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Parenting, like other life skills, does not happen overnight. You don’t just wake up one morning and become a good parent. It is something that you learn and practice. Every day, there is something to look forward to. Sometimes, parenting is downright hard, exhilarating, and challenging. When it comes to child discipline, many parents are at a loss on what to do when their toddlers begin to throw tantrums or display other forms of misbehavior.

Are you looking for some useful pieces of information and advice to thrive your children? If yes, this is the right book for you! Taking care of a newborn baby is hard. But parenting can be more complicated than you have ever thought. As your only son or daughter starts to crawl and walk, parenting would become challenging. Your child might be playful, active, and curious all the time. So, you have to exert great effort to look after your kids. Of course, Google has a lot of materials you can rely on and trust. But some information might be inappropriate and inaccurate.

Today's parents suffer from a severe shortage of free time. Work, family and household obligations, caring for children, commuting, medical check-ups - it is not uncommon to feel suffocated by responsibilities. That is why, for many, the idea of adding early learning at home to this long list may seem like a utopia. However, as a working mother of two young children, I can attest that it is possible to achieve it, even if you don't have a university degree in early childhood education.

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.