Adolescent-Pregnancy-and-Births Books

I got this book for my granddaughter when she was pregnant. She has read and referred to this book so much, it's showing signs of wear and tear. She loves this book. Her husband has read it too. They find it very informative and a great guide for first-time parents.

"Perfect Parenting" is not about being a perfect parent. As a mom of two, I've come to realize we do the best we can with what we've got, and there's no such thing as perfect. Elizabeth Pantley's book is a solid guide that offers a nurturing hand in moments of distress or cluelessness. She's a mom of four. And she REALLY knows her stuff!

I found the book especially helpful in dealing with issues of lying or rough behavior. Kudos to Elizabeth for another job well done.

~Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of DIARY OF A MOTHER and SAHM I AM: TALES OF A STAY-AT-HOME MOM IN EUROPE.

I bought this book after reading the rave reviews here, but I was somewhat deceived by it.

I think that some the deception stems out of the fact that I already owned a book by E. Pantley ( Kid Cooperation, which I recommend) and I found the author repeating itself in this book.

Also, I do not like the title, which I find lousy .

Moreover, unlike Kid Cooperation, this book places issues in alphabetical order so that you can browse through them, and does not dwell much into details ( psychological insights etc) . This can be great if you already know the basics of healthy parenting, but in the hands of the average parent, many of the hints could actually do more harm than good.
I don't like that much the "user's manual " style and I did like Pantley before reading this book more than I do now.

I've come to believe that before facing parenting issues and "misbehavior" most parents should work it out with THEIR own issues. Books like this may deceive into thinking that parenting is a matter of knowing the "right tricks" instead of a matter of attitude... Actually it is both, but the right attitude comes first, and without it the tools provided by this book will not work consistently.

I still give 3 stars to this book because it actually has some good hints and ideas ( although almost all of them, plus interesting insights on parental issues/behavior, can be found in Kid Cooperation). It can be useful as a reminder or a quick fix for those parents who are already "perfect" most of the time.

I loved the ideas this book suggests. I've been dealing with my daughter's tantrums due to the new baby, and this book has been extremely helpful. It not only gives me ideas on how to calm my daughter down, but it also shows me how to calm myself down. I think every parent knows what I'm talking about.

This is a great handy book to keep around to pick up a few tips anytime you have an issue with your kids and you don't know what to do. Once you look up your topic you get various options -- one of which is bound to work. The A to Z format makes it a snap to find what you're looking for. Includes typical stuff like sibling fights and dawdling to more unusual like won't eat vegetables or doesn't like her hair being washed and shoplifting and being a poor sport and even typical but weird things like nose picking. I keep it on the counter and use it often.

This is a comprehensive publication including the cultural and medical issues surrounding teen pregnancy and implications for practice. It is must read for professionals caring for adolescents. It's practical approach and outline for a teen pregnancy program are still valid today. Highly recommended.

This is the best monograph on the market for professionals caring for pregnant teens. It covers the phyisological, psychologial, social, and educational needs of pregnant teens. It is a must read. Subsequent publications don't compare. Ask for this edition.

This mongraph gives a practical approach to teen pregnancy. Excellent resourch for teachers and health care professionals.

Excellent resource for all health care professionals who care for pregnant teens.

Authors review factors related to prevalence of teen pregnancy, risks and issues surrounding teen pregnancy. Authors share their experience in establishing a successful Adolescent Pregnancy Program which signficantly improved outcomes in teen mothers. Authors include excellent resources, including medical records tools, audio-visual resources, and program outline. Offers a turn key approach to professionals planning to develop such a program. Comes with 6 nursing contact hours.

This book is a must given the intense pressure on kids placed by parents and educators on the young nowadays. I have enthusiactically recommend this books to all my friends with young children. The topics on the development of the brains is definitely a good read for parents who are pushing their kids beyond their development stage. Beware that your kids may miss out on developments/experience that will be necessary in the later part of his/her life

It details in a clear, parent-friendly way the various developmental phases growing children go through and explains why it is so important that they be allowed to go through those phases. I wish this book had been available when my children were young! It makes an excellent gift to give to new parents.

If you buy this book to learn about your baby, plan to hang on to it for many, many years. I have a newborn AND a 14-year-old. Although there was a lot of interesting information concerning my newborn, I learned even MORE about my older child! I really wish I had had this book a few years ago when she was struggling through sixth and seventh grades. I finally understand why she struggled! There were tips in this book that would have helped. This is a book I will try to reread at least once a year because the information is relevant to so many stages in your child's life. It is easy to read, enjoyable and useful. I especially like the bullet points of things to do at the end of each section.

