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Read to Your Child Every Day
Read to Rise encourages parents and caregivers develop the habit of reading aloud to children from birth to ensure they’re best prepared to start school. Each day you read, log reading log on a paper log on in the reading app. Earn a prize for every 90 days you read to your child. Prizes include a growth chart, a color changing cup, and a free book!
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"How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries--and difficulties--of parenthood. The marketplace is full of gadgets and tools that claim to make your child smarter, happier, or learn languages faster, all built on the premise that manufacturers know something about your child's brain that you don't. These products are easy to sell, because good information about how children's minds really work is hard to come by. In their new book, neuroscientists...
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The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and...
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"World-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind returns with a revelatory new look at the neuroscience of early childhood development-and how it can guide us toward a future in which every child has the opportunity to fulfill their potential"--
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"We've all heard the complaint from parents: They're more overwhelmed than ever before-- juggling demands on their time as well as conflicting advice from family, friends, frenemies and 'experts' on how to achieve parental perfection-- or risk jeopardizing their little one's future happiness. Pediatrician Jane Scott has seen this parental anxiety up close, and in The Confident Parent she shares advice on how to cut through the confusion, dial down...
9) El cerebro del niño: 12 estrategias revolucionarias para cultivar la mente en desarrollo de tu hijo
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Tu hijo de dos años tiene una rabieta en una tienda. Tu hijo de cuatro se niega a vestirse. Tu hijo de quinto grado está de suplente en el banquillo, enfurruñado, en lugar de juagar en el terreno. ¿Acaso los niños conspiran para que la vida de sus padres sea un desafío continuo? No, lo que pasa es que su cerebro en desarrollo lleva la voz cantante. En este libro innovador y práctico, el neuropsiquiatra Daniel J. Siegel y la experta en...
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"Attached at the Heart offers readers practical parenting advice for the modern age. In its most basic form, "attachment parenting" is instinctive. A crying baby is comforted and kept close to parents for protection. If hungry, he or she is breastfed. And while it is understood that there is no such thing as perfect parenting, research suggests that there is a strong correlation between a heightened sense of respect, empathy, and affection in those...
13) When you're expecting twins, triplets, or quads: proven guidelines for a healthy multiple pregnancy
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Describes what to expect during a multiple-child pregnancy, and covers doctor selection, nutrition, exercise, and signs of preterm labor.
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While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king," neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need. Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek introduce the "6 Cs": collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence. They also show parents ways they can nurture their children's development in each area.
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Una guía clara, procesable, a veces humorística (pero siempre basada en la ciencia) para padres sobre cómo convertir a sus hijos en personas honestas, amables, generosas, seguras de sí mismas, independientes y resilientes... que podrían salvar el mundo algún día.
A clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient...
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Overview: You play with your toddler, but is she learning? You teach your toddler, but is he having fun? Now you can play and teach your toddler at the same time with this book. Written by an experienced child-care expert, this informative and fun guide shows you how to stimulate your child's development with age-appropriate, enjoyable, and educational activities such as: Making Puppets; Margarine Tub Jellyfish; Dinosaur Eggs; Flower Crowns; Story...
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Modern Parents, Vintage Values offers you a roadmap--a way through the hurdles you are facing today in your parenting--helping you discover more of how to instill those true, foundational, vintage values that will make a lasting difference in the lives of your kids...values that are built upon an unshakeable foundation of faith and hope.
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made children her passion and her cause. Her experience with children strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest to discover how we can make our society into the kind...
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