Because I Said So!

Author: Ken Jennings

Category: Parenting & Family

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Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” (Parade) in this entertaining and useful New York Times bestseller “armed with case histories, scientific finds, and experiments on himself and his own children” (Los Angeles Times).Is any of it true? If so, how true? Ken Jennings wants to find out if parents always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television or swallow your gum or crack your knuckles are called into question by our country’s leading trivia guru. Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, don’t talk to strangers, and so on.Armed with medical case histories, scientific findings, and even the occasional experiment on himself (or his kids), Jennings exposes countless examples of parental wisdom run amok. Whether you’re a parent plagued by needless concern or a kid (of any age) looking to say, “I told you so,” this is the anti– helicopter parenting book you’ve been waiting for.

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Author: Harvey Karp

Category: Parenting & Family

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Never again will you have to stand by helplessly while your little baby cries and cries. There is a way to calm most crying babies . . . usually in minutes! Thousands of parents, from regular moms and dads to Hollywood superstars, have come to baby expert Dr. Harvey Karp to learn his remarkable techniques for soothing babies and increasing sleep. Now his landmark book—fully revised and updated with the latest insights into infant sleep, bedsharing, breastfeeding, swaddling, and SIDS risk—can teach you too! Dr. Karp’s highly successful method is based on four revolutionary concepts: 1. The Fourth Trimester: Why babies still yearn for a womblike atmosphere . . . even after birth 2. The Calming Reflex: An “off switch” all babies are born with 3. The 5 S’s: Five easy steps to turn on your baby’s amazing calming reflex 4. The Cuddle Cure: How to combine the 5 S’s to calm even colicky babies With Dr. Karp’s sensible advice, parents and grandparents, nurses and nannies, will be able to transform even the fussiest infant into the happiest baby on the block! Praise for The Happiest Baby on the Block “Dr. Karp’s book is fascinating and will guide new parents for years to come.”—Julius Richmond, M.D., Harvard Medical School, former Surgeon General of the United States “The Happiest Baby on the Block is fun and convincing. I highly recommend it.”—Elisabeth Bing, co-founder of Lamaze International “Will fascinate anyone who wants to know how babies experience the world, and wants to answer their cries lovingly and effectively.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune

This Is So Awkward

Author: Cara Natterson

Category: Parenting & Family

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The ultimate guide for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty.“An accessible, enjoyable, and detailed road map for addressing even the most delicate topics with confidence and compassion.”—Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of TeenagersAlmost everything about puberty has changed since today’s adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school . . . and for some, beyond. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issues that parents didn’t experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography to gender identities and new or newly-potent drugs. Talking about any of this is like puberty itself: Awkward! But it’s also critical for the health, happiness, and safety of today’s kids.Bewildered adults have begged for reliable and relatable information about the modern adolescent experience. This Is So Awkward answers their call. Written by a pediatrician and a puberty educator—together the hosts of a lively and popular podcast on puberty, and moms to six teens between them—this is the handbook everyone has been searching for, and includes:• Pointed advice about how to talk to kids about almost anything: acne, body odor, growth spurts, eating disorders, mood swings, sexuality, and more.• Science-based explanations for all of puberty’s physical, emotional, and social changes, including the many ways hormones affect kids both above and below the neck.• What adults needs to know about today’s teen culture: their mental health drivers, the un-gendering of body image issues, the ways they think about sexual orientation, and more. • Invaluable commentary straight from young adults just out the other side of adolescence that highlights what they wish the adults in their lives had known or done differently.Eye-opening and reassuring, This Is So Awkward will help adults understand the turbulent pubescent decade and become confident guides for today’s kids.

