A Perfectly Bonkers Birthday

A Perfectly Bonkers Birthday Review

There is that one childhood birthday that you will always remember. This is a story about a little girl, Jackie, turning 7 years old. She has the perfect birthday planned. All her friends, her favorite teacher and of course Mom and Dad will be there. She wakes early on her birthday morning, ready for that perfect day. There is only one person who could ruin it, and he just woke up! This story's characters are based on a combination of many children metover the years. The actual story was inspired by her daughter's love ofa good story told over a mid-day meal.

Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming

Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming Review

As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100 (Blackwell Companions to British History)

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100 (Blackwell Companions to British History) Review

Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries.

•  A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues
  
• Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland
  
• Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) Review

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830

• Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era
  
• Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics
  
• Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres

An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites along the Southern Range Road (Wessex Archaeology Reports)

An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites along the Southern Range Road (Wessex Archaeology Reports) Review

Construction of a tank road through part of Salisbury Plain, from Warminster to Tilshead, has revealed archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic up to the modern use of the Plain for military training. Excavation adjacent to Battlesbury Camp hillfort has uncovered Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement activity including ditches, roundhouses, four-post structures and numerous pits. Some of the pits contained human burials, and other deposits of artefacts and animal bones appear to have been formally placed. Detailed environmental investigation has provided information about both the nature of the on-site activities and the character of the surrounding landscape. Other sites investigated along the tank road included a round barrow and a multiple inhumation and cremation burial of Early Bronze Age date, a Middle Bronze Age enclosure, Late Bronze Age settlement sites, the 'Old Ditch' Wessex Linear earthwork and evidence for Romano-British settlement and land use.

Baby Signing 1-2-3: The Easy-to-Use Illustrated Guide for Every Stage and Every Age

Baby Signing 1-2-3: The Easy-to-Use Illustrated Guide for Every Stage and Every Age Review

The #1 Baby Signing Book

THE EASY WAY TO "TALK" WITH BABY...AS SIMPLE AS 1-2-3

What if your baby could "talk" to you before he or she could actually speak? Sign Babies creator Nancy Cadjan brings years of expertise to Baby Signing 1-2-3, teaching you her unique and easy way of learning baby signing through rich illustrations.

Baby Signing 1-2-3 provides specific signs and techniques for different age ranges, so you know how to work best with baby at each stage of development. Packed full of pictures that show and explain each sign, Baby Signing 1-2-3 makes learning and teaching baby signs a breeze, with:

• Pictures that clear away the confusion! With many signing books, it's hard to understand how to make each sign correctly. Baby Signing 1-2-3 provides clear and helpful illustrations to help you, along with tips on helping baby understand.
• A large directory including more than 270 baby signs!
• Information for infants to toddlers and beyond. Sections give you targeted advice based on baby's age. You'll find perfect steps to help you start right from baby's birth, or later in baby's life!
• A trusted system using American Sign Language

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The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5

The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5 Review

Two experts who are helping Hollywood's A-list babies get their zzz's share the no-fail, family-friendly method that has helped thousands of sleep-deprived moms and dads.

Even Hollywood's biggest stars face the same dilemma as other parents do: "How do I get my child to sleep?" As parents in the know are finding, whether they're on the red carpet or the soccer field, the answer is the same: The Sleepeasy Solution.

Psychotherapists and sleep specialists Jennifer and Jill, the dynamic "girlfriends" all of Hollywood calls on to solve Junior's sleep problems, have perfected their sleep technique that will get any child snoozing in no time—most often in fewer than three nights. The key to their method? It addresses the emotional needs of both the parent and child (yes, how to handle the crying!)—a critical component of why most other sleep methods fail.

In this much-needed, family-friendly guide, weary parents will learn to define their own individual sleep goals, those that work for their family's schedule and style. They'll create a customized "sleep planner" to ensure consistency with both parents as well as extended caregivers. (As an added bonus, they'll even improve the readers' relationships with their spouses with the "marriage-saver" section.) With comprehensive sections devoted to each stage of Baby's and Toddler's development, plus solutions to special circumstances like traveling, daylight saving's time, moving to a "big kid bed" and multiples, The Sleepeasy Solution is a dream come true!

"This approach was truly amazing in helping our family to thrive. . . . We are eternally grateful!"
—Ben Stiller and wife, Christine Taylor, actors

"With their gentle approach, Sleepeasy gave us the tools we needed to solve our daughter's sleep problems."
—Conan O'Brien, host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien

"Sleepeasy gave us all the tools we needed to get our baby sleeping through the night. Now when we say good night to our daughter, we know it really will be a good night."
—Greg Kinnear, actor