Parenting and Families

Growing a Girl : Seven Strategies for Raising a Strong, Spirited Daughter.
In the post-women's movement period of the 1990s, many parents, even those committed to gender equity, are "amazed" at the seemingly inborn differences between the genders. And most parents committed to raising their children free from gender bias give up when the kids are in preschool. In Growing a Girl, Barbara Mackoff stresses that, instead of focusing on gender, parents should see children in terms of their individuality, while at the same time wearing "gender glasses" and teaching their daughters to be aware of society's gender biases. Mackoff, a consulting psychologist, suggests the concept of "equalist" parents, who create equal opportunities for their daughters in a loving, supportive way. Mackoff gives readers specific, valuable tools for raising spirited, strong daughters and helps parents teach their daughters to enjoy being girls without limiting the opportunities that lie beyond society's gender bias.
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Nighttime Parenting : How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep
For parents who are looking for an alternative to the "cry-it-out" theory of getting their baby or child to sleep, this is the book for you. William Sears provides practical advice on everything from the causes of night-waking in infants and children to the best furniture to buy for the children to sleep on. He covers important information about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, night terrors, bed-wetting, thumbsucking, nighttime fathering tips, nighttime parenting of high-need babies, and much more. Working moms will particularly like this book because it will give them practical advice on how to ensure their young baby "knows who their mom is!" Sears' advice not only works, but it just plain "feels right".
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Home and Garden

The Simple Living Guide : A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
The essential guide for anyone who wants to enjoy their life more. While other books consider various aspects of slowing down or cutting down, this is the first book to bring it all together, offering strategies, inspiration, and resources on the key aspects of our lives: money, housing, work, travel, children and family, cooking, health, holidays, exercise, and much more. Each chapter ends with real-life stories of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and created rich lives.
Providing do-able lifestyle changes and real-life stories, Luhrs guides readers in eliminating clutter, spending more time with friends and family, eating lower on the food chain, lowering debt, shopping with a conscience, finding meaning in daily activities, taking control of consumer spending, and including children on the path to simplicity. Covering both large and small goals, Luhrs demonstrates how to simplify life and savor it.
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Backyard Bouquets : Growing Great Flowers for Simple Arrangements
A lot of flower arranging books are intimidating: the pictures are beautiful and the instructions may even be good, but if you don't have a Limoges vase and an armful of perfect rosebuds, you'll never be able to achieve similar results. Backyard Bouquets is a book for people who have, or want, gloriously messy real-life gardens full of inexpensive annuals and -whisper- even a few pretty weeds, and who put their flowers in anything that won't leak. It's a beautiful and friendly book, with good planting, watering, and cutting directions. While only the color principles of flower arranging are addressed in the text, the many bouquets pictured are uniformly gorgeous in texture and proportion, whether they're placed in old jelly glasses, coffee cans, or the occasional ceramic ginger jar--textbook examples of what you imagine while you're putting the seeds in the ground. --Barrie Trinkle
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