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1 The Healthy Baby Meal Planner
Annabel Karmel, Nadine Wickenden (Illustrator)

Current:
9.9
This is the way to start babies off to a lifetime of healthy and happy eating. Focusing on what foods are appropriate for each stage of a child's development from infancy to age two, Karmel discusses the best first foods, how and when to in ... [more] [Submit]
2 American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition : Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
William H. Dietz

Current:
9.8
In American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition, nutritionist William H. Dietz and pediatrician Loraine Stern have written an authoritative, comprehensive resource for parents concerned about their children's nutrit ... [more] [Submit]
3 Mommy Made and Daddy Too : Home Cooking for a Healthy Baby and Toddler
Martha Kimmel, David Kimmel

Current:
9.8
The ultimate parents' guide to baby and child nutrition, featuring delicious, optimally healthy baby and toddler foods, from the family who founded the Mommy Made line of premium baby food. Also tackles problem areas like food allergies and ... [more] [Submit]
4 Is This Your Child? : Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies in Children and Adults
Doris J. Rapp

Current:
9.6
A guide to identifying the common allergies that cause health and behavioral problems in children offers directions on how allergy reactions such as hyperactivity, sickness, and learning problems can be prevented through diet. Reprint. N ... [more] [Submit]
5 The Baby Cookbook : Tasty and Nutritious Meals for the Whole Family That Babies and Toddlers Will Also Love
Karin Knight, Jeannie Lumley

Current:
9.6
A revised guide for the nineties includes new information on vitamins, allergies, obesity, nursing, introducing solids, balancing meals, and more than two hundred healthy recipes, many of which can be shared by the whole family. --This ... [more] [Submit]
6 How to Get Your Kid to Eat but Not Too Much
Ellyn Satter

Current:
9.5
"Feeding is a metaphor for the parent/child relationship overall," says Ellyn Satter, author of How to Get Your Kid to Eat ... But Not Too Much. Satter stresses her "Golden Rule" of parenting: parents are responsi ... [more] [Submit]
7 The Family Nutrition Book : Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Children from Birth Through Adolescence
William Sears, Martha Sears

Current:
9.4
Organic or regular baby food? White or wheat bread? Yogurt or ice cream? Parents often wonder how best to feed their families, but the wondering is over with The Family Nutrition Book: Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Child ... [more] [Submit]
8 Child of Mine
Ellyn Satter

Current:
9.3
Confused about feeding your baby or toddler? Child of Mine, by noted nutritionist Ellyn Satter, is an essential guide for every new parent concerned with nutrition and appetite. Satter's advice is thorough and straightforward: "You c ... [more] [Submit]
9 Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child : A Practical A-To-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants and Children
Janet Zand

Current:
9.3
Health-care practitioners are a polarized lot: generally speaking, either they subscribe wholeheartedly to conventional medical treatments, or they eschew them altogether. This can be a great source of frustration to parents, whose natural ... [more] [Submit]
10 Super Baby Food
Ruth Yaron

Current:
9.3
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years. How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoon ... [more] [Submit]
11 Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids : Help Your Child or Teen Break Free of Junk Food and Sugar Cravings-For Life!
Rachael F. Heller, Richard Ferdinand Heller

Current:
9.2
Does your child crave cookies, ice cream, candy, and sodas? He or she may be suffering from carbohydrate addiction: "a compelling hunger, craving or desire for carbohydrate-rich foods; an escalating, recurring need or drive for starches, sn ... [more] [Submit]
12 Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health : Birth Through Age Six
Susan B. Roberts

Current:
9.2
This book tastes great and it's good for you, too. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six is based on the principle of "metabolic programming," the scientifically rooted idea that foods eaten in early childhood ... [more] [Submit]
13 First Meals
Annabel Karmel, Ian O'Leary (Photographer)

