ABCs for Mommy! Second Edition empowers mothers to meet challenges head-on. New mothers will be encouraged to focus on a healthy pregnancy, to understand the power of nurturing and the value of being a responsible citizen. The Second Edition includes a stronger emphasis on providing useful tools to mothers. Those tools will build strong positive character traits in their lives and the lives of their children. The Young Parenting Series will help mothers, fathers, and the extended family better understand their role in the birth and life of a new child. Included are word puzzles, lyrics to lullabies, and suggested readings for mothers to share with their children. The Suggested Readings for Children support all 26 positive character traits so mother and child can learn together. This book puts useful information at the fingertips of new and expectant mothers.
Hi mama (or dad!). I've been where you are. The darkness, the unknowns, the fear, the uncertainty -- everything that accompanies a hearing loss diagnosis. You may feel all of these things at once. You may ebb and flow between them. Or you may not know what you feel at all. And that is okay. When you are told your child has significant hearing loss, there is no right reaction. Tears may flow, or they may refuse to come. Anger may boil over, or it may fester. Grief can pave the way, or it can be pushed aside. We all process serious, life-altering news differently. My own family received that news on October 18, 2019. In some ways, it feels like a lifetime ago. In others, the pain and emotions are still fresh. Time is funny that way. My goal in sharing my son Cooper's story -- our story, really -- is to show you that you are truly never alone. This journey to Holland (hang in there, I'll get to the relevancy of this) can feel like a lonely one at the beginning. But when you find acceptance, when you open your heart, there is so much beauty to be found along the way.
Cape Cod ABCs details some of the Cape's unique beauties and treasures in charming rhymes. Both young and older readers will love the delightful illustrations that speak to each letter so perfectly. It is a lovely little must-read for anyone who wants to discover all that the Cape has to offer from A to Z.
ABCs for Me! promotes the building of the whole person through early introduction to core attributes. The positive character traits, or attributes, support Social and Emotional Learning as well as many areas in the early learning and primary school standards. Ideal workbook for ages 6-8 with an accompanying interactive strategies workbook available for the new learner, 4-5 years of age.
A sequence of multicultural babies depicted on alphabetical spreads reveals aspects of their busy lives and the special moments they share with loving family members. On board pages.
An ABC of Families celebrates families in every single shape and size, no matter what they look like or whom they include! Whether you have two dads, an adopted brother, three stepsisters, or divorced parents, every family is the perfect family. This important book helps the youngest children explore complicated concepts in an accessible, fun, and memorable way. Each entry is explained with clear, simple language, and teaches kids about important concepts in a way that's easy to understand. Bright, colorful artwork shows people of all different kinds, in all different types of families. A sister title to An ABC of Equality, this book shows us how to celebrate our differences, share kindness, and understand the world.
The ABCs of Parenting is an easy-to-read, biblically based, and highly practical book that will help you raise a strong, healthy, and godly family. Each chapter includes "Make It Happen" tips that parents can refer to for practical ideas to implement each A to Z principle in their daily lives.
New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.
From the creator of the popular blog Mommy Shorts comes a “hilarious and comforting” look at real-world motherhood (New York Times bestselling author, Jill Smokler). Ilana Wiles is not a particularly good mother. She’s not a particularly bad mother either. Like most of us, she’s somewhere in between. And she has some surprisingly good advice about navigating life as an imperfect parent. In this witty and loving homage to the every-parent, Wiles suggests that they having the best child-rearing experience of all. Using Wiles’s signature infographics and photographs to illustrate her personal and hilarious essays on motherhood, The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting is an honest book that celebrates the fun of being a mom.
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
