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The following parenting advice books are offered in association with Amazon.com and are recommended for parents and other caregivers who want to learn more about taking care of children. Includes books with parenting advice, childrens books and childrens magazines. |
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Your Child : What Every Parent Needs to Know About Childhood Development from Birth to Preadolescence
by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This is the only reference to offer comprehensive and accessible information for parents on the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of children from infancy through the preadolescent years. It offers information on understanding your child's developmental achievements in the day-to-day challenges of growing up, determining when your child's behavior is normal and when it's a signal for professional help, and how to get help for your child. |
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Your Adolescent
by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This book is the only resource you will need to guide your through the challenges of parenting a teenager. It offer information on understanding the developmental milestones and day-to-day concerns of the adolescent years, determining when your teen's behavior is normal and when it's a signal for professional help, and how to get help for your teen. |
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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child : Birth to Age 5
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parenting manual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year, nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical, emotional, and social development milestones for children up to 5 years old. The second half of the book includes a thorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailed information about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and side effects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioral issues. |
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Caring for Your Schoolage Child; Ages 5 to 12
During the years from five to twelve, children must master the skills and habits that determine their future health and well-being - and parents have a crucial role to play. The American Academy of Pediatrics presents this fully revised and updated guide for parents who want to help their children thrive during these exciting and challenging years. It includes information about your child's personal and social development, and advice on effective discipline, good nutrition, safety and common medical problems. |
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Caring for Your Adolescent Ages 12 to 21
by the American Academy of Pediatrics |
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American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition : Making Peace a the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition is a comprehensive resource for parents concerned about their children's nutrition. It provides useful tips for concerned parents on how to feed their children well without turning into the food police. Subjects covered include instructions for breast and bottle feeding, introducing semisolids and solids, toddler meals and resistance, school lunches, adolescent/parent food struggles, eating disorders, the relationship between smoking and weight distribution, and, of course, the recommended Food Guide Pyramid. |
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Guide to Common Childhood Infections : The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
An A-Z directory of the symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment of ear infections, Lyme disease, sore throats, diarrhea, rashes, fever, food poisoning, and over fifty of the most common (and not so common) childhood infections. |
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American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Symptoms : The Official, Complete Home Reference, Birth Through Adolescence
This book is the most complete, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to children's symptoms available. It includes an A-Z directory of more than one hundred of the most common childhood symptoms, presented in clearly illustrated, easy-to-follow charts designed to enable a parent to quickly identify a symptom, learn its possible cause, and determine how best to proceed... |
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Coping with a Picky Eater
by William G Wilkoff, MD
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"This fresh, practical, and realistic guide explains to parents how they can avoid mealtime battles with kids aged one to six years, using sensible strategies that will establish a lifetime of healthyful eating habits."
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Guide to You Child's Sleep: Birth Through Adolescence
from the American Academy of Pediatrics
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"...the best advice on getting newborns, toddlers, and school-age children to sleep. Packed with practical tips, this guide offers invaluable information, answers questions from parents, and provides reassuring advice for preventing SIDS, getting your baby to sleep through the night, and solving sleep-wake problems." |
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Going to the Doctor
by T. Berry Brazelton, MD
read this great book to your child to help prepare him for visits to the doctor. |
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touchpoints: the essential reference to Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
by T. Berry Brazelton, MD
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"...the only childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who offers parents a compete understanding of child development from a physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral point of view." |
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