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Attachment Parenting
“There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries or distress, never leaving a baby alone, are all virtually universal in traditional societies that have not become overly "westernized".”
― Ingrid Bauer
― Ingrid Bauer
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The Steps: 12 Secrets To Raising Happy and Successful Kids
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Andrew Watson (Goodreads Author)
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Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
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Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
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Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children
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The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
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The Diaper-Free Baby: The Natural Toilet Training Alternative
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Christine Gross-Loh (Goodreads Author)
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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child
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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
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Meredith Small (Goodreads Author)
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost
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Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
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Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene
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Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies
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The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting (The Peaceful Parent Series)
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Between Parent and Child
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Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
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Learning All the Time
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Raising Children to Thrive: Affect Hunger and Responsive, Sensitive Parenting
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Magical Child
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Good Nights: The Happy Parents' Guide to the Family Bed
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
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Elizabeth Pantley (Goodreads Author)
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The Attachment Connection: Parenting a Secure and Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory
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What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
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The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy
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Magical Parent Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting
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Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start
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25 Things Every Nursing Mother Needs to Know
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The Aware Baby
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Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
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The Baby Bond: The New Science Behind What's Really Important When Caring for Your Baby
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Linda Folden Palmer (Goodreads Author)
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Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide
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Hilary Flower (Goodreads Author)
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Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting
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The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact With Your Baby Leads To Happier, Healthier Development
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Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected
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Easy Guide to Baby Sign Language
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J.R. Cagle (Goodreads Author)
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The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting
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Zion Lights (Contributor)
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How to Get Your Children to Clean Their Rooms Using Rubric Rules: A Teacher's Strategy
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Katie Ely (Goodreads Author)
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Enlightened Parenting: A Mom Reflects on Living Spiritually With Kids
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Meryl Davids Landau (Goodreads Author)
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Easy Newborn Care Tips: Proven Parenting Tips For Your Newborn's Development, Sleep Solution And Complete Feeding Guide
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Lisa Marshall (Goodreads Author)
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Trapped Indoors with Kids: 100 Ways to Play, Have Fun and Stay Sane
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activitis to Nurture Developing Minds
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
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Little Crazy Children Are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom: The Estrangement Epidemic in America
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The Other Baby Book: A Natural Approach to Baby's First Year
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Discipline Without Distress: 135 tools for raising caring responsible children, without time-out, spanking, punishment or bribery
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Judy Arnall (Goodreads Author)
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
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Toddler Discipline Tips: The Complete Parenting Guide With Proven Strategies To Understand And Managing Toddler's Behavior, Dealing With Tantrums, And ... With Kids (Positive Parenting Book 2)
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Lisa Marshall (Goodreads Author)
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
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Nighttime Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep
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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
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Near Mama's Heart
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
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The Best Gifts
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Goodreads Author)
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Sage Parenting: Where Nature Meets Nurture
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No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
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Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development
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A Ride on Mother's Back: A Day of Baby Carrying around the World
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The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep: Current Findings on Bedsharing, Breastfeeding, Sleep Training, and Normal Infant Sleep
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Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
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The Bottom Line for Baby: From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time--What the Science Says
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Creative parenting: How to use the new continuum concept to raise children successfully from birth through adolescence
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Roots of Empathy : Changing the World, Child by Child
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Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation
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Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear
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Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child’s Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5½
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Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood
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Raising Children Compassionately: Parenting the Nonviolent Communication Way (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
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Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
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Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
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The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline
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Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family
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Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby
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Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
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The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk
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Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple
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Nancy Mohrbacher (Goodreads Author)
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Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep?
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Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
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The Year After Childbirth: Enjoying Your Body, Your Relationships, and Yourself in Your Baby's First Year
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What to do when baby cries / Chto delat,kogda rebenok plachet
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Helping Young Children Flourish
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