parenting

Explores child behavior as it relates to brain development, including parenting strategies to help cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development.

Offers guidance and advice on caring for an infant for the first six months of his or her life.

Advises parents to let their children experience disappointment, frustration, and failure, giving them an opportunity to learn from mistakes, and grow up to become successful, resilent and.

Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu. One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe's brother Philip helps her search the house and they happen upon a body outside; but it isn't Virginia's. Now, not only does she have a newborn to care for and a vulnerable new marriage to nurture, Roe also has to contend with a new puzzle; who is this mystery woman dead in their backyard, and what happened to Virginia?.

Advises parents to let their children experience disappointment, frustration, and failure, giving them an opportunity to learn from mistakes, and grow up to become successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults.

Discusses the joys and challenges of African American motherhood.

"A mother chronicles her journey to find a solution for her son's anxiety and depression"--OCLC.

"The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day."--Provided by publisher.

Presents innovative ways to solve common communication problems of parents and young children.

Provides a set of tools to help relieve childhood anxiety, offering simple, effective strategies that build connection through fun, play, and empathy; explains how and why children become anxious and then shows how empathy and play can be used to help them escape from their fears.