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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Williams1454955546|title= My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million AdventuresSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating= 3.5|genre= AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. After registering the domain name: ''My SonThis isn's Not Rainman,t a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' he also decided to write  There was a blog time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to share his funny anecdotes elevate your cholesterol and experiencescause heart disease. After Sugar was a shaky start (carbohydrate, so good. There''I had s a handful of followersproblem, though. Three of them were my brothers''), Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the blog eventually went viral same way as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John drugs like heroin and 'The Boy'cocaine. This book fills in some of the gaps in Does that sound over the storytop? Well, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday, when he suddenly became 'The Teenit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1635866847|title=Beloved Old Age The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the RelayTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plottingbook for you. Her last completed book was not a novel but Before I started reading ''The RelayLavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a combined account picture of caring for three elderly relatives, a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (EmThere's a recipe in the book, Maud and Gracewhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) between 1959 Then I started reading the book and 1961 and suggestions as I was told to how other people might achieve make a good old age for their relativesmess of it. Margery died Notes in 1966 and the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''The Relayloved'' was never published in the form in which it was writtenthis book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers0760381267|title=Peace of MindVerdura: A Book of Calm for Busy MumsLiving a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5

|summary=''The promise most important part of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it garden is, in the title, my job description (busy mumone who enjoys it''...well, that I've 'gardened's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to findin a vague, peace indefinite sort of mindway for more than half a century. I have to say, know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I was looking forward needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to some insightful revelations into changing my lifegardening. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, Verdura'' with everything from poetry its promise of projects for both indoors and colouring to mindfulness and recipesoutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin1394159544|title=The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall AsleepRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Roger the Rabbit wanted ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to fall asleep1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, but somehow he couldn'tI faced a dilemma: reducing, no matter how hard he triedreusing and recycling is part of my DNA. It wasn't NEVER throw away anything that he didn't do much during the day, because he might ''didpossibly'' but sometimes he was so tired come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that he could fall asleep on would serve the swingspurpose. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a notice outside his house saying Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I can make anyone fall asleep'' m looking at you) and once Roger went home (dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleepa recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241255163</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jessica Lahey0760378134|title=The Gift of FailureFirst-Time Gardener: How to step back and let your child succeedContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating= 45|genre= Home and Family|summary= LaheyIf you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's introduction claims comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you'todayre going to grow, what you's over-protective failure-avoidant parenting stylell grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' is responsible for ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the caution and fear she witnesses in young people every day in her job as book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a secondary school teacher, causing them to dislike learninggood glossary. She goes on to claim thatSo, through this parenting style, we have inadvertently taught our kids to fear failure at all costs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722443</amazonuk>is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kemp1529149800|title=Caring for Shirley|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=John Kemp's wife, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable Things You Can Do: How to walk unaided (well, she ''could'' - but it was likely to result in a serious fall) Fight Climate Change and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably the most heart-breaking part of this is that Shirley didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss', the question 'where's John?' was usually the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewReduce Waste|author=Jan Robinson|title=Tips From WidowsEduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|summary=I'm not We begin with a widow telling story. All the birds and I secretly hope that I never will be, but I picked up ''Tips From Widows'' animals fled when a close friend (who is supporting someone who knows that becoming a widow is frighteningly close) mentioned the need to plan what forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The death of a husband must be devastating, even terrifying, but as next tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of kin you have certain responsibilities water and there are some things which you must doflying back to drop them into the fire. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced The animals laughed: what must be good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the worst thing only way that life we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can throw at them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886553X</amazonuk>, however small that might be.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=June Andrews1849767009|title=Dementia: The One-Stop Guide: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and AlzheimerIt Isn's Diseaset Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=Worldwide there This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are probably as many as 44.4 million the people who suffer from dementia know that nudity is OK and many times the ones who ''know'' that number of family, friends, carers it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and relatives -bothered person in the supermarket who are affected by what is happening coughing fit to the suffererbust. There's no cure, but But... Rosie Haines makes itinto something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's not terminal a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and the symptoms (memory loss would seem to be the most common, but in some cases there are hallucinations, sexual or verbal disinhibition, not being able to work things out, difficulty in learning something new, finding your way about, or coping of every possible hue. Bodies with the normal symptoms of aging) affect everyone involveddisabilities and markings. If you talk to people who are aging then itThey's not uncommon for them to say that re fine. In fact, they'd rather have cancer than dementia as you're unlikely to be an endless burden on other peoplewonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251711</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=The Art of Making ShadowsSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Sophie CollinsLouisa Pateman

|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary=Winter is almost upon us ''You can't be happy and the evenings fulfilled on your own. You are getting darkernot complete until you find a man''. However, rather than bemoaning  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the lack of sunshine, how about putting a positive spin on the situation and viewing adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those long, dark evenings as fairy tales where the perfect opportunity to hone your shadow-casting skills? Shadow-play girl (she's usually fairly young) is an art form rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that has endured through they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the ages expectation that they will marry and yet still has the power to enchant and entertainhave children. So grab It was a lamp, gather round and get ready to create barking dogs, flying birds belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a whole menagerie of shadow characterschoice''...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905695454</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Graff_Find|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity BookFind Another Place|author=Lorraine HarrisonBen Graff

|summary=When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, he didn'Hospice Voices'' tells the stories t take much notice of it. At the last days age of some fascinating people while it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughter24, Graff didn's health. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in t realise the Age gravity of Entitlement|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Twenge and Campbell have been studying the rise in narcissism as a social trend. They are well-qualified to comment, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research in this field. At more than three hundred pages it's rather weighty for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into this book, I think you'll take home their messagehe was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakGoodland_Worth|title=Be It's Worth a Happier Parent with NLPTry|author=Nicola Goodland

|summary=Babies, unlike new cars, don't come with a manual. There are always plenty of people, each with their own unique advice, happy to stick an oar in on whatever parenting issues you're facing, but I have often found as a mum that I'm left confused and floundering, wondering which piece of conflicting advice This is least likely to permanently damage my little ones! I've watched Supernanny. I've read about how to have a contented baby. So seeing this Nicola Goodland introduces her book, with such a nice, positive title, I had to give it a go!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144411056X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere|title=This is Not the End of the Book;|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=In many ways, the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriate. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what'It's within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Barnes|title=How to be a BAD Birdwatcher|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Look out of the window.''<br>''See a bird''<br>''Enjoy it.''<br>''Congratulations. You are now Worth a birdwatcher.Try''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>}}:

