Pregnancy & Parenthood

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.

An essential tool for parents, seasoned teachers, and other individuals involved in the life of somebody who happens to have mental retardation, this book provides readers with scores of useful resources, including websites, professional organizations, and support groups.

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?

El pastor David Scarpeta nos provee una herramienta basada en los principios bíblicos que busca a ayudar a las personas a vencer sus conflictos internos que nadie sabe que tiene, conflictos a nivel mental, emocional, físico y espiritual.

A collection of thirty positive birth stories brought together in a beautiful book to offer positivity and confidence to anyone about to give birth

This book is your roadmap to successfully navigating your child's middle school years!

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

An informative and enjoyable book explaining the process of getting ready for a liver transplantation to children and families, providing comfort and key information. Featuring easy to understand language, helpful facts and color illustrations, this book is part of the series The Strength of My Scars by surgeon, Maria Baimas-George.

This book captures the voices and lived experiences of Black fathers, offering a strengths-based perspective on the significant roles they play in the lives of their children and families. The volume examines three key areas: health, parenting, and community.

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate. Who are the parents of these children? Why do they not marry? These and many other questions are explored for the first time in this book.

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as 'problem families'. Harriett Wilson shows that they are not a homogenous group, and furthermore, that they do not possess any unique personality traits.

Golden Girls is a unique, up-to-date and culturally inclusive guide that gives advice and inspiration to today's grandmothers.

100 simple, nutrition-packed recipes to help you put good food first in the early years Make your little one's meals varied, balanced and super-tasty with these 100 new recipes from the UK's go-to child nutritionist, Charlotte Stirling-Reed.No longer will you need to wonder what to make or fall back on the same old processed foods. With this book at hand, cooking for your baby and toddler alongside the whole family will be easy, with recipes designed for little hands to get stuck in and the bigger family members to enjoy too.This is the essential accompaniment to the weaning and early years, with purées, mashes and finger foods for baby's first tastes, 'bridge meals' for introducing new textures and flavours and comforting breakfasts, lunches, dinners and celebration treats the whole family can get excited about, including On-the-Go Brekkie Bars, Rainbow Mac & Cheese, Veggie Muffins, Easy Chicken Satay, All-in-One-Pan Pasta and Sugar-Free Chocolate Mousse.Make family mealtimes easy and give your little foodie the best start in life.

This book is a unique exploration of the adult's experience as they journey through youth sports. Offering the author's personal discoveries alongside those of coaches, parents, and experts, this book is an invaluable guide for "Team Adult" to learn to effect change and create an emotionally healthy place for kids to learn, play, and grow.

A practical guide to navigating the politics, challenges, choices and opportunities in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility, conception and family building in Canada.