Knowing how to fold a paper airplane can make you a better parent!

Well, maybe not better, but you’ll certainly have more fun with your children, who understandably assume that you know how to do just about everything. If they only knew!

Catch a Fish, Throw a Ball, Fly a Kite is for parents who want to teach their children what they really want to learn--even the skills you never mastered or haven't practiced in a few decades. This book contains clear, simple, step-by-step instructions for teaching more than twenty little life skills that every child should know, including how to:

• Work a yo-yo
• Build a fire
• Eat with chopsticks
• Skip a stone
• Fly a homemade kite
• Throw a Frisbee

While you teach your children, you get to learn the skills too, or at the very least improve on them. Activities range from practical, like locating the constellations, to completely frivolous fun, like turning a blade of grass into a musical instrument. Some are simple enough for four-year-olds, and others will appeal to the most jaded adolescent. Each skill is illustrated and is rounded out with fascinating trivia (did you know that the world’s largest sand castle measured six stories high?) or funny jokes. Age-appropriate information is given for each skill, but they all have one thing in common: You and your kids can do them together!
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The immediacy of the Internet, the accessibility of books, and the experience of About.com Guides are all at your fingertips in this dynamic how-to series!
It's about...a fulfilling pregnancy experience-from start to finish!
As a mother of seven, certified childbirth educator Robin Elise Weiss knows a thing or two about pregnancy and birth. In The About.com Guide to Having a Baby she offers all the guidance and support you need as you face the excitement and anxiety of having a baby. You'll find accessible information and expert advice on every topic-from your relationship with your practitioner to the nursery decorations. With The About.com Guide to Having a Baby, you'll learn how to:

Choose a practitioner for the best birth experience.

Know what foods to eat-and which ones to avoid-during pregnancy.

Throw the perfect baby shower.

Prepare for labor.

Ensure a pleasant postpartum.

The About.com Guide to Having a Baby also includes five types of special features with informative tips and advice:

Ask Your Guide: Robin's expert answers to your toughest questions

Tools You Need: Information about researching, purchasing, and using various pregnancy tools and resources

Elsewhere on the Web: Robin's other favorite pregnancy and birth Web sites

What's Hot: The hottest pregnancy trends and tips out there

Before Your Appointment: Helpful hints on how to prepare for appointments with your practitioner Plus, you can link back to the About.com Pregnancy and Birth site for even more information:

A unique Get Linked section at the end of each chapter lists helpful links back to About.com.

Robin's About.com forum offers you the opportunity to post questions, get answers, and chat with other moms-to-be.

A belly gallery, ultrasound photos, and other visuals show you what to expect in pregnancy.
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You are not alone!

What do you do when...
Your toddler goes berserk because the meatloaf touches the green beans on his plate?
Your son keeps missing when he's standing at the potty?
Your child's bedroom is overrun with nighttime monsters?

Parents magazine's It Worked for Me! clears up these and thousands of other quandaries. And the solutions come from people who have been through it all: parents just like you. With busy schedules, we often don't find the time to share our parenting advice or commiserate about daily hassles. Now, parents can again take comfort in knowing that others not only have had similar experiences, but also that they have found inventive solutions stemming from their own wisdom and compassion.

Based on Parents magazine's popular column, this comprehensive collection of surefire tips and techniques covers the entire gamut of child rearing--beathing, feeding, dressing, discipline, bedtime, playtime, school, television, and much, much more. From divorce and separations anxiety to making the deccision to go back to work and helping children adjust to a new child-provider, parents will find creative and practical solutions for nearly any situation. So breathe a sigh of relief. Won't it be good to have a voice of experience on the bookshelf?
Parents magazine has been America's #1 family magazine since 1926.

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A colorful addition to the parenting bookshelf, Nightlights helps children overcome their fears and build confidence and creativity. In a unique approach, it brings three distinct elements together: practical advice, vibrant storytelling, and beautiful illustrations. In the first section, acclaimed psychologist and author David Fontana shows parents how to build self-assurance in kids (aged 4–8) through stories and reflection. The second part includes 20 stories written just for this book by various children’s authors for parents and young ones to read together, all vividly illustrated with joyful artwork. Crafted to be both subtle and effective, each meditative story addresses a childhood issue or theme in positive ways. This is storytelling that’s not only delightful in itself, but also offers tools and life lessons for well-being and peace of mind for children—and their parents.
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Taking readers inside the classroom of today's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders--and inside the minds of the teachers--this guide shows parents how they can help make their child's learning environment an exciting place where children become thinkers, problem-solvers and self-directed learners.
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