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Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures Amber Dusick

Dusick, Amber

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"The drawings aren't very good, Mama." --Crappy Boy, age 5 Of course you love being a parent. But sometimes, it just sucks. I know. I'm Amber Dusick and I started my blog Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures because I needed a place to vent about the funny (and frustrating) day-to-day things that happened to me as a parent. Turns out, poop is hilarious! At least when you're not the one wiping it up. This book won't make your frustrating moments any less crappy. But these stories about my...

My Thoughts

This book started as a blog and is one of the best out there, IMO.

The Happiest Toddler on the Block Harvey Karp, M.D.

Karp, Harvey Md

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Perfect for expecting parents who want to prepare themselves for the challenging toddler years (which starts around eight months of age), this essential guide, a national bestseller by respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, not only helps reduce tantrums but makes happy kids even happier by boosting patience, cooperation, and self-confidence. Toddlers can drive you bonkers...so adorable and fun one minute...so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable...

My Thoughts

Do parents still read parenting books? If you do, then don't miss this handy guide to dealing with cavemen children!

The 5 love languages of children

Chapman, Gary D., 1938-

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Discover your child's primary language--then speak it--and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.

Mom : a celebration of mothers from StoryCorps

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Dave Isay--StoryCorps's founder and the editor of the project's bestselling collection, "Listening Is an Act of Love"--Presents a celebration of American mothers. Selecting StoryCorps's most revelatory stories on the subject, "Mom" looks across a diversity of experience--from the Bronx to the rural South and beyond--to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.

Parenting with love and logic : teaching children responsibility

Cline, Foster.

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This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. Indexed for easy reference.

The girlfriends' guide to pregnancy

Iovine, Vicki.

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Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the way only a best friend can--in the book that will go the whole nine months for every mother-to-be. In this revised and updated edition, get the lowdown on all those little things that are too strange or embarrassing to ask, practical tips, and hilarious takes on everything pregnant.

My Thoughts

I passed a copy of this book around for years every time I found out a girlfriend was pregnant. A hilarious read on everything pregnancy.

Dad is fat

Gaffigan, Jim.

From the Publisher

Reminiscent of Bill Cosby's 'Fatherhood,' 'Dad is Fat ' is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.

My Thoughts

Jim Gaffigan, you are my hero! This hilarious book, read by the author, is one of my all-time favorite books.

Brain Rules John Medina

Medina, John

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In Brain Rules , Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule?what scientists know for sure about how our brains work?and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. Medina?s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You?ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You?ll peer...

My Thoughts

This book really will make you smarter.

The happiest baby guide to great sleep : simple solutions for kids from birth to 5 years

Karp, Harvey.

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The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep can help anyone guide even the most resistant small child gently toward wonderful, restful, healthful slumber, so that mom and dad can enjoy a good night's sleep themselves!

My Thoughts

Are you in your early days of parenthood? READ THIS BOOK.

Real simple.

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REAL SIMPLE makes life easier by giving creative, practical, and inspiring solutions for both the everyday and special occasions.

My Thoughts

I love reading this magazine for getting organized! Don't buy it at the grocery store, check it out at the library!

Sh*tty mom : the parenting guide for the rest of us

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Sh*tty Mom is the ultimate parenting guide, written by four moms who have seen it all. As hilarious as it is universal, each chapter presents a common parenting scenario with advice on how to get through it in the easiest and most efficient way possible.

Little bento : 32 irresistible bento box lunches for kids

Olivier, Michele (Food blogger), author.

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“你的困境:挑食和sched塞满ule. Your solution: the bento box! From mom and food-blogger, Michele Olivier, Little Bento picks up where Little Foodie left off, by helping parents turn their "selective" children into healthy, adventurous eaters through creative, easy-to-assemble bento box lunches. Little Bento is the ultimate bento guide to planning, preparing, and assembling yummy, healthy and easy bento box lunches that your kids will love...no tricks or treats required!...

整理的改变生活的魔力:Japanese art of decluttering and organizing

Kondō, Marie, author.

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Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results.

My Thoughts

Someday the closets will be empty of clutter. Living this book is a personal goal of mine. Everything down to the perfectly folded T-shirts.