Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children: Becoming a Mindful Parent
10 best books like Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children: Becoming a Mindful Parent (Sarah Napthali): Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer, Rooftoppers, The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being, The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond, Little Raindrop, Precious Little Sleep
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Author | Bill Martin Jr. |
ISBN | 0805047905 |
Subtexts: perspective, surveillance, paranoia!
I had to read this aloud maybe a hundred nights in a row before I noticed what the text was plainly saying: everyone thinks they are being watched! And ironically, they are the ones doing the watching! From the titular brown bear who is certain...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Author | Judi Barrett |
ISBN | 0689707495 |
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is a cult classic children’s book by Judi Barrett along with illustrations by Ron Barrett and it is about a magical town called Chewandswallow (chew and swallow, get it?) where food just falls from the sky and provides people with everything they need....
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...
Author | Katherine Rundell |
ISBN | 0571280595 |
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother...
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 Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
Author | Shefali Tsabary |
ISBN | 1897238452 |
It’s a tremendous privilege to raise children, though for a quite different reason than most of us who are parents imagine.
While we think it’s our responsibility to mold and shape our children’s future, the essential premise of Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s A Call to Conscious Parenting...
Author | Karen Maezen Miller |
ISBN | 1590302966 |
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will...
Author | Melanie Joyce |
ISBN | 1499880286 |
Have you ever wondered what happens to a raindrop when it falls from the sky? This beautifully illustrated story will capture the imaginations of children and parents alike, and offers a perfect introduction to the water cycle. .
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...
Author | Emmy Kastner |
ISBN | 1250312043 |
Nerdy Babies is a new series that will ignite curiosity in even the youngest readers and encourage them to ask questions and explore the world around them.
In Nerdy Babies: Space, follow our intrepid infants into the great unknown. Check out the moon and the sun and all the planets in our solar...
Keep Love in Your Heart, Little One
Author | Giles Andreae |
ISBN | 1589250664 |
"It's the only sure way to be happy, The only sure way to be free. Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams, And you'll be what you dream you can be." A warm and endearing story written in gentle rhyme about all the things every parent wishes to say to their child--and every child longs to hear. A joyful...
Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America
Author | Jacqueline H. Wolf |
ISBN | 0801891108 |
Despite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver...
Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with bedtime stories? This children's storybook has it all!
This is an excellent read for beginning and early readers. Each story is easy to read and exciting. Cute and bright illustrations...
Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting
Author | Danya Ruttenberg |
ISBN | 1250064945 |
A deeply affecting, funny, insightful meditation that challenges readers to find the spiritual meaning of parenting.
Every day, parents are bombarded by demands. The pressures of work and life are relentless; our children’s needs are often impossible to meet; and we rarely, if ever,...
That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist
Author | Sylvia Boorstein |
ISBN | 0060609583 |
I found this book an insightful resource because it is based on Boorstein's own personal experience being a practitioner of both Conservative Judaism and also Buddhism. I appreciated her insights into how Buddha is not a deity demanding worship to his image; and that during his teachings he asked that...
Robert James "Bob" Brown is a former Australian Greens politician, medical doctor, environmentalist, former Senator and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia, and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political...
Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
Author | Jim Morrison |
ISBN | 0679726225 |
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all the doors. You can walk through any one that suits you." -- Jim Morrison
As the lead singer and song writer for The Doors, Jim Morrison brought the poetry of the damned to rock'n'roll. As a poet, he infused...