Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
10 best books like Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters (Erica Komisar): Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent, The Read-Aloud Handbook, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives, The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting: Raising Children with Courage, Compassion, and Connection
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Author | Emily Oster |
ISBN | 0525559256 |
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting
With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
Author | Harvey Karp |
ISBN | 0553588729 |
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.
No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles...
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Author | La Leche League International |
ISBN | 0452285801 |
This book is great for helping new moms get the hang of latching and positioning. That's about it.
Most moms work and many of those moms work full-time, so having an entire chapter of a breastfeeding book devoted to advocating that women NOT work is unsupportive, misogynistic and completely...
Author | Meredith Small |
ISBN | 0385483627 |
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down...
Author | Jim Trelease |
ISBN | 0143037390 |
A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
There is no doubt about it. Toddlers can be tricky. On one hand they can be lovely. On the other hand they can be really hard work. They'll make you laugh. And they will probably bring you to tears. Or at least a high level of frustration.
I felt the same way when my children were small and I was struggling...
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
Author | Henry Cloud |
ISBN | 0310243157 |
You want your kids to grow up into healthy adults. You want to see them take responsibility for their behavior, their values, their lives. But maybe you've discovered that simply telling them to "do the right thing" isn't enough. From toddler tantrums to teenage temptations, you've got to help them...
The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting: Raising Children with Courage, Compassion, and Connection
Author | Brené Brown |
ISBN | 1604079738 |
We all know that perfect parenting does not exist; however, we still struggle with the social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. These messages are powerful and we end up spending too much precious time and energy managing perception and creating...
Parenting a baby or toddler is the grandest adventure of all when you're not miserably exhausted. Sleep expert Alexis Dubief, of the wildly popular website Precious Little Sleep, imparts effective, accessible, and flexible strategies based on years of research that will dramatically improve your...
Bright From the Start: The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3
Author | Jill Stamm |
ISBN | 1592402852 |
A cutting-edge handbook for parents, from a pioneer in infant brain development, that bridges the gap between the most current neuroscience and practical parenting techniques Dr. Jill Stamm's daughter was born almost four months premature, and doctors insisted she would never walk or talk. Now,...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good connection and what can enhance it
The most influential relationships are between parents and children. Yet for so many families, these relationships go can wrong and it may be difficult to get back on...