Parenting
Sized along the same lines as (but easier to hold than) the 'Little Book of' series, this funny wee book is perfect for picking up and setting down when you’ve only got a couple of minutes but need a laugh. There’s a whole range of tips in here for babies to ensure they get the best of their parents, with choice tips including:
Might be one for parents to hide from their children, because chaos might just ensue if your child follows every rule! A perfect little gift for parents – the older their children are, the more of the book they will have lived through!
As children get older, you realise that month after month, there will be another ‘stage’ for them to go through! This book tackles all the difficult topics to help you communicate with your children, from truculent toddlers right up to terrible teenagers. Dr Coleman helps you find the right words for dealing with problems including an angry child, arguments between two adults and a new baby on the scene. Each chapter gives tips on how to say the right words and points out the wrong way of putting your argument. Short of referring to the book in the middle of every argument you’ll never say the right thing each time, but reading this book does give you pointers that will stick with you.
This book runs the gamut of parenting a young child, from the moment you think you are pregnant up to the age of five. Backed by the Good Housekeeping brand name, this reference text doesn’t hesitate to deal with the darker moments along the way, from the pain of miscarriage to coping as a single parent. But it also addresses every other aspect of parenting under the sun – having a second child, choosing the right kind of childcare, the physical development of children and more. All packed into a comprehensive book including beautiful and touching pictures. It is so detailed it even explains the APGAR score your baby is given just after birth – most midwives don’t have a chance to explain that to new parents!
No, not some book encouraging you to push your child to talk in sentences by the age of one, compose a symphony by the age of three and sell their first company for £1 million by the age of six. It’s simply a clever little guide to help you make the right investments for your child’s future – you might even see your child supporting you in your old age! Written by the Motley Fools, who run an irreverent investment website with more than a grain of common sense thrown at financial jargon, this book will help you pick your way through the money maze. It really is aiming at the complete layman, so if you do already have a bit of investment savvy, it may be too simplistic. But as it examines the stock market, banks, building societies and the internet, among other topics, if you have no idea where to start, pick his book up to start you off.
The Good Web Guide series already includes a guide to parenting websites, which ranked babyworld with five stars. Now this latest guide been published, focusing on health and guess how many stars babyworld gets in the children’s health section – five! This guide looks at more than just children’s health though, so it will help you cut through the thousands upon thousands of sites out there offering healthcare information and help you cut down to those you can really trust. Babyworld’s sister health site feelgood.co.uk (iCircle Health) also picks up five stars, this time in the healthy living section, but there are also sections concentrating on general medical information, complementary medicine, special diets, exercise, shopping, men’s health and women’s health. The perfect way to cut through the dross and find those five-star sites just like babyworld!
Over and over again in this book, the parents describe how they see their child’s face light up as they work out that using a sign will help them communicate with mum and dad. Think about the repetitive signs you use every day with your baby, from waving your arm in front of your face to represent an elephant, to patting your head to signify a hat. Does your child do either of these? Then you’ve already learned the benefits of baby signing. The book shows how to help children use signs for drink, more and where, among others, to help them get across what they want to say without the classic stance of pointing and going 'uuuuuurgh'! The authors believe that signs don’t hold back a child’s language development either, they say that because kids are picking up signs and are aware that they can communicate with their parents, they learn the word as well. And they are not precious about this ever so useful book – the authors concede that when your child understands yesterday, cocoon and marmalade it’s time to use words and forget signs! An excellent gift for parents who are just starting the frustrating phase of trying to understand what their child wants when they talk.
Contemplating sleeping with your baby but not sure how safe it will be? Deborah Jackson covers co-sleeping from every possible angle; the benefits, the cot death risk – or lack of, safety, sustaining your sex life, and dealing with common objections to bed-sharing. If you are thinking of sharing your bed with a baby on more than just the odd occasion, then this book will arm you to the teeth with all the facts you need to know. And just to make sure all the bases are covered, it also deals with what to do when the time comes for the child to leave his or her parents’ bed.
Need just one book to take you through the first three years of parenting? Then this has to be a strong contender. As the cover suggests, it’s written by parents, for parents, with authors including babyworld’s online antenatal teacher Sue Allen Mills and our former medical editor Daphne Metland. Baby’s development is split into useful categories, from 0-1 month, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 1 year-18 months, and so on. There’s a clever and fascinating diary for each age range then information on basic developments and issues for each age. With the inclusion of a childhood health a-z at the back, this book could stand alone on any parent’s bookshelf.
This is an excellent book that could help you turn your entire life organic, or just help out with tips to make a few changes. Everything is covered, from organic babyfood brands to where to buy organic women’s bras, as well as organic toiletries. There are comprehensive arguments about the merits of going organic plus detailed sources of more help and clever, quick tips. Livening up the pages are anecdotes from people who have tried the organic lifestyle and want to recommend it. A must-buy if you are planning to raise a healthy organic baby. You can buy the book at www.theorganicbabybook.co.uk
Despite warning that this is not a travel book, it’s the extensive knowledge of travelling with a child that makes this book so very interesting. Planning on making a trip while pregnant? Or holidaying with a young baby? Then turn to this book because alongside her own tales of travelling with baby Tom through pregnancy and the first ten months of his life, is a wealth of information including which London airports are most child-friendly and which airlines and train services are most helpful. Also slotted in are celebrity tips, from the likes of newsreader Jon Snow who recommends getting baby to fit in with you rather than vice versa, and designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen who jokingly suggests taking a trunkful of baby paracetemol.
Flattery will get you everywhere and since the Good Web Guide thinks so highly of babyworld, how can we fail to like them! This is a well set-out book with addresses for hundreds of helpful sites dealing in depth with topics ranging from babies (where we make our entry!) to financial planning, after school activities and choosing schools and universities. It might be some time before all the content of the book becomes relevant to you, but it will point you in the right direction for such a wide range of information - including entries for health charities - that it can’t fail to be kept tucked next to your computer. The New Baby and Child Still the most informative and comprehensive book about how your baby grows and develops. Covers everything from nappy changing and early feeding up to sleep, play stages, handling toddler tantrums and the needs of an older pre-school child. There is an excellent and comprehensive medical reference section as well.
You and Your New Baby Comprehensive and amusingly written guide to life with a baby covering everything from changing nappies, feeding and handling your baby to how not to lose yourself in the sheer hard work of it all. Deserving winner of an award from the British Medical Association. The New Parent Beautifully illustrated book which covers the practical skills needed by parents like bathing the baby and nappy changing, but also addresses the needs of parents themselves. Disabled Parents - dispelling the
myths Available by mail order: tel 0141 636 0600 A collection of interviews with disabled parents about the reality of becoming a parent and how parents with disabilities deal with other people’s reactions to their parenting status. What
They Don’t Tell You About Being a Mother and Looking After Babies Easy-to-read book that covers almost every aspect of birth and parenting. Good
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Series of four books; First Six Weeks, Good Feeding Guide, Good Behaviour Guide and Good Sleeping Guide. Charlotte Preston, who has many years of experience as a health visitor and is a mother and grandmother, offers tried and tested advice in a practical and down-to-earth way to help parents cope with problems. Babyworld offer: get all four books for £10 including postage. |
