Many believe it is a matter of luck as to whether you are blessed with a baby who sleeps well or are landed with one who doesn't. It isn't. Beatrice Hollyer and Lucy Smith provide clear, sensible and effective advice on how to achieve peaceful, problem-free nights in Sleep - from the first days of infancy throughout childhood. Taking a cue from the baby, and working with their natural instinct, this book puts parents in charge. Avoiding conflict over sleep, this approach builds trust, communication and confidence in your relationship with your baby. Instead of a one-size fits-all approach, Hollyer and Smith offer guidelines that can be adapted for each particular parent and baby. By understanding her needs, reading and responding to her signals and following her lead, you can strongly reinforce your baby's natural tendency to adapt to sleeping all night. Although focusing on establishing good sleep habits from the start of life, the principles put forward in this book can also be used to solve a sleep problem in a child of any age, usually in less than a week.
Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book demonstrates how information impacts major political phenomena, including mass protest, the survival of dictatorships, democratic stability, as well as economic performance. The book introduces a new measure of a specific facet of transparency: the dissemination of economic data. Analysis shows that democracies make economic data more available than do similarly developed autocracies. Transparency attracts investment and makes democracies more resilient to breakdown. But transparency has a dubious consequence under autocracy: political instability. Mass-unrest becomes more likely, and transparency can facilitate democratic transition - but most often a new despotic regime displaces the old. Autocratic leaders may also turn these threats to their advantage, using the risk of mass-unrest that transparency portends to unify the ruling elite. Policy-makers must recognize the trade-offs transparency entails.
When Kate disappears without a trace, Mini is devastated. But she's determined to find her sister. An unsuspected secret is her first clue to tracking Kate down...and fixing her broken family.
Jessye's tumultuous life flits between her grandmother and her mother. As she tries to make sense of her family past, she discovers secrets that lurk beneath the surface of all of their lives... A beautifully told story set in New Zealand.
But it was Mum!" Eric tells Lizzie. "I saw her..." At first, Lizzie thinks it's just one of her little brother's stories. Their mother's dead; there's no way she could be working in a museum gift shop. But what if Eric's right? If there's a mystery at the heart of Lizzie's family, she wants to solve it ... A gripping read from the acclaimed author of THE TRUTH ABOUT JOSIE GREEN and SECRETS, LIES AND MY SISTER KATE.
Josie Green and her sister just don't get on - in fact, sometimes she thinks they can't even be related, they're so different. Then, Josie declares herself 'Josie Green, Family Detective' for a school project, and she can't wait to get started. But, when she comes across secrets she wasn't meant to discover, things start getting out of hand...
Beatrice Hollyer, together with experienced health visitor Lucy Smith, provides parents with advice on how to establish and maintain good sleep patterns for their babies.
Breast or bottle? When to start on solids? How do you deal with a child who refuses to eat? All these questions and more are regularly asked by anxious parents. These are all explained in this new book which encourages parents to tune in to and respond to their child's needs so that mealtimes go smoothly from the start.
When Jamie's Dad finds a photograph of their new home, taken in 1879, he has to buy it. But Jamie realizes the figures in the photograph move. Soon they start to visit Jamie each night... What do they want? How can Jamie stop them haunting him?"--Cover.
Today's children experience many different types of families in their own as well as in their friends' lives. This exuberant collection includes more than 150 poems from some of today's best poets to reflect the enormous diversity of modern family life. Poems about individual family members are deftly interwoven with themes of belonging and togetherness, family feuds, shared memories, play, loss, and love. Holly Swain's delightful illustrations add sparkle and charm throughout. Bubbling with attitude and affection, this is a true celebration of families everywhere and a perfect collection to share.
Examines plant and animal communities throughout the prehistoric eras, showing how living things adapt to their surroundings and stressing the way in which all are linked to each other.
Survivors is a collection of stories about young people caught up in some of the great conflicts & disasters of recent times. Through their eyes we experience the hardships & dangers of living through war, poverty, or at the mercy of unjust regimes.
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