Category: Parenting
Groundbreaking music educator Dr Anita Collins draws on the latest international neurological research to reveal the extraordinary and often surprising benefits of learning music for children from newborns to teenagers.
Category: Parenting
From Australia's most trusted non-fiction researcher and author comes the book that every parent needs to read. With their labile and rapidly developing brains, adolescents are particularly susceptible to addiction, and addiction leads to anxiety and depression. What few parents will know is that wha ...Show more
Category: Parenting
It's official: Dads need a rebrand. The Father Hood celebrates the rapidly-growing tribe of hands-on dads who are discovering that fatherhood is the making of them. "The most important thing about being a dad is to be an example." Mark WahlbergWelcome to The Father Hood. Where we celebrate the gro ...Show more
Category: Parenting
For boys, adolescence can be a confusing minefield and parents can be bewildered as how to best guide their precious sons. Many parents wake one day to find that their beautiful little boys have grown into silent, withdrawn, sometimes angry and often unmotivated tweens and teens. Well-known Australian ...Show more
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Warm, funny and wise, Mrs Groff's Mischievous Book of Motherhood Management is an irresistible voice for our time, based on her hugely successful Mothers Behaving Badly. Packed with a treasure trove of fascinating new information about the female parent commonly known as 'mother' - and a multitude of h ...Show more
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When I hear parents say 'I want my children to enjoy their childhood; there'll be time when they're older to learn about those things', I hear the voices of those who are scared of the vastness of the universe. These adults have a view of childhood as some kind of discrete interval, rather than just a f ...Show more
Category: Parenting
'We want to give you and your child the best opportunity to thrive in secondary school. By the end of this book you're going to feel a whole lot more capable of dealing with what Year 7 throws at you.' The jump between primary and secondary school marks one of the biggest transitions in a student's life ...Show more
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New Yorker Despina Meris had always imagined her future with children in it. After falling in love and moving to Australia in her early twenties and battling cancer at age thirty, she and her husband Bill finally settled down to baby-making - only to have miscarriage after miscarriage. They tried I ...Show more
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Not So Mumsy encapsulates motherhood's new mood; edgy, powerful, honest and strong.' - Marie Claire Magazine Yes, you are a mum, but you're still you! For mamas everywhere, this is your Mother's Group in a book. Parenting is hard, but it's also beautiful. For women who have embraced motherhood but also ...Show more
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Now you have a newbaby, what are you going to do with it?! Babies & Toddlershas you covered from your very first day with a baby. With the help of more than 30 medical and other experts, in her friendly and reassuring way, Kaz Cooke tells you everything you need to know about being a parent for the ...Show more
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Written from the front line of fatherhood, journalist Rob Sturrock grapples with the daily challenges of raising boys who can thrive in the current era. A book from the front lines of modern fatherhood.Welcome to Rob Sturrock's journey into parenting. Since the birth of his daughter, Rob has been passio ...Show more
Category: Parenting
Being Zen(ish) is what we call it - and it's the ish that we endorse! Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen are two mums from opposite sides of the world who are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, travelling and maintaining their sanity. With six kids between them, the f ...Show more
