Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More and Argue Less As Your Family Grows. Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill & Julia Stone, $16.25

Babyproofing Your Marriage is the warts-and-all truth about how having children can affect your relationship. The authors' evenhanded approach to both sides of the marital equation allows partners to understand each other in a whole new way. With humor, compassion, and practical advice, the Babyproofers will guide first-time parents and veterans alike around the rocky shores of the early parenting years.

Calming the Family Storm: Anger Management for Moms, Dads and All the Kids. Gary McKay & Steven Maybell, $18.95

Anger and confrontation are a part of our lives, like it or not. Every normal family will experience anger, but the reward for families that learn how to deal effectively with that anger is a healthier, happier family environment. Calming the Family Storm is a practical manual of helpful aids for handling the inevitable anger that every family experiences. Helps families work on the changes that will result in less anger, more effective expression of the anger that you do experience, and a happier and more harmonious family life.

Eli’s Lie-O-Meter: a Story about Telling the Truth. Sandra Levins, illustrated by Jeff Ebbeler, $10.50 (ages 4-8)

Eli has a knack for telling fibs and an occasional whopper until he learns a very good reason for telling the truth.

Equally Shared Parenting: Rewriting the Rules for a New Generation. Marc & Amy Vachon, $18.50

Equally Shared Parenting arms readers with the tools to create a balanced life that is rarely experienced by the parents of young children — an evolution that goes beyond the involved dad married to the working mom. This is a lifestyle in which couples create their own model as parenting partners, equals and peers. Every couple gets to write the rules that work for them.

Equally Shared Parenting clearly outlines the benefits and challenges of equal parenting, covering everything from child-rearing practices, career, and home, to self, money, and society. It presents both the philosophy behind this lifestyle and the everyday steps needed to achieve and maintain it, regardless of income bracket, lifestyle choices, or profession.

The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connct with Your Kids One Meal at a Time. Laurie David & Kirstin Uhrenholdt, $33.99

Laurie David wants to help overwhelmed families sit down to dinner, and provides all the reasons, recipes, and fun ways to do so.

Research has proven that everything we worry about as parents — from drugs to alcohol, to obesity, and academic achievement — can all be improved by the simple act of eating and talking together around the table. Laurie has written a practical, inspirational, fun (and, of course, green) guide to the most important hour in any parent’s day. Chock-full chapters include over 75 kid-approved recipes; tips on teaching green values; conversation starters; games to play to help even the shyest family member become engaged; ways to express gratitude; the family dinner after divorce (hint: keep eating together) and much more.

Filled with moving memories and advice this book will get everyone away from electronic screens and make a lasting impact on family life.

Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All. Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober, $28.00

After interviewing hundreds of parents and employers, surveying more than a thousand working mothers, and combing through the latest government and social science research, the authors have discovered that kids, husbands, and wives all reap huge benefits when couples commit to share equally as breadwinners and caregivers. The starting point? An attitude shift that puts you on the road to 50/50.

Here are real-world solutions for parents who want to get ahead in their careers and still get to their children’s soccer games; strategies for working mothers facing gender bias in the workplace; advice to fathers new to the home front; and tips for finding 50/50 solutions to deal with issues of money, time, and much more.

Happy Kids Happy You: Using NLP to Bring Out the Best in Ourselves and the Children We Care For. Sue Beever, $29.95

Happy Kids Happy You has a unique approach to parenting, giving parents practical NLP-based methods to enable them to develop their own solutions to challenging situations. Rather than responding in the same old ways, this book will help parents to speak and behave more positively and usefully with their children to get the results they desire.

How Do I Stand In Your Shoes? A Story & Worksheets about Empathy. Susan DeBell, $17.50

Miranda Peabody had no patience for the other students in class and just didn’t understand why they couldn’t be as smart and talented as she was. Her teacher, Mrs. Klemp, suggested that she try to understand other people by “standing in their shoes.” After much searching, she learns the true meaning of “standing in someone else’s shoes” and having empathy for others. This full-color, illustrated storybook for grades PK-4 includes discussion questions as well as activities to enhance learning about empathy.

