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Parenting Help That Fits in a Download
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items Fifteen digital books and tools for the parents of little kids, gathered around the three hardest parts of the day: getting them to sleep, getting them through the morning, and getting dinner eaten. Three of them are ours, from our own Grown&Grow...
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Bedtime and Feelings
Days With a Plan
Food Without the Fight
Bedtime and Feelings
Stories for the last ten minutes of the day, and books that give big feelings a shape small kids can point at. Ours opens the shelf: a bilingual bedtime story about a girl, her cat, and a jar of fireflies.
This one is ours, from Adeline.K, and it opens this whole shelf because it does two jobs at once. Nara does not like the dark, and one night a jar of fireflies tips over and the dark starts filling up with small lights: that is the whole arc, told ge...
Nara and the Night Lights: A Bilingual Bedtime Story (English and Indonesian) - Adeline.K.
The bedtime book that has been ending days since 1947. In the great green room, a little bunny says goodnight to everything in sight, the clocks, the mittens, the bowl of mush, in a rhyme that gets quieter as it goes. Thirty two pages, illustrated by...
Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
A feelings book that describes emotions from the inside: happiness that makes a girl want to twirl, sadness as heavy as an elephant. Each page has a die cut heart that shrinks as the book goes on, and the words stay lyrical instead of preachy. Thirty...
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings - Jo Witek
The one that makes parents cry at baby showers. A mother sings the same short song to her son at every stage of his life, from newborn to grown man, and at the end the song comes back around. Thirty two pages, Robert Munsch's words with Sheila McGraw...
Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
Jim Panzee the chimp wakes up grumpy for no reason, and every friend in the jungle has a plan to cheer him up. The joke lands because the book refuses to fix him: sometimes a grumpy day is just a grumpy day, and sitting with a friend beats being chee...
Grumpy Monkey - Suzanne Lang
Taylor builds something wonderful out of blocks, and then it all comes down. One by one the animals arrive, each with a plan for what Taylor should do next. The rabbit has no plan. It just sits close and listens, for as long as Taylor needs, and that...
The Rabbit Listened - Cori Doerrfeld
Days With a Plan
Routines that live on the wall instead of in one tired head, and the thinking that makes the days run kinder. Ours opens this one too: the chart book the whole shelf leans on.
Also ours, by Lisa Marceau, and the most used thing on this shelf in spirit: it takes the morning and bedtime routine out of a parent's head and puts it on the wall, in pictures a child can follow alone. The file is 93 pages and works two ways. Read ...
Morning and Bedtime Charts for Kids: Printable Visual Schedules and the Full Guide - Lisa Marceau
Simone Davies is an AMI trained Montessori teacher, and this is her toddler years manual: 256 pages of turning a home into a place a one to three year old can actually do things in. Expect prepared shelves, simple routines, and five guiding principle...
The Montessori Toddler - Simone Davies
The little kids edition of the famous How to Talk method, aimed at ages two to seven. Half the book is the toolbox, communication skills with cartoons showing them in action, and half is the tools at work on real flashpoints: toothbrushing battles, c...
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
Janet Lansbury teaches RIE, the respectful parenting approach she learned from Magda Gerber, and this slim book collects her most read essays on toddler behaviour. The through line: discipline without shame, boundaries held calmly, and a toddler who ...
No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
Clinical psychologist Thomas Phelan's program, now in its sixth edition, built on one calm mechanic: for the behaviours that need to stop, parents count to three, without lectures or raised voices, and the consequence follows if the count runs out. S...
1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Parenting
Food Without the Fight
Planners and guides for short lists of accepted foods and long weeks of dinners. Ours first: the 26 week planner that moves the dinner decision to Sunday.
Ours as well, by Lisa Marceau, built for the parent standing in front of an open fridge at five o'clock with a child whose list of accepted foods is short, and written for parents of children ages 3 to 8. It is a 103 page planner, not a promise about...
What's a Picky Eater Having for Dinner? A 26-Week Meal Planner - Lisa Marceau
The feeding book our own planner quietly agrees with. Ellyn Satter, a dietitian and family therapist, sets out her division of responsibility: parents decide what, when, and where food is offered, children decide whether and how much to eat. This Kin...
Child of Mine: Feeding with Love - Ellyn Satter
Dina Rose is a sociologist, and her argument is in the title: stop negotiating nutrients and teach three habits instead, proportion, variety, and moderation. The book gives practical ways to teach those habits at ordinary meals, and it is notably kin...
It's Not About the Broccoli - Dina Rose
For the families past ordinary picky eating, where the list of accepted foods is shrinking and mealtimes feel like a worry, not a meal. A family doctor, Katja Rowell, and a speech language pathologist, Jenny McGlothlin, wrote it together, and it is b...
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating