parent and child

Provides parents and teachers more than one hundred tips for nurturing self-confidence and self-reliance in children of all ages.

The conflicts between several married couples in a quiet suburban community reach crisis stage when Sarah, the discontented feminist wife of a much older, porn-obsessed man, begins an affair with Todd, a handsome stay-at-home dad, and a convicted child molester moves back into the neighborhood to live with his mother.

Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

Nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan is caught between his father's struggle to defeat union organizers at his printing business, yellow journalism at the newspaper where he has a summer job, routine corruption in city government, and the secret past of a renowned psychiatrist whose daughter Wilson happens to be in love with.

Contains a concise guide to raising children and provides ten basic principles to good parenting including information on outside influences, the importance of school involvement, developmental transitions, appropriate discipline, and respect.

By mistake, an unconventional lady receives a perfectly behaved factory-made child in the mail. To escape being returned, he must learn "normal" child behavior.

Examines infant development from the perspective of discoveries in neuroscience and developmental psychology, arguing that human emotion and the sense of self originate not in the first year after birth, but in the womb, and looking at what parents can do to help actualize their child's full potential.

Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.

When a child works alongside her parents doing carpentry, sewing, and gardening, she thinks of being an artist as well when she grows up.

In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.