Babies & Toddlers Books - Page 9

Unplugged Play: No Batteries. No Plugs. Pure Fun.

Bobbi Conner

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

a reader from Ohio 1 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

After reading many great reviews I purchased this book thinking it would be a useful resource for games and activities for my children. I was greatly disappointed. Almost every activity is the same, just a different variation. Most require yet another trip to a store to buy some plastic "toys" If a parent already had what the author has listed as a "well-stocked" toy room they should have no problem thinking up the games listed in this book. For any parent or caregiver with even the slightest bit of imagination this book is unnecessary. In place of this I would recommend Playful Learning from Le Leche League or any book from Bev Bos. They require more imagination and less trips to a store.

Editorial Review:

From the joy of smearing glue on paper to the screaming delight of a bubble-blowing relay, kids love to play. In fact, it's every kid's built-in tool for experiencing the world at large. A parent-friendly encyclopedia, UNPLUGGED PLAY ("A wonderful guide," says Daniel Goleman) offers hundreds and hundredsof battery-free, screen-free, chrip-and-beep-free games and fun variations that stretch the imagination, spark creativity, building strong bodies, and forge deep friendships...and keep kids busy at the table while mom or dad makes dinner.

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion

Dale McGowan

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Total reviews: 38 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D.

Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, and Dr. Donald B. Ardell

It's hard enough to live a secular life in a religious world. And bringing up children without religious influence can be even more daunting. Despite the difficulties, a large and growing number of parents are choosing to raise their kids without religion.

In Parenting Beyond Belief, Dale McGowan celebrates the freedom that comes with raising kids without formal indoctrination and advises parents on the most effective way to raise freethinking children. With advice from educators, doctors, psychologists, and philosophers as well as wisdom from everyday parents, the book offers tips and insights on a variety of topics, from "mixed marriages" to coping with death and loss, and from morality and ethics to dealing with holidays. Sensitive and timely, Parenting Beyond Belief features reflections from such freethinkers as Mark Twain, Richard Dawkins, Bertrand Russell, and wellness guru Dr. Don Ardell that will empower every parent to raise both caring and independent children without constraints.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger

Helen Garabedian

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today.

If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don't need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga, posture by posture, in this accessible guide, with seventy beautiful black-and-white photos, at-a-glance reference charts, and memorable Itsy Bitsy Yoga rhymes.

Yoga can help babies up to two years of age:

• sleep better

• get relief from gas pains and colic

• digest food easier

• stay healthier with a strong immune system

• receive neuromuscularm stimulation

• learn to relax

The book also features seven Magic Poses that can soothe fussy, upset babies within minutes! So start enjoying more time with your happy yoga baby right now.

Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them

Jenifer Fox M.Ed.

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children’s individual strengths create success

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and “fixing” kids’ weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox’s twenty-five years of experience, Your Child’s Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox’s strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before.

Your Child’s Strengths will give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make you feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things you do for and with others that make you feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the unique ways we approachand understand new information. All three strengths work in tandem.

Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award- winning Affinities Program Fox has implemented at her own school, this much- needed book is a user- friendly guide for parents, teachers, and administrators that will improve individual performance and an indispensable road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.

The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and BuildLifelong Resilience

Martin E. P. Seligman

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Excellent book 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I had read this author's book "Learned Optimism" which was oriented to adults. The Optimistic Child gives an emphasis to the parent-child relationship instead which is a great addition to his prior work. I found it a little more technical in its writing than the adult version, but not too difficult to read. I highly recommend it for parents trying to help their children to be positive and optimistic in life.

Editorial Review:

In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism -- dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback -- and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health.

As Seligman states in his new afterword for this edition, "Teaching children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism . . . It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life -- not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality."

Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy

Naomi, Ph.D. Aldort

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Every parent would happily give up ever scolding, punishing or threatening if she only knew how to ensure that her toddler/child/teen would thrive and act responsibly without such painful measures. Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves is the answer to this universal wish. It is not about gentle ways to control a child, but about a way of being and of understanding a child so she/he can be the best of herself, not because she fears you, but because she wants to, of her own free will.

"Aldort's book should be on the must read list of all Moms and Dads. This book could carry a subtitle: "Saving the Emotional Lives of Our Children and The Future of Humanity.""

- James Prescott, Ph.D. Institute of Humanistic Science

"Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves operates on the radical premise that neither child nor parent must dominate; it is for those who want to give up scolding, threatening and punishing. Her SALVE "formula" alone is worth the price of the book." - Peggy O'Mara Editor and Publisher of Mothering

"Every once in awhile, a writer comes along who is comfortable speaking the truth, no matter how much it might challenge us or make us uncomfortable. Naomi Aldort is one of those people. In Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, Naomi Aldort takes the struggle out of parenting and replaces controlling and shaping style of parenting with one that values, trusts and nurtures children's innate abilities and autonomy."

- Wendy Priesnitz Editor of Life Learning magazine, author of School Free and Challenging Assumptions in Education

"In this stunning insight into human nature, Naomi Aldort opens a window into harmonious family living. This book should to be widely read and not just by parents but by every being who strives for a more peaceful world."

