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Beyond their capacity to entertain, how have mommyblogs shifted our understanding of twenty-first-century motherhood?

This book uses a feminist approach to examine the vast amount of material on breast-feeding. Policy documents and popular breast-feeding books are shown to be preoccupied with getting women to do what they deem natural rather than with women's real needs.

Here is an easy to understand guide to elementary education. This book is the first of its kind to take the language of education and define all the words, phrases, and processes involved in a child's school. This book will teach parents how to better support their child in the classroom and at home to ensure his or her educational success.

Maximize children's learning potential by tapping into all of the resources of school and home - win at the reading game when parents become effective partners.

The period of childhood which falls between the early years and adolescence is a comparatively neglected area of study. In its combination of viewpoints, set against a background of related research, law, policy and practice, this book offers a rich and challenging study of an important period of the child's development.

If you're the mom of a girl age eight to twelve, Moms' Ultimate Guide to the Tween Girl World is the help and seasoned advice you've been longing for! No one knows "tween" girls better than bestselling girls' author and tween authority Nancy Rue. In this personable and encouraging resource, she equips you with comprehensive guidance for handling every aspect of your tween and her world.

Love Bombing is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do, easily explained and works for both severe and mild problems from aged three to early teenage.

Author Patrick Morley challenges men to get beyond the surface happiness for which they daily give their lives to find instead a success that really matters -- a success paradoxically rooted in a life of unselfish love, suffering, and sacrifice.

In this comprehensive, how-to book for single parents, Focus on the Family's Single-Parent Family magazine editor Dr. Lynda Hunter offers practical, positive information on emotions, yourself, your kids, life skills, and financial management.

Tells the story of a gay couple's decision to have their child through a surrogate mother. With humour and emotion, the author traces their intense experience from the initial decision to have a child through surrogacy on through the entire pregnancy and birth. This is a memoir that reveals the challenges that gay and lesbian couples face.

Addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving. This discusses how the mother's experience of separation is silenced by the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood per se and by the privileging of the child's transition to adulthood.

Offers an assessment of healthcare law as applied to the unique situation of pregnancy. Drawing on case material from both the UK and the USA, this book explores the emergence of the concept of 'maternal-foetal conflict'; and includes suggestions for alternative approaches that safeguard the well-being of pregnant women and their future children.

Focuses on how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. This book examines the complexity and diversity of their lives; the way in which they try to manage choices and constraints and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers.

Written by a specialist in Pediatric Oncology, who is herself a cancer survivor as well as the mother of three young children, this book is clearly-stated and offers comprehensive information about the cancers that strike our youngest. They are four words that can terrify any parent to the core: Your child has cancer.

This book empowers parents, educators, and counselors to prevent youth violence by teaching the thinking skills necessary for children and teens to deal with anger and frustration in healthy, productive ways.

What is often labeled domestic violence is, in this book, referred to as family violence, because the emotional terrorism that infuses violence between adults affects not only the adult victims but also the children who witness the abuse.

The number of children with allergies is astounding-nearly one child in six is said to suffer from some sort of allergy.

Analyzes the babysitty, who embodies adult apprehension about girls' pursuit of autonomy and empowerment

The No. 1 bestseller and must-have guide to confident baby and toddler care from the UK's most trusted nanny.

The Faithful Parent provides parents with the tools necessary to develop their 'philosophical faith' in order to live more fulfilling lives while guiding their children with greater purpose.