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How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby
by Landrum B. Shettles David M. RorvikMore Than 1.5 Million Copies Sold!Now Revised and Updated to Include the Latest Scientific Information and Even More Success StoriesFor almost forty years, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby has been the standard reference for couples trying to increase their chances of having the son or daughter they hope for. In this new edition of their classic book, Dr. Shettles and David Rorvik provide authoritative scientific studies and compelling anecdotal evidence demonstrating that the Shettles method continues to produce results unmatched by any other method. Dozens of testimonials confirm its ease of use and rate of success.How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby explains the simple, at-home, noninvasive Shettles method and presents detailed steps to take to conceive a child of a specific gender. The properly applied Shettles method gives couples a 75 percent or better chance of having a child of the desired sex. Some researchers have reported success rates of up to 90 percent!
How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps
by Jennifer Larue Huget Edward KorenGot a messy room? No problem!This simple, laugh-out-loud picture-book guide to cleaning your room is sure to make picking up a snap. Here is the first rule: Always wait until your mother hollers, "GET UP THERE AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM--NOW!" using all three of your names. Once she does, you'd better get moving. From dumping out drawers and dividing stuff into piles to arranging all eight zillion of your stuffed animals, here's the kind of advice on room tidying that everyone can relate to.With funny, direct text by Jennifer LaRue Huget and amazing illustrations by New Yorker artist Edward Koren, this book is sure to appeal to messy kids everywhere.From the Hardcover edition.
How to Con Your Kid: Simple Seams for Mealtime, Bedtime, Bathtime--Anytime!
by David Borgenicht James GraceThe Book Your Children Don't Want You to Read This revised and updated edition of How to Con Your Kid is the most useful (and sneakiest) parenting manual you'll ever purchase. Here are hundreds of tips, techniques, and simple scams for getting your child to do exactly what you want--at mealtime, bedtime, bathtime, and beyond. You'll learn how to: * Con your kid into eating by playing on his possessiveness. * Con your kid into bathing by "swimming" in the tub. * Con your kid into talking quietly by whispering back. * Con your kid into returning your iDevice--by any means possible! And dozens more tricks of the parenting trade!
How to Conceive Naturally: And Have a Healthy Pregnancy after 30
by Sara Gottfried Christa Orecchio Willow BuckleyThe new comprehensive guide to healthy conception, pregnancy, and postpartum that every woman over thirty must readMore and more women are choosing to have children later in life, but since fertility declines starting at age thirty, many moms-to-be face conception and pregnancy with fear, uncertainty, and anxiety. Women thirty and older who wish to conceive naturally are often told it is a "bit too late" for easy conception, or they are forced to turn to invasive, expensive treatments. But there is a better way! With HOW TO CONCEIVE NATURALLY: AND HAVE A HEALTHY PREGNANCY AFTER 30 readers will discover that it's possible to have a healthy pregnancy in your thirties or early forties. Experts Christa Orecchio and Willow Buckley share their vast knowledge of holistic health, nutrition, and fertility in this powerful program that has helped thousands of women conceive naturally and quickly. From a 12-week preconception fertility detox to a postpartum plan to rebalance hormones, this book empowers women to take charge of their fertility at any age. Orecchio and Buckley present the most current research in nutrition and homeopathy to equip women with the wide-ranging knowledge they'll need on each step of the journey to having a baby naturally, from preconception to postpartum.
