Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan takes a fascinating and exuberant look at the enormous potential of a child's brain and provides parents with the practical tools they need to help their children achieve it. Mind maps, memory games and other techniques allow parents to encourage learning and development for children of all ages. Research shows that the time and energy you dedicate to your child in the first five years pays off dividends for the next ten. Tony Buzan has written this "operations manual" to help parents liberate their child's true brain potential. He explains how the brain develops and the simple things you can do to stimulate your child's multiple intelligences - including social, creative, numerical and physical activities - and unlock his or her natural genius.
320pp, 8.25x7.75 ... Paperback
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Theodora Lau
The only book available on Chinese horoscopes for parents and parents-to-be, Children of the Moon gives profiles of children based on their birth time, month, and year. This book explains for the first time ever how "birth order," according to Chinese horoscopes, affects a child's outlook on life. With Children of the Moon, discover the animal sign and personality of your child: The Rat: A leader and self-starter; The OX: Dedicated and hardworking; The Tiger: Charismatic and courageous; The Rabbit: Peace loving and intelligent; The Dragon: Dynamic and optimistic; The Snake: Wise and confident; The Horse: Perceptive and independent; The Sheep: Artistic and graceful; The Monkey: Brilliant and curious; The Rooster: Efficient and ambitious; The Dog: Loyal and just; The Boar: Affectionate and generous. Entertaining and enlightening for children as well as parents, Children of the Moon also includes a special story dedicated to each sign at the end of each chapter.
240pp, 9.25x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £11.99 -- You save £7.60 ... 63%
P M H Attwater
In Children of the New Millennium, P.M.H. Atwater, Lh.D., presents the first serious look at the near-death experiences of children. Atwater believes these millennial children - who possess heightened sensory and empathic abilities acquired at birth or as a result of the near-death experience - herald the presence of a new race of people on Earth. This groundbreaking book explores how these special children will dramatically impact the human condition by helping humankind rediscover the spiritual truths needed to survive in our radically changing world. "P.M.H. Atwater's book is a treasure trove of valuable confirmation. As usual, she is on the cutting edge of near-death research. Her book is fascinating. If you think you have heard everything about NDEs, you need to read this book." - Melvin Morse.
288pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
Published price £9.99 -- You save £7.00 ... 70%
Lucia Capacchione
Capacchione's book applies her popular creative method of self-discovery to every stage of parenting: preparation, birth or adoption, early childhood and all the way through the teenage years. Using journal writing and drawing, she takes the reader through simple, enjoyable exercises like 'Wanted: My Kind of Parent' and 'The Inner Child Answers Back'. Parents and prospective parents alike will learn to get in touch with true feelings and needs, articulate core beliefs and values and celebrate their relationships with their children.
240pp ... Paperback
Published price £13.99 -- You save £7.00 ... 50%
Mona Brooks
Founded on the belief that any child can learn to draw realistic pictures using her "alphabet of shapes", Mona Brook's easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson approach to drawing has yielded astounding results with children of all ages. This new edition includes two additional chapters explaining how to reach children with learning problems or special needs and how to incorporate drawing into other subjects, such as math and language. "There's no other art book quite like it. Brookes has defined the elusive concept of "seeing artistically" into practical, teachable, easy-to-learn lessons that can empower children - as well as beginning adults - to draw realistically." - Artist's Magazine. Remainder mark.
300pp, 9x7½, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £13.99 -- You save £6.00 ...43%
Robin Skynner
Family Matters deals with a variety of aspects of mental health, offering us the insights and experiences of a lifetime's work by one of the country's foremost group and family therapists. He covers the characteristics of that neglected topic, the healthy family, showing us how we too can create a healthy family environment. Different roles within the family are discussed, and other topics covered include emotional dependency, marital violence, sexual relationships, and specific problems such as children who steal from their parents.
256pp, 9x6.5 ... Hardback
Published price £15.00 -- You save £11.01 ... 75%
Harville Hendrix
Giving the Love that Heals presents a revolutionary vision of parenting that will transform your parent-child relationships. Parenthood is the most difficult, exciting and rewarding experience in the world. But nobody teaches us how to do it. Instead we unconsciously re-enact the way we were parented ourselves. And where we tend to have difficulties in our parenting is where our own parents had problems when we were children. Instead of responding to what or children require, we respond to our unmet needs - and as a result the needs of our child go unmet. Giving the Love that Heals shows you how to improve your parenting skills. It will help you heal past wounds from your own upbringing and stop yourself inflicting the same wounds on your children. Remainder mark.
