Parenting and Childcare

Gill Hines / Later! : A guide to parenting a young adult (Large Paperback)

   One minute you are taking your child to school, the next they're turning into a young adult. It may seem like only months since you were first filling your child's lunch box, but the school career moves with such momentum that it isn't long...

Nick Harris / S*** My Kids Say

     Children have a unique way of looking at the world - they can be wonderfully innocent, or world-weary beyond their years. With entries such as 'Look, it's raining through that boy's trousers!', and 'Can we get something to eat? I'm...

Gill Hines / Whatever!

 Do you find bringing up teenagers more of a pain than a pleasure? When - and how - should you broach the difficult topics, such as sex, drugs and alcohol? How much independence is a good thing?Raising teenagers can test parental love to breaking...

Johann Christoph Arnold / THEIR NAME IS TODAY

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Heidi E. Murkoff / What to Expect: The Second Year (Large Paperback)

   The international super-successful What to Expectbrand has delivered again - announcing the arrival of a brand-new member of family: What to Expect the Second Year. This essential sequel to What to Expect the First Year picks up the action...

Heidi E. Murkoff / What to Expect: Before You're Expecting (Large Paperback)

   Announcing the prequel! From Heidi Murkoff, author of the world's bestselling pregnancy and parenting books, comes the must-have guide every expectant couple needs before they even conceive - the first step in What to Expect: What to Expect...

David Eddie / Housebroken

   Once, David Eddie was a freewheeling comic novelist. Then, after years of slow-roasting in Bachelor Hell, Mr. Eddie met Ms. Right-who delivered an ultimatum on her thirtieth birthday: "Fertilize my eggs within the next three years, or pack...

Melanie Murphy / Fully Functioning Human (Almost) : Living in an Online (Large Paperback)

   'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort-of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and rather lovely, to hear about other people's journeys . . . 'Growing up in an online age,...

Jon Smith / The Bloke's Guide To Babies

   What bloke is entirely ready or totally prepared for the reality of a new baby and all that it entails?Babies may bring boundless joy into your life but they also bring temper tantrums, stubborn moods and 90-decibel fits of hysterical...

Paul Gilligan / Raising Emotionally Healthy Children (Large Paperback)

    This book explores how parents can connect with their children and become more emotionally healthy adults. Drawing on over twenty-five years' experience of working with children and teenagers, Paul Gilligan provides parents with...

Sarah Turner / The Unmumsy Mum

   The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller in paperback at last!THIS IS NOT A PARENTING MANUAL. THIS IS REAL LIFE.The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one size...

Paul Martin / Making Happy People : The Nature of Happiness and its Origins in Childhood

   All parents want their children to be happy - but no parent knows how to guarantee it. Now this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which parents can influence their children's happiness, providing a positive framework for emotional...

Adam Henson / Like Farmer, Like Son

   `People say "Like father, like son", and the story of my life has mirrored my father's to a quite uncanny degree. Right from when I was a little boy, he was my rock; my mentor; my hero. It is no exaggeration to say that he taught me...

Sal Severe / How To Behave So Your Children Will Too

    Tired of repeating everything four times to get your children to listen? Feeling guilty because your children don't behave? This book will save your sanity! How to Behave So Your Children Will Too! explains how to teach your children to...

Kate Mosse / Becoming A Mother

 Combining medical and historical information with real life accounts of ordinary women, this book is an essential guide to the facts, feelings and emotions experienced during pregnancy and birth. It takes you week by week, from the decision to...

Rob Parsons / Teenagers! : What Every Parent Has to Know

 Author of the highly successful Sixty Minute series Rob Parsons turns his attention to that very difficult period of adolescence - the teenage years.He explains how to cope with this often disruptive period in a family's life and how to continue...

Johann Christoph Arnold / Why Children Matter

 Raising a child has never been more challenging. If you ever doubt yourself or wonder if it is worth the heartache, read this little book. If you worry that your family will not weather life's storms or if you fear losing your children to the...

Joe Smith / The Bloke's Guide To Pregnancy

    This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming...

Jon Smith / The Bloke's Guide To Pregnancy

    This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming...

Rob Parson / The Sixty Minute Father

    THE SIXTY MINUTE FATHER sets goals to help every father ensure that he doesn't miss out on the greatest opportunity of his life. His advice includes: Put dates in your diary that are important for your children; talk to your baby as if...

Miriam Stoppard / Baby & Co Pregnancy & Birth Handbook

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Rana Conway / What to Eat When You're Pregnant : Including the A-Z of what's safe and what's not

   Being pregnant is one of the most exciting times of your life. It's also one of the most worrying. Your future baby's health and wellbeing is in your hands it's down to you to eat and drink in a way that will keep baby safe and provide the...

Jan De Vries / Mother and Child

 MOTHER AND CHILD is the long awaited follow up to Jan's phenomenally successful Preganancy and Childbirth and the next instalment in his excellent Well Woman series. In Mother and Child Jan De Vries focuses on the first crucial years of a child's...

Loreto Todd / Celtic Names for Children

   A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. But more than that, it gives the origin and meaning of each name plus traditional stories, myths or poems for selected names. A...

Liz Fraser / The Yummy Mummy's Family Handbook

 `Liz Fraser portrayal of family life is hilarious and so true. I loved Liz Fraser's first book, but this is even better. Every single mum and dad in the world should have a book like this in their homes!' Amazon review Throw off your Domestic...

