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Parenting By the Book

Parenting is the toughest job there is...be sure to check out these great books for some helpful tips, great advice, and even a few laughs!

Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide for Raising Responsible, Productive Adults




Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide for Raising Responsible, Productive Adults
By Winget, Larry
2009-12 - Gotham Books
1592404952 Check Availability

From the straight-talking, bestselling author of "You're Broke Because You Want to Be" comes a rescue plan that spells hope for raising a generation of productive adults. …More

Mom-In-Chief: How Wisdom from the Workplace Can Save Your Family from Chaos




Mom-In-Chief: How Wisdom from the Workplace Can Save Your Family from Chaos
By Woolf, Jamie
Foreword by Evans, Carol
2009-02 - Jossey-Bass
0470381310 Check Availability

Praise for Mom-in-Chief

"Being a mom means being a leader, and that is exactly what Jamie Woolf explores in her delightfully engaging, masterfully researched, and highly practical new book." --Jim Kouzes coauthor, The Leadership Challenge; the Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

"As a mom trying to juggle a family, a job, and a life, I saw myself on every page of this book." --Lian Dolan author, Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses and cofounder of Satellite Sisters

"Jamie Woolf understands how workplace skills like leadership and team building can help families flourish. But she also has a deep understanding of the differences between how women and men operate both in the office and at home." --Michael Gurian author, Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business

"Mom-in-Chief is the best book I've read for the working woman who has it all together at the office but completely loses her cool when she comes home to find the baby in the kitty litter and the husband watching Celebrity Golf. Her tips and strategies are brilliant, her stories inspiring, and her book very smart, funny, and useful." --Michele Borba author, No More Misbehavin' and Building Moral Intelligence

"Jamie Woolf makes a strong and compelling case that good parenting not only requires real leadership skills but also strengthens them." --Dee Dee Myers author, Why Women Should Rule the World and former White House press secretary …More

Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do




Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
By Martin, Wednesday
2009-05 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
0618758194 Check Availability

Stepmonster illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, considers the myths and realities of marrying a man with children, and counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for their challenges. …More

Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year


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Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year
By Zoellner, Mary Ann
Author Ybarbo, Alicia
2009-04 - Collins Living
0061721859 Check Availability

Chock-full of behind-the-scenes interviews with moms and experts from NBC's "Today Show," this one-stop guide contains everything a new mother needs to know about her baby's first year. …More

Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry




Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
By Skenazy, Lenore
2009-04 - Jossey-Bass
0470471948 Check Availability

Free Range Kids has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazys piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your childs everyday life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence. …More

Stop Second-Guessing Yourself--The Preschool Years: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting




Stop Second-Guessing Yourself--The Preschool Years: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting
By Singer, Jen
2009-09 - Health Communications
0757314171 Check Availability

The go-to mom, parenting columnist and MommaSaid.net creator is back with her second must-know advice book for surviving and thriving as a mom of a preschooler. …More

Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: The Toddler Years: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting




Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: The Toddler Years: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting
By Singer, Jen
2009-04 - Health Communications
0757306535 Check Availability

The antithesis of What to Expect When You're Expecting, this book arms women with what they'd never expect to do, say, or feel once they're in the parenting trenchesgiving them mom-tested advice, validation, and 'what works' in an era when women are lacking the camaraderie and 'back fence' advice of prior generations. …More

Real Solutions for Busy Moms: Your Guide to Success and Sanity




Real Solutions for Busy Moms: Your Guide to Success and Sanity
By Ireland, Kathy
With Lund, James
2009-04 - Howard Books
1416563180 Check Availability

Former supermodel and a supermom herself, Ireland maintains that moms can do it all, just not all at once in this invaluable resource for women desiring to raise their children in a loving, faith-based environment with success and sanity. …More

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents




How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents
By Califano, Joseph
Author Califano, Jr.
2009-08 - Fireside Books
143915631X Check Availability

Califano's new guide is designed to help parents get their kids through the formative pre-teen, teen, and college years drug-free. …More

The Must-Have Mom Manual: Two Mothers, Two Perspectives, One Book That Tells You Everything You Need to Know






The Must-Have Mom Manual: Two Mothers, Two Perspectives, One Book That Tells You Everything You Need to Know
By Ellington, Sara
Author Triplett, Stephanie
2009-04 - Ballantine Books
0345499875 Check Availability

From two parenting experts comes a book no new mother should be without--an all-in-one parenting guide designed to cover every aspect of raising young children from birth to age six. It's also about how to survive motherhood and make a mom's busy life easier. …More

It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita




It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita
By Armstrong, Heather B.
2009-03 - Simon Spotlight Entertainment
1416936017 Check Availability

From the creator of one of the most popular personal blogs on the Web comes an irreverent and captivating parenting memoir covering the joys and indignities of pregnancy, childbirth, and all the unexpected emotions that come with having a baby. 16-page full-color insert. …More

The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World


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The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World
By Rao, Anthony
Author Seaton, Michelle
2009-09 - William Morrow & Company
0061707821 Check Availability

Dr. Rao passionately argues that ever-increasing numbers of boys are being treated and medicated for problems they simply don't have. The author urges parents, educators, and other developmental experts to re-evaluate and radically alter how they deal with these children. …More

Hell Is Other Parents: And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion




Hell Is Other Parents: And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion
By Kogan, Deborah Copaken
2009-08 - Hyperion Books
1401340814 Check Availability

Thrust among perhaps the most over-involved, overprotective, competitive, and interfering parents in history, journalist Kogan has written a series of essays that evokes and reflects on the particular yet universal challenges she has faced while parenting in the new millennium. …More

The Long-Distance Dad: How You Can Be There for Your Child- Whether Divorced, Deployed, or on the Road




The Long-Distance Dad: How You Can Be There for Your Child- Whether Divorced, Deployed, or on the Road
By Ashley, Steven
With Hall, Philip S.
2008-02 - Adams Media Corporation
1598694413 Check Availability

Divorce. Work. Military deployment. There are many reasons fathers are not present in their children's daily lives. Communicate via phone, e-mail, IM, Web cams, etc. Create daily, weekly, monthly rituals of their very own. …More

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World




Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World
By Hicks, Marybeth
2008-07 - Berkley Publishing Group
0425221563 Check Availability

A breakthrough parenting book that redefines the meaning of geek and inspires parents to free themselves and their kids from the culture of cool.

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