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Following on the heels of his successful book on grandfatherhood (Grandpa Rules), veteran comedy writer Michael Milligan set his sights on the joys and stresses of fatherhood. A response to all those dad books full of empty platitudes and hokey lessons, Dad Rules is a book for the hip dad who can use a laugh (if not a drink) at the end of another trying day with his kids. A perfect gift for the dads in your life, this book is laugh-out-loud funny and offers useful insights and tips on how to embrace the world's greatest job.

With contributions from celebrity and "ordinary" parents alike, each story speaks to the range of emotions and experiences of all types of parents - single parents, foster parents, parents of adopted children, or part of a two-parent family with biological children. By sharing the personal experiences of others, this book will offer inspiration and advice to parents going through a difficult time, provide reassurance to those who worry that they’re not living up to the Supermom or Superdad ideal....

Everyone seems to agree that we have an epidemic of what is diagnosed as autism. But, in the history of our society, there has never been "an epidemic" of any developmental or genetic disorder. Yet, over the span of thirty years, autism has gone from affecting one in 5,000 children to one in 90, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So what is this "autism", which has come to affect the lives of so many?

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

Eating is an innate skill that has been overcomplicated by marketing schemes and a dieting culture. It’s time to leave the dieting culture behind for the whole family. It starts with the baby’s first bite! When babies show signs of readiness for solid foods, they can eat almost everything the family eats and become healthy, happy eaters in the process. By honoring self-regulation (also an innate skill) and focusing on a whole-food foundation, we can foster healthier children, parents, and families.

If your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having "the talk" with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with The Sex-Wise Parent, Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking book, you may find you never have to have "the talk". Dr. Rosenzweig shows you how you can help protect your children from sexual abuse, trauma, and bullying through your everyday interaction with them.

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming of age in the wake of immense loss and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was 12, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah's bedroom.

In 1979 Liz Pryor is a 17-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she discovers that she is pregnant, a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. One snowy January day, after driving across three states, her mother drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed mothers but which is, in truth, a locked government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls.

Como todas las futuras madres, me enfrenté a miedos, inseguridades e inquietudes. A pesar de mis conocimientos, hubo momentos en los que me sentí abrumada, asustada en ocasiones y llena (literalmente) de vida en otras. La maternidad ha sido —y está siendo— un viaje intenso, lleno de sentimientos y experiencias diversas, que ahora deseo compartir contigo.

Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds - a self-described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is her story - a brash, personal, and sometimes shocking memoir.

Part memoir, part popular science, and part social commentary, Bottled Up probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of Barston’s own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, Barston offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast. Impassioned, well-reasoned, and thoroughly researched, Bottled Up asks us to think with more nuance and compassion about whether breastfeeding should remain the holy grail of good parenthood.

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.

Den eigenen Weg finden, ein Vorbild für die Kinder zu sein, anstatt die traditionelle Vorstellung vom »guten Vorbild« zu leben - ohne den Perfektionismus, der so viele Millenial-Eltern umtreibt. Ehrlich und authentisch teilt sie ihre Erfahrungen und ihr Wissen und bestärkt insbesondere junge Mütter, sich der eigenen Werte bewusst zu werden, um ihre Rolle stressfreier und mit mehr Selbstvertrauen und Zuversicht zu leben.

Conversas que não tive com minha mãe não é um audiolivro sobre melancolia, mas sobre lembranças e experiências de saudade e afeto. Mesmo quando a tristeza surge, existe uma ….

Desde el nacimiento de la Quinta República el Estado francés ha librado una guerra latente contra parte de su población. Los jóvenes de los barrios obreros que son descendientes de la inmigración poscolonial sufren una repetida operación diaria de "desinfantilización": no son tratados como niños sino como amenazas a la supervivencia del sistema. ¿Cuántos de ellos murieron a causa de esta "desinfantilización"? ¿Cuántos fueron asesinados impunemente por la policía? ¿Cuántas madres han llorado ante los tribunales a sus hijos víctimas de crímenes racistas?

Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and mother of four (ages six to 14) compiled 53 essays by 49 authors to help the rest of us feel understood, inspired, and less alone.

Poco più di dieci anni fa, quando uscì per la prima volta, questo libro – cui seguì anche un blog, tuttora attivo – divenne subito un piccolo culto, amatissimo dai futuri genitori. Il racconto sincero di una mamma alle prese con miti da smantellare e riti da seguire, mese per mese, dal "D-Day"(il giorno delle doglie!) e per tutto il primo anno di vita del bambino, è uno slalom tra errori, fatiche, scoperte e gratificazioni – a volte mescolati tutti assieme – nel tentativo di "trovare una quadra" e ricomporre l'immagine di sé andata in frantumi con il parto.

Ser madre es un vuelco al corazón que pone tu mundo cabeza abajo. Mirar a tu bebé a los ojos por primera vez reorganiza tus prioridades, da forma a tu vida; te lleva a prometerte que harás cuanto esté en tu mano por esa criatura. Pero traer un niño al mundo no implica solo la responsabilidad de cuidarlo y protegerlo; también la de soltarle, cuando llega el momento, y dejar que camine solo, que escoja los senderos que le pida su alma, que vuele libre de cargas sabiendo que nuestra tarea está completa.

Con questo libro, Giordana Ronci, una delle fondatrici dell'Asilo nel Bosco di Ostia, tenta una rivoluzione interna alla percezione della maternità da chi la maternità la vive tutti i giorni in prima persona: le madri. Attraverso racconti di vita quotidiana e teorie educative, l'autrice invita tutte le genitrici a liberarsi dall'ossessione della perfezione.

Del "Esto no es un hotel" al "Un día cojo la maleta y me voy", pasando por el socorrido "¡Come y calla!", este divertidísimo audiolibro hace un homenaje a todas aquellas frases de tu madre que te juraste nunca repetir, pero a la hora de la verdad... Su autora, periodista y niña de EGB en su día, lo tiene muy claro: "Al salir del paritorio, se acabaron las gilipolleces y comenzó el rock and roll. Todo aquello que dije que no haría, lo he hecho. Todo lo que dije que no diría, también".