"This Beautiful Day gathers the most beloved advice and insight from Mister Roger's work into a collection of 365 daily reflections. Every page is an invitation to generosity, compassion, and joy-all in the warm voice of Mister Rogers, whose dearly-loved work and timeless insight has shaped the lives of countless children and adults. With advice on everything from navigating transitions to nurturing community, Mister Rogers's words of wisdom are a gentle reminder to move through the world with wonder, embrace what makes us unique, and show up for our neighbors. Our days are filled with ups and downs, unexpected challenges and beautiful moments, but regardless of what each day may hold This Beautiful Day is a kind reminder from a beloved neighbor that, "you don't have to be anything more than who you are right now." This Beautiful Day is part of The Day by Day series, a collection of books designed to help readers infuse the rhythms of their lives with meaning and intention. Our lives are built by small choices, tiny moments, and quiet thoughts-the Day by Day series is a gentle way to choose those moments and begin to build a life you love"--
Feel informed and empowered with this thoroughly updated, full-color pregnancy guide, which recognizes that “one size fits all” doesn’t apply to maternity care.Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the comprehensive guidance you need to make informed decisions about having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period–decisions that reflect your preferences, priorities, and values. This sixth edition includes: -CDC guidelines regarding COVID-19 -Updated dietary guides and breastfeeding and surrogacy information -Birth plans including doulas and caesarians when necessary -Tips on how to reduce stress -And so much morePregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn is inclusive, reflecting today's various family configurations such as single-parent families, blended families formed by second marriages, families with gay and lesbian parents, and families formed by open adoption or surrogacy. This pregnancy guide speaks to today's parents-to-be like no other.
Certified birth doula and hypnobirthing coach Emma Armstrong, wants women to have the power to influence their birth experience for the better.Combining the compelling content and joyful illustrations of The Fearless Birth Book with interactive exercises and practical journaling prompts, The Fearless Birth Planner empowers you to dream plan and prepare to pivot when the time comes.Journeying through four key sections – Brain, Body, Birth and Baby & Beyond – this book helps you anticipate this most exciting time of life and reflect on what to expect along the way and on the big day (or days) of the birth itself.With vibrant illustrations injecting positivity into every page, this is the perfect gift for a pregnant loved one – or a gift for yourself, because after all, you deserve it!
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn with severe brain defects, Suzy was sentenced to a life of "nevers." With the unwavering support of her mother, Jane, and extended family, Suzy's miraculous journey has given many experts reason to question the medical textbooks that have been written. From predictions that she would never walk, talk, or function in society, Suzy overcame all these obstacles with determination and perseverance-not even allowing final-stage renal failure at the age of twenty-four to deter her. This book is not just a tribute to Suzy, but a roadmap for all parents experiencing the challenges of raising a child with disabilities and/or medical issues. Never a victim, Suzy proceeded through infant stimulation, studies in public and specialized schools, and summer programs geared to the disabled community. Her achievements include winning medals during the Tournament of Champions, performing in a dance recital, celebrating a Bat Mitzvah, living independently, and holding a position as a classroom assistant for the past twenty-three years. Her joy of life to this day, offers us hope while showing us that giving up is not a choice.While her IQ score identifies Suzy with severe intellectual disabilities, she never ceases to show kindness, empathy, selflessness, and compassion for others. Told with the hope that other parents will learn from her successes, and failures, this is also a story of the power of perseverance, courage, and love.
"In your heart you probably suspect that homeschooling is better for your kids, but how do you do it? Sam Sorbo knows, and her family is testament to the fact it works."--TUCKER CARLSONThis book is a work of LOVE.Love of truth, love of freedom, love for children everywhere, and therefore love for their parents who have been trapped in a system of abuse.From actress, conservative pundit, radio show host, writer, and passionate child home education advocate Mrs. Sam Sorbo: PARENTS' GUIDE TO HOMESCHOOL: MAKE HOME EDUCATION EASY AND FUN - a soup-to-nuts, all-you-need-to-know-to-get-you-started workbook for parents who want to homeschool their children.Mrs. Sam Sorbo offers personal experience, insights, and encouragement to begin you and your children's true educational journey, including: School LiesDefining EducationSacrifice and PrioritiesSocializationGoals and ToolsEducational PhilosophiesDifferent Learning StylesDefining SuccessDisciplineParenting 101And much more!PARENTS' GUIDE TO HOMESCHOOL is the workbook for every parent looking to protect their children, encourage creativity and true learning and for families who want education to be easy, fun, and safe.It's time to get started NOW!YOU CAN DO IT!
