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Help your baby “talk” before they can speak—with signs that turn everyday moments into meaningful connection. My First 100 Signs makes early communication easy and joyful with bright visuals and simple signs for everyday needs like “milk,” “more,” and “all done.”
The tools you need to build healthy, safe digital boundaries for your family (and yourself) in a world where offline isn't always an option, from one of the UK's foremost experts in digital culture, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL (University College London)
Clinical psychologist Darby Saxbe reveals parenthood fundamentally changes men’s brains and biology. Dad brains shrink (to become more efficient), testosterone levels drop (in a good way); men can even experience a form of postpartum depression, and of course their whole sense of meaning and identity can be challenged and transformed. Based on two decades of research and one of the world’s only longitudinal studies of men’s brains as they become fathers, ‘Dad Brain’ takes us from the author’s lab in Los Angeles, to a beachfront neuroimaging centre in Barcelona and a midwife’s office in Stockholm. It explores the different ways that men parent in different societies, how trends in men’s involvement with birth and parenting have shifted over the decades, class-based and racist assumptions about absent fathers, the rise of parenting outside the gender binary, old dads versus young dads, and much, much more.
Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.
‘Tender’ captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.
After giving birth to three children in Japan, journalist Abigail Leonard was shocked to return home to the US and understand American motherhood from a new perspective. Fascinated to learn more about the ways that culture around the world impacts the experience of birth and parenting, especially for women, she starts reporting. Identifying four new mothers – from the US, Japan, Finland and Kenya – she follows them closely through birth and the first year of their children’s lives. Their intimate stories shed a light on national history, policy and gender relations; what is universal and what we can learn from other cultures. Abigail Leonard captures the love and complexity of their experiences in careful detail and compelling prose. Her rich storytelling draws an insightful and international portrait of modern mothering.
More than half of the world’s population can speak more than one language fluently and over a third of the population in the United Kingdom is multilingual. And yet life in multiple languages is rarely discussed publicly, and the pressure to keep heritage languages alive has become a private conflict for millions. Linguist Malwina Gudowska, herself trilingual, takes us inside that private struggle, shedding light on the ways in which we navigate language, its power to shape and reshape lives, and the ripple effects felt far beyond any one home or any one language. It takes one generation for a family language to die. One generation – like mother to child. ‘Mother Tongue Tied’ is about the emotional weight of raising multilingual children while grappling with your own identity and notions of home; as a child of immigrants, and as a new mother.
Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.
Raina wants to be a normal 12-year-old. But when she trips and falls,severely injuring her two front teeth, she begins a long, frustratingjourney with braces, surgery, hideous headgear and evena retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’sa major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out tobe not so friendly.
Callie loves theater and this year she’s determined to create a setworthy of Broadway on a school budget. But how can she, when shedoesn’t know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, andthe crew members aren’t working together? Not to mention the onstageAND offstage drama that occurs and when two cute brothers enterthe picture!
An enchanting collection of poetry and a wonderful gift for new parents.
The most influential relationships are between parents and children. Yet for so many families, these relationships go can wrong and it may be difficult to get back on track. In this book, renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry shows how strong and loving bonds are made with your children and how such attachments give a better chance of good mental health, in childhood and beyond.
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