Science Research Associates Ltd - Better Living Booklets ( for parents and teachers- Boxed set of 10 Vintage

A collection of 10 uniformly sized vintage booklets, presented in a custom cardboard box, covering various aspects of childcare and education, including many that deal with issues for children. First issued in the 1950's,  these are later updated...

Julia Cresswell / Naming Your Baby : The Definitive Dictionary of First Names

 Naming Your Baby is the essential A-Z guide for deciding your child's name. Much more than just a list of baby names, this book is a fascinating guide for expectant parents, as well as a wider reference resource for historians, writers and...

Simone Cave / Potty Training Boys

 Parents of boys will agree that getting sons to relinquish their nappies is often much harder than getting daughters to do the same. In Potty Training for Boys, Dr Caroline Fertleman and Simone Cave provide a clear step-by-step guide to redressing...

Gisela Preuschoff / Raising Girls

 A warm and inspiring read for parents, this book explores girls' emotional and physical development from ages 1 to 16. Every parent of girls aged between 1 and 16 will enjoy reading this informative and practical book. It focuses on girls'...

Jonathan Self / The Teenager's Guide to Money

 Jonathan Self's user-friendly guide demystifies every aspect of money and money management, covering such critical topics as bank accounts, living on a budget, the dangers of credit cards, and how to cope with money at university. But The...

Betty Parsons / The Expectant Father

 Whether or not you plan to be beside you wife at the birth, as prospective father you are the best placed person on earth to give her the growing comfort and confidence she is going to need. This deliberately dad-centred book prepares you to...

Kerry Parnell / Street Smart

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Alice Miller / The Drama of Being a Child : The Search for the True Self

  About the Author Alice Miller lives in France. For more than twenty years she taught and practised psychoanalysis. In 1973, due to her spontaneous painting she discovered her childhood history. Now, she radically questions the validity of...

Arlene Eisenberg / What to Expect the Toddler Years (Large Paperback)

 Overflowing with intelligence and good common sense, this comprehensive guide provides clear explanations and useful guidelines on everything a parent might want to know about the second and third years of their child's life. On a month-by-month...

Heidi Murkoff / What to Expect When You're Expecting (Large Paperback)

 We're expecting again! Announcing the COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED THIRD EDITION of this bestselling pregnancy book, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING. Two years in the making, it's a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision...

Heidi Murkoff / What to Expect the First Year (Large Paperback)

 WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is a comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide that clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well...

Christopher Green / Toddler Taming : A Parent's Guide to the First Four Years (Large Paperback)

 Many parents wonder how their sweet baby which gurgled happily at them for the first 12 months changes so suddenly into a bellowing, tantrum prone, carpet biting toddler. What went wrong? Whose fault is it? What can be done about it? With humour...

Tony Humphreys / Leaving the Nest : What Families Are All About

 We don't all come from happy families. The reality is that families are a mixture of positive and hurtful experiences. Families are all about bringing children to a place of independence, so that as young adults they can fly the nest. However, some...

Laurence Flanagan / Favourite Irish Names for Children

 Looks at the 200 most popular Irish Christian names, with a short, witty and authoritative commentary on each. The book details the origin of each name and - in the case of saints' names - gives a potted life of the original eponym. The author also...

Miriam Stoppard / Pregnancy & Birth Handbook

   Britain's best-loved and respected baby care author Dr Miriam Stoppard gives guidance to both partners on every aspect of pregnancy and birth from conception to the first weeks of life.    All of our books are second hand, and...

Lucy Taylor / The Mum's Guide to Having Your Baby in Ireland (Large Paperback)

I wish I had had this resource when I had my own children. It strikes just the right balance between reassurance and crisp information and readers will feel comforted and supported through the experience.' Alison Walsh, author of In My Mother's Shoes If...

Clive Gifford / Teenage Kicks: 101 Things To Do Before You're 16

Have you ever ... Eaten with chopsticks for a week? Had a shopping trolley race? Helped out for a night at a homeless centre? This book will tell you how. With 101 challenges and targets for readers to try out, work towards or aspire to before reaching...

Mikael Engstrom / Thin Ice

Where would you rather live - in a lonely flat with your drunk father, only bearable when your big brother is home? Or in a small, snowy village with a frozen lake, where your aunt burns books to keep the house warm, and a girl called Pi makes your heart...

Liz Fraser / The Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide

Forget the frump. Wave goodbye to those leggings - there's a new breed of mothers on the baby block. Yummy Mummies don't leave their sense of style in the maternity ward - the loving hands that rock today's cradles are manicured and moisturised.Becoming...

Tony Wolf / Get Out of My Life

This bestselling survival manual is for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. It looks at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers - school, sex, drugs and more. But it's the title of the...

Kevin Flanagan / Maximum Points, Minimum Panic: The Parents' Guide: Essential Guide to Surviving Ex

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Going on to Solids: Feeding Baby - From Four Months

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Your Body Matters

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Jenny Saville / Baby's Names

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Tracey Zabar / Best Loved Baby Names and Their Meanings

Tracey Zabar makes naming Baby a fun and enjoyable adventure. She guides you through the maze of endless choices, and helps you discover the right name for your baby girl or boy. Overflowing with more than 4,000 name ideas - from the timeless and...

Anne Enright / Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a...

Adele Faber / How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

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