I'd Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper: Loving Your Marriage after the Baby Carriage. Trisha Ashworth & Amy Nobile, $24.95

A frank, yet encouraging look at marriage post-tots, I'd Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper examines the challenges of modern parenthood for married couples today and extends a loving hand so that mothers can step out of the madness, make the most of what they have, and learn to love their marriages as much as they love their husbands and kids.

The Joy of Parenting: an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years. Lisa Coyne & Amy Murrell, $22.95

Parents are supposed to be at their best when their children are at their worst. The only problem is that parents are susceptible to knee-jerk reactions, anger, and fears that make perfect parenting nearly impossible. But it is possible to keep your long-term parenting goals in mind, give yourself credit for what you're doing right, and most importantly, enjoy the rewards and joy of raising a child.

The Joy of Parenting is a compassionate guide for parents who sometimes feel overwhelmed-that is, all parents. The acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills in this book will help you develop the flexibility and mindfulness to help your child make critical transitions and gracefully move past the bumps along the way.

Liking the Child You Love: Build a Better Relationship with Your Kids, Even When They’re Driving You Crazy. Jeffrey Bernstein, $18.95

Many parents don’t realize how their own thoughts, rather than their children’s behavior, can cause emotional upheaval, often leading to poor communication, favoritism, lowered expectations, and overly harsh punishments. In Liking the Child You Love, Bernstein shows how to tame these toxic thought patterns. From avoiding the ‘Always or Never Trap’ to overcoming ‘Emotional Overheating’, the book features proven strategies for improving kids’ behavior and creating a closer relationship—just by changing one’s own mind.

A good mother is a gift to society; she passes her love and special brand of emotional intelligence to no less than three generations. This book is a modern primer that will wrap the reader in warmth and reassurance, allow her to laugh at herself and inspire and guide her to make the most of her magical and meaningful experience of mothering.

Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently — Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage. Kyle Pruett & Marsha Kline Pruett, $20.00

Partnership Parenting offers couples distinctly balanced ways to deal with everyday situations, from bedtime and feeding to discipline and schooling.  With wisdom and humour, the authors help you and your partner take advantage of your individual strengths to stay connected, improve your relationship and confidently raise children together.

Healthy parenting leads to healthy children. While it may seem obvious, it’s a goal that’s often difficult for parents to achieve, especially those who were raised in families where criticism and anger shaped their upbringing. And even those parents who come from healthy family environments struggle to make the right decisions when caught in a parenting ‘moment.’ Filled with practical solutions to everyday dilemmas, as well as offering a map for the larger parenting picture, Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice gives all parents the techniques they need to maintain a peaceful, happy and healthy home.

To be respected, girls need to know how they want to be treated, treat themselves that way, and let others know (respectfully, of course) to do the same. This smart, savvy book helps teen girls get respect and hold on to it no matter what. It covers topics they deal with daily, like body image, family, friends, the media, school, relationships, and rumors. It confronts tough issues like sexual harassment, date rape, sex, drugs, and alcohol. And it debunks the myths and stereotypes that hold girls back. Sidebars, scenarios, quotes from teens, tips, definitions, activities, and writing exercises get girls' attention and keep them involved. The understanding, supportive "big sister" style inspires trust. Girls learn that respect is connected to everything, every girl deserves respect, and that respect is always within reach because it starts on the inside.

Side by Side: the Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication. Charles Sophy, $16.99

Learn how to navigate and resolve even the most volatile conflicts and take your relationship to a whole new level. Side by Side offers a means to developing a strong and rewarding connection with your daughter for years to come.

