Car Seat Sun Shade from Mommy’s Helper

The Mommy’s Helper Car Seat Sun Shade can keep your child’s car seat an average of 26 degrees F cooler.

Unwrap the car Seat Sun Shade and stretch over the child’s car seat, covering the entire seat with shade.

To remove, simply stretch the sun shade back over car seat. Wrap up shade and use built-in elastic strap to secure for storage between uses.

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Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years (Paperback)

Review
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child is a remarkably comprehensive and useful resource for both parents and practitioners. This book is a wise roadmap that anyone adopting internationally should have for easy reference. –Susan Soonkeum Cox, vice president, Holt International adoption agencyParenting Your Internationally Adopted Child is a wonderful, thoughtful resource for adoptive parents. As both a therapist and a parent, Patty Cogen offers valuable, practical advice with hands-on suggestions and great tips. This is a book that will grow with you as you navigate your parenting journey. –Carrie Kitze, author of We See the Moon and I Don’t Have Your Eyes

In this book, child and family therapist Patty Cogen, M.A., Ed.D. guides parents in promoting an internationally adopted child’s social and emotional adjustment, explaining how to help a child adopted between the ages of six months and five years bond with his or her new parents, become a part of th (more…)

Supernanny: How to Get the Best From Your Children (Paperback)

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For despairing moms and dads everywhere, “Supernanny” Jo Frost may as well be wearing a Wonder Woman costume. Her no-nonsense rules–not tips, not advice, but rules–for consistently managing one’s offspring leave no room for arguments (or wrestling matches). From her arms-akimbo stance on the book’s cover, it’s clear she’s in charge, and ready to instruct all wishy-washy (overworked American) parents how to lay down the law in their own home. She offers her “top ten rules” for setting boundaries, managing mealtimes, even surviving toilet training, and it’s mostly rock-solid, and peppered liberally with British wit. (For parents who obsess over their toddler’s every meal, she warns: “It doesn’t take long for them to work out the obvious: you can’t make them eat.”) Frost may not have a degree in child development, but she was raised in a stable, doting family, and has 15 years’ experience taking care of tots, a combination which puts her way ahead of most parents. S (more…)

Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy (Paperback)

Every parent would happily give up ever scolding, punishing or threatening if she only knew how to ensure that her toddler/child/teen would thrive and act responsibly without such painful measures. Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves is the answer to this universal wish. It is not about gentle ways to control a child, but about a way of being and of understanding a child so she/he can be the best of herself, not because she fears you, but because she wants to, of her own free will. “Aldort’s book should be on the must read list of all Moms and Dads. This book could carry a subtitle: “Saving the Emotional Lives of Our Children and The Future of Humanity.”" – James Prescott, Ph.D. Institute of Humanistic Science “Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves operates on the radical premise that neither child nor parent must dominate; it is for those who want to give up scolding, threatening and punishing. Her SALVE “for (more…)

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
Author of nine books, including the controversial Punished by Rewards, Kohn expands upon the theme of what’s wrong with our society’s emphasis on punishments and rewards. Kohn, the father of young children, sprinkles his text with anecdotes that shore up his well-researched hypothesis that children do best with unconditional love, respect and the opportunity to make their own choices. Kohn questions why parents and parenting literature focus on compliance and quick fixes, and points out that docility and short-term obedience are not what most parents desire of their children in the long run. He insists that “controlling parents” are actually conveying to their kids that they love them conditionally—that is, only when they achieve or behave. Tactics like time-out, bribes and threats, Kohn claims, just worsen matters. Caustic, witty and thought-provoking, Kohn’s arguments challenge much of today’s parenting wisdom, yet his assertion that “the way kid (more…)

The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) (Paperback)

Review
In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, “wearing” your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, “Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf–it spoils.”
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
William and Martha Sears, a pediatrician and a registered nurse respectively, team up with two of their doctor sons to update their 1993 guide to “attachment parenting.” Advocating a “high-touch style of parenting to balance the high-tech life o (more…)

Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality (Paperback)

Review”The perfect resource for first-time parents who find themselves wishing their new baby came with an instruction manual.”  —Calgary’s Child”Includes a refreshing mix of practical parenting tips alongside medically sound advice.”  —Staten Island Parent”Offers insights in an authoritative, accessible, and lively guide.”  —Treasure Valley Family”This wonderful book has all the information new moms and dads need.”  —SeacoastOnline.com”The docs’ lighthearted approach…will surely offer consolation to first-time parents who find themselves overwhelmed.”  —Charlotte Parent”This funny yet sage book shells out tons of advice.”  —ePregnancy”Smart advice to get you through those first nerve-racking months.”  —Parents 

This comprehensive guide for new parents finding themselves overwhelmed dealing with the reality of parenting provides “parent-tested, pediatrician-approved” advice to allay their fears. Written in a compassionate yet authoritative to (more…)

Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years (Paperback)

Parenting little ones can be exhausting…until you discover Love and Logic. Take the exhaustion out and put the fun into parenting your little one. If you want help with: * Potty training * Temper tantrums * Bedtime * Whining * Time-out * Hassle-free mornings * and many other everyday challenges Then this book is for you! This book is the tool parents of little ones have been waiting for. America’s Parenting Experts® Jim Fay and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child’s life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them.

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Parenting From the Inside Out (Paperback)

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“Daniel Siegal and Mary Hartzell have quite deftly managed to translate highly complex neuroscientific and psychological matters into lay strategies for effective parenting. This is truly a must-read book for the parents and those aspiring to becomeparents”

How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can’t believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences actually do shape the way we parent. Drawing upon stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassion (more…)

New York from A to Z: Traveler’s Look-Up Source for the Big Apple (Capital Travels) (Paperback)

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“…even a street-smart New Yorker will find good value in this new city guide.” — David Armstrong, San Francisco Chronicle

For natives and tourists alike–everything you need to know about new York City, all in one handy, alphabetically organized book. NEW YORK FROM A TO Z is an easy-to-use guide for anyone exploring the five boroughs of New York City. Organized alphabetically, there are over 1900 entries under easy-to-find headings like Statue of Liberty, Chinatown, Empire State Building, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Each entry includes a description, location, telephone number, directions, and other details such as hours of operation, admission charges, and credit card acceptance. Cross-references lead to further information on each tpic. This book offers users a convenient, simple approach to information about hundreds of topics of interest to tourists and natives in New York City.

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