Teaching Montessori In The Home by Elizabeth G Hainstock
ISBN 0452279097 EAN: 9780452279094 Plume Paperback 128 pgs 
WB Price: $21.95
This book has already helped thousands of parents connect with their children by introducing them at home to the dynamic Montessori method of education. The techniques, exercises, and easy-to-make Montessori materials presented here instill a sense of discovery and awareness in your child, and serve as an essential foundation for future learning. Covering the pre-school years from ages two to five, the lessons focus on reading and writing, mathematics, sensory awareness, and practical life skills. Updated and revised, this guide puts the entire range of the Montessori system within your reach, so you can make the most of your child's vital years. 20.27 cms L x 13.67 cms W (0.11 kgs) 128 pages

How Children Learn by John Holt
ISBN 0201484048 EAN: 9780201484045 Perseus Paperback 303 pgs WB Price: $27.95
"Children do not need to be made to learn", Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry". For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has become a classic for parents and teachers, providing an "effective, gentle voice of reason" 21.08 cms L x 14.17 cms W (0.37 kgs) 320 pages

How Babies Talk by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Ph.D 
and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Ph.D
ISBN 0452281733 Plume Paperback WB Price: $25.95
Two developmental psychologists/language experts offer parents a powerfully insightful guide to how infants--even while in the womb--begin to learn language. Organized chronologically, beginning with the unborn child, who can actually tell the difference between similar sounds, this comprehensive book shows how babies learn to recognize words, decipher their meanings, put together sentences, and ask questions. Each chapter contains a section, called "Language Milestones", that explores the amazing things babies know at each age, as well as their hidden capabilities and what parents can do to develop them. "Scientific Sleuthing Pays Off" describes how parents can use the latest scientific findings to enhance everyday interactions and provide the most effective learning environments for their children. This section also helps parents identify the problems that may hinder language development. "Try This" details fun and easy at-home experiments that enable parents to chart their children's progress themselves.From the evolution of infant speech sounds to the toddler's mastery of complex grammar, How Babies Talk is an important guide that will help parents help their children develop the wonderful gift of language.23.27 cms L x 15.19 cms W (0.31 kgs) 272 pages

The Scientist In The Crib by Alison M Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, Patricia Kuhl Ph.D
ISBN 0688177883 EAN: 9780688177881 Harpercollins Paperback 304 pgs WB Price: $25.95
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children -- as well as adults -- use some of the same methods that allow scientists to learn so much about the world. Filled with surprise at every turn, this vivid, lucid, and often funny book gives us a new view of the inner life of children and the mysteries of the mind.20.35 cms L x 13.16 cms W (0.24 kgs) 304 pages

Baby's First Skills by Miriam Stoppard
ISBN 0756644216 EAN: 9780756644215 DK Paperback WB Price: $25.95
Perfect for busy parents or caregivers, "Baby's First Skills provides the necessary tools to help babies, through the age of 12 months, develop a wide range of early learning skills. Creative play and activities such as building and clapping games, sand play, matching and sorting, lullabies, puppet play and bath-time fun, help ensure healthy mental development and speech, coordination, movement and social skills.23.37 cms L x 18.34 cms W (0.33 kgs) 112 pages

Baby Prodigy A Guide To Raising A Smarter, Happier Baby 
by Barbara Candiano-Marcus 
ISBN 0345477650 Ballantine Paperback 304 pgs WB Price: $23.95
ENHANCE YOUR BABY'S POTENTIAL! Winner of thirteen national awards, the Baby Prodigy Company's DVDs and CDs have opened up an exciting new world for babies to explore. Now the creator of this landmark series presents a simple, straightforward guide no parent should be without. This fascinating book shows how stimulation affects the intelligence and happiness of your baby. It provides a program of activities that will enrich your infant's sensory awareness-hearing, seeing, touching, feeling, and tasting-in order to jumpstart amazing brain growth during the critical first three years of life. Discover: - sanity-saving tips for sleepless nights, fussy days, colic, and more - bonding and soothing techniques to use during your baby's first three weeks of life - easy, pleasurable activities to promote development in very young infants - milestones to look for as your child grows-from birth through toddlerhood - creative ways to stimulate curiosity, attention span, memory, and nervous system advancement - the ideal books and toys that will inspire learning and retention - baby talk: what your baby is trying to say, and how to talk to your baby at every stage of development 20.57 cms L x 13.31 cms W (0.22 kgs) 304 pages

