Parenting and Childcare

Stella O'Malley / Cotton Wool Kids : What's Making Irish Parents Paranoid? (Large Paperback)

  What has happened to Irish childhood? Parents are keeping their children indoors for fear of predators lurking around every corner and children are spending their days in front of screens or in supervised activities, over-controlled and growing...

Ken Graver / A Guide for the Partners of Incest Survivors (Large Paperback)

  Although the impact of incest or sexual abuse can destroy relationships and test long-standing commitments, Ghosts in the Bedroom provides comfort and guidance for partners in the process of recovery. Graber draws from personal experience to...

Maire O'Dwyer / At the Coalface : A Family Guide to Caring for Older People in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Cherry Chappell / Perfect Wedding Planning

 Perfect Wedding Planning is an indispensable guide to every aspect of arranging and coordinating the wedding you've always wished for. Covering everything from booking the caterers to choosing the wedding favours, it walks you through exactly what...

Barbara Want / Baby Secrets : How to Know Your Baby's Needs (Large Paperback)

 "Jo's pioneering 'spaced soothing' technique is a failsafe method that teaches babies to enjoy their sleep and empowers parents to understand their babies better." - Made for MumsBaby Secrets will guide you through the early weeks of your baby's...

Naomi Stadlen / How Mothers Love (Large Paperback)

 Mothers describe falling in love with their babies and then, more slowly, learning to understand them. Children flourish when their mothers love and understand them.For over 20 years, Naomi Stadlen has listened to hundreds of mothers talking at her...

Katharine Graves / The Hypnobirthing Book with Antenatal Relaxation Download (Large Paperback)

  Childbirth can be an empowering and positive experience that you treasure for the rest of your life. KG Hypnobirthing teaches simple and gentle techniques that have a profound effect on you and on your baby. KG Hypnobirthing can reduce the need...

Ann Ingle / Openhearted (Hardback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger...

Susan Reynolds / My Dad Is My Hero

  Children often have trouble telling their father how much they love him. Fortunately, this book expresses those emotions for them. This endearing collection of stories about the everyday heroics of the contributors' fathers, and father figures,...

Suzie Hayman / Teach Yourself: Parenting Your Teenager

  - offers you insight into your teenager's world - gives you the confidence and skills you need to tackle difficult issues - teaches you how to communicate and negotiate with your child - helps you help them towards a confident and happy young...

Sam Butt / A Deadbeat Dad and the Bloody Pandas

 Truth sees no boundaries and sooner or later it comes out and expresses its need to be acknowledged. Relationships are needed and sustained throughout our lifespan and need sustenance through nurture, understanding and support. This incredible...

Matt Coyne / Dummy

 **THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER, APRIL 2017**'The night before Charlie was born I had this dream. I dreamt that I was a soldier, riding into battle ... completely naked, and on the back of a large, inflatable duck.'Matt Coyne has become a hero...

Rob Kemp / The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide : Everything You Need to Know (Large Paperback)

 From buying buggies and cutting the cord to dealing with your wife's breastfeeding in public - the life of a first-time father will throw up new experiences every day.The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide tells you everything you need to know during...

Mary Wingfield / The Fertility Handbook (Large Paperback)

 Professor Mary Wingfield is one of Ireland's foremost fertility experts, and she has helped hundreds of people to conceive over the last thirty years. In The Fertility Handbook she has created an up-to-date and authoritative guide for anyone who...

Maureen Gaffney / Your One Wild and Precious Life (Large Paperback)

 WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE CHOICE IRISH BOOK AWARD 2021Once you've got a few decades on the clock, life can seem sort of cross-roadsy. Once you're no longer thinking of yourself as 'young', you may be looking back, thinking 'How did I get here?' And...

Sandi Mann / Dealing with Difficult Eaters (Large Paperback)

  If mealtimes often turn into a battleground when you’re trying to persuade your child to eat, this book is for you. Written by a trio of experts in parenting, psychology and nutrition, this book recognises the strain and stress many...