- Veronika Robinson, Editor of The Mother magazine, UK

Nanny 911: Expert Advice for All Your Parenting Emergencies

Deborah Carroll, Stella Reid

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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The official tie–in book to the popular Fox TV program that shows parents how to regain control of their children with simple, direct, nanny–tested measures.

Is your life chaos? Are your kids running things? Do you feel like you're more of a zookeeper than a parent? When your family's in trouble, Nanny 911 is there on the double. Because brats are not born, they're made. No–one knows that better than Deborah Carroll and Stella Reid – Nanny Deb and Nanny Stella, the stars of the instant–hit television show on the Fox network. Each week, over

8 million viewers tune in to see what happens when they take charge and transform the utter chaos of one family's daily life into serenity, in only seven short days. No matter how loud the tantrums, how clueless the parents, and how unwilling these families may be at first to make the kind of sweeping changes they need, pretty soon they come to realise that the nannies can help them be the families they always wanted to be.

Now the nannies will share their remarkable system with the millions of overwhelmed parents desperate for foolproof parenting advice that is quick and at their fingertips. For parenting emergencies call 911. Nanny 911, that is.

Baby and Toddler 411 Gift Set

Denise Fields

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

great go to guide 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

These books were recommended to me by a friend. I already had so many books, but I got them. Now it is all I read - there is everything in there about everything. I love it! I plan on buying this set for future shower presents.

Good, ot great, resource 4 out of 5 stars.
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Baby 411 is better than the toddler version, but it still has good quick look-ups.

I love these books baby and Toddler 411 5 out of 5 stars.
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I absolutely love these books. I have been refering to them for alot of things as a new mom and everything seems to be totally helpful everytime. I even refered the books to a few friends with babies that are having a few problems. It gives you alot of good information about feeding, sleep habits, development, sickness,etc. It answers alot of questions that most moms have. I highly recommend this book to any mom with a baby.

Must have for mommies 5 out of 5 stars.
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These books were recommended to me by our pediatrician and I am so glad they were. A perfect reference book for anything you can think of in regards to your child. I have read both volumes from cover to cover and refer to them whenever I am curious as to what is going on! These are written in a very entertaining way and are quickly read. Great Shower gift!

Editorial Review:

Baby 411 and Toddler 411 boxed together in an attactive gift slip case. The perfect shower gift.

The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

Vicki Iovine

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Total reviews: 204 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

AWFUL HORRIBLE Book - save your money 1 out of 5 stars.
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I am just starting out in my first pregnancy and am in a wonderfully happy marriage with a very intelligent and supporting husband. I am planning on having a natural home birth with family and friends readily available to help us as we adjust the first few days. I am NOT the target audience for this book. As I got through just the first few pages, my jaw was literally dropping to the floor - not only does the author use inane scare tactics (why you need to scare an already nervous first time mom is beyond me!), but she obviously has never researched alternative methods of child birth and care. Don't feel like breastfeeding? Who cares, not like anyone is going to give you an award if you do. Want to breastfeed but worried that the nurses at the hospital will feed your newborn formula without your permission? Who cares, you shouldn't bother the hospital staff too much or they will make your 'stay' miserable. Want to give birth at home? Are you CRAZY? Don't want drugs? Oh, you'll see what a stupid idea THAT was!!

Are you kidding me? I would have thought that I had just opened up the 1950's Official Manual to Good Child Birthing. I think the only thing missing is showing a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette on the cover. If you are in any way intelligent, possess basic common sense, have any interest in alternative health and alternative birthing methods for your baby, do NOT waste your hard-earned money on this trifle garbage.

Editorial Review:

Just had a baby? Lie down, rest your weary womb, and muster up a rousing cheer! (Shh! Don't wake the baby!) Now, from the author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, comes the book all new moms have been waiting for, whether they know it or not. Vicki Iovine talks turkey ... and stitches, and weight loss, and depression, and sex (trying it for the first time after labor and delivery? "Inebriate and Lubricate"). Vicki--yeah, I know I'm calling her by her first name but after reading this book you'll be on a first-name basis with her, too--is funny, informative, and utterly (udderly?) irreverent. New mothers have never had it so good.

Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition

Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Douglas Abrams

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Total reviews: 163 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Basic overview of baby signing 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a pretty good book. I was hoping for a little less discussion of why baby signing was "ok" and a little more in the way of examples and pictures, but overall this has been a helpful book.

Good beginning book 4 out of 5 stars.
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I have some beginner signing knowledge and needed to brush up my skills for my baby. This covers a small amount of signs and is a good place to start. Bargin priced at $5, it's a good affordable start for someone who is interested in beginning sign language with their baby.

Editorial Review:

The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with new signs

For every parent or caregiver who has struggled unsuccessfully to decode baby grunts and grabs, resulting in tearful frustration for both adult and child, there is Baby Signs. Based on 20 years of research, this one-of-a-kind classic shows you how to encourage your baby's use of nonverbal gestures to enhance communication. Simple hand movements signify objects, events, and needs, so your infant can enjoy interactions with you that otherwise would have been impossible until they could talk. New features of this revised edition include helpful tips on incorporating Baby Signs into the day care setting and more than 50 additional illustrated Baby Signs.