Infant Development

From the author of the hugely successful The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan comes a follow-up guide helping parents to handle sleep issues in toddlers and children aged over 12 months.

Since having her first child nine years ago, Sarah Ockwell-Smith has worked tirelessly to prepare parents for the birth of their child. An antenatal teacher and a doula, with a background in psychology, she founded an award-winning company Babycalm ™ with one aim in mind—to turn stressed-out new parents and crying babies into happier parents and calmer babies. BabyCalm will help you understand your baby and yourself as a new parent.

Stai per diventare mamma per la prima volta? Vuoi essere informata e pronta ad affrontare con serenità ed in sicurezza la tua prima gravidanza e quanto la segue? Allora continua a leggere!

La prima gravidanza è nota come uno dei periodi più importanti ed intensi nella vita di una donna, ed è fondamentale essere pronti ad affrontarla al meglio. Del resto, se stai leggendo questo testo, sai meglio di me quanto tutto cambi rispetto a prima. E Sofia lo sa benissimo essendoci passata personalmente, oltre ad averlo studiato approfonditamente per diversi anni.

Sind Babys nicht kostbar? So ist der Schlaf. Frisch gebackene Eltern merken schnell, dass es die ersten Monate mit dem Baby in sich haben. Fast alle Babys kämpfen gegen den Schlaf. Einige Ärzte argumentieren, dass Eltern ihr Baby "ausschreien" lassen sollen, bis das Kind einschläft. Andere Experten sagen, Eltern sollen es von der Dämmerung bis zum Morgengrauen "aushalten". Doch keine der beiden Taktiken fördert das Familienglück.

Praktischer Rat vom Kinderversteher und Elterncoach: Professor Schulte-Markwort wird im Klinikalltag immer wieder mit den Problemen und Nöten der Kinder und Jugendlichen konfrontiert. Häufig muss er ihnen erst einmal helfen, sich verständlich zu machen. Er hört daher genau zu, wenn sie ihm ihr Herz ausschütten und ihm ihre Sorgen anvertrauen- und wird so zum Vermittler zwischen Kindern und ihren Eltern. In diesem Buch wendet er sich an Eltern - von Kleinkindern bis über die Pubertät hinaus.

The mother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered what living in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turned to experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight. Baby, Unplugged brings together Brickman’s in-depth research with her own candid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort through the wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort out what’s helpful and what’s not.

Find time for yourself without the guilt! Do you desperately need a break but struggle with guilt for taking time for yourself? As a mom, there's an endless list of things you need to do. Taking time for yourself may feel unimportant or even selfish. But you're tired of living in survival mode and desperately need a break. As a life coach for moms and yoga and meditation teacher, I would be honored to help you finally get out of survival mode so you can be the mom you’ve always dreamed of being!

You can start building the foundation of secure attachment with your child from the moment they’re born. Scientific research has proven that a strong, secure attachment during your child’s formative years results in benefits throughout their lives.

This guide, written with compassion and understanding, is designed for parents who are seeking a more balanced and harmonious family life. It offers practical strategies and insightful advice to help you transform your parenting approach, fostering a sense of calm while deepening the bonds within your family. It will take you from reactive to proactive, from stressed to composed, and from disconnected to intricately connected with your children.

Raise your young children to always do the right thing and leave a legacy for generations. It’s up to you as the parent to try and prevent life, people, and circumstance from transforming your kids into lesser individuals. And this mission is both simple and tricky. Simple because all you need to do to ensure your kid grows up a good, kind, helpful person is to nurture their instinctive desire to be good. The tricky part is knowing how to do that.

"Understanding Toddler Tantrums," set off on a transforming trip through the uncertain terrain of toddlerhood. Designed with the time-pressed parent in mind, this engaging exploration provides a systematic way to navigate the rough seas of toddler meltdowns, presenting significant details in a clear and concise format. Listeners are skillfully and sympathetically led through the complex subtleties of tantrums in this gripping guide.

Making sure your child has the very best start when it comes to education, through play and activities, is vitally important in a world where competition is greater than ever before. And the development of your child into a happy, confident, and inquisitive adult begins right at the start. By introducing Montessori education at this stage, they will stand a better chance of being emotionally and mentally healthy as well as successful in the future. This audiobook is the ultimate Montessori discipline guide with over 100 activities for your kids.

With more than 1 in 10 new parents experiencing postnatal depression and anxiety, and after suffering the traumatic birth of her son and herself being diagnosed with postnatal anxiety and birth trauma, Anna Williamson uncovers the real thoughts, feelings and behaviours that many of us experience in those first few weeks and months after becoming a parent.

Viel zu viele Kinder sind in ihrem Betreuungsalltag psychischer Gewalt durch Erwachsene ausgesetzt weiß die Pädagogin und Psychologin Dr. Anke Elisabeth Ballmann. Kinder erleben aggressives und respektloses Verhalten von Personen, denen sie vertrauen können sollten wie schmerzhafte, unsichtbare Schläge. Die Autorin weist anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus ihrer langjährigen beruflichen Praxis auf Missstände in Kitas hin. Sie erläutert die späteren Konsequenzen und fordert zum Umdenken auf.

Die Psychologen Hetty van de Rijt und Dr. Frans Plooij erläutern die acht Entwicklungssprünge in der geistigen und körperlichen Entwicklung eines Babys. Sie zeigen, wie Eltern sich und ihren Kindern helfen können, die herausfordernde Zeit der ersten 14 Lebensmonate gut zu überstehen. In Oje, ich wachse! erfahren Sie, dass Kinder mental und körperlich nicht gleichmäßig, sondern in Schüben wachsen. Die acht großen Entwicklungssprünge eines Babys gehen mit viel Unruhe und Geschrei einher und bringen Eltern zuweilen an den Rand der Verzweiflung.

Motherhood is full of little highs: the smell of a newborn baby's head, the feeling of a small hand holding yours, the infectious sound of laughter, first words, first steps, the first day at school, endless tiny but significant hints of the person your child is to become. But motherhood is not without its lows either: tears and tantrums (your child's and your own), fears, self-doubt, sleepless nights, and that's not to mention the mum fails.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Exhausted from inevitable tantrums, picky eating, toilet-training mishaps, sleep problems, and random acts of defiance that come with raising a toddler? Parenting is the hardest job you’ll ever have and these earliest days are some of the most difficult. Long before your child reaches their teenage years, they will begin to take those first steps towards independence. As they grow, they begin testing boundaries in new and often frustrating ways.

Hedvig Montgomery begleitet uns in diesem Hörbuch bei den ersten Schritten unseres Babys und führt uns durch die verschiedenen Entwicklungsphasen: Wie erschaffen wir einen geschützten Raum für uns und unser Kind? Was ist wirklich unsere wichtigste Aufgabe als Eltern während der ersten zwei Jahre? Die erfolgreiche Familientherapeutin gibt uns die Werkzeuge und das Wissen an die Hand, die wir benötigen, um uns sicher und kompetent in diesen innigen und turbulenten ersten 24 Lebensmonaten unseres Kindes zu fühlen.

Wie können Eltern in allen Situationen und Phasen der Erziehung ihrer Kinder souverän und entspannt handeln? Das vermittelt die norwegische Familientherapeutin Hedvig Montgomery im ersten Band ihrer Hörbuchreihe 'Die Hedvig-Formel' klar, einfach und klug. Wie kann das Familienleben für alle glücklich und bereichernd gestaltet werden? Was ist unsere wichtigste Aufgabe in den ersten Lebensjahren unserer Kinder? Und wie stärken wir ihr Gefühl von Sicherheit und Vertrauen, das sie ein Leben lang tragen wird?