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In Simple Happy Parenting, Denaye Barahona, Ph. D., provides a revolutionary approach to parenting, full of practical tips to help you step back from the system overload so common in modern family life and, instead, create more time to enjoy living and learning together. From easier meal planning to mindful shopping, worry batching to waste reduction, Simple Happy Parenting is an honest and practical roadmap for all families striving for balance.

The creator of Humans of New York combines an original narrative with some of his favorite children's photos from the blog, in addition to all-new exclusive portraits.

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful ""Circle of Security"" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time.

Joe tries to warn his busy father about an embarrassing trousers oversight.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.

"Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom...[an] excellent book." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review

"[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny book." —The Washington Post

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist

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Acclaimed as the essential guide for parents of children between the ages of three and six, this works is based on Dr. Severe's philosophy that children's behavior is often a reflection of their parents'. In each chapter, he teaches parents to adjust their own behavior to better handle a host of preschool issues such as fussing at bedtime, tantrums, sibling rivalry, toilet training, and setting limits. As he outlines strategies, the focus is not what...

Four-year old Joey's biological father, recently released from prison, wants custody of his son, removing him from his adopted family.