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Parent and Caregiver ResourcesJanuary 2022 |
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Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from
the Parenting Trenches
by Hillary Frank
Unconventional - yet effective - parenting strategies, carefully
curated. Some of the best parenting advice that Hillary Frank
ever received did not come from parenting experts, but from
friends and podcast listeners who acted on a whim, often in
moments of desperation. These "weird parenting wins" were
born of moments when the expert advice wasn't working, and
instead of freaking out, these parents had a stroke of genius.
Every parent and kid is unique, and as we get to know our kids,
we can figure out what makes them tick. Because this is an
ongoing process, Weird Parenting Wins covers children of all
ages, ranging in topics from "The Art of Getting Your Kid to Act
Like a Person" (on hygiene, potty training, and manners) to "The
Art of Getting Your Kid to Tell You Things" (because eventually, they're going to be tight-lipped). You may find that someone else's weird parenting win works for you, or you might be inspired to try something new the next time you're stuck in a parenting rut.
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The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences
by Carolyn B. Helsel
How do we raise the next generation to respect and learn from people who look or believe differently than they do? From two educators who are also moms comes a guide to help parents and other teachers navigate conversations about all kinds of diversity. This practical resource includes activities to build compassion and empathy among differing religions, classes, races, genders,
abilities, political affiliations, sexual orientations, nationalities, and more.
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the origins of substance abuse while offering advice for how to identify risk factors and take steps to prevent vulnerable teens from developing an addiction disorder. |
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The Reflective Parent: How to Do Less and Relate More with Your Kids
by Regina Pally
Psychiatrist Pally offers the reader tips and advice for how to be a more mindful, reflective parent. The crux of the text is that there is
no one right way to parent; the successful parent/child relationship
is one built on listening and slowing down. Of special note are the chapters focusing on the brain and its hard-wired functions such as the capacity for empathy and connection and how the parent can successfully harness these powers. The material covers children from infancy to young adulthood.
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Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are
at Their Worst: Practical Compassion in Parenting
by Kim John Payne
A practical, meditative approach that can be used in the moment to help you stay calm and balanced when your child's behavior is pushing you to your limit - by the popular author of Simplicity Parenting.
In difficult and challenging situations with our kids, every parent wants to react as much as possible in a way that reflects our
family values and expectations. And yet when our children "push
our buttons," we often find ourselves reacting in ways that we
know are far from our principles, and even seem to further inflame
a situation. How can we move from a "stress regress" to speaking
in a voice that is warm, calm, and firm?
Payne offers techniques that simply, but very directly, shift these damaging patterns of communication and parental behavior. It is
a grounded and practical tool that he has taught to numerous
parents worldwide to slow down the interaction, give them a
greater feeling of inner spaciousness, be more in control of their reactions and the situation, sense what their child's deeper needs
are even though they are misbehaving, and respond in a way that gives the child a feeling of being heard yet puts a boundary in
place.
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The 3 Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting: Proven Tools to Help You Raise Smart and Savvy Online Kids
by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead
How can we protect our kids online-and teach them to protect themselves?
This book unpacks the "3 Ms" of parenting in the digital age, a
proven approach used with thousands of parents through the
work of Digital Respons-Ability and its founder, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. When Carrie first started working in the field of digital citizenship, she found significant gaps in how digital parenting was taught. Not only were parents not informed enough around technology, they also didn't understand child developmental stages. Parents' expectations for their children were unrealistic because they didn't know how online responsibility changes at different ages, as children's brains change.
From this realization, Carrie developed the 3 Ms - three approaches to digital parenting - based on specific age ranges: Model
(ages 0-8), Manage (ages 8-13), and Monitor (ages 13-18).
By teaching parents how to change their approach to digital responsibility based on the developmental stage of their child, she has seen significant success in fostering happier and healthier relationships between parents and kids, as well as safer tech use by kids at all ages.
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Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality
by Laura A. Jana
Advice on caring for a newborn baby during the first eight weeks,
and strategies for handling situations such as illness, crying, and traveling away from home.