Review “[This book] does for teenagers what Our Bodies, Ourselves did for women in the 1970s. It’s the definitive coming-of-age guide that we need right now.”—Kara Baskin, The Boston Globe“Think back to your own experience of puberty, and then multiply the confusion and awkwardness by ten—being an emerging adult today is hard! And yet this is also true: these tumultuous years offer so much opportunity for connection, empowerment, and knowledge-building. This is So Awkward will equip you with expert wisdom, deep compassion, and lots of laughs, and will enable you to show up as that parent—the one kids can turn to.”—Dr. Becky Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author of Good Inside“How are loving adults supposed to guide tweens and teens when everything—even puberty—has changed so much since their own adolescence? Cara Natterson and Vanessa Bennett have the answer! This Is So Awkward is an accessible, enjoyable, and detailed road map for addressing even the most delicate topics with confidence and compassion.”—Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers“What’s more awkward than kids going through puberty? Parents trying to navigate it all! Fortunately, Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett have written This is So Awkward. Always authentic, informative, and practical, they use science and humor to walk us through which conversations to have and how and when to have them. This is the must-read guide you’ve been waiting for.”—Tina Payne Bryson, LCSW, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and No Drama Discipline“Parenting through puberty can be a minefield. We all want to say the right thing, but it's easy to be paralyzed by discomfort, lack of knowledge, and the fact that things may have changed a lot since we were kids. This book is nothing less than a path through that minefield. It is a must read.”—Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet and The Family Firm“Puberty is inevitable, but Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett can help spare you and your child the confusion and embarrassment that stops so many of us in our tracks. Indeed, This is So Awkward is the book every household needs if there is someone aged 8-18 living in it. No more winging it, this guide has you covered!”—Aliza Pressman, host of the Raising Good Humans podcast Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 The Big Picture: Starting Sooner, Lasting Longer The most jaw-dropping fact about modern-day growing up is how much earlier it begins. Today’s kids enter puberty an average of two years younger than their parents did. In fact, it’s not uncommon to hear about kids riding their first wave of hormonal surges three, four, or even five years sooner than the people raising them. The second most stunning fact is how much longer this whole process lasts. Thanks to its mood swings and painfully awkward physical shifts, puberty as a stage of life tends to be equal parts feared and dreaded by parents. At least, reason would dictate, by starting earlier it must progress faster, expediting everyone through this phase. Right? Actually, no. Rather than speeding up, the time line of puberty has stretched like taffy. One simple example can be found in the average age of a first period: while puberty itself is starting a couple of years sooner than it used to, since the 1940s the age of a first period has barely budged. So today, it is simultaneously true that many kids begin to develop physically well before they ever hit double digits and also that most kids experience hormonally driven changes—from acne to eye rolling—years longer than prior generations. From start to finish, the process can take nearly a full decade. As a result, even though the puberty of the past may not have been kinder or gentler, it was most certainly later and a heck of a lot shorter. The measuring of the pubertal time line is relatively new science. Research looking at “normal” puberty began in earnest in the 1940s, when Dr. James Tanner, a pediatric endocrinologist (aka hormone doctor for kids), launched a study that would span three decades. Starting in 1948, Tanner documented the physical changes of kids living in a postwar orphanage in Harpenden, outside of London. There are several reasons why this study could never be done today, not the least of which is that Tanner didn’t do any hands-on physical exams but rather studied photographs of each child taken several times per year to examine their pubertal development over time. The growth he tracked was limited to breast or penile and testicular size, depending upon gender, and appearance of pubic hair for all. Tanner then created a numeric scale to classify the progress: stage 1 meant prepubescent with no visible sexual maturation; stage 5 meant fully developed, adult; and stages 2, 3, and 4 fell somewhere in between with certain specific hallmarks. Because Tanner’s staging was so simple and visual, it caught on. And it stuck! This explains why today, 75 years after his study first began, doctors across the world still use Tanner staging to describe progression along the path through physical maturation. Tanner’s scale became particularly helpful as a sort of yardstick for shifting hormones inside the body. Moving from Tanner stage 1—entirely prepubescent—to Tanner stage 2 confirmed that the sex hormones governing these particular body changes were actually present. This, in turn, meant that in the days before certain hormones could be measured in a laboratory, and decades before others had even been discovered, doctors had a way to confirm that sexual maturation was in process. In addition to staging how kids go through it, Tanner wrote the norms for when they go through it too. His data documenting the adolescence