It’s hard keeping up with the nutritional needs for kids, and even harder getting them to actually eat many of these foods. Learn how to get your athlete on the right track.With athletic kids, there’s even more to pay attention to! Most young athletes are not eating properly to compete--too many convenient but empty calories that are doing them more harm than good. As a result, these young athletes are losing energy when they should be increasing it, feeling deterr...

The One-Stop Nutrition Resource for Starting Your Baby on SolidsYour baby's food journey and future health begins with his first bite. From tasting new flavors and textures to learning how to eat and self-feed, your baby is moving through one of the most important milestones of his life: Learning about food and how to eat.The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids is your step-by-step blueprint for starting baby food, advancing flavors and textures, ...

You're Not a Short-Order Cook. It's Time to Say Goodbye to Picky Eating and Hello to Peaceful Mealtimes.The journey with a picky eater can be exhausting and isolating. You've tried everything: hiding vegetables, begging, and negotiating. You worry about your child's nutrition and wonder if they'll ever "get it."And by the way, mealtime shouldn't be a source of stress. If you're a parent of a picky eater, you know the frustration of short-order cooking and t...

Raise a Smart Snacker!Does your child snack all day? Raid the pantry when he gets home from school? Sneak snacks when you're not looking? Love to eat sweets and treats?Healthy snacking can be a daily discussion (or battle!) between parents and their kids. Parents emphasize healthy snack food and kids just want what tastes good–often sweet, salty or fatty foods. If you have a love-hate relationship with kid snacks, you're not alone.In The Smart Mom's Guide to Healthy...

For every parent who’s worried about their child’s weight or size, this insightful book offers an approach to health that focuses on the whole child—not just the growth chart.All children deserve a future free of health concerns and one full of self-esteem and wellbeing, no matter their size. Yet, given the rise in childhood obesity, there’s enormous pressure on parents to raise fit, thin kids - even if their kids aren’t designed to be that way. So, what does

For every parent who’s worried about their child’s weight or size, this insightful book offers an approach to health that focuses on the whole child—not just the growth chart.All children deserve a future free of health concerns and one full of self-esteem and wellbeing, no matter their size. Yet, given the rise in childhood obesity, there’s enormous pressure on parents to raise fit, thin kids - even if their kids aren’t designed to be that way. So, what does

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents four enchanting tales of castles, spells, and happily-ever-afters...In Nora Roberts's "Spellbound," a bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams—and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer.In Jill Gregory's "Castle Doom," a Gypsy's prophecy spells love when an unlikely pair join to fight the ultimate evil—and find themselves in their ...

Diversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and disability can affect patient experience can be revealing and provide much needed change to health communication in the patienthood narrative. This book is a collection of vibrant and engaging essays by scholars of narrative methods in health communication. Each chapter takes readers into the fascinating world of patie...

This book is a parable, a tale of a blue kitten in search of a home. Since he was born under a blue moon, the kitten can only find a home and a hearth in the house of a human who knows (or can be taught) the River's Song. The River's Song is the Song of Creation, of the making of beautiful things. The kitten encounters many inhabitants of Castletown in his quest and finds them falling under the dark spell of Arunah Hyde, whose whole interest is speed and wealth. The kitten himself nearly f...

In this sequel to The Memory Palace, fantasy crosses over to the real world as the Malthassan Archmage Koschei Corbillion becomes Guy Parados, his creator.When the magician Koschei escaped through the mind of his creator Guy Parados into the world where he is fiction, he became Guy Parados. And Parados became the Red Horse in the land of Malthassa… his own invention, he believed. But Malthassa has deeper roots, as deep as hell, and it is there the Red Horse must go.Gry’s fa...

A collection of mind-bending tales from today's visionary storytellers.Dive into Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 6, a curated selection of short fiction that transcends genre boundaries. Edited by Benjamin B. White, this anthology features works from acclaimed authors like Jonathan Maberry and David Fitzpatrick, alongside fresh voices pushing the limits of storytelling.Explore the depths of human experience through:Intriguin...

It’s May Day, a time of joyful song and dance. But Jane Moone is called at sunrise to view a sorrowful sight — Lucy Quirk, strangled in the maypole’s tangled ribbons. Lucy came to Ayreford to re-unite with her long-lost father. The prominent cunning man is delighted to welcome her into his work, as well as his life. But Lucy has her own agenda and soon starts spilling secrets from his confidential patient notebooks.Jane and John Greenslade, local barrister, find plenty of conflict ...