The Children’s Hospital Guide to Your Child’s Health and Development
Based on the research and clinical experience of America’s leading children’s hospital, this reference work, several years in the making, is the most complete and authoritative guide to child health and development ever published. Three essential parts form this unique work: a detailed account of all aspects of normal development from birth through the school years, a carefully …
Why Did I Buy This Book?: Over 500 Puzzlers, Teasers, and Challenges to Boost Your Brainpower
Packed with over 500 mind-enhancing exercises, this book is the ultimate tool for attaining and maintaining optimalbrain health. Including word games, visual and spatial challenges, logic puzzlers, and memory boosters, the activitiesin this illustrated collection will improve overall mental fitness and the abilities to concentrate, analyze, and problemsolve. Puzzles include Word Scramblers, Anagrams, Riddles, Whats Missing?, Trivia, and …
What would you do with an unexpected crisis?Step into a family that believes wellness and potential are their little son’s birthright. Even though he has acute and mysterious developmental problems, even though his doctors advise only patience and acceptance–parents Judy and Steve plan to bring about a full recovery, one way or another.Would you set out to fix …
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children’s Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child’s subsequent success as a person …
Why Are You So Sad: A Child’s Book about Parental Depression
It helps to know what to expect when a parent has cancer. Knowing the facts makes things seem less scary and out of control. The Year My Mother Was Bald is Clare’s journal and scrapbook the year her mother is diagnosed with cancer and goes through treatment. Clare tells her story, shares her feelings, and describes her family’s …
With his question-and-answer format, John McDougall leads the readers to an understanding of an approach to their health that puts them in charge of their own health and/or …
The authors explain how aromatherapy massage can help a child feel emotionally secure and physically healthy and also how it helps in the early bonding …
The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life (Life Course Studies)
Among the many studies of aging and the aged, there is comparatively little material in which the aged speak for themselves. In this compelling study, Sharon Kaufman encourages just such expression, recording and presenting the voices of a number of old Americans. Her informants tell their life stories and relate their most personal …
Millions of people provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends, or neighbors. Their job is long, lonely, and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to their physical and mental health. Though carers by definition are anything but “selfish pigs,” they are also liable to feelings …
