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Brilliant Baby Names - How to
Choose a Name that you and your child will love for life
Geoff King,
Laura King
ISBN: 9780273715030
£6.99
The name we are given by our parents has a big impact on us.
Throughout our life, from the playground to the office, other people will
make instinctive and subconscious assumptions about who we are just from our
name. Therefore, finding a name that you like and suits your child is not
easy, and the possibilities seem endless. So where do you start?
Brilliant Baby Names has all
the answers and will help you to take the worry out of getting your baby’s
name just right. More than just an alphabetical list of popular names,
Brilliant Baby Names is the ultimate guide to naming your baby.
Whether you’re seeking or searching for help in handling
disagreements or family expectations, this book can help. Packed with 1000s
of names to review, each is listed with details on what they mean and their
origin.
You’ll re-discover traditional names that have been
popular in the past; cool names where virtually anything goes; popular names
that everyone’s using; unusual names; celebrity names and famous names that
the whole world will know.
As well as the name lists though, you'll find everything
you need to remember and avoid when considering a name for your child.
There's also detailed information on why choosing the right name is so
important and how it may affect your child's opportunities in life. If you
need more help or are looking for a namesake, you’ll find extra inspiration
in the lists of the 100 greatest names from cinema, literature,
entertainment, sport and many more.
There’s essential help and advice in handling and
resolving any disagreements with your partner and managing family
expectations, adn you'll find out what the law requires: when and how to
register your child’s name, how your legal name is used and what to do if
you wish to change your child’s name later. So, if you need help naming your
baby, Brilliant Baby Names is the only book you’ll need.
Totz2teens Member Review: Choosing the right name
for a child is one of those worrying things facing all expectant parents.
Will it be right for the child, will it suit him/her. Will others in
the family like the name or will it cause a rift. In this book we are
lead through the pitfalls ect that may happen when you choose a name.
I suppose the Joe King's of the world groan every time their full name is
mentioned and people laugh. I liked this book because even though it
has the normal baby name book part this isnt the whole of the book. The
normal 'book' style of the first part gives parents to be the chance to
start delving into the parenting manuals that I am sure they will spend vast
periods of time searching for that pivotal gem. If we were to extend
our family I am sure this book would be very useful and if we dont choosing
a name of our next pet can be just as inventive.
I personally loved the section called 100 best characters in fiction.
Some fabulous name choices and great to be named after something so
exciting.
Totz2teens Member Rating: 5/5
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How to have Healthy Happy
Children - The 10 Step Plan by Kristina Murrin
ISBN: 978-1-4066-3893-6 £14.99
It seems the health and happiness of our nation’s children has never
been more publicly discussed and analyzed than it is today. Daily, we are
reminded of how child obesity is on the increase, literacy amongst children
is worsening, children are increasingly suffering from depression and how
they’re spending far too much time sitting idle in front of the TV or
computer games.
With every piece of bad news comes another expert telling
you how you’re failing your child and how you should be doing things
differently. It’s hard to know, from all this differing advice, what really
works and whether these problems really do apply to you and your child.
So how, in this modern age of convenience foods, TV,
mobile phones, the internet, computer games, rising crime rates and bad
school dinners, do you know exactly what is best and what you really need to
be doing to foster a healthy and happy life for your child? How do you
protect your child from all these negative influences? How do you know
whether you’re doing it right, doing it wrong or not doing it all?
This new book aims to help you sort the facts from the
fiction and guide you, step-by-step, along the best and most reliable routes
to ensuring your children grow up healthily and happily.
Healthy, Happy Children takes
many of the most common parenting questions and, by digging out facts based
on the best available science and research, gives you the answers.
The book will encourage you to make a connection between
your parenting style and its implications on your child’s present and
future. Then, through an easy-to-follow ten-step plan and some simple
principles and advice, you’ll discover how small, yet significant, changes
can bring huge, immediate and long-term benefits.
