Take a walk to NYC destinations both parents and kids can enjoy—includes fifty family-friendly tours.From the Staten Island Children's Museum to the Roosevelt Island Tram to the New York City Police Museum, New York City is full of family-friendly places to go. Don't worry about finding a sitter—these adventures are designed especially for grownups and kids to discover the Big Apple together!Walks include: Central Park * Children's Museum of the Arts * Coney ...

"A normally taboo topic claims attention with the surprising—and sometimes horrifying—history of cultural reactions to menstruation." — Publishers WeeklyIn this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. Flow spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from mikvahs (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, hysteria to hysterectomies—not to mention the Pill, cramps, the...

Unbelievable tales. Fashion that defies the imaginations. Weddings that have made headlines, and scene stealers from the movies and TV. AWFULLY WEDDED by Elissa Stein and Daniel Mailliard examines every aspect of wedding culture with hilarious results. Find out about the Southern Belle bridesmaid who fainted during the ceremony--only to be carried out of the church with the entire congregation aware that she wasn't wearing any panties. Or revisit the TV weddings we could never forget, from...

The joy, the pain, the triumph, the heartbreak: the Prom.Remember the crepe paper? How about the synthetic rustle of yards and yards of pastel taffeta? Let Elissa Stein and Daniel Mailliard take you back to a time you may not want to remember, but one you could never forget. It's high time one of America's most widespread of adolescent social rituals got the literary treatment: in this book is a no-holds-barred collection of stories that reminds us only too vividly of the most impor...

Chunks: A Barfology is a stomach-turning, gut churning collection of true tales of the sick kind. Egestion experts Elissa Stein and Kevin Leslie have compiled a witty and truly outrageous bible of barfing which will astound and amaze.

Don't Just Stand There delivers! Written by a husband and wife team, this guidebook outlines everything an expectant father needs to know to navigate the big day. Dads get clear direction on what to bring, how to calm and soothe, what to say and, more important, what to definitely not say. A chapter on the stages of labor makes it easy to track what's happening when, while guiding mom to mention her preferences ahead of time. With witty illustrations and confidence-inspiring advic...

If you were like us, way back when, in the days of estrogen-flushed youth, you were convinced that by the time you reached middle age, a cure for old age and Menopause would be discovered, and it would be a nonexistent event in your Life.YOUR body parts would never migrate south, YOUR sexuality would never wane, you would never turn into a raging shrew- screaming at YOUR loved ones and raging at strangers, and beads of sweat would never pour like small rivers from YOUR temples....

With all of the modern conveniences that we have today, a lot of women are not willing to go through the natural process of giving birth as there are alternatives to it. "Hypnobirthing: An Introductory Guide" is a reminder that the process of natural childbirth can be extremely rewarding and that it does not have to be a stressful, heartrending experience. As more and more persons are taking things back to basics, hypnobirthing is making a comeback. It has become the way the many mothers w...

MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD! • In this completely revised and updated edition, the nation’s leading midwife shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience.“This book should be read by every woman who is having or may someday have a baby, and by every midwife, nurse, doula, childbirth educator, and doctor who assists or may someday assis...

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...

The third edition of the best, funniest father's guide to having a baby, What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding, is now thoroughly revised and updated, but it's still packed with information, advice, and attitude distinctively for guys. Originally conceived as a little parody, just something funny and helpful for the expectant man, the book is now a classic gift, passed knowingly from one generation of first-time papas to the next.With this lighthearted, month-by-month...

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women...