We need a license to drive, but the most important thing many of us will do in our lives requires no license or training--raising children. And since parents receive no preparation for raising another human being, they often question their own abilities and feel vulnerable to making mistakes. The Birth to Five Book offers parents practical, down-to-earth help and success strategies for this big responsibility. Whether raising an infant, toddler, or preschooler--or all of them at once!--young parents will love this collection of commonsense advice. From feeding and reading to discipline, toilet training, and play, it's all here in simple terms that any parent can put to work immediately.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Confident Childrearing Right from the Start

The Birth to Five Book 

Wisconsin

An encouraging and thought-provoking book, winner of the Silver Medallion Book Award, that gives ten ideas about how a father can make the biggest, most lasting, and most important contributions to his children's lives.

Dad in the Mirror Mass Market - Man in the Mirror

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Rick Johnson

South Carolina

How Moms Can Influence Boys to Become Men of Character

Why are boys so different? Why would a trip to the garbage dump be such a highlight in a boy's life? What do boys need to learn in order to become good men? A mother's influence on her sons is unique and valuable, but still sometimes moms don't understand what makes their boys tick. They want to help their sons grow up to become men of honor and integrity, but that's a tremendous challenge. With refreshing honesty and a man's insight, author Rick Johnson offers the advice, understanding, and support every mom is looking for when it comes to raising godly sons. Using extensive research and humorous personal experiences, he addresses tough issues, such as communication, discipline, sexuality, and respect. Mothers, including single moms as well as grandmothers and teachers, will find wise counsel and reassurance in this practical and helpful book.

That's My Son

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Nevada

Foreword by William Sears, M. D.

A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Pantley's successful solution has been tested and proven effective by scores of mothers and their babies from across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Based on her research, Pantley's guide provides you with effective strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems. The No-Cry Sleep Solution offers clearly explained, step-by-step ideas that steer your little ones toward a good night's sleep--all with no crying. Tips from The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Uncover the stumbling blocks that prevent baby from sleeping through the night Determine--and work with--baby's biological sleep rhythms Create a customized, step-by-step plan to get baby to sleep through the night Use the Persistent Gentle Removal System to teach baby to fall asleep without breast-feeding, bottlefeeding, or using a pacifier

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

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James C. Dobson

The book is in very good condition, but is missing the dust jacket.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

The 'You Can Do It' Guide for Hassled Parents from America's Best-Loved Family Advocate

Argues that today's parents are too self-critical offers advice on dealing with strong-willed children and adolescents, and explains that it is important to treat grown up children as adults

Parenting Isn't for Cowards

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Joan Leonard

Virginia

Everything You Need to Know about Having a Second Child-- Preparing Yourself, Your Marriage, and Your Firstborn for a New Family of Four

Offers advice to parents who are expecting their second child on how to prepare the marriage and the firstborn child for the new edition to the family.

Twice Blessed

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Tennessee

Zig Ziglar

Mississippi

Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors covers the theory, experimentation, and identification of impurities, dopants, and intrinsic defects in semiconductors. The book fills a crucial gap between solid-state physics and more specialized course texts.

The authors first present introductory concepts, including basic semiconductor theory, defect classifications, crystal growth, and doping. They then explain electrical, vibrational, optical, and thermal properties. Moving on to characterization approaches, the text concludes with chapters on the measurement of electrical properties, optical spectroscopy, particle-beam methods, and microscopy.

By treating dopants and defects in semiconductors as a unified subject, this book helps define the field and prepares students for work in technologically important areas. It provides students with a solid foundation in both experimental methods and the theory of defects in semiconductors.

Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

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Stanley K. Turecki

Leslie Tonner

Stella Chess

New York

How to help--and cope with--the difficult child Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders. Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach  to all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders. In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline--and himself the father of a once difficult child--offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children. Based on his experience with thousands of families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program he developed for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his step-by-step approach shows you how to: Identify your child's temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage common--often "uncontrollable"--conflict situations expertly and gently Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, professionals, and support groups Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide if medication is right for your child Make the most of the tremendous potential and creativity that many "difficult" children have Drawing on his experience with thousands of families in his highly successful Difficult Child Program, Dr. Turecki shows parents how to: Identify their child's difficult temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, and others Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide whether medication is right for their child Make the most of the child's creativity and potential -->

The Difficult Child

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Eileen Kennedy-Moore

A Great Courses guidebook and corresponding DVD set in like new condition with the exception of library stickers on the front cover of the book and DVD case and spine, as well as the library’s stamp on the 1st page of the book .  The 2 discs are free of scratches and smudges.

The DVDs consist of 12 lectures that are each 30 minutes in length.