Discover all the facts about your child’s diet, what they
should be eating, how much sugar and salt they should be consuming, how to
pack a good, healthy lunch and all about vitamins and minerals.
Find out why communication, safety and good discipline are
all important in your child’s development, how you can encourage them into
exercise and help them to find a sport or pastime they can really enjoy.
Learn how you may, at times, have to put your own preferences to one side in
the best interests of your child.
Other themes covered include sleep; learning; respect and
responsibility; love and praise and how you can get more involved in and
share your child’s interests. You’ll find information and advice on a huge
range of pertinent subjects including limiting TV and computer games; how
your smoking may be affecting your child; how much homework your child
should be getting; to smack or not to smack and how to manage your anger.
The book covers the wide range of subjects and numerous
factors important to your child’s life expectancy and quality of life.
There’s no agenda, no strict rules and no rights or wrongs. How to Have
Healthy Happy Children simply gives you the facts, advice and guidance
you are looking for and allows you the freedom to decide if, and how, you
apply them to your own situation.
Totz2teens Member Review: This book is bright and cheerful.
I was keen to read this as of course having Healthy Happy children is
something we all want. The different vitamins are discussed along with
how to achieve giving your children the opportunity to eat them easily.
This book has a great table showing how much sleep different aged children
need. This I found interesting as sleep is something I feel deprived
in personally. It suggests that 7/8 years old need 10.5 hours sleep
which actually is alot less than I want them to have. So If I'm
putting them to bed at 7.30 it isnt unreasonable for them to be up at 6am is
it. MMMM something worth thinking about. Discussing the amount
of caffeine in some drinks also made me think. I love that this book
does not simply cover food but also about diet, exercise, sleep, learning ,
love & praise, getting involved, discipline and boundaries, respect &
responsibility, safety - including road safety, communication. I think
this is very thorough and the bright pictures allow the mind to wander and
not have too much information being thrown at you. I think this was
written in a clear manner and I will certainly be using this book again and
again.
Totz2teens Member Rating: 5/5
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Superpowers for Parents: the psychology of great parenting and
happy children by Dr Stephen Briers
ISBN: 97802737814354 £9.99
Parenting isn’t easy. However much we
love our children sometimes they push us to our limits and we’re left
feeling emotionally, mentally and physically drained. Sometimes we feel like
we could do with a few superpowers to make life easier for all concerned.
In Superpowers for Parents, clinical psychologist Dr Stephen Briers
introduces a new, proactive way of parenting - a way of giving children the
ability to understand, control and regulate their reactions and head off
most ‘bad’ behaviour and a host of other potential mental health problems,
before they take root. Dr Briers believes these skills are as fundamentally
important to children as the ability to read and write.
It’s no wonder than sometimes everything builds up into one unbearable sense
of pressure until you just want to explode.
The value in teaching children psychological life skills is not just about
preventing things going wrong, but giving children tools that can enhance
their sense of competence, self-esteem and fulfilment.
If we invest in equipping children with the mental tools they need, they
will be less reliant on bad behaviours and become more resourceful, finding
productive ways to resolve their problems, not just at home, but at school,
with their friends and throughout life. With these skills under their belt
children will be in able to enjoy a more carefree, happy childhood.
Totz2teens Member Review: Superpowers for Parents - I could do with
this sometimes. One bit of advice I found struck a cord with me was
Tell your child that it's ok to feel whatever they feel... but it isn't
always ok to act on that feeling. I found the role play examples
really useful as you can see where something may occur and the right way of
handling that behaviour. Seeing different perspectives is so useful
and this book doesn't fail in this department. Reading about the
Traffic Light Rule for anger made so much sense and addressed issues that my
family have problems with down to a tee. I liked the fact that this
book doesn't demand the parent does everything but helps the you help your
child to recognise the trigger symptoms of their own behaviours which of
course will help them in future years. A worthy book to read
which covers a slightly different way of looking at parenting. Its not
about telling you, you must do this and that but looking deeper at why.
Which was truly quite invaluable.
Totz2teens member Rating: 4/5
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