Parenting And Children's Health

Your child's first days at school and nursery are exciting times, but they can be very daunting - for both your child and yourself. In this book, the author helps you calm any fears with practical advice on preparing your child to be confident and capable of taking these important new steps.

Bringing together decades of successful work with families, this book provides answers to hundreds of baby and toddler care challenges.

With detailed, prescriptive information on everything parents need to know, this book includes chapters on: preparation for the birth; how the routines evolved and the benefits of following a routine; milk feeding in the first year; understanding your baby's sleep; establishing a routine; introducing solid food in line with government and more.

Gina Ford has helped thousands of families resolve challenges over the years and her bestselling New Contented Little Baby Book has sold over 1 million copies around the world. Whether it's feeding to sleep, rocking to sleep, night-waking, co-sleeping, dummy attachment - whatever the problem - Gina knows how to fix it.

Parenting expert Joanna Fortune shows how 15 minutes of mindful play a day can drastically improve the parent-child relationship.

How Will It Be with Baby and Me? is moving yet reassuring journey through a child's feelings of anxiety.

Jo Frost provides the answer to all of your parenting questions...

This book takes a look at what The Invisible Job actually entails, from the perspective of a mother with a full-time paid job and a stay-at-home mother, and also explores the experiences and attitudes of many other women interviewed by the author. It examines how to prevent or address imbalance in The Invisible Job in your own relationship as well as in society as a whole.

As an adoptive mother, Mari Gallagher charts her personal experience of intercountry adoption in Russia and Kazakhstan, also a journey of personal growth, introspection, and reflection, in "Becoming a Mother". With a mix of personal insight, views and theories from psychologists, authors, adoptive parents and adoptees, both in Ireland and abroad.