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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Being a single mother isn't easy—but with The Complete Single Mother, Third Edition, it just got easier. Long the most popular source of encouragement and advice for single moms, this engaging, enlightening guide explores such important issues as: finances; dealing with the absent father; custody; dating and remarriage; and much more. With a new chapter devoted to children with special needs, as well as inspirational sidebars about famous
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Publication Date
2019.
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English
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Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her....
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Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"If you've felt overwhelmed and burnt out by the exhaustion of daily life, flattened by the sheer amount of noise and distraction in your home, your schedule, your brain you aren't alone. What's more, overstimulation is a key driver of our children's behaviors, contributing to increased symptoms in anxiety, depression, and attentional diagnoses. In the fast-paced culture of our world, is it possible to set our children up to thrive in emotional health?"--Amazon....
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Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered, and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics--starting with a simple fact: Most boys needs to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals. --from publisher description
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Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From a distinguished psychologist, mother, and Latina, Parenting with Pride Latino Style offers the first bicultural child-rearing approach for Latino parents. This groundbreaking book supports families in raising their children with time-honored Hispanic values while incorporating the best that North America has to offer. Dr. Vazquez's unique parenting method, the New Traditionalism (El Nuevo Tradicionalismo), preserves classic Latino ideals, such...
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Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Adventures in Franco-inspired American parenting—a winning mix of witty cross-cultural observation, hilariously blunt French wisdom, and one American mom’s journey to create her own hybrid parenting approach
“If there is no blood, don’t get up.” This single nugget of parenting gold, offered by a French friend at the end of a long dinner party, changed everything for writer Catherine Crawford, her...
“If there is no blood, don’t get up.” This single nugget of parenting gold, offered by a French friend at the end of a long dinner party, changed everything for writer Catherine Crawford, her...
12) Parenting your internationally adopted child: from your first hours together through the teen years
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Publisher
Harvard Common Press
Publication Date
c2008
Language
English
16) The end of American childhood: a history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child
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Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Paula S. Fass is professor of the Graduate School and the Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of Kidnapped and Children of a New World, she recently edited The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World. Fass lives in Berkeley, California.
How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the present
The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping...
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The sixth edition of this classic parents' guide and college orientation staple has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the realities of college today. For more than a decade, Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years-from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based...
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Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Raising antiracist children is an essential goal for parents, caregivers, and educators, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne--an acclaimed teacher and advocate--be your guide. Raising Antiracist Children is an interactive road map to incorporating the tools of inclusivity and activism into everyday life"-- Back cover.
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this irresistible memoir, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.