How to Cook Everything Kids (How to Cook Everything Series #9)
by Mark BittmanMark Bittman’s first cookbook for kids is here! His newest in the beloved How to Cook Everything series focuses on empowering children with all the kitchen skills they need to choose, prepare, and cook the foods they like with the people they love.Mark Bittman inspires kids to be more adventurous eaters by teaching them first how to identify and cook their favorite foods, then build from there. With flexible recipes designed for all the ways kids approach meals and snacks, How to Cook Everything Kids promises to turn the kitchen into a place of joy and discovery. The detailed recipe directions and fun features for key ingredients, techniques, and basics are all written specifically with little hands in mind, while Bittman covers navigating your kitchen, what different tools do, and preparing and measuring ingredients. These tools help kids ages 8 to 12 (give or take) develop confidence and independence in the kitchen so they learn when to lean on adults, and how to make their own simple swaps and variations. The result is a cookbook that can be customized for every individual child.How to Cook Everything Kids includes:Chapters covering every meal and food group: Breakfast Any Time; Flavor Bursts (sauces); Hold On! (sandwiches and other finger foods); Sips and Spoonfuls (soups); Edible Colors (a vegetable primer with flexible recipes for all the basic techniques); Pasta and Noodles; Grains and Beans; The Big Stuff (satisfying mains); Now Bake Something; and Sweets.Make Friends with Your Kitchen, an expanded opening chapter designed to familiarize kids with their equipment and ingredients, and all the cooking words they need to know.Visual guides from photography and cartoons to snapshots of everyday kids cooking Bittman’s recipes in their kitchens encourage the next generation of home cooks to explore and create.Recipes for every skill level: Bittman covers everything from kid go-to’s like Scrambled Eggs, Quesadillas, and Popcorn in a Pot, into more complex dishes like Roasted Veggies, Chicken Mark Nuggets, and Banana Bread. Features on skills like frosting a cake, building a grain bowl, and making an epic sandwich teach kids how to try even more as their knowledge and skills grow.How to Cook Everything Kids is a perfect introduction for kids looking to get into the kitchen and start cooking.
How to Cook: Building Blocks and 100 Simple Recipes for a Lifetime of Meals: A Cookbook
by Hugh AchesonAn empowering collection of 100 delicious, practical recipes that will teach young adults and kitchen novices all the skills they need to cook for themselves—from a James Beard Award-winning chef and author.Acclaimed chef, TV star, and dedicated father Hugh Acheson taught his teenage daughters that cooking is an essential life skill. But he also knew that people don&’t need to cook like a chef to feed themselves and their friends. Really, they only need to learn a handful of skills to enjoy a lifetime of cooking.So, in How to Cook, Hugh distills the cooking lessons that everyone should master into twenty-five basic building blocks: easy-to-grasp recipes that can turn anyone, young or old, into a confident home cook. Each of these recipes teaches a fundamental skill, such as roasting or whisking together a classic vinaigrette, and each stands alone as a stellar back-pocket basic. After laying the groundwork, Hugh then offers recipes that expand on these foundations, whether it&’s remixing the flavors of one of the basic recipes, or combining a couple of them, to show you how you can produce a lifetime&’s worth of dishes. This is the book Hugh is going to give his kids when they leave home, knowing that with these 100 recipes, they&’ll be prepared to feed themselves for the rest of their lives.
How to Cope When Your Child Can't: Comfort, Help and Hope for Parents
by Roz Shafran Ursula Saunders Alice WelhamParenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be painful and stressful, and can make it very hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt, sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may be swirling around alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain.Although parenting a child who is experiencing difficulties is a common problem, we can feel desperately alone when it is happening to us. When someone we love is struggling - for whatever reason - we may become unhappy too. For countless parents and children there are problems with no easy solutions. However, that's where this book comes in. It aims to help understand for ourselves what we can and cannot do; to help us to accept any distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control in our situations; to see that we can tolerate these things; and to know that there are ways to move forward.This book is packed with stories from real parents, combined with information from psychological research. It will show you how you can manage to obtain comfort from knowing you are not alone, get help from resources and techniques that really work, and find hope that things can and do change for the better.
How to Cope When Your Child Can't: Comfort, Help and Hope for Parents
by Roz Shafran Ursula Saunders Alice WelhamParenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be painful and stressful, and can make it very hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt, sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may be swirling around alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain.Although parenting a child who is experiencing difficulties is a common problem, we can feel desperately alone when it is happening to us. When someone we love is struggling - for whatever reason - we may become unhappy too. For countless parents and children there are problems with no easy solutions. However, that's where this book comes in. It aims to help understand for ourselves what we can and cannot do; to help us to accept any distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control in our situations; to see that we can tolerate these things; and to know that there are ways to move forward.This book is packed with stories from real parents, combined with information from psychological research. It will show you how you can manage to obtain comfort from knowing you are not alone, get help from resources and techniques that really work, and find hope that things can and do change for the better.
