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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the power of family bonds describes the author's life through the ten children she brought into the world, chronicling family adventures and discoveries, everyday moments, and her children's own developing lives.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her....
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
We wouldn’t dream of sending a soldier into battle without essential gear: body armor, a weapon, and knowledge of the enemy’s motives, strategies, and weaknesses. Yet, many parents today unknowingly send their children into the psychological battlefields of daily life— where they face a barrage of deceptions from academia, social media, politicians, peers, and beyond—without equipping them with the necessary defenses to survive and excel....
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their children against Woke infection. In whichever zip code or tax bracket you dwell, there's hope for parents who seek to indoctrinate their kids into conservatism--that is, kids who understand historical, economic, and biological reality. This book coaches parents in the how, when, and who of teaching children...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law, Marcy, and his father, Joe, who enjoys giving him terrible...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law, Marcy, and his father, Joe, who enjoys giving him terrible...
Author
Publisher
One World, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Books Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Middle-class American life is defined by relentless competition among families, waged from elite preschools to youth sports to selective universities. The lengths to which parents will go to give their children a leg up have become notorious: ostentatious birthday parties to wow the neighbors, fistfights on the soccer sidelines over playing time, criminal conspiracies to cheat at college admissions. Such excesses make it easy to say that parents...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be challenging, especially when she became pregnant with her second child. She was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom--much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives, and even play with fire. German parents did not share...
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