Current:
9.1
There's a popular game at baby showers in which the new mom-to-be has to taste jarred baby food and guess its contents. Inevitably, the first comment is "Yuk! How do they eat this stuff?" The answer, of course, is that babies don't know the ... [more] [Submit]
14 Coping With a Picky Eater : A Guide for the Perplexed Parent
William G. Wilkoff

Current:
9.1
End the Food Wars! Do you feel as if you're running a restaurant instead of cooking dinner for a family? Are you tired of dumping plates of uneaten food in the garbage? Then you must read Coping with a P ... [more] [Submit]
15 Your Child's Health : The Parents' Guide to Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior and School Problems
Barton D. Schmitt(Introduction)

Current:
9.1
Emergencies:--when to call your child's physician immediately-what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuriesCommon Illnesses:-when it's safe to treat your child at home-step-by-step instructions ... [more] [Submit]
16 Food for Little Fingers
Victoria Jenest

Current:
9.1
Food for Little Fingers by Victoria Jenest could make a big difference for parents from the time their children start solid food up to about 2 years of age. On the premise that children eat better if they can pick up food with their ... [more] [Submit]
17 Feed Me! I'm Yours
Vicki Lansky

Current:
9.1
North America's #1 Cookbook for Parents of Tots and Toddlers Vicki Lansky has revised her classic cookbook to provide more delicious, nutritious recipes -- and more fun ideas Making baby food is easy! Bl ... [more] [Submit]
18 Baby Let's Eat!
Rena Coyle

Current:
8.9
Baby Let's Eat! offers home-cooked alternatives to commercially produced baby foods that are as delicious as they are easy to prepare. Each chapter contains vital nutritional guidelines for the various stages of growth from six to 36 months ... [more] [Submit]
19 The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
Laura, Dr., Schlessinger(Introduction)

Current:
8.9
When it comes to the Ten Commandments, many theologians and spiritual leaders agree: the classic golden rules remain the best guiding principles available. Syndicated radio psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger utilizes these sacred Commandme ... [more] [Submit]
20 A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Wendy Shalit

Current:
8.8
The 23-year-old author first heard of "modestyniks"--Orthodox Jewish women who withhold physical contact from men until marriage--while a freshman at Williams College. She was initially fascinated by the way in which they cleave to old idea ... [more] [Submit]
21 Backtalk : Four Steps to Ending Rude Behavior in Your Kids
Audrey Ricker, Carolyn Crowder

Current:
8.7
Imagine this scenario. You pick up your son at school, and ask him how his day went. He says, "You always ask me that. Get a life, Mom." You feel hurt, insulted, frustrated. Silent, you drive him to band practice. In this scene, e ... [more] [Submit]
22 The 10 Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
Laura Schlessinger(Preface), Stewart Vogel (Introduction)

Current:
8.7
When it comes to the Ten Commandments, many theologians and spiritual leaders agree: the classic golden rules remain the best guiding principles available. Syndicated radio psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger utilizes these sacred Commandme ... [more] [Submit]
23 Stickin' : The Case for Loyalty
James Carville

Current:
8.5
Democratic political consultant James Carville returns with a book that promises "not a lot of highfalutin philosophizing" on the subject of loyalty. Stickin' is largely a response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and President Clinton ... [more] [Submit]
24 The Measure of Our Success : A Letter to My Children and Yours
Marian Wright Edelman

Current:
8.5
In a letter to her three sons, the author offers words of inspiration to young people, discussing work, education, failure, confidence, self-esteem, and more. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. $80,000 ad/promo. more] [Submit]
25 Children Learn What They Live : Parenting to Inspire Values
Dorothy Law Nolte

Current:
8.5
Since its publication in 1954, Dorothy Law Nolte's inspirational and educational poem, Children Learn What They Live has been published worldwide, translated into 10 languages, taught in parenting and teaching courses, distributed in ... [more] [Submit]
26 Teaching Your Children Values
Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre

Current:
8.4
One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a strong sense of personal values. Helping your children develop values such as honesty, self-reliance, and dependability is as important a part of their education as teaching them ... [more] [Submit]
27 Parents Do Make a Difference : How to Raise Kids With Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts (The Jossey-Bass Psychology Series)
Michele Borba

