In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils." ... Read more

Isbn: 0316779059
Subjects:  1. Care    2. Child Care    3. Child Care/Parenting    4. Development    5. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    6. Infants    7. Infants & Toddlers - Infants    8. Infants (Newborn)    9. Family & Relationships / Child Care   

Sign with Your Baby Complete Learning Kit will enable you to communicate at new levels with your baby long before she can speak.This comprehensive package of book, video, and reference guide shows how simple gestures can communicate ideas like "I'm hungry" or "help me." Caregivers grasp baby's needs immediately rather than learn through trial and error. Dr. Joseph Garcia has designed the system so it's not necessary to learn an entire new language, although it also provides a terrific start in American Sign Language for a hearing-impaired child. A fascinating introduction delves into the development of language in children and uses informative line drawings to demonstrate over 150 hand signs for all kinds of actions and nouns.The accompanying video provides practical tips for getting started, some insight into the hows and whys of this method from Dr. Burton White (director of the Center for Parent Education), and inspiring sights of young babies signing effectively with their caregivers. The laminated quick-reference guide lists some of the most common words in any parent's day: cookie, no, and up are but a few.Garcia's clear, concise methods make learning a breeze, and caregivers gain outstanding new abilities to give the best possible care for the babies entrusted to them. --Jill Lightner ... Read more

Isbn: 0966836707
Subjects:  1. Child Care/Parenting    2. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    3. Infants & Toddlers - General    4. Infants & Toddlers - Infants    5. Language Arts & Disciplines    6. Sign Language   

Such science makes for great reading, but will likely prove even more useful to readers with a scientist in their own crib, acting as tonic to pseudoscientific how-to baby books that recommend everything "from flash cards, to Mozart tapes, to Better Baby Institutes." As the authors put it, "We want to understand children, not renovate them." --Paul Hughes ... Read more

Isbn: 0688159885
Subjects:  1. Child Care/Parenting    2. Child Development    3. Cognition    4. Cognition in children    5. Developmental - Child    6. Family & Relationships    7. Learning, Psychology of    8. Psychology    9. Psychology of learning    10. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    11. Theory of knowledge   

In the rush, rush, rush of too-much-to-do-and-no-time-to-do-it, the all-important, nurturing aspects of parenthood can easily disappear. Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Myla Kabat-Zinn have collaborated on Everyday Blessings, a book that approaches parenting from the Zen Buddhist position of moment-to-moment awareness. It's a beautiful presentation and a thoughtful approach to mindful meditation that will help you slow down, enrich your life as a parent, and nourish the internal life of your children. ... Read more

Isbn: 0786883146
Subjects:  1. Attention    2. Child Care/Parenting    3. Meditation    4. Parent and child    5. Parenting    6. Parenting - General    7. Parents    8. Psychology    9. Religion - Prayer & Spirituality    10. Self-Help    11. Spirituality - General    12. Self-Help / Meditations