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The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year
by Abigail Brenner

Written by a top-rated pediatrician and based on expert medical knowledge, The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year offers first-time parents a companion through the sleeping and crawling, crying and teething' illnesses and everything else that comes with your baby's first year of life.



The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
by John Duffy

We have a tendency today to over-parent, micro-manage, and under-appreciate our adolescents. With Available Parent you can begin to enjoy a healthy, satisfying, exciting new kind of relationship with your teenager. A relationship not with the foundation of fear, but of radical optimism.



The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
by Rachel Simmons

Rachel Simmons argues that in idealizing the "good girl" -- unerringly nice, polite, modest, and selfless -- we teach girls to embrace a version of selfhood that curtails their power and potential.



Please Stop Laughing at Me...One Woman's Inspirational Story Please Stop Laughing at Me...One Woman's Inspirational Story
by Jodee Blanco

While other children were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was trying to figure out how to go from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls.



Baby Body Signs: The Head-to-Toe Guide to Your Child's Health, from Birth Through the Toddler Years Baby Body Signs: The Head-to-Toe Guide to Your Child's Health, from Birth Through the Toddler Years
by Joan Liebmann-Smith & Jacqueline Egan

Like most parents, you probably notice --and often worry about -- every little change in your growing baby. Why is one of his pupils bigger than the other? What’s that bald spot on her head? Why is he walking on tippy toes? Drawn from the latest research and reviewed by a panel of pediatricians and other medical experts, Baby Body Signs will answer these and other troubling questions.



The Happy Stepmother: Stay Sane, Empower Yourself, Thrive in Your New Family The Happy Stepmother: Stay Sane, Empower Yourself, Thrive in Your New Family
by Rachelle Katz, Ed.D., LMFT

If you're frustrated by having all the responsibilities of motherhood, with none of the recognition or reward, or worried that stepfamily issues are driving a wedge between you and your husband, then you're not alone -- and you can do something about it.



SheKnows.com Presents: The Mommy Files: Secrets Every New Mom Should Know (that no one else will tell you!) SheKnows.com Presents: The Mommy Files: Secrets Every New Mom Should Know (that no one else will tell you!)
by Jen Klein

Disclosed here in a friendly, wry look at motherhood, Jen Klein takes you through each lovable (and less than enjoyable) step toward that coveted title that will be screamed at you so many times in the years to come: "Mommy!"



Momover: The New Mom's Guide to Getting It Together (even if you never had it in the first place) Momover: The New Mom's Guide to Getting It Together (even if you never had it in the first place)
by Dana Wood

In this sensibly chic guide, Wood reveals the secrets of surviving the emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges that emerge in that bleary-eyed, sleep- and time-deprived first year.



The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy
by Kim West, LCSW-C with Joanne Kenen

Kim West, The Sleep Lady® and nationally respected child and sleep expert, has brought peaceful slumber to many parents and children with her well-thumbed book, Good Night, Sleep Tight. In it West introduced a gentle and effective approach to putting babies and children to sleep that includes her signature step-by-step "Sleep Lady Shuffle."



Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
by Wednesday Martin

Stepmonster illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, exposes the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, counteracts the prevailing notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems they encounter, and considers the emotional and social challenges men with children face when they remarry.



Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
by Rafe Esquith

One of America's most celebrated educators teaches parents how to create extraordinary children-in the classroom and beyond.



Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding
by Marianne Neifert, M.D.

In Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding, Marianne Neifert, MD, one of America’s leading pediatricians and a nationally recognized lactation consultant, gives nursing mothers all the advice they need to breastfeed their babies successfully.