Parenting

A handy trade paperback that presents thousands of appealing names from which parents can make a suitable selection for their newborns.

Each entry gives the origin and meaning of the name and suggests one Hebrew equivalent.

Includes Anglicized forms of the latest and most popular names used in Israel.

A must for prospective parents.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if babies came with instructions? Wouldn't you love to have your wise grandmother nearby when your baby won't stop crying? Wouldn't it be great to have an experienced friend on call when you're choosing the perfect stroller? And wouldn't you want to read a parenting book that reflects the values you cherish?

You've got it all in this comprehensive, practical, and empowering book, written just for you!

Baby's First Year: The Jewish Mother's Guide is here to answer your questions, calm your fears, and give you all the information you need - and the confidence! - to make well-informed decisions.

It includes everything you have to know about nursing your baby, child development, common medical issues, baby equipment, and so much more. And since this is about Jewish babies you'll also find chapters dealing with Jewish traditions to welcome children to this world, as well as pertinent halachos of childcare and Shabbos. A comprehensive index makes it easy to find the information you need.

Baby's First Year team includes a neonatal nurse with more than a decade of experience with newborns and a speech-language pathologist with a deep understanding of child development.

Some are still mothers of young children, others are already grandmas, so in addition to carefully researched information, they also share practical tips, insights, and ideas that really work!

Comprehensive, practical, and reflecting the Jewish values you cherish, Baby's First Year: A Jewish Mother's Guide is an essential piece of baby equipment!

Includes everything you need to know about newborns:

• Step-by-step diapering, bathing, swaddling, burping instructions.

• The most up-to-date medical advice.

• A guide to Jewish ceremonies (bris, kiddush, pidyon haben, etc.) and selected laws

• Baby furniture and clothing essentials shopping lists that make sense

• Choosing the pediatrician who is right for you

• Common childhood illnesses and when to call (and not to call) your doctor

• Everything, and we mean everything, you need to know to successfully feed your baby (over 70 pages on nursing your baby!)

• Developmental charts and information - from newborn to one year old

• Rolling, crawling, and (yikes!) walking. And babyproofing now that baby can really move!

• Baby massage guide

• Promoting speech development

• The when and what of solid food

• Sleep training - different approaches for different needs

And so much more: Everything you need to make your baby's first year a happy, healthy, and unforgettable growing experience for baby and for you!

Nothing gives fathers and mothers more joy than helping their children grow up healthy and happy, being loyal to Hashem and helping others. And nothing makes little boys and girls feel more secure than knowing that their parents are always there to help them.

In charming verse and delightful illustrations, Look What My Parents Give Me gently shows all the things parents do for their beloved children. Showing them the beauty of Hashem's mitzvos, helping them with a loose tooth, teaching them to share, hugging them when they fall down, giving them a smile when they need it, encouraging them when they're sad - and, of course, reading them wonderful books like this one.

Parents are always giving. Reading Look What My Parents Give Me to our children is another enjoyable gift - showing them the gift of gratitude. It's something that which will serve them well all their lives.

Growing With My Children takes the reader on a fascinating journey through one woman's life.

Remarkable for its sensitivity, honesty, and beauty of language, Growing With My Children will be enjoyed and treasured by every parent of a Torah true family.

For three years, Sarah Shapiro, homemaker and mother of six young children, kept a diary of her day-to-day efforts and experiences with motherhood - faithfully chronicling the struggles, fears, and joys of raising children.

Four eye-opening books that transmit to teachers important tools for dealing with the education of modern youth.

(An expansion of the previous book "Haben Yakir Li.")

Includes four volumes:

• "Be'ein HaSa'arah" - The path to the development and expression of love for parents and children
• "BeRoch HaSa'arah" - Tools for building the unique individuality of the child
• "KeShoch HaSa'arah" - Paving the paths the children will travel on
• "Be'ein HaSa'arah" - Dealing with common (unwanted) problems, and ways to avoid them

In a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate what it means to be a Jew?

Updated with current resource material, this wise and practical book provides help in finding and evaluating a Hebrew school, in dealing with secular peer-group pressures on children, and in planning family observances in the home.

Rabbi Simcha Wasserman was a rosh yeshivah; kiruv pioneer; advisor; foster father; storyteller; transmitter of tradition; founder of yeshivos; hatzalah activist.

This book captures him speaking with patience, simplicity, and intellect, about burning topics such as Holocaust, Kabbalah, Providence, and child-rearing.

Includes a biographical sketch.

A delectable treat for every parent!

This small, beautifully designed book dispenses bite-sized nuggets of wisdom in a heartwarming style.

The author, a noted educator and parenting group leader in Israel, addresses all aspects of family life with tips and advice on how to navigate the parenting journey in the best way possible.

With endearing illustrations and a rich format, this book makes a wonderful addition to every parent's repertoire, or a much-appreciated gift.

