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Finally a comprehensive guide has arrived for frustrated parents who have trouble feeding their children. Dr. Macht, a respected educational psychologist, has originated strategies that have achieved remarkable results in getting children to eat right. Dr. Macht cuts to...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2009-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
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13,99€ (-7%)
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Boys need encouragement and praise to develop healthy self esteem, but they can also feel swamped and suffocated by what they see as constant commentary on their every move-and as a result they can be inclined to act out. How can parents strike the right balance between...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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They may look sweet and compliant, but these days children aged between 8 and 12 -- "tweens" -- are fast emerging as a force to be reckoned with. Gaining in confidence, expecting more freedom, and increasingly targeted commercially, they present many new and...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
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9,99€ (-15%)
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Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care, and the modern...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-17%)
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The kids are sick but the boss needs the presentation on her desk by ten.The parent-child kindergarten brunch can't be missed, yet the business meeting beckons. When the only thing she knows for sure is that her day will bring a new set of challenges and priorities to...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-27
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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One of the most important steps that parents can take to prevent childhood obesity or simply to get their children to a healthier weight is to teach them good eating habits. Establishing such habits at an early age will contribute to lifelong health. Indeed, when kids...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-20
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single woman. But for the more than 10 million single women in the U.S. with children at home, dating is a much more complicated matter. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death,...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-15
Format(s) : ePub
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The celebrated designer Dana Buchman knew almost nothing about “learning differences” when her daughter, Charlotte, was diagnosed with disabilities as a toddler. She soon discovered that the hard work and determination that had taken her from the Ivy League...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-04-13
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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Immigrant Stories portrays the contexts and academic trajectories of development of three unique immigrant groups: Cambodian, Dominican and Portuguese. The children of immigrant families - or second generation youth - are the fastest growing population of school...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-04-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The role of play in child development is a source of ongoing interest and debate. In this book, renowned expert Peter Smith offers an expansive definition of the term “play”, taking an in-depth look at its impact on children, as well as its adaptive value for birds and...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-03-30
Collection :
Understanding Children's Worlds
Format(s) : PDF
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The role of play in child development is a source of ongoing interest and debate. In this book, renowned expert Peter Smith offers an expansive definition of the term “play”, taking an in-depth look at its impact on children, as well as its adaptive value for birds and...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-03-30
Collection :
Understanding Children's Worlds
Format(s) : PDF
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In a nation where an estimated 25 percent of high-school seniors use illegal substances on a monthly basis, parents are wise to be concerned about setting their children on a drug-free course. While much advice handed out these days focuses on teen behavior and on what...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-03-25
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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How to react when your toddler bites his playmate or your kindergartner confronts a bully? Drs. Brazelton and Sparrow bring their much-admired insight and support to this crucial, and ever more timely, childrearing challenge. From an early age, babies and toddlers need...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-03-17
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
6,99€ (-14%)
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The classic and indispensable work on teaching children at home, fully updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and the growing new generation of homeschooling parents Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-03-04
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-17%)
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Young children ask questions about sex, sexuality, conception, and birth that can be embarrassing or uncomfortable for parents. With her characteristic good sense and cool head, author Deborah Roffman will put even the most awkward parents at ease, giving them the...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-03-04
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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What do babies and young children really need? This impassioned dialogue cuts through all the theories, platitudes, and controversies that surround parenting advice to define what every child must have in the first years of life. The authors, both famed advocates for...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-02-23
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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Does your child have a conscience? Is he remorseful when caught in a lie? Very high on any wise list of dreams for our children is the hope that they become people of integrity. But integrity is not simply something that happens as a result of unconditional love,...
Editeur : Balance
Parution : 2009-02-23
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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This up-to-date overview of the fast-moving field of infant development covers all the major areas of interest in terms of research, applications and policy. Provides an up-to-date overview of progress on important developmental questions relating to infancy. ...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-02-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
Format(s) : PDF
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Advances in the fields of psychology and psychiatry have bolstered the perspective that infants are not the passive recipients of sensory stimulation as it was once thought. Built on T. Berry Brazelton s paradigm-shifting work on the individuality of infants, this book...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2008-12-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-12-17
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
9,99€ (-15%)
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