to optimize the outcomes for their family and make their day-to-day life easier. Advanced Parenting will help families from the beginning of their journey, beginning with recognizing when a child needs help, accepting the implications of a challenge, obtaining a correct diagnosis, learning about the issue, building a treatment team and coming up with a comprehensive plan. Dr. Fradin explores how a child struggling can affect the entire family dynamic including the parent's relationships and the siblings overall well-being, and with her experience as a complex care pediatrician, she will help parents avoid common mistakes. Parents will feel seen, supported, and better prepared to be both a parent and a caregiver"--

Will Jawando's My Seven Black Fathers tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized."Will Jawando's account of mentorship, service, and healing lays waste to the racist stereotype of the absent Black father. By arguing that Black fathers are not just found in individual families, but are indeed the treasure of entire Black communities, Will makes the case for a bold idea: that Black men can counter racist ideas and policies by virtue of their presence in the lives of Black boys and young men. This is a story we need to hear." -Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistAs a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive. Eventually, he became close to Kalfani, a kid he looked up to on the basketball court. Years after he got the call telling him that Kalfani was dead, another victim of gun violence, Will looks back on the relationships he had with a series of extraordinary mentors who enabled him to thrive.Among them were Mr. Williams, the rare Black male grade school teacher, who found a way to bolster Will's self-esteem; Jay Fletcher, the openly gay colleague of his mother's who got him off junk food and took him to his first play; Wayne Holmes, the high school coach and chorus director who saw him through a crushing disappointment; Deen Sanwoola, the businessman who helped him bridge the gap between his American upbringing and his Nigerian heritage, eventually leading to a dramatic reconciliation with his biological father; and President Barack Obama, who made Will his associate director of public engagement at the White House-and invited him to play basketball on more than one occasion. Without the influence of these men, Will knows he would not be who he is today: a civil rights and education policy attorney, a civic leader, a husband, and a father.Drawing on Will's inspiring personal story, My Seven Black Fathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation.

"Your baby is crying. Are they hungry? Are they tired? With the essential signs in these pages, your baby will learn to convey their emotions and needs, reducing frustration for both you and your baby. Cecilia S. Grugan, a Deaf parent, makes learning these practical signs easy with clear instructions, illustrations, videos, and helpful tips, and provides fun activities for incorporating sign language into your life. Watch as your bond deepens and strengthens when you and your child have the tools to express yourselves!"--cover page 4.

A genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be ?smart,? why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to optimize their potential.Growing up in middle-class suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, Rina Bliss was saw intelligence as her ticket out. Like height and stature, intelligence was said to run in families. The prevailing idea was that mental capacity was determined by our DNA and could be measured; a simple IQ test could predict a child's future.Yet, once Dr. Bliss looked closer, first as a student, then as a scientist, and later as a mom of identical twins who share a genome, she began to challenge conventional wisdom about innate intelligence. In Rethinking Intelligence, she shares her findings, drawing on cutting-edge scientific research to offer a new model for how we understand, define, and assess intelligence, using a measurement that is far more flexible and expansive.Intelligence has little to do with standardized test results or other conventional measures of intellect, Dr. Bliss argues. Intelligence is a process, a journey defined by change that cannot be scored or taken away. Intelligence is influenced by our surroundings in ways that are often overlooked?more than Baby Mozart or flash cards or superfoods, factors like stress, connection, and play actually sculpt young minds.In Rethinking Intelligence, Dr. Bliss shares insights from the burgeoning science of epigenetics to help us harness our environments to empower our minds. If we truly want to nurture potential, we must eliminate toxic stress so that our genes can work optimally, in harmony with our environment. Dr. Bliss offers successful strategies we can use as individuals and a society, including embracing a growth mindset, prioritizing connection, becoming more mindful, and reforming systemic issues?poverty, racism, the lack of quality early childhood education?that have a negative and lasting neurobiological impact.Joining acclaimed works by Carol Dweck, Amy Cuddy, and James Clear, Rethinking Intelligence reframes human behavior and intellect, offering a new perspective for understanding ourselves and our children, and the practical tools necessary to thrive.

?Social Justice Parenting offers guidance and grace for parents who want to teach their children how to create a fair and inclusive world.??Diane Debrovner, deputy editor of Parents magazine?Replete with excellent examples and advice that can help parents raise children with a healthy self-image and regard for the welfare of others."?Jane E. Brody, New York TimesAn empowering, timely guide to raising anti-racist, compassionate, and socially conscious children, from a diversity and inclusion educator with more than thirty years of experience.As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher?in more ways than one. Not only did they take on remote school supervision, but after the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice?with few resources to guide them.Now, in Social Justice Parenting, Dr. Traci Baxley?a professor of education who has spent 30 years teaching diversity and inclusion?will offer the essential guidance and curriculum parents have been searching for. Dr. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of activism, and encourages parents to acknowledge their influence in developing compassionate, socially-conscious kids.Importantly, Dr. Baxley also guides parents to do the work of recognizing and reconciling their own biases. So often, she suggests, parents make choices based on what's best for their children, versus what's best for all children in their community. Dr. Baxley helps readers take inventory of their actions and beliefs, develop self-awareness and accountability, and become role models. Poised to become essential reading for all parents committed to social change, Social Justice Parenting will offer parents everywhere the opportunity to nurture a future generation of humane, compassionate individuals.

Three little birds is a real life account of what it's like to experience infant loss. The book is based on Liana Stemp who's life through pregnancy, birth and babies has been anything from easy.

Este libro va dirigido a padres, educadores, profesionales, cuidadores y cualquiera que esté interesado en conocer y afrontar la tarea de educar con solidez, potenciando las naturales capacidades de los niños y siempre con la vista puesta en su larga etapa de adultos.

'A funny and heart-warming daddy diary' - My Baba'Absolutely brilliant' - (not so) Secret Dads Business'Honest and incredibly relatable' - Not Half Dad PodcastIt begins immediately.There's no transition period, no trial run, no supervised training, no e-learning module and no simulation that you can f**k up as many times as you need to until you get it right.As soon as the midwife hands you your newborn baby, you are responsible for keeping it alive.Picking up moments after Dear Dory ends, Dear Arlo: Adventures in Dadding continues the story of one dad and his journal as he strives to survive the first year of parenthood, blundering his way through bottle-sterilising, night feeds and some cataclysmic nappy changes - all while a pandemic sweeps across the planet.

إنها خطوة أولى مثيرة عندما يبدأ طفلك الصغير في التحرك نحو الانضمام إلى عالم الأكلالفاخر والأذواق الغريبة. في يوم من الأيام ، ستستمتع حزمة الفرح الخاصة بك بالبيتزا معالأصدقاء بعد المدرسة ، وأرجل السلطعون والمقبلات في مطعمهم المفضل ، والنبيذ الفاخر معشخص آخر مهم. لكن أولا ، عليهم التغلب على أساسيات أغذية الأطفال - وأنت أيضًا!إن انتقال طفلك من نظام غذائي سائل من حليب الأم أو الحليب الاصطناعي إلى أطعمة أكثرصلابة تدريجيًا ليس دائمًا بالبساطة التي قد يبدو عليها. تجد العديد من الأمهات أن إطعام الطفلمن أكثر المهام المرهقة والمرهقة في السنة الأولى. ومع ذلك ، مع هذا الدليل السهل المتابعة فيمتناول يدك ، يمكنك تعليم طفلك أن يأكل بثقة ومهارة. مع المعرفة الصحيحة في متناول اليد ،ستقلل من الصداع وتضمن أن يطور طفلك مهاراته في تناول الطعام بسرعة وكفاءة ومتعة قدر