Bringing up spiritually healthy children in today's society is indeed a daunting task.

This book addresses the contemporary problems parents and educators face in raising children, in a straightforward, thorough manner, replete with practical examples, offering Torah wisdom coupled with vast experience in the field of child-rearing.

The author of My Child, My Disciple, and My Disciple, My Child, Rabbi Orlowek is acclaimed as an expert educator, counselor, and mashgiach in Yeshivas Torah Or.

This book addresses such topics as: Understanding children, problem-solving, effective listening and communication, the dynamics of love, building self-esteem in children, sibling rivalry, and coping with a hostile environment, among others.

Since its initial publication, Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice has swiftly become a favourite guide for parents.

Radcliffe understands the challenges that parents face in the big and small tasks of raising kids.

She offers stress-reduced strategies for gaining children’s cooperation, eliminating the need for anger and criticism.

Gentle on both parent and child, these strategies can be easily learned and used by anyone.

Radcliffe also suggests practical ways to strengthen the essential bond between parent and child. Her communication tools foster love, acceptance and healthy boundaries.

In addition, she shows parents how to help their kids deal with their emotions: handling disappointment, loss, fear, jealousy, anger and all the other human feelings.

And she helps parents cope with the most challenging aspect of child-rearing: their own feelings of helplessness, anxiety and stress.

Simple and effective, written in a clear and accessible style, Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice is the book that every parent needs.

Neverending parenting means providing conditional love, rather than the unconditional love given to a child.

There is a need for boundaries and obligations appropriate for the adult child.

The psychology presented in the book and the discussions deal with issues of belief, faith, and skepticism, as well as with more pragmatic matters.

A complete guide to childbirth for the mind, body and soul of the Jewish women.

Includes a CD

Rachel Broncher

This book will prepare you for one of the most awesome moments in your life: the experience of childbirth.

Although many books have been written about pregnancy, this is the first book which focuses mainly on the birth itself--which, for many women, is the most anxiety-ridden part of the nine months!

The author gives up-to-date information on such topics as pain relief, relaxation techniques, and how to make your birth the best that it can be. This is the Jewish woman's new, must-have manual which will motivate, inspire, and uplift!

According to the Torah, the Matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel were all barren, yet they gave birth to the founders of the Jewish religion.

The author reveals the Matriarchs' struggle to overcome the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of infertility, and their success through both prayer and deed.

She uses their experiences as a guide to her own struggles to conceive.

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and teens in this accessible, indispensable guide to surviving adolescence.

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough, bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. Now, they return with this essential guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today.

Filled with straightforward advice and written in their trademark, down-to-earth style sure to appeal to both parents and teens, this all-new volume offers both innovative, easy-to-implement suggestions and proven techniques to build the foundation for lasting relationships.

From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs, it gives parents the tools to help their children safely navigate the often stormy years of adolescence.

The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) with a new foreword—and available as an ebook for the first time—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors.

Internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish “are doing for parenting today what Dr. Spock did for our generation” (Parent Magazine).

Now, this bestselling classic includes fresh insights and suggestions as well as the author’s time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships, including innovative ways to:

• Cope with your child's negative feelings, such as frustration, anger, and disappointment
• Express your strong feelings without being hurtful
• Engage your child's willing cooperation
• Set firm limits and maintain goodwill
• Use alternatives to punishment that promote self-discipline
• Understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful praise
• Resolve family conflicts peacefully

Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.

Hidden Gems: Our Special Children encompasses an exceptional world: the world of children with special needs, and, even more, the world that is touched by them.

I loved my child so much, but I also wanted her to be "just like everybody else" more than anything ...

In their own words - the words of mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, special education professionals, and the special-needs individuals themselves -- we read of day-to-day triumphs and yes, occasional despair.

We meet a woman who adopted five children with Down syndrome, and another who realized her child would be better off in a residential facility.

A sister speaks honestly of her childhood anger at her special brother; a young boy inspires an entire class with his determination to walk, no matter what.

My message to others with special-needs is to never give up. No matter how hard it seems sometimes: never give up.

The narratives in Hidden Gems: Our Special Children are honest and compelling, fascinating and inspiring.

There is no sugar coating the problems, but there is always an abundance of hope and promise for the future.

When a new baby with Down syndrome is born, I tell the parents, "You will get more nachas - a nachas you could never imagine - from this child than from any of your others." They think I am crazy. About six months later they say, "Chaya, you were right..."

Hidden Gems: Our Special Children is a life-transforming work. Reading it sensitizes all of us to the needs and feelings of special children and those with whom they interact. Even more: we will all be inspired to deal with our own unique challenges, whatever they may be, with faith, determination, and courage.

Happiness is Homemade is a timely resource that helps families navigate contemporary life.

The book is the product of more than thirty years of research and counseling Jewish families and individuals who come from a broad range of observance levels.