This excellent and easily read book is a "must read" for parents. As a support group leader for 37 home schooling families, I recommend this book as a priority buy for the home library. It gives parents a realistic view of what children are and are not capable of at different stages in their developement. It helps us realize just what our children's capabilities are and how to maxamize our teaching. Dr. Healy's writing style is very easy to read, informative and lively. The chapters are laid out in such a way as to make it easy to find any area of interest. For most of us, motivation is a subject we discuss often. Under "Tools for Learning," she lists "Motivation (pg.190)," and "Ingredients for Motivation (pg. 214). In each chapter, she outlines key information about the subject, for example "Raising Motivated Learners," and "Dealing with Motivation Problems." She gives anecdotal stories to underscore the information she presents, which makes it much easier for a layman to understand. This book definitely impacted not only my teaching style, but bettered my relationship with my teenager. This is an important book to have in your home.

Just ordered another 3 copies of Healy's book (1994 edition). This book was recommended in my doctorate program in education as a MUST HAVE for anyone who is expecting. The suggestions of how to build brain capacity and learning begin while a woman is pregnant, so I've purchased it for all female family members who are now expecting as well as those who have recently had babies. I've also purchased a copy for my elementary school's parent resource center. The information presented in Healy's book presents the transitions of the brain through the school years in a practical, easy to understand manner.

Sheila Kritzinger explains in laymans terms many of the causes of incessant crying in infants. As complex as this problem is, she makes it easy to understand which in turn helps one implement her ideas for handling the fussy baby.

I am an Occupational Therapist with an in-depth knowledge of the subject myself and have no hesitation in recommending this book.I am just devastated that this book is out of print as I've only been able to read a library's copy. This is a book every parent should have on their bookshelves.

This book was a very easy to read guide on every aspect of pregnancy. Offered stories and insight from other pregnant teens and teenage mothers. It answered every possible question I could think of. Very helpful book.

This book is a compilation of three books by Glenn Doman "How to Teach Your Baby to Read", "How to Teach Your Baby Math" and "How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge". You can buy these three books instead of this one. If you already have these three books, "How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence" won't give additional value or new information.

Initially I was skeptical about teaching my 18-month daughter to read and math, but found out that that Glenn Doman and Janet Doman have discovered the completely different method of teaching babies, not the same that is using in junior schools. Their method suits for a baby from zero moths old, i.e. from birth. The are three lessons per day, each lesson last fifteen seconds and give such a joy to the baby that she woke me up in the mornings asking me to teach her math. When she hears my steps when I return from my job, she runs to me to teach her math. The babies CAN and WANT to learn!

The babies are eager to learn, they want desperately to learn everything they can, as quickly as possible, but the adults are often fail to provide for the babies the adequate opportunity of learning.

Glenn Doman and Janet Doman offer funny and inexpensive way of teaching the baby to read, math, and encyclopedic knowledge by means of special inventory. For math, it is cards with big red dots indicating a real quantity. For reading, it is cards with printed words. For encyclopedic knowledge, it is cards with images.

A few words from my own experience on producing the inventory: don't even imagine of cutting the cards or the red dots by you. Order the empty cards of the specified size in a nearby company, which prints business cards. For math, order five thousand 0.75-inch sticky red circles cut by a plotter on a roll of ORACAL in a nearby company, which decorates the shop windows. The authors do not emphasize on ORACAL, but my experience shows that the process of putting the circles to the cards should be much easier then. You can even give the baby to put the dots to the cards. It will develop the fingers.

I also recommend "How to Teach Your Baby to Be Physically Superb" by Glenn Doman in addition to this book.

My parents did Glenn Doman's entire program -- reading, math, physical and encyclopedic knowledge as well as Suzuki violin -- with me, my younger sister and brothers. It had such a profound impact on our lives. We all have retained the love of learning into adulthood, and NEVER felt pressured as children. If you want to give your children the greatest gift ever (after the gift of life) then please read all of Glenn Doman's books! This book is meant to be an introduction -- you will find the program easier if you read every book in the series. Have a wonderful time!

I have a 4 month old daughter and I am excited to get started with Glenn Doman's Math, Reading and Encyclopedic Knowledge. My Husband and I are both teachers and see children struggle every day with reading and math, especially fractions. If we can give our daughter a head start, it is more than worth the time it takes to create the materials.

I found that a Red Bingo Dabber works great for creating the math dots. Not only is it cheap, it makes it very quick and easy to create the math cards. I did 100 in 20 minutes. The reading cards take more time, but it is less time than I usually put in creating classroom materials.

