Parent Library
Building Your Baby's Brain
A Parent's Guide to the First Five YearsAuthor(s): Cate Heroman, Diane Trister Dodge (click on the author's name for more titles)
Packed full of illustrations and helpful charts, this clearly written booklet explains what scientists know about brain development. It shows how a few simple things you do every day can make a big difference.
RRP $7.95
Everyday Play
Fun Games to Develop the Fine Motor Skills Your Child Needs for SchoolAuthor(s): Christy Isbell (click on the author's name for more titles)
Organised by age, these inexpensive and creative activities provide parents with the tools they need to assist their children in developing their fine motor skills. Chapters also contain answers to frequently asked questions, developmental guidelines and easy teaching strategies.Fine motor skills are a stepping-stone for school readiness, and Everyday Play gives you the tools you need to make developing those skills easy and fun!
RRP $29.95
Making Links Parent Partner
A Guide for Parents About What Matters in Early Childhood ServicesAuthor(s): Anne Stonehouse, Janet Gonzalez-Mena (click on the author's name for more titles)
The information in this book is intended to assist parents to collaborate and work in partnership with child care professionals and to help parents understand what the early childhood service is trying to achieve. It makes clear the rights and responsibilities of parents and early childhood professional and reinforces the role of parents as advocates for their child and for early childhood services.
RRP $3.50
Math Right from the Start
What Parents Can Do in the First Five YearsAuthor(s): Jan Greenberg, Toni Bickart (click on the author's name for more titles)
This easy-to-read, beautifully illustrated booklet shows parents how they can help their children (birth-5) gain the mathematical thinking and skills they need. This book uses the everyday routines that all parents do with their children bathing and dressing, feeding, shopping, household chores, etc.
RRP $8.95
Our Family is Starting School
A Handbook for Parents and CarersAuthor(s): Bob Perry, Sue Dockett (click on the author's name for more titles)
Starting school is an important time for all concerned. For many children and families, along with the excitement goes a sense of anxiety - a sense of not being exactly sure what will happen and what school will be like. This book results from the hundreds of workshops and discussion groups conducted by the authors for families as part of the Starting School Research Project based at the University of Western Sydney.
RRP $29.95
Parent's Guide to Preschool, A
Author(s): Diane Trister Dodge, Joanna Phinney (click on the author's name for more titles)
Parents ask, "What is my child actually learning in preschool and what can I do at home to help?" This illustrated booklet answers these questions and shows you how to partner with teh teahcers to help your child acquire the skills, attitudes, and habits to do well in school and throughout life.
RRP $8.95
Raising Children Who Soar
A Guide to Healthy Risk-Taking in an Uncertain WorldAuthor(s): Nancy Eppler-Wolf, Susan Davis (click on the author's name for more titles)
The authors of this unique book - two clinical psychologists, who are also mothers - provide essential guidance for parents and teachers. They explain, step-by-step, how to help children become successful risk-takers: ready to leap at life's opportunities and triumph over setbacks along the way.
RRP $49.95
Reading Right From the Start
What Parents Can Do in the First Five YearsAuthor(s): Diane Trister Dodge, Toni Bickart (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book uses the everyday routines that all parents do with their children to demonstrate how to build vocabularly, learn about conversations and discover meaning from the written word. Instead of workbooks, special games and other gimmicks, parents learn about the value of talking, singing and reading every day to their child.
RRP $8.95
The Top Ten Preschool Parenting Problems
And What To Do About ThemAuthor(s): Roslyn Ann Duffy (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book is about the struggles we all face when dealing with children and the real life solutions we find or seek to find, for these everyday dilemmas. It covers topics such as whining; not listening; tantrums; manipulation; morning, meal time, and bedtime hassles; sibling rivalry; cleaning up messes; hand washing and teeth brushing; hitting, kicking, pinching, and biting; potty talk and name calling.
RRP $38.95
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