Most new parents think of diapers as a smelly, expensive, and unavoidable necessity. The good news is that it’s possible—even practical—to raise your kids without diapers. In Diaper Free!, Ingrid Bauer shows how you can:* Save thousands of dollars* Reduce landfill waste (single-use disposable diapers are responsible for one third of the non- biodegradable waste in landfills)* Avoid diaper rash* Use the “Four Tools for Diaper Freedom” to enhance your re...

At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States directly.Despite the fact that the Vienna Summit yielded barely any t...

This collection of surveys and research articles explores a fascinating class of varieties: Beauville surfaces. It is the first time that these objects are discussed from the points of view of algebraic geometry as well as group theory. The book also includes various open problems and conjectures related to these surfaces.Beauville surfaces are a class of rigid regular surfaces of general type, which can be described in a purely algebraic combinatoric way. They play an important ro...

Memory is the brain's ability to keep track of past experience and make it reappear in consciousness. Memory is a complex process that involves three phases: learning, information storage, return (evocation and recognition). These phenomena are not precise and controlled by a specialized region of the brain, but develop together at the nerve centers polyvalent (hippocampus, hypothalamus, and mammillary bodies) and nerve fibers that connect them. In general, we distinguish the short-term me...

Part Time EC: A Personal Guide to Developing Your Elimination Communication Confidence will give you all the ideas, tips and strategies you need to help you practice EC with confidence and ease. Far more than 'Just take off their nappy and see what happens'. You want to know how to look, what to look for, when to offer the potty, how to offer a potty break, what to expect at different ages and stages…Included in the Part Time EC Ebook:- The 7 Secrets to Elimination Communica...

Imagine infants free from painful diaper rash, new parenthood without thousands of dollars wasted in diapering costs, toilet training that is natural and noncoercive, and, most important, happier babies and parentsAs Christine Gross-Loh reveals in her progressive, enlightening book, all this is possible and more. Infants are born with the ability to communicate their need to "go," just as they communicate hunger or sleepiness. Gross-Loh, a mother of two children who were diaper-fre...

A real-world guide to Attachment Parenting from the Big Bang Theory actress, neuroscientist, and mother Mayim Bialik—a book hailed by Dr. William Sears as “delightful” and by Ricki Lake as “a fantastic guide to birth and parenting that is packed with invaluable wisdom.”Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom, but she definitely didn’t follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD in neuroscienc...

Winner of Disney’s iParenting Media Award for Best Product“Easy naptime solutions that really work--without any tears.”Kathy Lynn, President, Parenting Today“Naps: Children need them. Parents want them. Here are the tools to make them happen.”Maureen A. Doolan Boyle, Executive Director, MOST (Mothers of Supertwins), Inc.Does your child:nap only in your arms, a sling, a s...

A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tearsThere are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book...

Parents have heard that play is a child's work—but play is not for kids only. As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., demonstrates in this delightful new book, play can be the basis for an innovative and rewarding approach to parenting. From eliciting a giggle during baby's first game of peek-a-boo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, Playful Parenting is a complete guide to using play to raise strong, confident children.Have ...

A groundbreaking approach to parenting by nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn that gives parents “powerful alternatives to help children become their most caring, responsible selves” (Adele Faber, New York Times bestselling author) by switching the dynamic from doing things to children to working with them.Most parenting guides begin with the question “How can we get kids to do what they're told?” and then proceed to offer various te...

A revised and updated edition of the classic, inspiring guide to raising calm and secure kids in a frenetic world, featuring a new chapter to address the modern parent’s concerns over setting limits and coping with social media“Brilliant, wise, informative, innovative, entertaining, and urgently needed . . . a godsend for all who love children, and for children themselves.”—Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness