MBR: The Parenting Shelf

The Parenting Shelf

Parents' Guide to Creating Wonderful People
Jennifer Berryman
Langmarc Publishing
PO Box 90488, Austin, TX 78709
9781880292433, $15.95, www.langmarc.com

No one wants to be the parent of a jerk. "Parents' Guide to Creating
Wonderful People: How to Help Your Children Live Happy and Meaningful
Lives" is a parenting guide to help parents inspire happiness in their
children so that they may do the same for others. Jennifer Berryman,
drawing on her expertise as a clinical psychologist to advise parents
on how to treat behavior, understand the impact of good health, and
much more. "Parents' Guide to Creating Wonderful People" is an
excellent and much recommended advisory for parenting reference
collections.

Easy to Love, but Hard to Raise
Kay Marner & Adrienne Ehlert Bashista
DRT Press
PO Box 427, Pittsboro, NC 27312
9781933084152, $18.95, www.drtpress.com

There's no college course, no training, you're just dumped into the
deep end with only instincts to guide you. "Easy to Love, but Hard to
Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories" is a discussion
of parenting and the dread that many parents face as something goes
wrong and being clueless on what to do. Parents share their stories
with plenty of wisdom on how to overcome the pressures of being a
parents, and how every child is different. "Easy to Love, but Hard to
Raise" is a fine assortment of wisdom that any parent should embrace.

14 Ways to Protect Your Baby from SIDS
Rachel Y. Moon, M.D. and Farn R. Hauck, M.D., M.S.
Parenting Press
PO Box 75267
Seattle, WA 98125
978193690303030 $9.95 www.parentingpress.com

14 Ways to Protect Your Baby from SIDS: Safe Sleep Advice from the
Experts is a practical guide to protecting one's child by expert
medical doctors Rachel Y. Moon, M.D. and Farn R. Hauck, M.D., M.S.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, is a dangerous threat to
newborn infants, who are physically weak and less able to wake up or
move their bodies if they are breathing in too little oxygen and too
much carbon dioxide while sleeping. Tips range from the importance of
giving one's baby "tummy time" every day - that is, time when the
infant is on their stomach while awake and supervised (both these
details are extremely important!) so that they develop their muscles
and learn to lift their heads - to never having a baby sleep in adult
beds or cribs that don't meet safety standards, to offering the baby a
pacifier at sleep time (statistics have shown that this reduces the
risk of SIDS). An extremely easy-to-follow guide, 14 Ways to Protect
Your Baby from SIDS deserves the absolute highest recommendation for
both parents and public libraries, as its straightforward tips,
tricks, and techniques will literally save lives.

What a Son Needs From His Dad
Michael A. O'Donnell
Baker Publishing Group
6030 E Fulton
Ada, MI 49301
9780764209697, $9.99, www.bethanyhouse.com

A good example can make the world. "What a Son Needs from His Dad: How
a Man Prepares His Sons for Life" discusses fatherhood through the
Christian perspective, advising fathers that good values comes from
example and talking to your children, encouraging them to instill good
ethics through life and how to deal with the world through friendship
and romance. "What a Son Needs from His Dad" is a strongly recommended
read for any Christian father.

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