Written in an easy-to-read style, this book by Fred Lybrand calls for a return to common sense in parenting. Lybrand provides a fresh perspective for individuals who feel helpless or lack the needed confidence in their parenting skills. The book makes a great couples study and includes practical tips.

Intended to help you make the most of your child's natural curiosity. Suggests ways you can interest your children from about 3 to 10 years old in science. Includes: basic information about science; a sampling of activities for children to do -- some alone, some with supervision -- in both the home and the community. Also includes an appendix with: practical tips to encourage schools to develop good science programs, a brief description of 9 scientific concepts and a list of recommended science books and magazines.

“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessness in developing countries.” - Ian Smillie, author of The Charity of Nations, Freedom from Want, and Diamonds “Change a Life. Change Your Own.” “For less than a dollar a day.” “For the cost of one coffee a day.” With these slogans, and their accompanying images of poor children, some of the world’s largest development organizations invite the global North to engage in one of their most prominent and successful fundraising techniques: child sponsorship. But as Peter Ove argues in Change a Life, Change Your Own, child sponsorship is successful not because it addresses the needs of poor children, but because it helps position what it means to live ethically in an unequal and unjust world. In this way, child sponsorship is seen as more than an effective marketing tool; it is a powerful mechanism for spreading particular ideas about the global South, the global North and the relationship between the two. Through sponsorship, the desire to raise money, secure “appropriate” childhoods, and become better people ends up taking priority over the goal of living together well on a global scale. Drawing on in-depth interviews with child sponsors and sponsorship staff, Change a Life, Change Your Own explores the contexts in which sponsorship promotional material is produced, interpreted and acted upon. This is not an exposé on the use of sponsorship dollars or high administrative costs; it is a clearly written and compelling account of how the problem of development is constructed such that child sponsorship is seen to be a rational and ethical solution.

Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things gohis way? Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day? Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to dochores? Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems? Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of ahome? Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATMmachine? What happened? You thought you were doing the best for yourchild and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive,spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me ThatAttitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you aneffective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work withyour child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthfulcharacteristic, attitude. If you have a child who isarrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding,domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible,jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded,noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative,ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

Teach Yourself - the world`s leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals. Let our expert author guide you through this brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book. Go online at www.teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don`t have much time, don`t worry - every book gives you 1, 5 and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started. - Expert advice to help you with every crisis, from potty training to temper tantrums - Lots of emotional support to help you feel confident and in control - Help to enable your toddler to grow into a happy, contented and independent child Tackle Your Toddler's Behaviour will give you all the advice, support and reassurance you need to help you not only cope with but enjoy your child's toddler needs. It will explain exactly why your toddler is now behaving the way they are, with plenty of reassuring help for anyone who is worrying that their child is not 'normal'. You will get advice and insight into all those new and unfamiliar areas - sleep, potty training, diet and other 'flashpoints' - with supportive help for dealing with the much bigger issues of coping with change, becoming independent and - of course - the inevitable temper tantrums. With the help of Tackle Your Toddler's Behaviour you'll learn that yes, you do have the skills you need - and yes, you can actually enjoy this amazing time as you watch your baby grow into a real person.