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Little Steps for New Parents by Sandy Briggs is a weekly guide to help parents create an environment that encourages healthy emotional, intellectual, and physical development. It includes enjoyable activities that build upon your natural parenting instincts and your baby's strong motivation to learn and thrive. $15.95

Help Your Child
With Stress & Anxiety

Ready Set Relax Ready, Set, RELAX! is a program for preschool to intermediate kids that builds self-esteem and relieves stress and anxiety through exercises,activities and storytelling. $23.95.
A CD of relaxation music and exercises is also available. $15.95.

Power of Positive Talk

The Power of Positive Talk - Words to Help Every Child Succeed by Douglas Bloch, M.A., with Jon Merritt, M.S. shows how you can influence the "self-talk" of the children in your life. Affirmations are more than just words. They can heal hurts, build self-esteem, and inspire us to face life with confidence and courage. Our world is filled with stress, pressures and fears. Children need support and encouragement from adults - and they need to know how to affirm themselves. Help the children in your care talk to themselves in a "yes" voice (positive, spontaneous, creative, and joyful) rather than in a critical, negative "no voice." This book makes affirmations easy to understand and use with children of all ages in all kinds of situations. It also includes affirmations for adults. $16.95.

Insider Tips for School Success

The School Savvy Parent - 365 Insider Tips to Help You Help Your Child. These tips come straight from the source--teachers. Positive and practical, the tips help you support your child's education from the start of the school year to summer vacation. Topics include health and safety, latchkey issues, talking with teachers,volunteering at your child's school and more. This friendly book can make school easier and more rewarding for everyone - including you. $12.95.

Help Your Child
Make a Difference

The Kid's Guide to Service Projects provides over 500 service ideas for young people who want to make a difference. They can pick a topic - animals, community development, crime fighting, the environment, friendship, hunger, literacy, politics and government, safety, senior citizens or something else - and then flip through the book to find ideas for all kinds of service projects from simple things they can do on their own to large-scale commitments that involve whole communities. The American Library Association says, "Best of the Best for Children." $12.95.