of Baby Boomers showed that the average girl entered puberty just after she turned 11, while the average boy was 11.5 years old. It’s thanks to Tanner’s stages that people are so startled by how early puberty begins these days: if there wasn’t a time expectation, we wouldn’t label it as “early” or “late.” Of course, there’s always been a range of pubertal timing—none of us expects to set a clock to these changes. That said, there’s an average age for the onset of puberty and an expected swing on either side, with anything much earlier or later getting noticed. It doesn’t take much to recall the kid in your fifth-grade class who looked like a full-on adult, and another kid in junior year of high school lagging way behind. In puberty parlance, the kids who develop first are called early bloomers and the ones visibly late to the party, late bloomers. For a long time—certainly before and even long after Tanner’s data was published—there was no agreed-upon definition of what made someone early or late, at least not outside of medical circles. Instead, this was the kind of thing labeled by kids and parents alike, generally not kindly. Tanner examined images of naked kids, but in real, day-to-day life, puberty’s most visible landmarks can even be observed while kids are clothed because the earliest sign for girls is typically a pair of breast buds that seem to poke out of every T-shirt, sweater, and certainly leotard. For boys, though, puberty’s shifts are only publicly obvious a little later on, when some combination of a growth spurt, voice drop, and wispy mustache come into play. Tanner knew that penile and testicular growth were far more accurate measures here, but in a clothed society these go unnoticed and they’re even more subtle because kids tend to move toward privacy just about the same time that their hormones start to surge. So when boys close the door and otherwise keep their clothes on, parents often miss the fact that they’re developing. All of this is why even with robust studies documenting the path through puberty, there has always been lots of room for confusion about who is actually in it, especially among the guys. One potentially misleading indicator: hair. Ask just about anyone, and they’ll consider pubic hair part of the sexual maturation of puberty. But ask an endocrinologist or a scientist studying this stage of life, and they’ll say something very different: hair might make someone look sexually mature, but it doesn’t make them capable of reproducing. Pubic hair growth is largely governed by hormones released from the adrenal glands sitting on top of the kidneys. These hormones, called adrenal androgens, start to circulate around the same time that estrogen and testosterone are producing the changes of puberty, but don’t be fooled, adrenal androgens are on their own independent path. They might appear at the same time as the hormones ruling puberty, or they might show up much earlier or later. The adrenal androgens stimulate more than just hair follicles—they also tell pores in the skin to secrete sweat and oil, explaining why crops of pubic hair tend to appear along with acne or waves of newly pungent body odor. But none of these downstream impacts signify sexual maturation. Even Tanner didn’t really appreciate the distinction here, which explains why he measured pubic hair as one of his hallmarks of puberty. It’s confusing that the hormonal pathways through the body don’t always work together, even if things look that way from the outside. Following Tanner’s groundbreaking research, the pipeline of studies of “normal” puberty ran dry. This makes sense, because once a phenomenon has been defined as “normal,” it isn’t scientifically sexy to redocument. But in the early 1990s, a nurse practitioner named Marcia Herman-Giddens felt compelled to reexamine Tanner’s assumptions when the patients walking into her office repeatedly defied the expectations he had set: girl after girl appeared to be in Tanner stage 2 well before age 11. Herman-Giddens was quite aware of normal variation, early bloomers and late bloomers, but the trend flowing through her office motivated her to apply for funding to run a fairly large study, ultimately including 17,000 girls. In 1997, she published the results showing that puberty was indeed beginning sooner for genetic females—depending upon ethnicity, anywhere from a year to a year and a half earlier than expected. Herman-Giddens documented a massive shift in puberty and made headlines everywhere. About the Author Cara Natterson, MD, is a pediatrician and the New York Times bestselling author of The Care and Keeping of You series (more than seven million copies in print), Guy Stuff, and Decoding Boys. A graduate of Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Dr. Natterson founded Order of Magnitude, a company dedicated to flipping puberty positive. She co-hosts The Puberty Podcast, co-authors The Awkward Roller Coaster Newsletter (both with Vanessa Kroll-Bennett), and founded Worry Proof, MD.Cara lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two teenagers.Vanessa Kroll Bennett is the founder of Dynamo Girl, a company focused on building kids’ self-esteem through sports, puberty education, and parent workshops. She runs all media at Order of Magnitude, a company dedicated to flipping puberty positive. She co-hosts The Puberty Podcast (with Cara Natterson, MD), hosts Conversations on Parenting and Beyond at the JCC Manhattan, and writes the Uncertain Parenting Newsletter about the messy process of raising tweens and teens. A graduate of Wellesley College, Vanessa holds an MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in Northern Westchester with her husband and four teens. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Babyhood