This book seems to have been written in order to sell the three previous books by Glenn Doman: "How to Teach Your Baby to Read", "How to Teach Your Baby Math", and "How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge". Apparently you have to buy these three books instead of this one. This book is the most verbose ingratiating introduction I have ever read and won't give additional value or new information.

His methods sound good and other people seem to think they work. I'm going to look into his other books, but reading this was a little frustrating. It was like watching one of those HBO "behind the scenes" movie trailers that for half an hour tell you how great the movie that they're making is going to be. The movie may be good, but the introduction is just a long tedious overview, with no real information. Or to put it another way, perhaps, like those 3-hour midnight infomercials

You have to do A LOT of skimming through the 400 pages just to get a glimpse of what he's talking about. And lest I leave you without giving a specific example. This is just a sample of what he consistently does throughout the book:

"If one took a dull saw and slowly cut a leg off a human being who was in a profound coma, he would not object in any way...[etc]...Why? ...[etc]...He can't see you cutting it off. He can't hear you cutting it off. He can't feel you cutting it off. He can't smell you cutting it off. He can't taste you cutting it off. He has no facts at his disposal. Without facts there can be no intelligence."

If you can muddle through this drek he has some interesting things to say, but it's a real effort. I'm imagining if I do get any of the other books. I'll need a highlighter just to highlight when he actually comes to a point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm anxious to learn, and to teach my baby... but reading Glenn Doman et al. is a challenge in and of itself. His techniques seem a lot simpler than he tries to make them out to be. And from the other reviews, apparently they work.

At the risk of becoming overly verbose myself, avoid this book and cut to the chase by getting one of the other books in the series.

My wife used this book religiously since our son was 1. Now he is a 4 3/4 yr old preschooler who has been reading basically since he could talk. His preschool teacher gives him assignments in a 4th grade math book, but they are too easy for him. He totally understands math, fractions, cubes, and square roots. His biggest challenge is writing his equations, as his writing level is at about grade level. He's also a wonderful, caring, well adjusted, and sweet little guy.

in the indian ancient epic "mahabharatha", there comes an incident that "abhimanyu" son of arjuna learnt while from his mother's womb, when his mother is hearing a conversation between lord krishna and five pandavas. krishna is teaching how to break the trap of "badmavyug", a type of trap set in the war to catch and kill the brave warriors who cannot be defeated by any other means. abhimanyu learns from his mothers womb how to get inside the trap, but unfortunately, her mother gets up and goes away, while krishna explaining how to come out of the trap. abhimanyu learnt the art of getting in but never knows how to come out. this resulted in his fate, later in the war, that he was trapped, caught and killed by the enemies. i thought these types of 'learning from the womb' are myths. but after reading this book, it makes some sense that there are immense truth in these old epics.

This man has contributed hugely for 30 years. He should be knighted.

The arrival of this book is great news! This is the long-awaited tenth-anniversary edition of Dr. Chamberlain's 1988 classic, Babies Remember Birth. In paperback format and enriched with a new last chapter, this book has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at babies, both before and after birth. Part I is filled with "user-friendly" information about the mind and abilities of newborns, as well as a thorough look at their development before birth. Parts II and III present evidence that babies do remember birth and are very much aware of the people around them at that time. There are many amazing stories of labor and birth, from the baby's point of view. As Dr. Chamberlain writes, "Birth memories indicate that babies have an identity of their own; their parents don't give it to them. They act mindfully and build experience around a central core of self." The new last chapter is worth the price of the book all by itself. Dr. Chamberlain writes compellingly about the newborn's sensitivity, awareness, and vulnerability. He emphasizes the importance and power of the infant-and-parent connection during pregnancy and after birth. When the information in this book becomes common knowledge, we will look at our children with new respect and understanding.

Despite many facts updating Thomas Verny's The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, an expectant parent finishes this book saying,"So what?" All the data does really not provide a useful direction for its evidence that the fetus is capable of learning. However, I found that my two children vastly benefitted from the prenatal enrichment system described by Dr. Sarah Brewer in her recent book, Super Baby, with its compelling documentation for the product called BabyPlus (see www.babyplus.com), which as a nurse I would urge that parents-to-be consider.

"Secrets" gives many unbelievable and informative studies with much insite to problems that effect our actions and responses to circumstances today. I wish there were something updated, since this was published in the early eighties.

While pregnant in 1984 my wife read this book. She said it gave her insight on the importance of her mental and physical health, as well as the environment, on our unborn child. I remember her rocking, singing, playing soft classical music, rubbing her stomach and talking to our yet to be born child. As long as I can remember, our son has known that we love him and he has turned out to be a well-balanced bright man.