The Good Son by Michael Gurian
ISBN 1585420492 Jeremy Tarcher Paperback 391 pgs WB Price: $27.95
In his eagerly awaited new book, therapist and educator Michael Gurian presents the definitive guide to the moral development of our boys and young men. He takes readers through a complete parenting program, showing them how to instill virtues in boys at each of the three stages of life: The Age of Obedience (birth to six); The Age of Convention (seven to twelve); and The Age of Moral Intuition (thirteen to eighteen). The Good Son also addresses "moral emergency" questions on how to cope with stealing, violence, and other forms of severe misbehavior. In addition, Gurian furnishes a list of the fifty top books and films that will help stimulate moral growth in boys and young men. For parents and teachers who fear that our society has lost much of its moral and ethical underpinnings, The Good Son serves as a welcome guidepost. It is destined to become one of the premier books on parenting and moral life. Selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the Best Books of 1999. 20.73 cms L x 15.04 cms W (0.54 kgs) 391 pages

How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge 
by Glenn & Janet Doman
ISBN 0757001823 Square One Paperback 318 pgs 
WB Price: $26.95
This book shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach a young child about the arts, science, and nature. You can give your baby a powerful advantage that will last a lifetime.20.68 cms L x 14.22 cms W (0.42 kgs) 282 pages

How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence  
ISBN 0757001831 Square One Paperback 400 pgs WB Price: $28.95
Provides a comprehensive program that shows you just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach your young child how to read, understand mathematics, and expand his or her general learning potential.20.93 cms L x 14.07 cms W (0.54 kgs) 396 pages

How To Teach Your Baby To Be Physically Superb
ISBN 0757001920 EAN: 9780757001925 Square One Hardcover 
WB Price: $53.95 
This inspiring book shows how the team of mother, father, and baby can explore and discover together the joys of human mobility. Full-color charts, photographs, illustrations and detailed yet easy-to-follow instructions are included.27.94 cms L x 18.03 cms W (1.06 kgs) 273 pages

How To Teach Your Baby To Read by Glenn and Janet Doman
ISBN 0757001858 Square One Press 288 pgs
WB Price: $25.95 
This book, the first in the Gentle Revolution Series, is an international bestseller and has been translated into 18 languages over the last 40 years. It presents an idea just as a revolutionary now as it was in 1963 when the authors proclaimed that children should be given the opportunity to learn when it is easiest for them to absorb new information, from birth to age six.This book presents four tenets: Tiny children can learn to read, tiny children should learn to read, tiny children are learning to read and this is a great joy for parents and child.20.62 cms L x 14.33 cms W (0.35 kgs) 262 pages

How To Teach Your Baby Math by Glenn and Janet Doman
ISBN 075700184X EAN: 9780757001840 Square One Press 
WB Price: $25.95
This book provides parents with a simple and clear daily program for teaching small children mathematics. At the same time, the essential and close contact of learning together enriches the love and respect between parents and baby.20.98 cms L x 14.12 cms W (0.34 kgs) 256 pages

Character Matters! by Thomas Lickona
ISBN 0743245075 Touchstone Paperback 336 pgs WB Price: $26.95
The novelist Walker Percy once observed, "Some people get all As but flunk life." Succeeding in life takes character. In "Character Matters," award-winning psychologist-educator Thomas Lickona offers more than 100 practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its 10 essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. He lays out a blueprint for building these core virtues through a partnership shared by families, schools, and communities. Chapters include: 14 strategies that help kids succeed academically while building character More than a dozen character-building discipline strategies 20 ways to prevent peer cruelty and promote kindness 10 ways to talk to teens about sex, love, and character.21.49 cms L x 13.89 cms W (0.30 kgs) 336 pages

