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For more than twenty years, Where Did I Come From? has helped parents explain the facts of life to their curious children. Millions of children have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning how babies are really made.
Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins are also the bestselling team responsible for What's Happening to Me? a guide to puberty.
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This fascinating new book fills a missing void in the child-rearing world. It explains everything from the basics of nursing, to SIDS, to facial massage, and finishes with the secrets to good speech development and keys to enhancing your child's best natural appearance. Written by a speech-language pathologist with more than 30 years of experience, this book is a wealth of necessary information for any new parent. It contains practical advice for...
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The day comes when your kids are grown and you find yourself sitting in the middle of the tidy nest you have spent years feathering. You have encouraged your children that "you can do anything, be anything, and go anywhere," but now you cannot help but ask, "Does God have something more for me?"
Writing for those who have a dream but feel too old, too invisible, too unqualified, or as if they missed their opportunity somewhere along the way, Wendy...
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One of the happiest times in a couple's life is when they bring home a new baby. It can also be the scariest! Replace your anxiety with confidence by learning how to connect with your child from the very beginning.
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg helps parents to be confident with their new baby instead of second guessing everything they do. Secrets acknowledges what many parenting books don't-that parents may initially be shy around...
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Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. McKee's vivid descriptions,...
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We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem to be doing just fine? For Christina Patterson, it...
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well, explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future-and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.
In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits...
829) Points of Light
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Most of the essays in this book first appeared, as newspaper columns and differ from the originals only in minor, editorial ways. The real challenge for me, used as I was to academic and fiction writing, was the necessary brevity of the essays. The discipline of having to compress my ideas into a finite word count troubled me at first. Later, however, I was grateful for the experience because it forced me to get to the point and stay strictly on task....
830) Repenser la Retraite
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Mary Morency et Jeannette Lalonde sont des chefs de file d'une vie meilleure à la retraite. Leur livre Repenser la retraite est une ressource essentielle pour les personnes qui entament leur retraite et les retraités de plus longue date, ainsi que pour les professionnels qui aident les gens à se préparer à la vie après le travail. Le livre regorge de réflexions personnelles et d'exercices pratiques qui apportent des idées nouvelles et une...
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The retirement market is huge. According to the Investment Company Institute, more than $2.25 Trillion is invested in 401(K) plans by more than 45 million Americans, building wealth for millions of individuals who hope to retire early and enjoy their old age in the lap of luxury. Understanding and maneuvering through the complex world of 401(K) plans though, can be quite difficult, often requiring professional help, or resulting in lost funds. For...
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All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations. The compelling natures of the internet and social media, combined with the accelerated accumulation of information and changing facts, place exceedingly high demands on their brains' still developing critical control centers.
Without guided opportunities, though, their brains will not achieve adequate capability to develop...
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"Mummy, why do I have breasts?" So begins this beautiful dialogue where curiosity meets discovery. The simple, beautiful act of witnessing her baby brother breastfeeding becomes an encounter with the anatomy, the development, the biology and the chemistry of breasts. And, of course, the deep emotional connections that come with breastfeeding.
I trained for years as a physician, only to discover that a person's health goes far beyond the physical...
834) Bad Kid: A Memoir
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Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: he was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing the Pet Shop Boys-, learning lessons about life, and love along the way. Richly detailed with nineties...
835) The First Two
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“The First Two” tells the intimate story of a child becoming lost in her love for her father, and years later lost in her love, or what she thinks of as love, for the first boy who pays her serious attention.
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Frame Your Own Future gives children and teens the tools needed to start their own business. This book covers, things such as:
• How to write a mission statement
• Writing a business plan made easy
• Joining forces with youth already in business
Today's children and teens are, the heartbeat of the world today and they are not afraid, of anything! How exciting it is to see the ideas and creativity of this young generation born into technology...
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Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely 28 days?
Why do I often feel so emotional before my period?
And how can I know when my period's really going to start?!
If you're a teenage girl, you've probably asked yourself these questions and many more. Now Cycle Savvy has the answers that will help you understand what is really happening with your body on a day-to-day basis. It's the first book specifically designed to teach young women about...
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Convierte el proceso de aprendizaje de tu hijo en un momento de diversión
¿Tu hijo vuelve del colegio desmotivado y sin ganas de nada? ¿Te has planteado el hecho de que puede que tu hijo, simplemente, se aburra en clase?
En esta guía práctica encontrarás todo lo que necesitas saber para que tu hijo aprenda de un modo dinámico y divertido, ayudándole a ver las cosas de otra forma.
En tan solo 50 minutos, conseguirás:
• Comprender por...
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A guide to surviving and thriving through your daughter's teenage years.
What is the best thing about being a teenage girl right now? 'My friends!' 'Independence!' 'Discovering who I am.'
What is the worst thing about being a teenage girl? 'My friends.' 'Not knowing what the future holds.' 'Pressure to be perfect and look a certain way.'
What do teenage girls wish they could talk to us about? 'I'm sick of pretending to be happy all the time.' 'My...
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It is the story of a little girl who will have extraordinary adventures after her parents divorced. In her eyes, in her childhood heart, she does not admit to seeing her parents separate. She doesn't understand. Without really thinking about it, she prefers to turn her back on her mother. Years go by, and she travels alongside her father. She learns to live in her way, unique. She builds herself without a mother by her side. Will she end up regretting...
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