Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence
Written by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $22.95
There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Jonesboro; Paducah; Pearl, Mississippi; Stamps, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; and, of course, Littleton, Colorado. We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up...
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Child Sense
Written by Priscilla J. Dunstan
Foreword by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
Your infant is crying and you don’t know why. Your toddler refuses every kind of food–except one. Your preschooler wages war with you each morning over what to wear. Every day, parents struggle unsuccessfully to understand why their children act the way they do. Now child development expert Priscilla J. Dunstan...
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The Lunch-Box Chronicles
Notes from the Parenting Underground
Written by Marion Winik
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $15.00
"For me, parenting is like dieting. Every day, I wake up filled with resolve and good intentions, perfection in view, and every day I somehow stray from the path. The difference is with dieting, I usually make it to lunch. . . ."
With the open and often hilarious voice we have come to...
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Growing Up Global
Raising Children to Be At Home in the World
Written by Homa Sabet Tavangar
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, Homa Sabet Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. In
Growing Up Global, Tavangar shares...
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Growing Up Global
Raising Children to Be At Home in the World
Written by Homa Sabet Tavangar
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, Homa Sabet Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. In
Growing Up Global, Tavangar shares...
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Simplicity Parenting
Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
Written by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $25.00
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with...
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Simplicity Parenting
Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
Written by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $25.00
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with...
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Raising Cain
Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Written by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys.
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two...
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Shared Parenting
Raising Your Child Cooperatively After Separation
Written by Jill Burrett and Michael Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.99
Few changes in life are as emotionally taxing for families as separation. In this practical book, two experts provide straightforward advice to parents facing this situation who wish to pursue the shared parenting approach. Drawing on their extensive experience and research, the authors emphasize the importance of children having significant time...
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Growing Girls
Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $13.00
Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….
A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie...
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99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free!
Written by Mack Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $5.99
99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free offers a variety of opportunities to both entertain and educate family members of all ages. The major categories of free activities include “Around Town”, “Just Imagine”, “With Nature”, “Rituals and Routines”, and “Holidays”.
Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score...
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99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free!
Written by Mack Thomas
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $5.99
99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free offers a variety of opportunities to both entertain and educate family members of all ages. The major categories of free activities include “Around Town”, “Just Imagine”, “With Nature”, “Rituals and Routines”, and “Holidays”.
Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score...
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Baby Bliss in a Box
Wisdom and Well-Wishes for New Parents
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book, 48 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $15.95
You want to be the perfect parent (although your parents weren’t perfect and you turned out OK, right?!). Luckily, your family and friends are here fro support and reassurance. This box is filled with cards that are designed for collecting their fondest wishes and a little homespun parenting advice. It is...
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The Passion of the Hausfrau
Motherhood, Illuminated
Written by Nicole Chaison
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $22.00
Behold, brave readers! Herein lies the first epic hero’s journey told by a mother–the Hausfrau, whose odyssey is a 24/7 adventure of pandemonium, sleep deprivation, madness, and transcendence. But beware! This journey is not for the faint of heart, as Nicole Chaison (a.k.a. the Hausfrau) boldly demonstrates in this brilliantly witty...
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