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When your blessings don't count - Linda Lewis
Written with profound empathy by a psychologist who not only specialises in PND but has herself suffered from it, this book tells it like it is. Postnatal distress is becoming more prevalent and it is estimated that one in three women may suffer from it. It knows no boundaries and affects women of all ages, religions, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
But although devastating and debilitating, PND can be overcome. Empowering her readers with pertinent information and wise counsel drawn from her own extensive research as well as the case files of the many women she has counselled, Linda Lewis takes them through the terrifying journey that was hers, and leaves them with a powerful message: you will recover. Learn how to
- Bring back the joy and happiness you thought you have lost forever
- Recognise symptoms and gain an understanding of what is happening to you
- Beat the shame and misunderstanding
- Avoid long-term difficulties
- Explain your feelings to your loved ones so that they can give you the support you need to overcome this devastating condition.
Filled with positive suggestions based on personal experience, this book is an indispensable tool for recovery.
About Author: Linda Lewis
Available in Afrikaans: Wanneer jou seëninge nie tel nie |
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Your child can do maths - Johan van Lill
Did you battle with maths at school and now your child has the same problem? Or were you a maths whizz but you have no idea how to help your child who is battling? Then this book is for you. It is written in easy to follow language, and brimful of advice that will help you face this challenge. Learn the following:
- Why maths is important
- How to use movement to wire your child’s brain for success with maths
- How to ensure your child remains positive about maths
- Basic knowledge and concepts all children should master
- Helping your child master addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- General maths problems to watch our for
- Tables made easy
- Word sums and problem solving.
About Author: Johan van
Available in Afrikaans: My kind kan wiskunde doen |
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Choose the right career - Norma Colley
This book will assist school leavers and young adults in choosing the right career. It includes relevant information on current study and career choices. It also contains many practical exercises that can be completed individually or discussed in a group forum. The book was written from a South African context. However, it is recognized that we enter a global job market when we leave school. Therefore, the principles and exercises in this book will apply to school leavers all over the world.
The contents cover values and interests; personality, attitudes and special talents; opportunities in the current job market; entrepreneurship – starting your own business; gathering more information about job fields; The Gap Year; choosing the correct study institution; and entering the world of work.
About Author: Norma Colley
Available in Afrikaans: Kies die regte loopbaan |
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Fact Finder
Fact Finder is a fun-filled collection of facts aimed at children in the intermediate school phase (grades 4 to 6). It is a basic, but general, reference book integrating all areas of the national curriculum:
- Arts and Culture
- Economic & Management Sciences (EMS)
- Language
- Life Orientation (LO)
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences (History and Geography)
- Technology
In addition to the basic information that will also be taught at school, each section contains loads of interesting asides, references to websites and other sources of information, and suggestions for interesting things to do and places to visit. Parents have a huge selection of books to choose from for younger children, and there are many study-guides available for high schoolers, but this age group has been neglected with hardly any references aimed at their level. This book is an indispensable companion for every child in this group who will lap up the information and have fun sharing the facts. Written by experienced tutor and fact-aholic, Helen Lewis, the book contains over 600 photographs and commissioned illustrations and is sure to appeal to a wide audience. |
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Children need grandparents by Anne Cawood
The fifth title in the bestselling ‘Boundaries’ series
Life does not end when your children leave home and create their own families – it just enters a new and challenging era. Dipping into her extended case files, parenting expert and grandmother of four, Anne Cawood gives sage advice for grandparents entering or already in this wonderful phase of their lives. Grandparents play a vital role in the lives of the new generation – both their own children and their grandchildren. In the modern world of technological development, instant communication and fast travel, there is still no replacement for the care, love and support of the extended family in the circle
of life where grandparents are the vital link between past and future. This book is for all grandparents or anyone who fulfils this very important role in a child’s life. It offers guidance and support to give grandparents insight into the lives of 21st century children, with valuable coping skills and positive strategies to help them enjoy their grandchildren while still living meaningful lives nurturing their own needs and well-earned freedom and independence.
The author: Anne Cawood |
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Feeding Sense
The next title in the bestselling ‘Sense’ series.
Uncertain of what to eat in pregnancy or while breast-feeding? Challenges with breast or bottle feeding? Or just looking for practical guidelines on introducing solids? Whether you have a fussy eater or an allergic baby, Feeding Sense prepares you for the road ahead and guides you through all your baby’s feeding milestones.