This new edition also includes new information on breastfeeding
and the involvement of allergies, formula options, vitamins and supplements, sleep, extended stay in strapped-in positions, swaddling, diaper options, the impact of social-media sharing,
and capturing moments/sharing memories.
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1. Create the fourth trimester: How to re-create the womb-like atmosphere your newborn baby still yearns for. 2. Find the calming reflex, an "off switch" all babies have, which quickly soothes fussing and crying. 3. Use the 5 S's, five easy methods to turn on your baby's amazing calming reflex. 4. Apply the cuddle cure: how to combine the 5 S's to calm even colicky babies. |
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Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep
by Jodi A. Mindell
Complemented by a listing of resources, this handbook for parents deals with the sleep problems of small children, offers detailed guidelines on how to train an infant to sleep through the night, and gives helpful advice on coping with night wakings, sleep apnea, ADHD, changes in routine, nightmares, travel, and more.
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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
by Emily Oster
Award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of
often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule - or three - for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the
tradeoffs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision?
Oster debunks myths around breastfeeding, sleep training, potty training, language acquisition, and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time.
Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation
of the early years. Oster is a trained expert - and mom of two - who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions - and
stay sane in the years before preschool.
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
by Elizabeth Pantley
Nearly all babies fight sleep. Some people argue that parents
should let their baby "cry it out" until the child falls asleep; others
say parents should tough it out from dusk until dawn. Neither tactic fosters happiness in the family. The No-Cry Sleep Solution gives parents a third option: a proven method to pin-point the root of
sleep problems and solve them in a way that is gentle to babies, effective for parents, and provides peace in the home.
One of today's leading experts on children's sleep, Pantley delivers clear, step-by-step ideas for guiding your child to a good night's
sleep without any crying. This parenting classic shows how to decipher - and work with - your baby's biological sleep rhythms, create a customized plan for getting your child to sleep through the night, nap well during the day, and teach your baby to fall asleep peacefully, and stay asleep, without all-night breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, or requiring a parent's care all through the night.
This updated edition provides important new guidelines on safety, and an expanded chapter specifically about newborns. It covers every sleep issue that occurs in the first few years and answers parents' common questions about white noise, back-sleeping, SIDS, day care, naps, nightwaking, bedsharing, dealing with strong-willed babies, working with caregivers, troubleshooting sleep issues, and more!
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Check out our 'Brary Bags! 'Brary bags are themed bundles that include books, toys, games, and tips and tools for parents that help foster a love of reading and prepare your little one for Kindergarten. Each bag implements 1 of the 5 core concepts of early literacy - singing, writing, talking, playing, and reading. |
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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
by S. Wise Bauer
Bauer turns conventional wisdom on its head: when a serious problem arises at school, the fault is more likely to lie with the
school, or the educational system itself, than with the child. Bauer teaches parents how to flex the K–12 system, rather than the child. She closely analyzes the traditional school structure, gives
trenchant criticisms of its weaknesses, and offers a wealth of
advice for parents of children whose difficulties may stem from struggling with learning differences, maturity differences, toxic classroom environments, and even from giftedness.
Bauer's advice is comprehensive and anecdotal, including material drawn from experience with her own four children and more than twenty years of educational consulting and university teaching. Rethinking School is a guide to one aspect of parenting: negotiating the twelve-grade school system in a way that nurtures and protects your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit.
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Parent Alert! How to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
by Will Geddes
Educates parents and helps them better protect their children and
set ground rules to keep them safe from internet dangers, including cyberbullying, extortion, phishing, grooming, cyberstalking, sexting, and other online crimes.
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The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It's Right for Your Family
by Lisa Rivero
In a candid, objective study of homeschooling, the author assists parents in determining when or if homeschooling should be an alternative to public schools, examining the ways in which it can help youngsters with special learning needs and addressing important questions about curriculum, socialization, resources, and more.
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Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School: A Strength-Based Approach to Helping Your Child Thrive and Succeed
by Dewey Rosetti
Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents
through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising
kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more.
