Parenting category: 8337 books

This practical and inspiring book introduces 'conscious parenting' as a new way of helping any family home become more harmonious. Lou Harvey-Zahra, an experienced parenting coach and teacher, wants to help parents develop calm and happy children. Drawing her inspiration from a Steiner-Waldorf background,...

Have you ever wondered how many of the spiritual masters and enlightened teachers have been parents? What have you learned from them about parenting? Are parenting and spiritual growth two separate paths? What can we learn from the spiritual teachings? And what can we learn from parenting?Having been...

Have you wondered if you're making the right decisions when it comes to raising your daughter? Over the last years, there has been a lot of confusion about the role of girls and boys in our society. It's easy to see why parents are left with lots of unanswered questions when they're raising...

A child's sensory system affects their ability to learn, play, socialize, and function. Maybe a child isn't able to sit still in class because his shirt tag is bothering him, or isn't able to play with other children because his balance is off and other kids make him feel dizzy. Britt Collins,...

Synopsis of: SINGLE PARENTING – A PLIGHT OR A BLISS (author, PEPSY BAHLEKAZI) This book seeks to highlight the various reasons, which people uses to fulfil their desire to raise children often without considering the various factors that would bring about undesirable results for the children....

: “Fix Your Own Plate” One thing that life has truly taught me is to appreciate, value and exercise options. Options, coupled with common sense, wisdom and commitment diminishes the presence of stress. These tools also decrease havoc, drama, and chaos in one’s day to day life. Even prior...

With more and more marriages ending in separation followed by divorce, we are seeing a fundamental shift in the pattern of family life. Much has been written about the ingredients of a good relationship but now we need to build a picture that identifies the ingredients of a good separation. Parents...

Parenting: The Bottom Line was born out of the never-ending controversy of whether or not spanking should be used as a disciplinary tool by parents. In response to this hot topic, author Ron Mackey examines the role of the parent as disciplinarian and the importance of raising children to understand...

Parenthood – the greatest adventure of all. While everyone else on social media is dressed neatly and smiling happily at the camera – the picture-postcard family – you’re chasing a half-naked toddler around and simultaneously trying to remove baby vomit from your shirt. Welcome to reality!...

Taking up where the 2004 edition of The Educated Parent left off, Child Rearing in the 21st Century is a must-have guide to parenting best practices. Author Joseph D. Sclafani, a psychologist and family therapist, highlights the different approaches to child rearing and provides practical advice about...

Being a parent is challenging enough. Being a single parent can seem downright impossible—until now. Drawing on material from his successful Single Parenting That Works curriculum guide and video series, America's favorite parenting expert, Dr. Kevin Leman, brings help and hope to the legions of...

The essential guide to confident parenting in your baby’s first year. Parenting experts and co-authors of the Sense-series books, Meg Faure (OT) and Ann Richardson (Registered Nurse and Midwife) bring you the updated and expanded third edition of their highly acclaimed practical guide to...

Where do babies come from? Any parent can tell you that it's much more complicated than any stories that were passed around the playground. Between adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy complications, and more, it's clear that no path to baby leads straight from point A to point B — and that this convoluted...

If you are a first-time parent of a newborn infant, you are just finding out that parenting is not just a job, its a full time, round the clock profession for which there is no pay. I find it hard to believe that we actually get more training for the job of birthing the baby than we do for the profession...