Meg Faure, bestselling co-author of books in the ‘sense series’ looks at your baby’s sensory and emotional relationships with food and the developmental journey you embark on when feeding your baby.
Bringing 15 years of experience as a dietician specializing in paediatrics, Kath Megaw covers every curve ball from allergies to weight concerns as well as getting picky eaters to enjoy their food.
Paediatrician Simon Strachan reassures you with simple guidelines on your baby’s health, common baby illnesses and why your baby won’t eat when sick.
“I have enjoyed reading this book. The authors have selected common topics of baby feeding and nutrition and have provided both a factually grounded source of scientific information as well as answers to many nagging questions that mothers may not know whom to ask.”
Prof. DF Wittenberg MD FCP(SA) |
Baby Sense New Edition
Baby sense has over the past seven years remained the best selling baby care book in South Africa, has been translated into several languages and has twice won a prestigious international award (UK Practical Pre-school Awards Gold in 2008 and 2009). With 100 000 copies in print, the time has come for an update. The book’s accessible tone and the focus on baby’s sleep, calming and development remain in the new edition, while authors Meg Faure and Ann Richardson updated the content to reflect current research, and address questions and requests from both moms and professionals.
What is new?
- Why babies are different – babies have different ways of coping with sensory information, which affects their personalities
and how they respond to their new world.
- How parents can help their baby maintain the calm alert state.
- More information on the relationship between tiredness and crying.
- Breastfeeding is discussed in much more detail.
- An expanded section on colic and early infant crying with step by step responses to colic.
- An updated massage section based on new theory of the different strokes.
- Postnatal depression is fully updated and redefined based on current thought.
- The concept of perinatal distress is introduced.
The new edition of Baby Sense is sure to hold the same appeal for parents in that it offers practical solutions for the common issues of infancy. The new content will enhance the ways parents respond to their baby’s sensory needs in a sense-able manner.
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The author: Faure, Megan & Richardson, Ann
Adjusting the boundaries
Aimed at families facing separation and divorce, this book will be enormously helpful for parents confronted with the challenges of traumatic change and the need to adjust their family’s boundaries. Using her many years of practical experience in the field, highly regarded counsellor Anne Cawood will empower you to contain your children’s anxiety and feelings of insecurity and to re-establish a measure of equilibrium as effectively as possible. Using loads of case studies from her extensive files, she highlights the following:
- How, when and where to inform your children in an age-appropriate and honest way
- Emotional support for you, the parent
- The ‘how to’ of active listening, anger management and clear, firm and consistent boundary setting
- The legal process and the New Children’s Act – which emphasizes the best interests of the child
- Co-parenting agreements
- Ongoing relationships with extended family and the introduction of new partners
- Advice to step parents and parents who were never married before their separation
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The author: Cawood, Anne
Toddlers need boundaries
Much of what is viewed as naughty, defiant toddler behaviour, is actually normal for a child at this stage of development. The toddler stage is the most crucial for the establishment of positive parent-child communication and emotionally healthy relationships. This book is a specific and very practical guide for the parents of younger children. It deals at length with the Four Big Issues of toddlerhood:
- tantrums
- sleeping
- eating
- toilet training
With loads of practical advice and suggestions, this third book in the popular Boundaries series also takes a thorough look at healthy self-esteem and emotional intelligence.
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BabyGym
BabyGym shows parents and caregivers how to make every precious moment spent with baby really count.
The first two years are brimful of opportunities for movement and play to ensure the optimal development of baby’s brain and limbs, senses and reflexes, social and language skills, and feelings and thought processes. This engaging, easy-to-follow guide will enable you to make the most of those vital early-life experiences through brain and body gym.
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Mind Moves
Mind Moves is an easy-to-use self-help guide for parents and teachers to remove learning barriers like ADD and ADHD, and improve sensory-motor integration, auditory processing, articulation and language, concentration, reading, spelling, aberrant primitive reflexes, etc. Mind Moves offers fun movements for use at home or in class.
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Easy answers to awkward questions
Children today want and need answers to questions about physical changes in puberty and related matters, much sooner than their parents did. They grow up faster, entering puberty earlier than ever before. Yet many parents still either avoid sexuality education or miss it completely through ignorance or fear. This book is the answer! Written for children from 8 to 13 in an easy question and answer format, with delightful illustrations to add a fun element, it will double as an invaluable guide for parents so that they can answer their children’s questions candidly, with knowledge, sensitivity and humour.
