Written for parents or anyone who works with children and families, this highly recommended book explains how to be consistent, manage anger, prevent arguments and power struggles, and teach children to listen--the first time. Examples given are designed to put parents at ease and encourage them to replace their own behavior with patterns that produce more cooperative behavior in their children

A board book with gentle rhyming that celebrates and welcomes babies into the world.

Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather, but they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.

Kids desperately need to know how much you love them. But if you don't know their special "love languages", you might as well be speaking gibberish. Every child (like every adult) expresses and receives love best through one of five communication styles. Find out which one of these your child speaks: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service or physical touch.

Robbie and his dog, Ellie, spend the summer at his grandmother Maddy's house, where Robbie learns many things about his emotionally distant parents and himself.

In a dystopian Colorado, birds being blamed for a flue epidemic are being shot to extinction, and Ruby, an unwed teen mother, flees her father and a polygamist future and gets a job as an ornithologist's research assistant.

Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child's behavior--fully updated and revised. In 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child's self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully...

Nina Romano, finally free to pursue her own adventures after raising her daughter, falls for innkeeper Greg Bellamy, a single father with two children of his own.