Mother-Daughter Wisdom by Christiane Northrup MD
ISBN 0553380125 EAN: 9780553380125 Bantam Paperback WB Price: $35.95
"Mother-Daughter Wisdom introduces an entirely new map of female development, exploring the "five facets of feminine power," which range from the basics of physical self-care to the discovery of passion and purpose in life. This blueprint allows any woman-whether or" not she has children"-to repair the gaps in her own upbringing and create a better adult relationship with her mother. If she has her own daughter, it will help her be the mother she has always wanted to be. Drawing on patient case histories and personal experiences, Dr. Northrup also presents findings at the cutting edge of medicine and psychology. Discover: *How to lay the nutritional foundation to prevent eating disorders and adult diseases *The truth about the immunization controversy-and the true meaning of immunity *How we can change our genetic health legacy *Why financial literacy is essential to women's health *How to foster healthy sexuality and future "love maps" in our daughters *How to balance independence with caring, and individual growth with family ties 23.32 cms L x 15.65 cms W (0.91 kgs) 752 pages

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families By Stephen Covey
ISBN 0307440850 EAN: 9780307440853 Golden Paperback 390 pages WB Price: $28.50
In his first major work since "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven R. Covey presents a practical and philosophical guide to solving the problems--large and small, mundane and extraordinary--that confront all families and strong communities. By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence.23.50 cms L x 16.28 cms W (0.47 kgs) 390 pages

The O'Reilly Factor For Kids By Bill O'Reilly
ISBN 0060544252 EAN: 9780060544256 Harper Paperback 
WB Price: $23.95
There's no one more blunt, more opinionated, or more outspoken than the average teen. Except, of course, Bill O'Reilly, veteran star journalist, anchor of the most watched cable news program on TV, New York Times bestselling author, husband, father of two, and former teacher. In his latest book, O'Reilly talks straight to the readers most likely to appreciate his direct style -- teens. To be sure he's addressing their most pressing concerns, he responds to actual letters from kids who tune in to his radio and TV programs regularly and collaborates with award-winning former high school teacher and college professor Charles Flowers. At his young fans' request, there are chapters on sex, money, smoking, drugs, alcohol, friends, divorce, death, politics, God, and more. And now Bill's even added a special chapter on one of the most pervasive challenges teens face today -- cyber-bullying. It's the rampant use of technology to spread rumors and harass other kids anonymously ... and it's got to stop. Check out Bill's tips on how to deal with it if it's happening to you or someone you care about. 20.37 cms L x 13.56 cms W (0.18 kgs) 196 pages

Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
ISBN 0307454444 EAN: 9780307454447 Three Rivers Paperback 
WB Price: $24.95
Do you feel as though your adolescent daughter exists in a different world, speaking a different language and living by different laws? She does. 
This groundbreaking book takes you inside the secret world of girls' friendships, translating and decoding them, so parents can better understand and help their daughters navigate through these crucial years. Rosalind Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they feel about school, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves. In this candid and insightful book, Wiseman discusses: - Queen Bees, Wannabes, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and others: how to tell what role your daughter plays and help her be herself  - Girls' power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties, and how to handle them - Good popularity and bad popularity: how cliques bear on every situation - Hip Parents, Best-Friend Parents, Pushover Parents, and others: examine your own parenting style, "Check Your Baggage," and identify how your own background and biases affect how you relate to your daughter - Related movies, books, websites, and organizations: a carefully annotated resources section provides opportunities to follow up on your own and with your daughter Enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and parents and a welcome sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes is compelling reading for parents and daughters alike. A conversation piece and a reference guide, it offers the tools you need tohelp your daughter feel empowered and make smarter choices. 20.37 cms L x 13.26 cms W (0.32 kgs) 433 pages