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John Wiley & Sons Inc Parenting For Dummies 2E by Sandra Hardin Gookin , Dan Gookin , May Jo Shaw , Tim Cavell
We humans are pretty clever. Weve mastered fire invented the wheel calculated the age of the Universe sent people to the Moon built machines that think and cracked the genome. So youd think that with all our smarts somebody wouldve come up with a surefire formula for raising kids. Maybe thats because every child like every parent is an individual and no two parentchild relationships are ever the same. So you can give up any notions of being a perfect parent. But you can learn to keep the big mistakes to a minimum and make the parenting enterprise easier and more rewarding for your children and you. Which is where this book comes in. Whether youre child is a newborn a teen or somewhere inbetween Parenting For Dummies gives you the scoop on parenting basics.
From dealing with a crying baby and potty training to building selfesteem and talking with them about sex it offers a gold mine of uptodate advice and guidance on how to: learn to communicate with your kids; develop a good relationship with your kids; keep your kids safe and healthy; help your kids grow up to be good people; keep your cool and control their behavior; discipline constructively and with a minimum of stress; build selfesteem in your children; and avoid committing the parenting sins your parents taught you. Experts Sandy and Dan Gookin (shes the parenting expert for Parents Magazine and Working Mother Magazine and hes a father of four) avoid the psychological hype and medical terminology and give you the straight poop on all aspects of childrearing including: speaking and listening to kids; the importance of being consistent; keeping a sense of humor; dealing with babies; childhood growth and development; health and nutrition; kids changing physical needs; and developing a good person. Written by parents for parents Parenting For Dummies gives you the knowhow and skills you need to be the parent of healthy happy kids.