How to provide for your child's social and emotional developmentDo you worry about your children?Are you confused or confronted by their emotional outbursts?Do you often find yourself wondering, 'What do I do now?'Child and adolescent psychiatrist Andrew Wake has worked with children, adolescents and their parents for more than ten years, and knows how difficult it can be for parents to manage their own emotions let alone help their children manage theirs....

Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, is an essential component to life. Discover what everyone should know about vitamin D, the diseases and conditions it can treat, and how to start realizing the results that millions of others have.

Make sure your child eats healthy all day long with more than two hundred quick and nutritious breakfast and lunch recipes—including allergen-free options!Making lunches at home is a great way to keep your children healthy. With delicious meals made from natural ingredients, you'll know your little ones are getting the nutrition they need for their growing brains and bodies. Full of recipes to suit every age and stage, The Best Homemade Kids' Lunches on the Plan...

Children die too. This is unfortunate, but if you decide to tell your terminally ill child he or she is dying, this booklet can help.

Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects of intense debate in the research community, in the media, and among those with autism and their families. Bringing together innovative work on autism by international scholars in the social...

The explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal.In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six vaccine safety studies, in a coordinated effort to control the message that vaccines do not cause autism.” They did so via secret meetings and backtesting health-care data. The CDC invested tens of millions of dollars in a foreign health-care data analytics startup run by D...

**A National BestsellerAn “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National**Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults’. In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric s...

Memory is a fundamental capacity that plays a pivotal role in social, emotional and cognitive functioning. Our memories form the basis for our sense of self, guide our thoughts and decisions, influence our emotional reactions, and allow us to learn. So the ability to form memories and remember them is a vital part of human experience.Most of us are unaware of the fact that no one is born with a poor memory. It just requires a little sharpening to improve efficiency. Memory is much l...

Reaching for the Moon is the girls’ version of Lucy H. Pearce’s Amazon bestselling book Moon Time: harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle for girls aged 9-14 as they anticipate and experience their body’s changes.Beginning with an imaginary journey into the red tent, a traditional place of women’s wisdom, some of the gifts and secrets of womanhood are imparted in a gentle lyrical way, alongside practical advice.Reaching for the Moon is a ...

When parents fight, it can be very scary for kids, especially if one parent is hitting or hurting the other. Kids in this situation often don't know what to do, whether to tell someone or keep the abuse a secret. It is especially confusing because the child usually loves both parents and then has conflicting and confusing feelings about what is going on in their home. Kids living in an abusive home need to feel safe and loved, and they need to know they are not alone.

Childhood obesity is a growing and worrying epidemic in our country. Kids these days are not getting the appropriate foods and healthy activity they need. They are bombarded constantly by marketers selling them on highly processed snacks, drinks, and junk food and they've become the victims of isolating technology which only enables them to stay at home instead of going outside to play. Combat Fat for Kids offers an alternative plan of action for parents to help t...

Mother's milk really is a magic food source. When you add up all of the advantages, it is difficult to dispute. What other form of nutrition, either for newborns or for adults for that matter, has the ability to provide the perfect amount of ingredients for optimum development, can readjust those combinations of nutrients magically, depending on the needs of the infant, and leads to an instant and loving bond between mother and child?What other food increases the intellect, instant...