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Books

Book Review: Parent Effectiveness Training

September 11, 2008

Now that my son is enter­ing his tod­dler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with dis­ci­pline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and set­tled on three, Par­ent Effec­tive­ness Train­ing: The Proven Pro­gram for Rais­ing Respon isi­ble Chil­dren by Dr. Thomas Gor­don was the first I read. The first edition […]

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My Favorite Books for New Moms

August 13, 2008

The Girl­friends’ Guide to Baby Gear by Vicki Iovine and Peg Rosen I liked the common-sense approach to prod­uct reviews in this book, along with use­ful shop­ping lists and rec­om­men­da­tions. While not purely a bargain-hunters’ bible (for that, try Baby Bar­gains), this book still gives good advice about what you need, what you don’t need, what’s […]

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