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Crittenden （The Price of Motherhood） offers an engaging look at working mothers and how their parenting skills make them more adept managers。 Based on interviews with 100 parents （mostly women） who were the primary caregivers in their family， the book offers an intriguing look at the changing face of American executives。 Quoting her subjects directly， Crittenden illustrates how being a parent helps someone be a more creative， if sometimes unconventional， manager。 One woman talked about a producer who shouted obscenities at her。 The woman did nothing， viewing the behavior as the equivalent of a toddler’s temper tantrum， and the producer apologized the next day。 Sometimes， parents have added knowledge that has a direct impact on their job。 Working parents in any field will readily identify with many of the scenarios discussed in this book by some visible CEOs including CNBC’s Pamela Thomas-Graham， Oxygen’s Geraldine Laybourne and actress Lindsay Crouse。 Crittenden con

The Essential Parents' Guide to the Best Conventionaland Natural Medicines for Your Child From feedingto healing, clothing to washing, raising children naturally can bea daunting task--unless you know how. Natural Baby andChildcare shows you how to complement conventional therapy withnatural treatments such as homeopathic and herbal medicine; how tobathe your child without using damaging chemicals; and how to findhealthy, organic food for your baby. As a physician and a mom, Dr.Lauren Feder skillfully bridges the divide between medicine andmotherhood, empowering parents to personalize tradtionalchild-rearing practices to their own child. Natural Baby and Childcare answers common questions suchas: * Do homeopathic medicines have any side effects? * What alternatives are there to wasteful or harmful babyproducts, such as plastic diapers and chemical-laden diapercreams? * Can vaccines cause autism or Sudden Infant DeathSyndrome? In addition to shedding light

Over the past thirty-five years, Between Parent and Child hashelped millions of parents around the world strengthen theirrelationships with their children. Written by renowned psychologistDr. Haim Ginott, this revolutionary book offered a straightforwardpre*ion for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing andintroduced new communication techniques that would change the wayparents spoke with, and listened to, their children. Dr. Ginott'sinnovative approach to parenting has influenced an entiregeneration of experts in the field, and now his methods can workfor you, too. In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinicalpsychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and familyrelationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard usher thisbestselling classic into the new century while retaining the book'spositive message and Haim Ginott's warm, accessible voice. Based onthe theory that parenting is a skill that can be learned, thisindispensable handbook will show you how to: - Discipline withoutthreats, bribes,

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In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson,Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share whatthey have learned in more than thirty-five years of combinedexperience working with boys and their families. They reveal anation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent.Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucialquestion: What do boys need that they're not getting? Theyilluminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them tobelieve that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Cuttingthrough outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and"testosterone," the authors shed light on the destructive emotionaltraining our boys receive--the emotional miseducation ofboys. Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotionalliteracy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urgingparents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to animpossible standard of manhood. They identify the social andemotional challenges th

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An exceptional father-son story about the reality that testsus, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet whorolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian andnew-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched apublishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the truehistory of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wilytactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals ofinner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization ofBaltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of HowardUniversity, where he worked so his children could attend forfree. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi,spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for hisenvironment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for thechallenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows theirdivergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father

With Love Life, which The Washington Post Book World called "a brutally honest and often brilliant tour of individual and family psychology," Zeruya Shalev achieved international literary stardom. In her newest offering, Husband and Wife, she takes us into the heartbreak and compromise of a diseased marriage that may or may not be capable of healing. The quiet rhythms of the family life of Na'ama and Udi Newman suddenly screech to a halt when Udi, a healthy, active man, wakes up one morning unable to move his legs. The doctors can find no physical explanation for his paralysis, and soon it becomes painfully clear that it is a symptom of something far less tangible and far more insidious. This one morning sets in motion a series of events that reveals a vicious cycle of jealousy, paranoia, resentment, and accumulated injuries that now threaten to tear the small family apart. Na'ama, always intent on upholding the structure of her marriage regardless of its rotting foundation, is now forced to see it for what i

In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade,Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parentsfor centuries—an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’scrying.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenon thattouched millions of lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, receivedthousands of letters from parents who expressed the desire toconvey the principles they had learned to their children, alongwith questions about how to do so. The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents is Dr. Chopra’s answer tothose parents who wish to raise children with values that satisfyspiritual needs as well as create the experience of abundance.Exploring specific ways to practice the Seven Spiritual Laws as afamily, Chopra explains how to convey these laws to children, andhow to embody them in age-specific activities each day. The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents moves us beyond a focus onprivate triumphs and failures to experience the spiritual nature ofcommunion with family, to share with those closest to us theinfinite riches of innocence and love. The deepest nurturing you can give your child is spiritualnurturing. There are seven si

A perennial bestseller, now revised and updated for a newgeneration of fathers, this readable, inspiring guide to the worldof infants, toddlers, and preschoolers is an indispensable treasuryof advice, ideas, and suggestions.

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