Recognizing the influences and dynamics that are unique and particular to our times, the book explores why some of the educational methods that were successful in the past have limited impact today - and, more importantly, it tells us what works!

Happiness is Homemade is founded solidly on the Torah's enduring wisdom, and bears approbations from Rabbi Chaim Pinchus Scheinberg, Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon, Rabbi Eliyahu Ber Watchfogel and Rabbi Eliyahu Fisher.

This book examines such common issues as:

• how to nurture respect and responsibility
• how to provide appropriate attention
• how to establish and maintain boundaries
• how to deal with sibling rivalry
• how to guide teens through the adolescent years
• how to diffuse rebellion, apathy and obstinacy
• how to boost self-esteem

Author Rachel Arbus is a highly respected and recognized parenting and marriage counselor in Eretz Yisrael. She is the director of Jerusalem-based Pathways in Jewish Education (Nesivos BeChinuch HaYehudi). Her popular seminars and workshops have equipped countless parents with practical approaches to raising positive children.

In Effective Living, Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., shares with us two of the most important truths he has learned in his many decades of cutting-edge work, both as a psychiatrist and as a rav.

Change is hard. And change is possible.

Drawing upon his years of experience with thousands of people who want to live meaningful and satisfying lives, he shows us how to become more effective in our relationships - as parents, as spouses, as employees and as human beings living in an increasingly complex world.

We learn how to walk the fine line of "assertiveness" - the balance between passivity and aggression.

We discover how to motivate ourselves and others; how to uncover just what it is we really want to do, and how to make it happen; how to find the strength within us to change "I wish" to "I will."

Dr. Twerski does not back off from addressing many of the ills of contemporary society, such as eating disorders, anxiety and depression, "burnout," and ADHD.

Whether it is we or our loved ones who must deal with them, we will gain immeasurably from his balanced and compassionate perspective on understanding and coping with these challenges.

Effective Living includes sections on parenting young children and adolescents, on the specific challenges of the "sandwich generation," on issues of aging, and on the primary importance of prayer-its profound power and the peace of mind it proffers.

And of course, the book features the true-life stories that bring Dr. Twerski's wisdom to vivid life.

In Effective Living, Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. takes us on a grand tour... of ourselves, our personalities, our minds, and our amazing capacity for growth.

Every Jewish parent wants to know that he or she has equipped every child of the family to deal with the challenges of growing up in this turbulent era.

That goal is attainable, thanks to the wise and compassionate counsel of noted educator Rabbi Dov Brezak.

A talented and creative yeshivah principal for many years, Rabbi Brezak deals with every manner of child and family, and his creative yet practical techniques have won him an international audience.

His popular tape series on parenting has guided countless families through the complex situations confronting them daily.

Now the richness of his experience has been distilled in this outstanding book, offering sustained chizzuk, spiced with personal anecdotes and flowing with a love of children that comes across on every page.

Clearly written, with realistic examples and practical techniques, Chinuch in Turbulent Times will benefit every member of your household.

Inspired by Torah sources, Esther Gross, mother, grandmother and beloved author of You Are Not Alone and ChA-Zak introduces hands-on guidance, ideas and insights to combine discipline with love, rebuke with tact, teaching with reaching and opportune moments – to convert chaos into composure and tension into tranquility.

Just as lavish shades of color assemble into focus as a striking masterpiece, the diverse ideas and vibrant pages of AmA-Zing Parenting combine to reflect our illustrious role as parents.

AmA-Zing Parenting offers user-friendly, compassionate tools with striking images and soul-stirring messages all in a handy and compact volume.

This book will champion renewed efforts to connect with our beloved children by way of patience, empathy and understanding.

The more we recognize that our children are a gift from Hashem, the more joy we’ll be creating; and since children learn best by example (role modeling), we’ll essentially be teaching them how to live joyfully!

Few experiences are more beloved than motherhood, and yet the role can be very lonely.

There are no headlines applauding the accomplishment of getting all the kids to bed. No one sees the gargantuan effort it takes to seal the lips when all you really want to do is snap.

Mothers battle monotony and insecurity, fear and guilt - and they often do so alone.

A Mother's Musings breaks that loneliness.

In this beautifully-written book author and columnist Bassi Gruen allows us into her inner world as a mother.

With eloquence and honesty she shares the struggles and the joys, the hopes and the doubts. We stand with her as her baby moves into his own room, we see her deal with the toddler in the throes of a tantrum, we join her as her daughter makes her very first kugel.

In addition, selections of fiction are woven throughout the book, the stories of other women who could-have-been.

Bassi gives a peek at two levels of her life; the events as they occurred and the inner changes they stirred - the perspectives shifted, lessons learned, the resolves undertaken.

This is a book about growth and transformation, about how little people can trigger big changes.

The stories are hers - but in them you will find yourself, your mother, your neighbor, your friend. For they are the stories of all Jewish mothers.