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Sensible Stimulation
This book informs, guides and supports parents by giving them more insight into their child’s early development. Through knowledge and understanding parents can guide their children, helping them become balanced adults and confident members of society.
The first three years of a child’s life are the most significant, as they are fundamental to all further development. This book focusses on the development during those early years. Each aspect is explained as practically and simply as possible, with games in which you can engage with and stimulate your child.
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Teenagers need boundaries
Parents everywhere dread the stress and pressures of the teen years when even the most amenable children seem to morph into monsters. This book provides them with the tools to cope with all the challenges integral to parenting teenagers, focusing on the following:
- Discipline as guidance, not punishment
- Developmental challenges of teens and parents
- Listening – a crucial parenting skill
- Common teen behavioural issues
- Cellphones, computers, PlayStations and other teen accessories
- Adolescent sexuality
- More serious teen issues including alcohol, drugs
- The darker side of adolescence – depression, eating disorders and suicide
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Positive Parenting
Parenting is a job for which we receive no training, there is no selection process, no exams, and no need to apply for a permit. Yet, when you become a parent, you hold the life and the future of another human being in your hands. This book will add tremendously to any parent’s repertoire of skills. Dealing with communication as one of the crucial aspects of interpersonal relationships, it will help you give your children the very best, considered upbringing that they can have.
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Children need boundaries
No matter what their background, religion or current situation, children need the physical and emotional safety of boundaries and containment. And they need to know what the consequences would be for choosing to test these limits. This book explores, in a light-hearted and anecdotal way, the basic premise that we all flourish within the safety of clear, consistent boundaries.
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Post baby conversation
The Post-baby Conversation is a first: a relationship book for new parents. It is not a book about babies and it’s not about how to be a parent. It’s about how to be a happy couple with children.
• Has your relationship changed since you had a baby?
• Do you ever get to talk or spend time as a couple?
• Do you feel your partner understands your life now?
• Do you have less sex?
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Sleep Sense
Are you suffering from sleep deprivation because your baby will just not sleep through the night? Have you tried everything and reached the end of your tether?
Then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Written by the acclaimed authors of Baby sense, it offers the same simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby will get a good night’s sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits.
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Baby Sense
In this best-selling babycare book, occupational therapist, Megan Faure, and specialist nursing sister, Ann Richardson, address three of the most common concerns of parents in the first year:
- Why is my baby crying?
- How can I get my baby to sleep well?
- How can I enhance my baby’s development?
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Toddler Sense
Toddlerhood is a time of tremendous growth and development. It is also a time of tantrums and conflict. Knowing what constitutes normal toddler behaviour will help you accept and respect this and go a long way towards effective, guilt-free and realistic parenting. Your toddler learns though his senses – understanding his sensory world remains the key to ensuring optimal development and stimulation. This book tells you how to provide stimulation without overload; solve bedtime battles with age-appropriate sleep-training; discipline with love and a sense of humour; follow a sensible approach to toilet training and monitor and encourage development.
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Sensory Intelligence
Lights too bright?
Music too soft?
Not enough chilli in the curry?
Blanket too scratchy?
Car-sick again?
We experience our environment in a unique way through our senses. Some people thrive in a busy environment with lots going on and many people involved. They like everything brighter, louder, hotter, faster and find these inputs enjoyable and stimulating. Others avoid a crowded, noisy environment and will escape to ordered tranquility whenever they can. They prefer everything softer, milder, slower and quickly feel overwhelmed and irritated by too much fuss and flutter. Sensory intelligence explains in clear layman’s terms how this works to help you understand why you and others respond to sensory input the way you do.
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Language and school readiness
Your child’s language development depends almost entirely on you. But all you need to fulfil this awesome responsibility is to talk to her at every opportunity, from the moment she is born. Children learn through play, and school readiness can be promoted at home by creating the time and opportunity for play.
This book tells you how to advance your child’s language and learning skills through play, how to exploit her natural enthusiasm, curiosity and energy, and how to create opportunities for confidence building, social and emotional growth, the development of coordination, and problem-solving skills.
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Get the balance right
Are you desperate for more time to do everything you have to do? Do you feel out of control and over whelmed? Are you experiencing emotional extremes and don’t know how you got through the day? Are you frantically juggling career, husband, children, friends, social and other responsibilities, bravely trying not to drop any balls … or at least not too many at the same time? Then this book is for you.
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