Viva Editions and I are giving away these books to one lucky amotherworld reader:
Help! My Toddler Came Without Instructions
Practical Tips for Parenting a Happy One, Two and Three Year Old
by Blythe Lipman
Foreword by Dr. John Duffy
Raising children is a serious business, especially in this era of two working parents with jam-packed schedules. A helping hand can make all the difference.
Nationally known parenting expert Blythe Lipman is on a mission to help parents, offering hundreds of practical tips with a dash of humor. Go from stressed-out, overwhelmed and exhausted to melt-down free and mellow!
Help! My Toddler Came Without Instructions was written to provide parents with quick solutions to help with those hair-raising toddler issues. When some new “toddler troubles” arise, grab the book, find the solution and you’ll be back in control of your out-of-control child. Topics include sleeping (ways to transition from crib to bed, naps, creating a friendly sleep environment and nightly rituals and routines), potty training (age discussion, type of potty to use, fears, underwear, charts and issues), and fears (night terrors, stranger anxiety, the dark, monsters and separation anxiety).
Crafting Calm
Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation
By Maggie Oman Shannon
As our world has become increasingly dependent on technology, artisans and everyday crafters are finding a renewed satisfaction in making something with their own hands; they are also finding physical and mental health benefits in handwork, framing it as a spiritual practice.
Shannon illustrates that you can literally “craft the crazy away” through knitting and crocheting, candle-making, and beadwork. By joining up with fellow enthusiasts you create community and enrich your life.
In Crafting Calm, a D.I.Y. guide to peace of mind, Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a spiritual practice providing enormous benefits. Shannon takes a rich “potpourri approach” that weaves together interviews, historical facts, “Soul Craft” projects for readers, quotations, and suggested resources. Crafting Calm inspires with its broad assortment of spiritual practices gathered from crafts communities around the world, as well as from everyday people who have adopted creative forms of spiritual practice.
The book’s crafts and how-to ideas include prayer shawls, prayer beads, God Boxes, contemplation candles, sand mandalas, finger labyrinths, personal prayer flags, spiritual toolkits, and luminarias.
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