Childhood & the Enneagram serves as an innovative guide for parents and caregivers, offering invaluable insights into raising resilient, self-aware, and compassionate children.Drawing from a blend of attachment theory, childhood development, and the transformative power of the Enneagram, Susan Parker Jones shares a philosophy and approach rooted in her experience as a psychotherapist specializing in childhood trauma and loss.In a world where parenting advice often feels overwhelming and one-size-fits-all, Susan offers a refreshing approach that blends ancient wisdom with modern insights.Inviting parents and guardians on a transformative journey of self-discovery and compassionate parenting, she empowers caregivers to understand their children’s unique personalities and needs on a deeper level, fostering authentic connections and resilience from an early age.Susan emphasizes the importance of nurturing children’s three centers of intelligence—head (IQ), heart (EQ), and body (GQ)—to cultivate “wholehearted connection” while instilling the truth that every child is brave and worthy of love and belonging.Caregivers are invited to embark on a journey of self-discovery, exploring their own childhood narratives alongside practical strategies for guiding their children.Ultimately, this helpful guide equips caregivers with the tools and insights needed to navigate the complexities of childhood development, fostering deeper connections with their children while prioritizing their own well-being.By embracing this journey, caregivers can aspire to raise resilient, empathetic individuals prepared to face the world with courage, wisdom, and compassion.
This book enables readers to understand, manage, and improve the way their child copes with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Learning Disorders (LD), and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and cultivates positive beliefs around learning differences in order to help neurodiverse children thrive.
A book for anybody who has, or works with, children (of any age) with 'out of control' behaviour, including parents, teachers and healthcare professionals. Raising Attention busts commonly believed myths surrounding ADHD and 'naughty' children, discusses up to date neuroscience and genetics research in an accessible way and provides practical tips that really make a difference to both children and the adults who care for them. Written by bestselling childcare expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith, herself a mother of a young adult with ADHD, there are plenty of heartwarming and heartbreaking personal stories included to bring the book to life. If you've ever felt exhausted, helpless, guilty, embarrassed or shamed for your child's behaviour, this supportive and non-judgemental book is for you.
In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students. Reframing resilience via Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, the book offers school professionals and educational researchers an epistemological tool to reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change.
Building off his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound--and often confounding--transformation.The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself. Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help.For decades, this transition to adulthood has been defined by hormonal shifts that trigger the onset of puberty. But Richtel takes us where science now understands so much of the action is: the brain. A growing body of research that looks for the first time into budding adult neurobiology explains with untold clarity the emergence of the "social brain," a craving for peer connection, and how the behaviors that follow pave the way for economic and social survival. This period necessarily involves testing--as the adolescent brain is programmed from birth to take risks and explore themselves and their environment--so that they may be able to thrive as they leave the insulated care of childhood. Richtel, diving deeply into new research and gripping personal stories, offers accessible, scientifically grounded answers to the most pressing questions about generational change. What explains adolescent behaviors, risk-taking, reward-seeking, and the ongoing mental health crisis? How does adolescence shape the future of the species? What is the nature of adolescence itself?
A collection of thirty positive birth stories brought together in a beautiful book to offer positivity and confidence to anyone about to give birth
The fully revised third edition of Katharine Hill's wise and encouraging book on parenting in the digital world. A lifeline for parents and carers, this book offers practical advice on screen time and social media, as well as cyberbullying, grooming and pornography, with new content on gaming and 'sharenting'
The first gender-responsive, trauma-informed curriculum designed specifically for mothers Amazing Moms! Motherhood Curriculum consists of 16 two-hour, co-facilitated sessions that include activities, exercises, and experiential opportunities. The goal of the workshop is to help participants create a vision of the mothers they want to be and to provide them with the awareness, tools, and confidence to achieve that vision. By encouraging participants to connect with the content on a personal level, the curriculum helps mothers enhance their relationships with their children and other family members. The Amazing Moms! program--including a Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbook--goes beyond other parenting curricula, addressing the complex intersection of female socialization, childhood and adolescent trauma, and relational struggles that can come between mothers and their children. It covers a broad range of topics, including anger and shame, sex and sexuality, discipline, codependency, and self-care. The curriculum will challenge participants and facilitators alike to approach the material with vulnerability to achieve lasting growth. Follow detailed plans for facilitating 16 two-hour sessions on issues related to parenting, designed specifically for mothers Help participants develop self-awareness and understand how their past trauma influences their emotions and behaviors Encourage strong mother-child relationships with skill-building exercises and activities Use techniques to foster safety, trust, openness, and honesty in group settings This curriculum is for all moms, with children of all ages--especially those who have found themselves in child protective services or some other aspect of the child welfare system.
A judgment-free handbook on parenting kids in all their uniqueness We all want to raise independent, confident children, but unfortunately, there's no one right way to parent that we can all learn. Each child is unique, and each mom and dad has their own ideas on parenting, often influenced by the way they were raised. The Imperfect Parent shows us how we can celebrate those differences, embracing the individuality of our kids, carrying on the successful practices our parents demonstrated, and learning from their--and our--mistakes. A mom of two boys, author Kate Hamilton is no stranger to parenting struggles, and she knows well that anyone who thinks they can parent error-free is just kidding themselves. This book is an honest look at her parenting triumphs and failures and what parents everywhere can learn from both. She explains: - How to handle parenting advice from others - How to communicate well with your partner or co-parent - How to help your children discover their identities - How to have conversations with your kids about uncomfortable topics > And that just scratches the surface! Recognizing that there's no one-size-fits-all approach to raising kids, The Imperfect Parent teaches you how to forge a path that works best for your family.