As a parent, you can't make friends for your children, nor can you prevent them from ever feeling hurt or upset. But with the right guidance, you can support them in learning how to solve problems, cope with feelings, and build satisfying relationships. Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids gives you access to the same practical advice and actionable plans that Dr. Kennedy-Moore - an in-demand psychologist and author on the advisory board for Parents magazine - shares with clients. Drawing from the her extensive clinical and personal experience, these 12 lectures provide a deeper understanding of your child's development and ways to address common stumbling blocks with compassion. You'll focus on emotional intelligence and the pivotal role parents can play to help children cope with their feelings. You'll discover strategies for managing early-childhood meltdowns; simple techniques to inspire cooperation; constructive ways to deal with back-talk, aggression, and unkind behavior; methods to helping children cope with anxiety. You'll turn to social intelligence and the challenges children face in making friends, plus practical ways you can guide them through the process. You'll explore how you can support your child to get along with others; being a good sport; handling conflicts; dealing with bullying; and coping with gossip and cliques. You'll conclude with a candid discussion of friendship in the digital age, looking at video games and the troubling phenomena of cyberbullying and "Facebook depression"

Maryland

Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids

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Frank Hamrick

Excellent book on wisdom for a variety of issues 

A Daily Devotional from the Book of Proverbs 

Wisdom for Parents

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What are you really telling your children?

Elizabeth Pantley, the creator of the bestselling No-Cry parenting books, shows you how to improve the hidden messages behind your words and deeds. She shares with you other parents' stories that demonstrate how they unknowingly sent their kids negative messages through their words and actions. After each story she provides a gentle lesson by showing the child's perspective on the same scenario and offers suggestions for a positive outcome.

What Our Words and Actions Are Really Telling Our Children

Hidden Messages

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Shirley Dobson

New. Clean pages. See pictures for overall condition.

Michigan

A Devotional

Raising healthy children is one of life's greatest challenges, yet you can do it effectively. Dr. James Dobson and his wife, Shirley, show you how in Night Light for Parents, a daily devotional filled with encouraging insights and spiritual wisdom. Whether you're married or single, with kids in diapers or almost grown, this book is for you. It offers heartwarming stories, biblical truth, and the practical parenting advice that has guided the Dobsons for more than three decades and inspired families around the world. Let Night Light for Parents brighten your family life--starting tonight.

Night Light for Parents

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Marjorie Ingall

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children

We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.

Mamaleh Knows Best

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LEARN TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR GIFTED CHILD Though academic abilities have always been important in determining whether your child is gifted, talent in the visual or performing arts, leadership qualities, and intellectual curiosity are just as vital. But unless we as parents help nurture those talents, our gifted children can become bored, socially aggressive, or, ironically, underachievers in the classroom. Here is a practical, informative, and authoritative primer for raising and educating our gifted children from pre-school to adolescence. Beginning with sensible strategies to determine whether--and in which areas--your child is gifted, this book takes parents through selecting an appropriate day-care center, a school, and a home reference library. It helps us figure out where our role stops and the school's role begins, as well as detailing ways to keep our children's creativity alive and how to cope with sibling rivalry and our own doubts and fears. Also included are a recommended reading list, a special section on the roles of the computer and television in your gifted child's life, and much more.

Parents' Guide to Raising a Gifted Child

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn Out Well

In this book, the Searses bring the reason and common sense of their philosophy of parenting to the hurdles of raising the older child. Attachment parenting is not just for babies; as children grow, they need to expand the web of their secure attachments to friends, teachers, community and the wider world. As there is no single plan for any one family, the Searses show a range of ways a parent can retain a child's trust and wield a positive influence as their child matures. By following the advice laid out in this book, parents can see that the bonds they have nurtured since infancy will provide the anchor that will ground their children through the challenging teen years to adulthood.

The Successful Child

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JOsh McDowell

Bob Hostetler

Florida

How a Cultural Movement Threatens to Destroy You, Your Faith, and Your Children

This book will help readers discern truth from error and to withstand the pressure-even persecution-to conform to a relativistic culture.

The New Tolerance

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Daniel A. Hughes

Effective Strategies to Care for Children

Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas--so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents-- have yet to be effectively translated to parenting practice itself. Moreover, as neuroscience reveals how the human brain is designed to work in good relationships, and how such relationships are central to healthy human development, the practical implications for the parent-child attachment relationship become even more apparent.



Here, a leading attachment specialist with over 30 years of clinical experience brings the rich and comprehensive field of attachment theory and research from inside the therapy room to the outside, equipping therapists and caregivers with practical parenting skills and techniques rooted in proven therapeutic principles.



A guide for all parents and a resource for all mental health clinicians and parent-educators who are searching for ways to effectively love, discipline, and communicate with children, this book presents the techniques and practices that are fundamental to optimal child development and family functioning--how to set limits, provide guidance, and manage the responsibilities and difficulties of daily life, while at the same time communicating safety, fun, joy, and love. Filled with valuable clinical vignettes and sample dialogues, Hughes shows how attachment-focused research can guide all those who care for children in their efforts to better raise them.

Attachment-Focused Parenting

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Elizabeth Pantley

Connecticut

Charles R. Swindoll

California

A biblical guide for nurturing confident children from infancy to independence.

You and Your Child

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signed

What Every Parent Wants to Know

Ask Supernanny

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#parenting #teenager #child-rearing #psychology #behavior #family #relationship #education #teens #young-adult

Minnesota

Parents and the Nurturing of a Responsible Teen

Just the idea of adolescence provokes more dread, more worry, and more confusion than any other stage of childhood--which is why we are so excited about the Elium's newest parenting book. This is not a cynical survival guide. RAISING A TEENAGER is an honest, beautifully written exploration of the issues facing parents of teens today, with practical, realistic solutions.

Raising a Teenager

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Idaho

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