Current:
8.3
In 1998, a fierce debate was sparked by Judith Rich Harris's The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do: Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More, a fairl ... [more] [Submit]
28 The Confident Child : Raising Children to Believe in Themselves a Compassionate, Practical Guide
T. E. Apter

Current:
8.1
"We understand far more about how self-esteem can be damaged in childhood--through neglect or abuse--than we do about how it can be fostered, preserved, and reinforced," author Terri Apter writes in The Confident Child: Raising Children ... [more] [Submit]
29 The Family Virtues Guide : Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves
Linda Kavelin Popov

Current:
8.1
When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal vi ... [more] [Submit]
30 Love for a Lifetime
James C. Dobson

Current:
8.1
Dr. Dobson presents foundational truth for a rock-solid marriage that will last a lifetime. He warns of the growing erosion of the American family as he challenges couples to guard their marriages and to commit themselves to its success. A ... [more] [Submit]
31 Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette
Letitia Baldrige, Amy Vanderbilt

Current:
8.0
Questions and advice concerning correct behavior. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
32 The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life [ABRIDGED]
Laura Schlessinger(Reader), Stewart Vogel (Reader)

Current:
7.9
When it comes to the Ten Commandments, many theologians and spiritual leaders agree: the classic golden rules remain the best guiding principles available. Syndicated radio psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger utilizes these sacred Commandme ... [more] [Submit]
33 Greater Expectations : Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in Our Homes and Schools
William Damon

Current:
7.8
Greater Expectations is the book that exposed the low standards that children are confronted with in our homes, our schools, and throughout our culture. It exploded many of the misconceptions about children and how to raise them, inc ... [more] [Submit]
34 Teaching Your Children Responsibility
Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre

Current:
7.6
The authors of Teaching Your Children Values provide a program for developing and nurturing responsibility in children, showing parents how to teach their children responsibility for their actions, their things, their choices, and ev ... [more] [Submit]
35 The Self-Calmed Baby
William A. H. Sammons, T. Berry Brazelton

Current:
7.6
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36 The A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. Diet! : A Comprehensive Look at Contributing Factors and Natural Treatments for Symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder and hyp
Rachel Bell

Current:
7.5
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37 The Add Nutrition Solution : A Drug-Free Thirty-Day Plan
Marcia Zimmerman

Current:
7.4
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38 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat : Nutritious and Kid-Tested
Sheila Ellison(Introduction), Judith Gray (Introduction)

Current:
7.4
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39 Superimmunity for Kids
Leo, M.D. Galland

Current:
7.4
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40 What to Eat When You're Expecting
Arlene Eisenberg

Current:
7.2
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41 Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night
Joanne Cuthbertson

Current:
7.2
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42 An Affair of the Mind : One Woman's Courageous Battle to Salvage Her Family from the Devastation of Pornography
Laurie Hall

Current:
7.2
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43 The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
William J. Bennett(Commentary)

Current:
7.2
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44 The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
William J. Bennett

Current:
7.1
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45 10-Minute Life Lessons for Kids : 52 Fun and Simple Games and Activities to Teach Your Child Trust, Honesty, Love, and Other Important Values
Jamie C. Miller, Cam Clarke (Illustrator)

Current:
7.1
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46 From Diapers to Dating : A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children, from Infancy to Adolescence.
Debra W. Haffner

Current:
7.1
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47 Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility
Jim Fay

Current:
6.9
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48 Backtalk : 4 Steps to Ending Rude Behavior in Your Kids [ABRIDGED]
Audrey Ricker

Current:
6.9
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49 Letitia Baldrige's More Than Manners! : Raising Today's Kids to Have Kind Manners & Good Hearts
Letitia Baldrige

Current:
6.9
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50 Building Character in Schools : Practical Ways to Bring Moral Instruction to Life
Kevin A. Ryan, Karen E. Bohlin

Current:
6.8
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