My interest is on thought and how it affects human behavior. Until recently, I had no idea that The Secret Life of the Unborn Child was the same book that my wife read a little over 23 years ago. I think it is a great read and recommend it to those who plan on having children. While the authors are clear that many of their thoughts are based unproven speculation and theory, the core of the book makes sense and certainly did not negatively impact our bonding with our son.

We know now that the unborn child thinks, feels and hears. Smoking, drinking, drugs, food, sounds and emotions of the mother all affect the health and well-being of the unborn child. The mother and child share experiences, stress, anxiety, peace, harmony and joy. Her physiological by-products of those experiences are communicated across the placental barrier. The child hears the father and is soothed or alarmed by the tone and volume of that communication as well as the way the mother processes her responses.

The authors put forth serious theories that may or may not actually have a positive or negative affect on the roots of the way a child develops, perceives life, learns, bonds, socializes and lives his or her life.

Up-to-date books of this nature should be read and studied in school to teach people the importance of their habits and actions on the unborn child and toddlers. This book is especially useful to those planning a family, deciding on the doctor, and birthing atmosphere and those who are interested in child development and health.

I read it when I was pregnant with my son and have never forgotten it. I highly recommend it to anyone that is pregnant.

This book was originally written in 1981, and its citations and science should not be taken literally. Many of Verny's points are unsubstantiated-- based on research that looked promising at the time that has since gone nowhere. Other points have been proven wrong over the course of time.

None of this takes away from the important central message in the book. Bonding with your child in the womb is important. The choices that you make regarding how you conduct your pregnancy and birth should be made with that bond in mind. Verny does a very good job of driving that point home. Honestly, I'm not sure that it can be repeated often enough.

Read the book, but read it with a grain of salt. Some of the dated science is actually a little bit harmful, I believe. There's an implied association between unready mothers and stillbirths, for instance, which is particularly unkind to those who have gone through a stillbirth. Childbirth has worry enough involved, without having to take some of the (unproven) points in here to heart.

Dr. Verney was certainly a pioneer and remains a leader in the field of pre and perinatal psychology. This book is a good primer, filled with citations and references. If, like me, you are someone familiar with the ideas presented, this book may seem elementary. I would have preferred to purchase one of his more recent titles with updates to his theories. This book is a little bit of singing to the choir, not a wholly dispassionate scientific study but that doesn't detract from its central message that the pre and perinatal environment matters.

Based on some guys fantasies. Get "What's going on in there" by Lise Eliot instead.

This author pretends that he is speaking as the baby and its ridiculous. He is a baby with a HUGE extensive vocabulary and is also very poetic. At times these baby narrations just become too silly to even take this book seriously.

This is an amazing book. It tells the story of what life is like from birth to age 4 from the point of view of the child. I give it as a gift to every new parent I know because I believe that the most important quality in a parent is empathy -- the capacity to understand the inner experience of their child. It is written by a highly respected researcher on child development and is also useful for graduate students in psychology to get a handle on difficult concepts in a pleasurable way.

As a pediatrician, I love this little book and have given it to all my friends when they had their first baby. Dr. Stern is a recognized expert on early childhood development and teaches at Cornell. In this book he has done something quite unusual. He succeeded in weaving the pearls from his academic work into a delightful, readable book that any interested person can enjoy. This book makes it fun to understand your child better.

Dr. Stern's prose is beautiful. He presents, in near poetry-format, a fascinating look into the mind of an infant. Starting at 4 weeks and continuing to 4 years, he brings you into the world of a child. I couldn't put this book down! (And this is notable, given that I am a new Mom and have more than enough to do!)

sometimes amusing, sometimes horrifying, always fascinating, the book would more accurately be titled "white babies: history, art & folklore" because it focuses entirely on the upbringing of european, mostly french, babies. reading through this book, i came to wonder why the authors chose to detail the history of white babies & not include the traditions of other cultures, and then it came to me - because our european culture is absurdly, almost dangerously, "clever" in our devising of ways to presumably make our lives easier! one need only look into simple pieces of cloth the african bushwoman uses to tie her baby onto her back, or the split-crotch pants devised by the chinese to facilitate easier pottying by their babies or even the daily baths & massages lavished upon indigenous babies all over the world to realize that the western culture is extremely backward in it's thinking. breast milk is poisonous? well, who else but the europeans would come up with such an absurd notion?! men attending at birth? well golly, it had to be white men who decided they were so threatened by the success of midwives that they burned them at the stake! babies need fresh air? well, let's hang them from the windowsills!

all that aside, i really enjoy beatrice fontanel's thorough style of investigation & her ability to dig up the most amazing images from all points in history. this book is the complementary opposite of her other book, "babies celebrated", which remains one of my very favorite pictorial accounts of traditional cultures & their newest societal members.