Author: Paul Reiser

Category: Parenting & Family

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From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Couplehood and Familyhood: Insights on infants with “an out-loud laugh on every page” (San Francisco Chronicle).   Just as Paul Reiser and his wife had finally figured out how to successfully live together as two people, why would they want to jeopardize everything with a whole new human being? Sitting next to two exceptionally loud little ones on an airplane gives them some strong arguments against it, but if they don’t “take the next step,” who’s going to drive them around when they’re old and cranky? This classic New York Times bestseller from the actor and comedian contemplates the indecision, the anxiety, the exhaustion, and the hard-earned rewards of deciding to perpetuate the species.   “For the couple considering parenthood as well as for parents who are decades past their days of diaper changing . . . this book hits home and hits the funnybone.” —Chicago Tribune   “Reiser knows how to wrench a laugh from sticky situations, and in his life, since his firstborn arrived, every situation has been sticky or moist.” —Los Angeles Times   “This book won’t help you be a better parent, but it might put you in a better frame of mind about the whole experience.” —Detroit News

Review "This book hits home and hits the funnybone, for the couple considering parenthood as well as for parents who are decades past their days of diaper changing."--"Chicago Tribune"Reiser knows how to wrench a laugh from sticky situations. And in his life, since his firstborn arrived, every situation has been sticky or moist."--"Los Angeles Times"A fun read...Paul Reiser has put his delightfully humorous touch on life as a new parent."--"San Antonio Express-News"This book won't help you be a better parent, but it might put you in a better frame of mind about the whole experience..."Babyhood will be a nice read while you're rocking your own little one's cradle."--"Detroit News"An out-loud laugh on every page...Paul Reiser is one of the few stand-up comics-turned-sitcom-stars who can be genuinely funny in print..if you are thinking about having a baby, Reiser's "Babyhood is your indispensible...guide."--"San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. About the Author A seasoned actor, writer, and stand-up comedian, Paul Reiser has appeared in many films and television shows, including cocreating and starring in the critically acclaimed NBC series Mad About You. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Couplehood, Babyhood, and most recently Familyhood. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From the Inside Flap I'm going to be totally honest.  This is not the kind of audiobook that can help you.  It's not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect."  It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession.  (Although a cousin of mine who sells carpeting to doctors' offices not only found it "insightful" and "informative," but felt that, "if properly vacuumed, it should last a lifetime.")"A fine endorsement," you say.  "But if I have only one audiobook to buy, shouldn't I go for the helpful one?"Let's compare:Those "know-it-all" books tell you how to have a happy, healthy pregnancy.  My book mentions a squirrel.Those books tell you how to care for a newborn child.  My book describes how tired I am.Those books give you essential information you can use in a life-threatening emergency.  My book has some very amusing anecdotes about poop.So really, it's up to you.If you want to be prepared and well-informed, I understand.  But if you enjoy hearing the words "pterodactyl" and "uterus" in the same book, you've come to the right place. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From the Back Cover I'm going to be totally honest with you. This is not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect" book. It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession. "But if I have only one book to buy," you ask, "shouldn't I go for the helpful one?"Let's compare:Those know-it-all books tell you how to care for a newborn child.My book describes how tired I am.Those books give you essential information you can use in a life-threatening emergency.My book has some very amusing anecdotes about poop.So really, it's up to you. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Amazon.com Review Fans of television's Mad About You and its star, Paul Reiser, will be delighted with his second foray into the self-deprecating self-help genre. Couplehood, his first book, leads logically to this next phase--Babyhood. In a chatty voice Reiser takes us from the "Maybe someday we'll have kids" step into the deep-sea dive of commitment. Babyhood begins on an airplane, with Paul and wife blissfully unencumbered by children. They are seated across from the young parents (graying before his eyes) of a terrorizing 2-year-old and a screeching infant. This sobering reality manages magically to pale in a transcendent moment of the baby's bliss, uncomplicated by drool or colic, and the two decide: "Now." Well, more or less now. First they try to get pregnant, making expeditions to the bookstore to case out the shelves of baby books; then there are the bouncy reflections on who is, after all, cut out to parent ("I don't know if, for example, Mozart actually had kids, but certainly there is no record of him ever leaving the office early to coach Peewee Soccer League"). Later comes the account of sibling rivalry between the newborn and the family dog, and why women make better moms than men. Babyhood manages to provoke thought about the important questions of when and why to have children, many of which are answered in the book's endearing details. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

The Autistic Brain

Author: Temple Grandin

Category: Parenting & Family

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Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it has undergone a great transformation, leading to more hope than ever before that we may finally learn the causes of and treatments for autism. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the advances in neuroimaging and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show which anomalies might explain common symptoms. Most excitingly, she argues that raising and educating kids on the autism spectrum must focus on their long-overlooked strengths to foster their unique contributions.The Autistic Brainbrings Grandin’s singular perspective into the heart of the autism revolution.

From Now On: School Safety After COVID-19

Author: Dr. Deloris R. Benjamin

Category: Parenting & Family

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Prepared Leaders, Safe Schools

No matter your location, From Now On offers school leaders strategies for creating the safest learning environments for the people they serve, following a pandemic that can easily be described as the worse global crisis humanity has experienced thus far.

Dr. Deloris Benjamin, a school safety expert whose crisis management research has garnered over 30,000 reads, mentions, and downloads by academics seeking to study and add to the body of knowledge concerning safety in education settings. Originally written as a school safety system for the Ebola virus (2014), the book went on hiatus until 2019, when a strange and new virus hit our shores - COVID-19.

In this book, Dr. Benjamin reveals practical strategies, best-practices, and science-based recommendations by leading safety authorities. Learn how to:
- apply strategies, best-practices, and recommendations for school safety protocols;
- improve preparation confidence when planning and implementing school safety protocols;
- improve effectiveness and efficiency of business continuity at district and school levels after a pandemic;
- identify professional development areas to strengthen school safety preparedness and protocols;
...and much more.

From Now On will present you with real-life, school-based scenarios during the pandemic, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your schools--whether you are a district leader looking to improve school safety policy, a school principal searching for ways to improve campus safety for staff and students, or a teacher who wishes to learn classroom-based strategies for personal and student safety.