The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents

New parents are hipper, more educated, and more sophisticated than ever, but they're also highly competitive--a lethal combination when turbocharged by the anxieties of raising a baby. And for many couples, it's not just any baby, but the perfect baby. These “excessively motivated” parents will not sabotage Junior's future by denying him Mandarin lessons, a nursery chandelier (just like the one Gwyneth's kids enjoy), or advanced infant yoga. A hilarious, highly visual satire of childrearing manuals, The Perfect Baby Handbook provides much-needed comic relief from the pressures of modern parenting, and gives comfort to moms and dads who can say with a sigh of relief, “At least, we're not this bad.”

Reviews: 1
Ratings: 17 Ratings
Page Count: 160 pages
ISBN: 0061242918 (ISBN13: 9780061242915)
Publish Date: March 24th 2009
By: Dale Hrabi

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Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad ParentingAdvice

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater!Ahhhh, the 1940s and ’50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the American Dream—manicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it?In Mommy Knows Worst, you’ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neuroses—as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy “delicious” baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If you’re a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, we’re sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then Mommy Knows Worst is cheaper than therapy.Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. Mommy Knows Worst is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our past—it’s hilarious!

Reviews: 51
Ratings: 362 Ratings
Page Count: 176 pages
ISBN: 1400082285 (ISBN13: 9781400082285)
Publish Date: October 25th 2005
By: James Lileks

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Baby, Mix Me a Drink

Many people are parents, and many parents are thirsty. Yet too many parents allow their infant sons and daughters to lie about idly: napping, drinking milk, and whatnot. Why not put them to work? Observe how tots enjoy the shapes and colors, all the while learning how to mix a variety of basic cocktails. Thanks, Baby!

Reviews: 9
Ratings: 90 Ratings
Page Count: 12 pages
ISBN: 1932416455 (ISBN13: 9781932416459)
Publish Date: November 3rd 2005
By: Lisa Brown

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Bright From the Start: The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture YourChild's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3

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, thirty-two years later, her daughter is living proof that nearly every baby's brain has the potential to adapt and flourish given the right attention. A leading authority in infant brain development, she makes new, remarkable findings accessible to everyone in Bright from the Start. What babies need is as simple as A, B, C: ATTENTION: including how to increase a child's attention span, and how to balance stimulation with down time BONDING: illustrating the importance of developing emotional attachment between a child and a consistent caregiver, and why this is key to cognitive development COMMUNICATION: with breakthrough advice for tapping the correlation between verbal engagement with parents and higher IQ rates among children She also discusses what kind of childcare environment to select, why learning toys don't teach as much as you think, why reading to a baby is critical, and how you can help your child learn how to pay attention. By working with Dr. Stamm's ABCs in Bright from the Start, all parents can help to build a radiant future for their precious little ones.

Reviews: 90
Ratings: 627 Ratings
Page Count: 368 pages
ISBN: 1592402852 (ISBN13: 9781592402854)
Publish Date: August 2nd 2007
By: Jill Stamm

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Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

The bedtime rituals of little diggers and dump trucks at a construction site should be quite familar to kids saying goodnight. Young readers will identify with fire engines, tractors and monster trucks as the vehicles ask for one more story while their mommy trucks tuck them in, and their daddy trucks sing a goodnight song. Children who can't get enough of trucks will love Brianna Caplan Sayres things-that-go bedtime story.

Reviews: 54
Ratings: 375 Ratings
Page Count: 32 pages
ISBN: English
Publish Date: May 22nd 2012
By: Brianna Caplan Sayres

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Dazzling Diggers

Dazzling Diggers (Amazing Machines) by Tony Mitton and Ant ParkerDiggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively picture book. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistible rhymes!

Reviews: 10
Ratings: 99 Ratings
Page Count: 24 pages
ISBN: 0753453045 (ISBN13: 9780753453049)
Publish Date: September 15th 2000
By: Tony Mitton

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Road Builders

Now being re-issued in hardcover, "Road Builders, is the perfect book for any child who can't get enough of trucks or construction. With Caldecott Medal-winner Simms Taback's bright and engaging illustrations and a fun and straightforward text by B. G. Hennessy, this picture book will satisfy even the most curious little minds.

Reviews: 17
Ratings: 48 Ratings
Page Count: 32 pages
ISBN: 0140542760 (ISBN13: 9780140542769)
Publish Date: September 1st 1996
By: B.G. Hennessy

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