This book builds upon Harvard professor Todd Rose's groundbreaking research in the "Science of Individuality," in which
an individual's unique profile of strengths and weaknesses is leveraged in order to help him or her live a fulfilling, successful life. By understanding their child's jagged profile, the context of learning, and multiple pathways, parents will learn revolutionary techniques
to encourage their child's strengths and mitigate weaknesses.
Parents will also discover how to manage the emotional fallout of raising a child who does not conform to the "average" model of learning so prevalent in the modern school system. Drawing from
her own experience as a parent of a child with learning differences - who is now a highly successful adult - the author outlines clear lessons from a quarter century of advocating for kids who learn differently.
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Raising Boy Readers by Michael SullivanProvides practical approaches to promote reading to boys, addressing physical differences, such as the different rates of early brain development between boys and girls; psychological issues, such as the outward focus of boys; and social issues, such as stress and confidence. It also looks at the effects of modern schooling and how these can be counterbalanced or supplemented at home. More than 300 boy-friendly books by age group are recommended, and commentary is provided for selected titles.
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The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim TreleaseThe seventh edition of the acclaimed literacy handbook explains the importance of reading aloud to children, offers guidance on how to set up a read-aloud atmosphere in the home or classroom, and lists hundreds of children's titles that are great for reading aloud.
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Browse our Maker Kits! Draw with a 3D pen, code a robot mouse, or create electrical circuits! Our Children's Maker Kits are designed to encourage your child's imagination through STEM-based learning. |
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Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains
by Suanne Kowal-Connelly
Puberty is tough — on kids and maybe even more so on parents! Parenting Through Puberty explains the physical and emotional changes families can expect to see in their child. Dr. Kowal-Connelly covers the nitty-gritty of children's changing bodies, and, critically, addresses the emotional toll puberty can take, covering issues of moodiness, body image, and self-esteem. Also included are ways
to encourage adolescents to embrace a healthy, active lifestyle in these crucial years, with tips on exercise and nutrition.
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The Angst of Adolescence: How to Parent Your Teen (And Live to Laugh About It)
by Sara Villanueva
Being a good parent is one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, jobs a person can have in his or her lifetime. Being the parent of a teen is an especially daunting phase of the journey. As parents
begin to notice the significant changes that come with adolescence, they wonder just what happened to their happy, sweet, and affectionate young boy or girl. Parents sit by amazed - and often
lost and unprepared - as they witness their child morph and mutate into a full-blown pubescent display of emotions.
Written in a conversational, informative, humorous, and relatable style, this book promises to deliver as a trustworthy resource for parents of teens who are searching for answers and guidance
about how to maneuver their way through this tricky developmental period.
Dr. Sara Villanueva, a prominent psychologist specializing in the adolescent years, shares relevant research findings so that parents can be informed of the facts as opposed to making assumptions based on ubiquitous but questionable sources. Most of all, it will provide parents of teenagers with prospective in the midst of angst
so they can come away with the sense that they are not alone in
their experience of raising teens. Most of what your teen is feeling and expressing is normal and falls within the expected range of behavior for adolescent development. Despite the challenges involved in parenting teens, we should take time to focus on the positive things in life and live with our child through the tough adolescent years so that we emerge on the other side with
friendship and a deeper bond.
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Teaching Kids About Money
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Raising Financially Confident Kids
by Mary Hunt
This book gives parents a creative plan for teaching their children how to manage money wisely, including teaching them about debt, eliminating an attitude of entitlement, and being honest about the consequences of easy spending.
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Money Minded Families: How to Raise Financially Well Children
by Stephanie W. Mackara
Money is always a concern, regardless of background or standing
in society. Every adult and child needs to become "financially well," able to align their personal values with their finances so they may save, spend, and share, and invest their money with purpose, and
for a sound financial future. The book teaches holistic guidance for families to learn to live their best financial lives - instead of just getting by - financial mindfulness, values-oriented spending, healthy financial socialization, and key financial concepts.
Members of today's young adult generation often find themselves saddled with debt and unprepared to manage their day-to-day finances. The topic of financial independence has a strong following among millennials, and many are just learning in their late 20s and 30s how to get ahead financially. As they raise families, they seek guidance to raise financially well children. The next generation needs to be better prepared to live financially well lives.
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