Sidestepping the Power Struggle: a Manual for Effective Parenting. Alison Miller & Allison Rees, $35.00

Sidestepping the Power Struggle is a comprehensive, detailed and extremely readable guide to parenting. While it is fun and easy to read, it brings a large measure of hope to those many parents who sometimes are at their wits’ end. Sidestepping the Power Struggle helps parents to understand their child’s inborn temperament. Understanding a child’s true nature makes deciding how to deal with the everyday problems and the major problem much less stressful. For parents who want to make a difference, this book is a well-balanced blend of theory, practical ideas and appropriate anecdotes.

Soft-Spoken Parenting: 50 Ways to Not Lose Your Temper with Your Kids. H. Wallace Goddard, $19.95

Short tempers and lapses of patience are a common challenge for parents, but they are also conquerable with the advice in this book …The challenge of being a little softer and kinder with children becomes a little easier for parents with these simple and practical strategies.

Sorry! Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Maurie Manning, $17.99

Jack's friend Sam seems to know how to get away with just about anything. But does an apology count if you don’t really mean it?

Strategies for Effective Parenting: Framework of Limits. Alison Rees & Paul Abra, $15.98 (CD, 45 minutes)

Do you find yourself feeling confused when it comes to discipline issues? Do you wonder if you are effectively teaching responsibility to your children? Does your child feel good about who they are and their accomplishments? This CD was created to take the guesswork out of parenting and help parents with these issues and more. This easy-to-follow CD has six separate segments that allow parents to work through the various concepts at their own pace:

• Framework of Limits: Safety, Responsibility, Respect and Values
• The Four Levels of Responsibility: Parents can consciously teach children to take on responsibility as they mature
• Safety: How do parents teach and reinforce safety limits?
• Responsibility: How can parents avoid power struggles when it comes to household chores and other areas of responsibility?
• Respect: How do parents teach their child to respect and care for others?
• Values: How can parents pass on important values to their children?

Take Your Temperament! A Workbook for Parents and Children. Nanci Burns & Nancy Rubenstein, $25.00

Temperament is at the core of how we see and respond to our world … it is the significant reason that children act differently even within the same family — in spite of having the same parents, culture and environment. Individual differences in temperament among family members can also be a major factor in making family life positive … or stressful.

This workbook is designed to be a fun, interactive opportunity for you and your children to get to know each other better in an engaging and meaningful way. It invites parents and children to explore how they react to the world – and to do so without guilt or shame.

Talk About Anything with Your Kids: an Easy Guide to Great Conversations. Catherine Wakelin, $22.95

Great conversations don’t always happen easily — especially with kids. Many parents find that as their children grow, those chatty preschoolers become mono-syllabic teenagers.

Talk About Anything with Your Kids shows parents how to have open and satisfying conversations with kids from six to 14, with the emphasis on learning to truly listen to what our kids have to say. The book shows you how to develop effective and rewarding communication in your family effectively.  

The Top 50 Questions Children Ask: Pre-K through 2nd Grade. Susan Bartell, $12.25
The Top 50 Questions Children Ask: 3rd through 5th Grade. Susan Bartell, $12.25

The best answers to the smartest, strangest and most difficult questions kids always ask.

We Need to Talk: Tough Conversations with Your Kids. Richard Heyman, $12.75

A simple, straightforward guide to approaching difficult conversations with honesty, tact and understanding.

What Kids Really Want to Ask: Using Movies to Start Meaningful Conversations — a Guide Book for Parents and Children Ages 10-14. Rhonda Richardson & A. Margaret Pevec, $15.95

Real questions asked by kids aged 10 to 14 led to the topics in this family-focused guide. Using popular movies and related activities, a wide variety of issues are approached in this unique book, keeping lines of communication open during the transformative middle-school years. What Kids Really Want to Ask gives families opportunities to approach a range of topics in a fun, supportive and respectful manner.

What They Know about Parenting! Celebrity Moms and Dads Give Us Their Take on Having Kids. Cindy Pearlman & Jill Kramer, $17.95

Well-known moms and dads share their experiences as parents in this humorous, touching, thoughtful, sometimes embarrassing but always entertaining look at parenting.