parenting

Examines the history of popular child rearing theories and theorists in twentieth-century America, such as G. Stanley Hall, John Broadus Watson, and Benjamin Spock, discussing the ways they effected and reflected changes in societal beliefs and priorities.

After observing how other animals around the farm make their new offspring happy, an expectant father mole flaps like a bird, splashes like a duck, and hops like a bunny until he discovers that his babies need just one thing--love.

A comprehensive guide to the development of children from birth to age six that includes parenting techniques and activities to help a child maximize physical, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral development.

A guide for parents raising children in twenty-first-century society that focuses on deterring materialism, high risk behaviors, and jaded pseudo-adulthood; and details ten rules to raise geeky, healthy children.

In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear. Recruiting from a wide variety of sources?in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology?she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations?and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.

Explains how children can use the techniques of mindful awareness to manage stress and lead happier, more balanced lives, with strategies, activities, songs, games, and fables for teaching children the principles of mindful awareness.

A guide to teaching empathy to children.

Provides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.