384pp, 9¼ x 6½ ... Hardback
Published price £18.99 -- You save £12.00 ... 63%
Janet Goodrich
Jam-packed with practical and fun ideas, this book is exactly what parents need to make a total difference in their child's vision. Janet Goodrich provides: detailed instructions for reversing eyesight blur; new and effective activities for every age group from infants to adults; simple, easy-to-understand explanations of common diagnoses; sound advice on dealing with doctors. With Janet's method it is a joy to correct eyesight and prevent future problems. Vision games are fun (as well as scientifically-based) and each has a companion song to reinforce good visual habits. Families can share quality time, or confident kids can follow through independently.
264pp, 10x7.25 ... Paperback
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Steve & Sharon Biddulph
You don't buy a car just so you can change the oil! And you don't have a baby just to feed it and change his or her diapers. Yet most childcare books treat childhood like a series of problems and miss the heart of the matter - the loving communication and interaction that help your child become a unique individual who loves life. This book is about the fun and heart of parenthood, including: deciding when to have a baby, helping your relationship to stay strong, the special role of fathers, finding a pattern and routine that work for you and your baby, baby massage, "the tigress mother" - protecting your kids, how to chat with babies to stimulate brain growth, teaching good behavior without using fear or physical punishment, making bath times, car times, and shopping times easy and fun, teaching your child about feelings, when your own childhood wasn't so good, what if you're a single parent, and preparing for school.
240pp, 10.25x8 ... Hardback
Published price £15.99 -- You save £9.50 ... 59%
Deepak Chopra
Using exercises and techniques developed over ten years of teaching a popular series of workshops at the Chopra Center for Well Being, Deepak Chopra shows readers how to see parenthood from a very different perspective. Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives uses meditation, yoga, dietary guidelines, natural remedies, visualisation, journaling and drawing to enhance the experience of pregnancy and birth for both parents and baby. Also included are practical strategies to prepare the parents for labour and delivery, caring for the new-born child and enjoying parenthood. By applying established techniques from Deepak Chopra's internationally famous mind/body approach to the experience of pregnancy, childbirth and early infancy, Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives adds previously unexplored dimensions of physical health, joy and insight to elevate one of life's primal experiences to the realm of the miraculous.
352pp ... Paperback
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Peter & Fiona Walker
A step-by-step guide for both parents, laying the foundations of a loving relationship between the family, with practical advice, ideas and understanding. It aims to encourage the father's active participation and support throughout pregnancy, birth and early child-rearing and to be a guide to fitness and health before, during and after delivery for the mother. The book contains specially devised play-oriented exercises and massage programmes designed to fulfil a child's need for touch, movement and play. It also includes practical fitness routines for parents and guidelines on aspects of natural health and diet and there is a feature on teaching infants to swim in their first few months
144pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
Janet Balaskas
Based on Janet Balaskas' considerable experience of natural childbirth. It offers support for the expectant mother and encourages her to listen to her body and to recognize her own needs. Women are shown how to influence their health and vitality through a combination of good diet, yoga, meditation and massage.
112pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
New Active Birth will help you and your partner prepare for and experience an Active Birth. Naturally, throughout time and the world over, women have chosen to walk, stand, squat, lie - to move their bodies freely and actively to find the most comfortable positions for labour and birth. It is only we in the west who have the extraordinary notion that a woman should lie on her back in a position that defies the laws of nature and gravity.
With this book you can learn to develop all your body's resources to deal with the instinctive experience of childbirth. It is also for partners, teachers, midwives and everyone involved, to help mothers get up off the delivery table and to bring back some of the common sense which has been overlooked by modern obstetrics. REMAINDER MARK.
224pp, 8.5x6.25 ... ISBN 0722525664 ... Paperback
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Sue Browder
This text contains 20,000 names with naming rites, stories, trends and reverse trends, cultural trivia and quotes, for parents to choose a very special name for their child. The entries are culled from dozens of cultures and traditions and include pronunciation guides, meanings and variations. Remainder nark.
394pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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John Ortiz
With its emphasis on music as both healing agent and spur to creativity, this book takes its place on the shelf next to The Mozart Effect. Aimed at family interactions, it offers a number of creative methods for initiating and maintaining relaxed and productive home environments. Beginning with the prenatal period, the book offers mothers-to-be ways to create positive musical vibrations to communicate to their babies. For toddlers, the book serves as a manual for everything from learning their ABCs to establishing secure identities. Music can stimulate young children or help them relax and go to sleep. It also aids preadolescents in dealing with the emotional ups and downs of those years.
224pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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David Spangler
"In this wonderful book...[Spangler] shows how, through the everyday challenges and joys of parenting, of creating and sustaining family, we are given the opportunity to participate in the deeper mystery: the incarnation and emergence of our children's spirits and personalities."-Seattle New Times. Remainder mark.
208pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
Published price £8.99 -- You save £5.20 ... 58%
Jane Bartlett
Would you like your family life to have more depth and meaning? Do you long to create, with your children, a way of being together in which there is profound love, a sense of connection and purpose? Yet in the rush and tumble of life today it is all too easy for us to forget to nurture our childrens soul, as well as our own. Parenting with Spirit offers 30 practical ways we can discover the sacred in the midst of our family life. And it shows how this can be done simply and enjoyably, working with universal spiritual principles that will appeal to those of any faith as well as those who prefer a less established path.
192pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
Published price £9.99 -- You save £5.70 ... 57%
Jeffrey Freed
Requiring only ten minutes a day, the program revealed in this groundbreaking book provides an effective, step-by-step method for helping children with Attention Deficit Disorder develop their special skills and individual learning styles and excel in a classroom setting. REMAINDER MARK.
256pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
Published price £9.99 -- You save £5.40 ... 54%
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
From the authors of 'How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk,' this book is another classic that has topped the best-seller lists in America, prompting numerous letters of praise and appreciation from grateful parents. This is the result of many years of working with children and parents to develop positive ways to help children interact and learn from each other. 'Siblings Without Rivalry' guides the way to peace and understanding with compassion, humour and illustrated, easy-to-understand stories. Remainder mark.
274pp, 8x5¼ ... Paperback
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Elaine St James
Simplify Your Life With Kids is a simple, step-by-step guide for minimizing the distractions that make life with kids a never-ending battle with the clock, our nerves, and with our innate desire to create happy, healthy lives. Contrary to misperceptions, you don't have to drop out to simplify your life. Applying the same successful formula that made St. James' s previous books bestsellers, Simplify Your Life With Kids offer practical, down-to-earth advice in one to three page narratives for each of one hundred issues - vital, perplexing, time-demanding issues that all parents face. Simplify Your Life With Kids addresses all the areas of family life that need simplifying: The daily routine; the stuff we and our kids accumulate; family issues such as discipline, conflict, sibling rivalry, in-laws; single parenting; step-parenting; school and homework; leisure activities; health; special needs of infants, toddlers, older children, and teenagers.
384pp, 6.25x5.75 ... ISBN 0836235959 ... Hardback
Published price £11.99 -- You save £7.00 ... 58%
Linda & Richard Eyre
One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a strong sense of personal values. Helping your children develop values such as honesty, self-reliance, and dependability is as important a part of their education as teaching them to read or how to cross the street safely. The values you teach your children are their best protection from the influences of peer pressure and the temptations of consumer culture. With their own values clearly defined, your children can make their own decisions - rather than imitate their friends or the latest fashions. In Teaching Your Children Values Linda and Richard Eyre present a practical, proven, month-by-month program of games, family ctivities, and value-building ecercises for kids of all ages. No. 1 bestseller. Remainder mark.
Published price £8.99 -- You save £5.00 ... 56%
Paul Staerker
Massage is a natural extension of touch, the most vital and rewarding physical communication between humans of all ages. Written to show parents how to perform simple massage techniques on their infant children, Dr. Paul Staerker's easy-to-follow book explains the effects of touch on a child's emotional development; how to calm a screaming baby through massage; the acupressure points to treat specific conditions; and how to treat growing-up problems with simple massage.
128pp, 9x7, illus. ... Paperback
Wendy Ann Wood
Triumph Over Darkness is a collection of prose and therapeutic insights that create a powerful commentary on incest, rape, abuse, and the recovery process. Women and men share their personal experiences of childhood abuse and walk with the reader along the path toward wellness. They reflect each stage of healing with a clarity that, while often painful, is also hopeful. Addressing various aspects of abuse, including ritualistic abuse, multiple personality disorder, and partnering as well as providing a therapists's insights on the stages of healing, Trumph Over Darkness helps readers to understand recovery as predictable process and see that healing is possible.
276pp, 9.75x7 ... Paperback
Published price £10.95 -- You save £5.50 ... 50%
A groundbreaking new book from natural birth pioneer, Janet Balaskas. Based on 15 years of working with water births, the book is packed with inspiring stories. This is the indispensable handbook for parents contemplating a water birth and the midwives who will attend them in labour. This is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of water birth from the leading name in natural and active births. Introducing a deep pool of warm water to the birthing room -- either at home or in hospital -- is a good way of making labour shorter, easier and more comfortable, increasing the mother's sense of privacy and making the baby's entry into the world gentle and free from trauma. The Waterbirth Book is a straightforward, detailed and supportive guide for both parents and medical staff, providing all the necessary advice for parents contemplating a waterbirth either at home or in a hospital. It includes: the history of birthing in water; the benefits of water in labour - pain relief, hormonal effects, speed of labour and more; choosing a waterbirth - other birth choices, practical considerations, professional support; preparing for a waterbirth - hospital facilities, pool hire, learning to be at ease in the water; using the pool in labour - the practicalities, what to expect. Full of inspiring stories and black and white photographs the book provides a fascinating document of home births with water from the past 15 years.
288pp, 9x7, illus. ... Paperback
