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.

Character Is the Key: How to Unlock the Best in Our Children and Ourselves. Sara Dimerman, $23.95

The character education movement is an incredibly successful and growing phenomenon. When important character attributes like honesty, integrity, and fairness are modeled and taught to kids, they develop an inner compass that continues to guide them in a positive direction.  In Character Is the Key, Sara Dimerman shares proven techniques in a powerful, step-by-step plan that will help you bring your family together, improve communication, and unlock the very best in your children — and yourself.

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.

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.

Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees offers exercises and concrete examples on everything from understanding the difference between “need” and “want’; responsible budgeting and financial planning to the power of the media and the Internet for kids ages three to twenty.

Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change, Barbara Coloroso, $19.99

When families are facing crisis, parents struggle with how to best nurture and support their children. Parenting Through Crisis offers practical guidance through difficult situations and shows caring adults what they can do to help children facing trauma or loss. Barbara Coloroso's deep love and respect for children once again shine in her compassionate look at parenting during times of chaos and uncertainty. Kids are worth it!

Parenting Wit & Wisdom from Barbara Coloroso, Barbara Coloroso, $13.99

This pocket-sized book is a perfect companion to the earlier books, Parenting Through Crisis and Kids are Worth It! Parenting Wit & Wisdom is a portable reminder of the wisdom and advice that has made Barbara Coloroso an internationally respected speaker, author and educator. For those new to her work, it is a great introduction to Barbara Coloroso's parenting philosophy and effective strategies.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

Winning at Parenting...Without Beating Your Kids, Barbara Coloroso. audio CD $16.95; DVD $28.95

Based on the philosophies of her highly acclaimed book Kids are Worth It!, Barbara Coloroso presents a positive and humorous approach to chores, discipline, mealtime, rebellion, sibling rivalry, and sex education." Parents will learn how to empower and influence their children instead of controlling them," giving their children "the gift of inner discipline."