Troy Osinoff / My Bad Parent : Do as I Say, Not as I Did

 No parent is perfect. But let's just say some need more guidance than others."My Bad Parent "is a reminder of the lesson all parents will unavoidably pass down: Do as I say, not as I do. With full-color candid photos and wry captions, this book...

Kathleen Jordan / Nanny, Ma and me (Large Paperback)

 'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all, I just want to start a conversation, because once...

Tim Dowling / Dad You Suck (Large Paperback)

 Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists."For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been...

Aidan Macfarlane / Teenagers : The Agony, the Ecstasy The Answers (Large Paperback)

  The authors of "Teenagers" are both experienced in health care and research. They show how parents and teenagers can communicate in this humorous and informed handbook that enables both parties to to feel confident of their roles...

The American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists / Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month (Large Paperback)

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Elle Wright / Ask Me His Name

 The Sunday Times Bestseller'A beautiful book' Giovanna Fletcher'Will stay with you long after you have put it down' Jools Oliver'Bold, compelling... will blow you away' Marina Fogle'Heartbreaking... such an important read' Sarah Turner (The Unmumsy...

Patrick Hanks / Babies' Names

  This brand new edition of Babies' Names will help you find the right name for your baby. The book gives over 2,500 names in common use in the English-speaking world with information on their meanings and origins. It spans traditional names,...

Armin A. Brott / The New Father : A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years (Hardback)

 The essential, month-by-month handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first year, complete with sound advice, valuable information, and tips from top researchers in the parenting field. An indispensible, month-by-month guide to the often...

Penelope Farmer / The Virago Book of Grandmothers

  Penelope Farmer has invented that new genre, the autobiographical anthology. Following on from her book of twins (for Virago) and sisters (for Penguin) this book of grandmothers describes the tentative beginnings of her own relationship to two...

Janine Latus / If I am Missing or Dead (Large Paperback)

 In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. 'If I am missing or dead', it read, 'pick up Ron Ball'. By the time the letter was found ten weeks later, Amy was already missing...

Mark Woods / Babies and Toddlers for Men (Large Paperback)

 Becoming a father is a moment in a man's life like no other.The love, the pride, the joy and occasionally the fear stirred up inside us by the complex little being that moves into our home and our relationship takes some serious getting used to.And...

Steve Biddulph / Steve Biddulph's Raising Girls (Large Paperback)

  Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs, parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons' inner world. But today, things have changed. It's girls that are...

Marie Sherlock / Living Simply with Children (Large Paperback)

 Raising children ranks as one of life's most rewarding adventures. Yet between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, endless carpooling of overscheduled youngsters, and the never-ending pressures to buy and consume, family life can be...

Natalie Madorsky Elman / The Unwritten Rules of Friendship (Large Paperback)

  A practical parenting handbook explains how to enhance any child's social skills by identifying individual social strengths and weaknesses, using case studies, drills, and exercises designed to help a child understand the complexities of social...

Mike Gayle / The Hope Family Calendar

  A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan.'With a style similar to David Nicholls, Gayle's writing is incisive, lyrical and very beautiful...It's impossible not to fall in love with the Hope family' Irish...

Lucy Wadham / The Secret Life of France (Large Paperback)

  In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship...

Fiona Ford / Healthy Eating For You And Your Baby

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Niamh O'Reilly / No Fuss Baby and Toddler Sleep (Large Paperback)

 Niamh O'Reilly combines the practicality of Mary Poppins, the humour of Mrs Doubtfire and the magic of Nanny McPhee to bring parents back from the brink of total sleep deprivation. With her wealth of knowledge and years of experience, Niamh...

Amy Chua / Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Large Paperback)

 A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too...

Miriam Stoppard / New Babycare (Large Paperback)

 Updated, trusted advice for new parents from expert Dr Miriam StoppardHelp your child reach their full potential using this updated guide to caring for your baby during the first three amazing years from Dr Miriam Stoppard - Britain's most popular...

