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From Jennifer Anderson—registered dietitian and founder of Kids Eat in Color, trusted by over two million parents—comes the evidence-based guide to feeding children from baby’s first foods through the teen years. When you became a parent, you probably thought feeding your child would be...

 Is cosleeping safe? How important is breastfeeding? Are food allergies preventable? Should we be worried about the aluminum in vaccines? Searching for answers to these tough parenting questions can yield a deluge of conflicting advice. In this revised and expanded edition of The Science of Mom, Alice Callahan, a science writer whose work appears in the New York Times and the Washington Post, recognizes that families must make their own decisions and gives parents the tools to evaluate the evidence for themselves.

If ADHD feels like it’s running the show in your home, marriage, or work life—this all-in-one collection will help you take back control. The ADHD Mastery Collection combines three powerful, results-driven books by Phoenix J. Waldren, giving you proven tools to create harmony, productivity, and confidence at every stage of life.

Presented in vivid detail, Living with Inattentive ADHD showcases how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder profoundly affects a person’s daily life and emotional well-being. The essential primer on a lesser known diagnosis of ADHD, this book features both prescriptive and experiential solutions for inattentive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching, and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors.

Healing Autistic Burnout offers mindfulness and self-reflective exercises to help you overcome the symptoms of autistic burnout—including emotional overwhelm, sensory overstimulation, and mental exhaustion. With this powerful guide, you will find neuroaffirming strategies to nurture rest and recovery, cultivate greater self-awareness and understanding, and advocate for your needs.

Keeping children bodies, minds, and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies, and adaptations for helping children gain more control over their lives. Each chapter provides rich background and theoretical material to help the listener better understand the issues our children face. 

Unmasking Autism is a compassionate guide that explains why masking develops, how it becomes entwined with identity, and what steps you can take to build a life where authenticity is finally safe. Written with both clinical insight and lived understanding, this book is designed for autistic adults who long for connection but feel overwhelmed by the emotional cost of maintaining a persona.

Unlike your redneck uncle, ADHD does not discriminate. It only appears that it does because the boys are the ones getting handed out diagnoses like funnel cakes at the county fair. Girls with ADHD are daydreaming out the window, their attention caught by a passing butterfly. Their brand of ADHD is creating turtle ballets while a teacher drones on about the rules of subtraction. These girls are armchair diagnosed as "lazy, slow, odd, daydreamer, anxiety riddled, etc."

A proven, practical roadmap to help ADHD kids succeed in school and life Parenting a child or teen with ADHD can feel exhausting. If you’re tired of repeating yourself, managing power struggles, and wondering how to parent your child with ADHD without constant conflict, you’re not alone. In...

If you have attention deficit disorder (ADD), you may act impulsively, daydream, and have trouble focusing, but clinical studies suggest that these same symptoms may make you exceptionally creative, intuitive, and energetic. In fact, many people with ADD claim to have become successful because of their ADD, not in spite of it.

Brought to you by Penguin. If you have an autistic child, you will be painfully aware of the challenges they face in education. Beyond the headlines on SEN provision are real children who struggle from day-to-day – how can we help them? In Different Minds, neurodivergence campaigner and former...

Think of your child's executive functioning issues as an opportunity to demonstrate strength and resilience. It's through their struggles and their efforts in overcoming them that your child will truly come into their own.

I am writing this because I know you are tired. That is the baseline, isn't it? You love your kid so much it actually hurts your chest but you are just so exhausted.

Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational Kids, internationally renowned expert Dr. Miller shares her more than forty years of experience and research findings on SPD. Now in its fourteenth printing, with more than 50,000 copies sold in all formats, it is an authoritative and practical guide to understanding and treating this little-understood condition.

Do you know what it takes to raise well a highly sensitive child? Are you confident that you can help your child reach their maximum potential, while also keeping them healthy and happy? If you are not quite sure about how to do so, then this book is the right choice for you. Highly sensitive children are often misunderstood not just by their peers, but also by their families, teachers, and caretakers.

Descubre el camino transformador de criar a un niño autista con comprensión, compasión y estrategias prácticas para ayudarlo a prosperar. Criar a un hijo es una de las mayores alegrías: verlos crecer, aprender y descubrir ilumina la vida. Cuando tu hijo tiene autismo, surgen retos únicos que requieren paciencia, fortaleza y una nueva forma de entender. Como madre o padre, quizá te preguntes cómo hará para hacer amigos, comunicarse o manejar emociones intensas. Ver esas luchas puede ser doloroso, pero el autismo no define a tu hijo; es solo parte de quién es.

What does it mean to live in a world that punishes distraction, but profits from our attention? Why do so many ADHD individuals not feel at home at school or in the workplace? What does it really feel like to grow up, learn, work and exist in a world that wasn't built for your brain? Why are so...

Cosa significa vivere con un cervello che corre più veloce del mondo intorno? In questo libro, Luca Donato racconta con ironia e sincerità la sua vita con il disturbo da deficit di attenzione e iperattività, l'ADHD: un continuo equilibrio tra entusiasmo e fatica, creatività e disordine, energia incontenibile e sensi di colpa. Dall'infanzia irrequieta agli imprevisti quotidiani, dalle sfide sul lavoro alle relazioni affettive, l'autore ci accompagna in un viaggio fatto di inciampi e scoperte, mostrando come la diagnosi non sia un punto d'arrivo, ma l'inizio di una nuova comprensione di sé.

Brought to you by Penguin. Calm the Chaos is a clearly organised, methodical approach to parenting. Currently, 1 in 6 children have a diagnosed behaviour problem, ADHD, anxiety or depression. Whether dealing with explosive toddler tantrums, secondary schoolers on the verge of expulsion or...