An introduction to the concept of energy management for neurodivergent children, told through a rhyming story based on the child-friendly concept of battery packs and with warm, engaging illustrations.
The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960.
This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.
Unmothering Autism rethinks autism and mothering to reveal what it means for us to live well together in, and through, difference.
Marc H. Bornstein has published widely in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics. In this volume, he has collected an integrated series of his papers on parenting.
This interdisciplinary volume offers international perspectives on the crucial question of whether the Best Interest of the Child should be the primary consideration to decide child custody cases in case of divorce or separation, or whether it should be one of a range of primary considerations.
In this vibrant insight into life with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Rossi shares the tough bits, the highlights, and advice for other young people to live fabulously with FASD. Chapters from a specialist psychologist and Rossi's birth mum give context for parents and professionals supporting young people living with FASD.
What psychologist Susan Newman has learned during her most recent study from only children and their parents will help readers wrestle with concerns, whether they are deciding their family size or parenting one child right now.
Rory O'Connor has three kids and, in his own words, is just about surviving a life filled with sleep deprivation, stray Lego underfoot, mashed potato on the walls and the unmatched pride that comes with being a dad!Having coped with the labor ward and having been lulled into a false sense of security with one child, he's now knee deep in nappies, tackling tantrums and trying desperately to enjoy the occasional family holiday.The Rory's Stories Guide to Parenting brings Rory's trademark brilliant observations, everyday humor and down-to-earth common sense to the wonderful world of parenting. It's the 'guide' to parenting we've all been waiting for!
A glorious antidote to parenting books, this darkly humorous, candid and insightful graphic memoir brings the early years of parenthood to life - in all their chaos, wonder and delirium. Intimate, relatable and very funny, Becky Barnicoat explores everything from the anatomy of the hospital bag to the frantic obsession with putting your baby down drowsy but awake, to the tyranny of gentle parenting. From pregnancy to the feral toddler years, Barnicoat extends a sticky hand to all new parents grappling with the impossible but joyous jigsaw puzzle of their lives. Barnicoat gives us permission to cry when the baby cries - and also laugh, snort, lie on the floor naked, drool and generally revel in a deeply strange new world ruled by a tyrannical tiny leader, growing bigger and more loved by the day.
'In one important sense maternity leave is a misnomer, as it involves no actual leave. You are constantly on. Even when your offspring is having a nap, you are gearing up for their next appearance, or on alert for their first whimper before the big cry. There is nothing restful about it. In another sense maternity leave is aptly named, although not in the way it was originally intended. It's a period of leave from all you know: taking leave of one's mind, body, job, and relationships'When award-winning broadcaster Emma Barnett began her second maternity leave, she realised that despite having been there before, as soon as her first leave had finished, the rose-tinted lenses descended and she had immediately forgotten what the experience was actually like when you're in it. This collective forgetting, which leads to well-meaning comments such as: 'enjoy every minute' and 'treasure this special time', is doing a disservice to women, leaving them unprepared for the more complicated, conflicted reality of the experience.In Maternity Service she sets out to capture this reality, in real time, arguing that it is more helpful, and honest to think of maternity leave as being akin to a military tour of duty, with its kit that needs to be acquired and mastered (and often lugged around); full body work-outs; night shifts that turn into day shifts; an unofficial uniform; a plethora of injuries; the sense of unrelenting effort for a larger, not always fully comprehensible long term goal and then the slow satisfaction that comes from doing your bit - for your baby and your family.This is not a parenting book - Emma isn't offering advice on sleep-training or weaning or helping your baby reach 'milestones'. Instead, her focus is on acknowledging the work of being on maternity leave, with its highs and lows, its boredoms, its insecurities, its unsocial hours and its impact on how women feel about themselves and their purpose. As eye-opening as Rachel Cusk's A Woman's Work, as honest and relatable as Don't forget to Scream and as groundbreaking as Friendaholic , Maternity Service is the essential companion for every mother embarking on maternity leave.
The New York Times-bestselling humor gift book for moms, There Are Moms Way Worse Than You, and its highly anticipated follow-up, There Are Dads Way Worse Than You, all together in one boxed set!Each book in Glenn Boozan's viral and bestselling gift book series is filled with rhyming couplets that highlight bad moms from the animal kingdom...A mom giraffe is pretty nice until the fetus drops.She'll birth a newborn baby calf, then kick him 'til he walks....or notoriously bad dads in history and pop culture. Take Daddy Vader, for instance:Oops! Forgot their bath time? Mess up a mid-day snack?Better than a cauterizing light saber attack.Hilarious and reassuring, both moms and dads will delight in this humorous reminder that, no matter what parenting mess-ups they may make, there are always moms and dads way worse!
Help your child learn to read and write with 100 engaging activities to develop phonic knowledge, from early sound recognition to reading and writing fluency. Perfect for time-poor parents as all activities make use of common household items and no craft skills or knowledge of the phonics curriculum is required.
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