Pamela Druckerman / There Are No Grown-Ups (Hardback)

 *MUCH RAVED ABOUT BY CHRIS EVANS ON HIS BBC RADIO 2 BREAKFAST SHOW*AUTHOR OF THE NO.1 BESTSELLER FRENCH CHILDREN DON'T THROW FOOD REVEALS THE THINGS IT TOOK HER FORTY YEARS TO LEARN:There are no grown-ups. Everyone else is winging it too.Does it...

Matt Coyne / Man vs. Toddler (Hardback)

 More inept, more clueless and more exhausted than ever, the man behind the blogging phenomenon Man vs Baby is back with the latest instalment in his (and his son Charlie's) journey through the chaos and comedy of parentingIn the follow-up to the...

Eileen McPartland / The Best Interests of the Child

 Unique Irish text consolidating all child-centred legislation, from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child through to Irish legislation on children in an easy-to-understand format.* Provides a clear interpretation of all child legislation and...

Laura Doyle / The Surrendered Single (Large Paperback)

  Having previously set out her "surrendering" principles for wives (and ruffling the feathers of feminists), Laura Doyle now tackles the single girl and shows how to get used to surrendering while preparing yourself for your man to propose...

Michael Parkinson / Like Father, Like Son : A family story (Hardback)

 'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAILA look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to.It started in the...

Andrew Solomon / Far From The Tree : Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (Large Paperback)

 **WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it...

Rosemary Wells / Helping Children Cope with Grief (Large Paperback)

  Nothing can take away the pain and loss for a child who has lost someone close to them, but there is a great deal that a caring adult can do to avoid the long-term distress which can be caused by hidden fears and anxieties. This book also deals...

Dinah Jayson / Understanding Children's Behaviour

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Rod Green / A Book for Dad (Hardback)

  Every dad deserves to know just how much he is loved, and A Book for Dad is the perfect way to show him. Packed full of amusing tales and practical information for dads who like to be in the know, all dads, embarrassing or otherwise, will enjoy...

Trish Kearney / Above Water (Large Paperback)

 "When my parents signed me up to Trojan Swimming Club, they had no idea of the evil behind Gibney's interest in me. As a thirteen-year-old, who knew nothing but kindness and love, I was ill-equipped to understand what was happening as he...

Dawn OPorter / Life in Pieces (Large Paperback)

 *The Sunday Times bestseller*'Funny, intimate and honest' Louis Theroux'Moving and funny. I absolutely loved it' Claudia Winkleman'Heartbreaking, hilarious, comforting' Marie ClaireDear 2020 - can we just start over?Love Dawn xLIFE IN PIECES is a...

Eric Groves / Baby Names That Go Together (Large Paperback)

  "Baby Names that the Go Together" presents 10,000+ names, with clear pronunciations, languages of origin, and clearly translated meanings. But even more importantly, "Baby Names that Go Together" does what other books do not - it gathers names...

Vicki Iovine / The Best Friends' Guide to Toddlers (Large Paperback)

 When your baby is walking - and you're sprinting to keep up - count on "The Best Friends' Guide to Toddlers" to keep you one step ahead! One moment your little sweetie curls up in your lap and kisses your neck, the next he's running through the...

Kathleen Huggins / The Nursing Mother's Companion (Large Paperback)

  The International Lactation Consultant Association named Kathleen Huggin's The Nursing Mother's Companion "the best possible choice among breastfeeding guides for prospective mothers." Lamaze International praised it as one of the ten most...

Nicole Croft / The Good Birth Companion (Large Paperback)

 All expecting mothers have an innate capacity to give birth safely and naturally, but it's easy to be distracted by stories of traumatic births and a deep anxiety that you won't be in control.Experienced doula and Active Birth Associate, Nicole...

Isobel Carlson / For the Best Mum Ever (Hardback)

 'No language can express - the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love.'Edwin Hubbell ChapinEvery mum deserves to know how special she is, and there's no better way to show it than with this wonderful gift book. With...