How to Court Your Wife (Matchmakers of Bath)
by Amanda McCabeThey married for convenience, now they have a second chance to fall in love! Enjoy the final installment of the Matchmakers of Bath series. Falling for her husband …all over again! When Sandrine was forced to give up her dressmaking dreams to wed Alain, Comte d&’Alency, she never expected to fall for her convenient husband at first sight! Only, her hopes were dashed after their wedding night, when she discovered Alain loved another, so she fled… Years later, Alain encounters his wife again! Now a successful modiste, Sandrine no longer needs him. To make amends and reclaim his runaway wife, he&’s determined to give her the courtship they never had. But Alain&’s not the only one with a past to reconcile—Sandrine&’s also been keeping a little secret… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.Matchmakers of BathBook 1: The Earl's Cinderella CountessBook 2: Their Convenient Christmas BetrothalBook 3: How to Court Your Wife
How to Court a Rake (Wed Within a Year)
by Bronwyn ScottA rake, a wallflower and a fake courtship! Delight in the spicy, high-stakes first installment of Bronwyn Scott&’s new trilogy Wed Within a Year. Sparks fly when the wallflower… waltzes with the rake! When the Crown awards spy Caine Parkhurst the title of marquess, it&’s with the outrageous stipulation he marries within the year! Caine&’s catapulted into London&’s ballrooms in search of a bride, but the last thing the rakish bachelor is looking for is love… Once a diamond, Lady Mary is now in danger of becoming a wallflower—or, worse, being married off to a man of her father&’s choosing! To escape the relentless matchmaking, she agrees to a fake courtship with the new marquess. Yet his touch leaves her longing to court this rake…for real!From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.Wed Within a YearBook 1: How to Court a RakeBook 2: How to Tempt an Earl
How to Create Little Happy Learners: 60 simple learning and craft activities for 0-5 year olds
by Sophie DavidHow to Create Little Happy Learners presents an inspiring selection of learning and craft activities designed to promote a love of learning. Written by Sophie David, a former early years teacher and adviser who is now a stay-at-home mum with 3 children under 5, she is now channelling her knowledge and creativity to show-case the craft ideas she was using to keep her children entertained. Here, she offers over 60 fun-packed activities for children, all highlighting different skills (fine motor, phonics, maths, creativity, communication and independence). Split into topics ranging from animals to transport, Sophie not only offers crafting activities that involve children and can be used time and time again utilising everyday items, she also adapts each activity for different age groups (from 0-5 years) so you can reuse the book as your child grows.Some activities include:- Searching for animal fossils (phonics and creativity)- Bug Count (problem solving and maths)- Emotion stones (communication)- Creating sensory bags (baby play and motor skills)This book offers a bank of great activities to not only inspire a love of learning in your children but to make that journey a fun, craft filled one.
How to Create Little Happy Learners: 60 simple learning and craft activities for 0-5 year olds
by Sophie DavidHow to Create Little Happy Learners presents an inspiring selection of learning and craft activities designed to promote a love of learning. Written by Sophie David, a former early years teacher and adviser who is now a stay-at-home mum with 3 children under 5, she is now channelling her knowledge and creativity to show-case the craft ideas she was using to keep her children entertained. Here, she offers over 60 fun-packed activities for children, all highlighting different skills (fine motor, phonics, maths, creativity, communication and independence). Split into topics ranging from animals to transport, Sophie not only offers crafting activities that involve children and can be used time and time again utilising everyday items, she also adapts each activity for different age groups (from 0-5 years) so you can reuse the book as your child grows.Some activities include:- Searching for animal fossils (phonics and creativity)- Bug Count (problem solving and maths)- Emotion stones (communication)- Creating sensory bags (baby play and motor skills)This book offers a bank of great activities to not only inspire a love of learning in your children but to make that journey a fun, craft filled one.
How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio: Easy Steps to Help You Produce the Best Adoption Profile and Prospective Birthparent Letter
by Madeleine MelcherHow do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you know which pictures to include and which to leave out? Do you really understand what prospective birth parents care about? This is a step-by-step guide to creating a portfolio which will reflect your personality, make a strong positive impact and encourage the right birth family to choose you. Madeleine Melcher shares the secrets she has discovered over years of creating successful portfolios, profiles and prospective birth parent letters. She combines simple and effective design ideas and tips for writing and layout with a deep understanding of how portfolios work. Importantly, this book also draws extensively on the experiences of birth mothers and the professionals who support them to examine what they are really looking for, featuring questions which prospective birth mothers will want to see answered in your portfolio. From text to design, this guide will give you the confidence to create a portfolio that sets you apart. It is essential reading for prospective adoptive parents, as well as adoption attorneys and adoption agencies advising those hoping to adopt.
How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive: Therapist's Workbook and Planning Guide
by Ann SteinerHow to Create and Sustain Groups That Thrive is an accessible manual for group leaders of all kinds, from psychotherapy groups to discussion groups. This thoroughly updated third edition of the author’s popular group psychotherapy guide provides a wealth of tools for starting and maintaining groups, including sample group agreements, a screening and preparation system, and an innovative collaborative goal setting system. The book also discusses the importance of online ‘netiquette’ as well as an overview of diversity and inclusion concepts in group work, offering a range of modifiable leadership and facilitation interventions that can be tailored to meet the needs of specific groups. Specifically designed to help both seasoned group therapists and clinicians who find themselves leading groups, How to Create and Sustain Groups That Thrive is an easy-to-use, fully practical resource for a variety of mental health professionals.
How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy: Teachers′ Guide (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by Elaine K. McEwan-AdkinsStrategies for working with parents of all kinds Parents can be a teacher’s greatest advocate—and that’s why it’s important to know how to handle even the hardest parent situations. In fact, new teachers reported that parent communication is one of their biggest challenges. This teachers’ edition of the all-time best-selling How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy provides invaluable strategies that teachers can use to defuse angry parents and to work with all parents to advance the success of their children. Addressing a variety of educator needs and concerns, this resource • Helps teachers get parents on their side with a set of proactive practices and policies • Provides guidelines for teachers to follow when meeting with parents during annual reviews and IEP meetings • Includes advice and vignettes that reflect challenges and concerns of today’s teachers With resources that will remain relevant to teachers throughout their careers, this book provides a clear explanation of the complexities that interact to create dysfunctional parents and how teachers can most effectively problem solve, communicate, and learn from their relationships with parents.
How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy: Teachers′ Guide (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by Elaine K. McEwan-AdkinsStrategies for working with parents of all kinds Parents can be a teacher’s greatest advocate—and that’s why it’s important to know how to handle even the hardest parent situations. In fact, new teachers reported that parent communication is one of their biggest challenges. This teachers’ edition of the all-time best-selling How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy provides invaluable strategies that teachers can use to defuse angry parents and to work with all parents to advance the success of their children. Addressing a variety of educator needs and concerns, this resource • Helps teachers get parents on their side with a set of proactive practices and policies • Provides guidelines for teachers to follow when meeting with parents during annual reviews and IEP meetings • Includes advice and vignettes that reflect challenges and concerns of today’s teachers With resources that will remain relevant to teachers throughout their careers, this book provides a clear explanation of the complexities that interact to create dysfunctional parents and how teachers can most effectively problem solve, communicate, and learn from their relationships with parents.
How to Deal With Your Acting-Up Teenager: Practical Help for Desperate Parents
by Robert Bayard Jean BayardAn outstandingly courageous, honest and original approach to teenage acting-out. This book might save your family's sanity. -Louise Bates Ames, Gesell Institute of Human Development
How to Decorate a Christmas Tree
by Vikki VanSickleA little girl shares the steps for the perfect tree trimming — a holiday picture book for fans of Pick a Pine Tree and The Little Christmas Tree.In this charming Christmas tale, readers will follow along with the main character as she shares all the things that go into decorating a tree:LightsOrnamentsPopcornHot chocolateTaffy the catMemoriesAnd, most importantly, family!With stunning three-dimensional art by Miki Sato and a delightful story by wordsmith Vikki VanSickle, including a twist ending, this book will quickly become a Christmas tree decorating tradition of its own.
How to Develop Your Children's Creativity
by Reynold BeanA guide to help parents teach their children to become more flexible and adaptive thinkers in an ever-changing world.
How to Die Famous
by Benjamin DeanFor fans of Little White Lies and Two Can Keep a Secret comes an addictive thriller about a budding teen celebrity secretly investigating his brother's suspicious death while navigating the highs and lows of fame. Rising star Abel Miller has just landed a role in one of the hottest reboots on the Omni Channel, Sunset High. It looks like he&’ll be yet another budding celebrity plucked from obscurity, but he has a secret: his brother, Adam, a mere production associate, died during the filming of the last attempt at Sunset High, and no one knows how... or why. Abel is going to find out. But when he meets the other stars of the show— Lucky, Ryan, and Ella, along with creator Lake Carter— he realizes there&’s even more darkness beneath the shimmer of fame. They all have their own secrets to hide, and one of them is willing to kill to keep it that way.
How to Do a Science Experiment (Step into Reading)
by Jean ReaganScience is a blast, when you work together with Grandma! Follow the volcano fun in this silly Step 2 early reader story from the New York Times bestselling creators of How to Babysit a Grandpa.Once you've learned how to make a volacano at home, it's time to teach Grandma what to do! But what happens when you don't remember the right ingredients? Work together with Grandma to create the best at-home volacno ever, with a few tips and tricks from the experts -- kids! This Step into Reading story features a sweet Grandma and grandchild relationship and all the silly, sticky moments that come with creating an at-home experiment. Perfect for children who are ready to read on their own! Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. They are perfect for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
How to Drive Your Brother Bananas (I Can Read Level 2)
by Diane Z ShoreIn this companion to the bestselling Level 2 I Can Read How to Drive Your Sister Crazy, Bradley Harris Pinkerton returns, and this time he's driving his brother bananas! "Children will enjoy Bradley just as they adore David Shannon’s No, David! The high jinks of a younger brother will be enjoyed by children, especially those with siblings."—School Library JournalDo you have a big brother? Do you know how to drive him bananas? With a remote control, a rubber snake, and some dirty underwear, Bradley Harris Pinkerton shows just how easy it is!Early-grade kids with big brothers will get a kick out of the silly sibling rivalry in this laugh-out-loud story.How to Drive Your Brother Bananas is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success.
How to Drive Your Family Crazy... on Halloween
by Dean Marney[From the back cover: "A pumpkin a day keeps little brothers away! Lizzie's brother, Booker, is a big pain. "Booger," as Lizzie calls him, always gets her into trouble--especially when she's not doing anything wrong! But that doesn't mean she wants him swallowed up by a giant pumpkin--does it? When Lizzie's shadow starts moving by itself, she knows something's up. And it only gets weirder when she notices the crazy lady hanging around. Now Booger's stuck inside a pumpkin! Mom and Dad will probably not be pleased... Can Lizzie figure it all out in time? or will Booger be pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving?" RL4, Ages 8-12. Trouble always finds Lizzie even when she's being as good as she can be. If you enjoyed her funny and spooky Halloween adventure you might also like: The Christmas Tree That Ate My Mother, The Valentine That Ate My Teacher, Pet-rified, How To Drive Your Family Crazy on Valentine's Day, The Easter Bunny That Ate My Sister, The Jack-o'-lantern That Ate My Brother. and more.
How to Drown a Boy: Poems
by J. Bruce FullerHow to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods, the water, the oil rigs, and the men who work them all have a powerful effect on the speaker from childhood through adulthood. These poems examine the weight of family and culture against a backdrop of climate change and environmental disaster.
How to Eat Like a Child: And Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-up
by Delia EphronA collection of humorous essays on “the art of being infuriating and other childhood fun” (The New York Times).Universal and timeless, Delia Ephron’s How to Eat Like a Child is a delightful revisiting of the joys — and tricky ploys — of childhood. Made into a children’s television special and a musical theater revue performed across the country each year, How to Eat Like a Child offers advice beyond the artful etiquette of food consumption. Ephron also teaches us “How to Laugh Hysterically,” “How to Have a Birthday Party,” “How to Torture Your Sister,” and much, much more. As the Washington Post Book World noted, “After the giggles of recognition have subsided, one thing will be very clear: all adults are kids in grown-ups’ clothing.”“Vivid enough to return you, momentarily, to those thrilling days of yesteryear.” —Kirkus Reviews