{{newreview|author=Brett Cohen|title=Stuff Every Dad Should Know|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=For an object lesson in how important the little things are, consider ''I wanted to write this kind of book's title. This is not one of those collections of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6because when I was a young woman,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber), it's not ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thing, as children and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has only found the cojones courage to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, talk about it as it starts at budgeting for adults. Maybe this book can deter children in the first place, from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes from the actual birth to marrying them offaway for good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma SmithHigashida_Fall|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell

|summary=Does Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the world need another guide to Shakespeareinternational best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''s plays? There are plenty about and students these days have . The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the added resource workings of the Internet to get autistic mind, as told from the basicsunique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. HoweverNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, if it does, then or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this is as good as any you will find. It's nicely written slow and beautifully clear laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and above all, succinctmanages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. In fact I'm doing a disservice Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Emma Smith already by terming it Naoki as a guide to young adult in his plays, because she also includes the poems 20s and sonnetsexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roman KrznaricBialik_Girling|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5|genre=History|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGirling Up|author=Susan Maushart|title=The Winter of Our Disconnect: How One Family Pulled the Plug and Lived to Tell/text/Tweet the Tale|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=Back in early 2009 Susan Maushart - a single mother of three teenagers - came to the conclusion that the family plugged into their workstations, TVs, DVD players, iPods and gaming consoles at the expense of normal relationships, or what we’ll come to call Real Life. She included herself in this - her relationship with her iPhone was about the strongest she had outside of her children - and she decided that something drastic had to be done. So began the winter of our disconnect - six months without screens of any description, mobile phones or listening devices in the home. You think that’s not enough of a shock to the system? Nor did Susan - she started off with two weeks without any power in the home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668465X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list ''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn|title=Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia. a Father and Son's StoryMayim Bialik

|summary=There are lots This book arrived on my desk to cries of avenues of support for those dealing with infertility, but what happens if you do finally get pregnant''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book? You're still dealing with the scars' or ''No, that's Blossom'' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both emotional and physical that infertility can leave behind, of course, but it might seem callous in addition to ask being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for help from other friends from your support network who themselves aren't yet pregnantthe characters). This Aimed at teenagers, this book aims focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to be a helpful guide that discusses everything transition from pregnancy school girl to birth to parenting after birth in the light grown-up, via that hideous detour of your history with infertilityteenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve RoudMattinson_Puppy|title=The Lore of Choosing the Playground: The Children's World - Then and NowPerfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=Like many reviewers of the hardback editionIf you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, I thoroughy enjoyed reading you really ought to read this book, a nostalgic excursion into my own childhood games and rhymes. It's quite fun to identify Too many people are carried away in the regional context heat of childhood lore. It cleared up for me, as the moment and ''must'' have a South-East Londoner, particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the exact nature of a hitherto mysterious game called tagconsequences. If you They then have already delved into to live with the classic problems which ''The Lore and Language of Schoolchildrenmight'' by Iona and Peter Opie (1959), you might find this book adds little have been avoided for a general readershipdecade or more. For The puppy and the specialist, Iadult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn'm sure this book will take its rightful place in t try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the scholarly literature on childhood culturefacts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505274</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakRaskin_Grow|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home and Grow: A Family|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset Guide to absorb the new experiences Growing Fruit and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVeg|author=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen|title=The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It Ben Raskin|rating=45

|summary=Rather than running around outdoorsI worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', going for bike rides and building densit said, lots of children nowadays end up spending hours watching TV or playing computer games. Play times in school are often very regimented and in some schools certain games like 'British Bulldog' A family guide to growing fruit and veg'Leapfrog' and even 'Tag' have even been banned. Children are discouraged from physical play, for fear that they will hurt themselves and also through the fear that those responsible for them will find themselves facing a lawsuit if someone does get hurt. Why did it worry me? This book aims to support the thinking that very physical play is good for children; that unless they face risks in their lives and learn to assess those risksWell, or experience a few bumps and bruises and learn to get up and carry on, then they will lack vital life skills for their future adult lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744874</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Ackerman|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Diane Ackermanit's husband, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection mere 48 pages and was just rejoicing in the fact cover says that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched it includes ''Games, Paul suffered a massive stroke. The effects were catastrophic, but worst of all, the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech stickers and lost his extensive vocabulary. ItMORE!''s eight years since this happened and the intervening years I have been a constant battle weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to improve Paulknow about growing fruit and veg, so wasn's speech and restore some joy t this going to his life. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite fall a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written books. His vocabulary will never be back to what it waslittle short? Well, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years agodoesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JamesMcgrath_Camping|title=How Not To F*** Them UpCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath

|summary=Child psychologist Oliver James can When my daughter was young it used to be relied joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to fight go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, he'd be there on his cornertenth birthday, whether it's about affluent society or toxic parentsall kitted up and ready to go. Now he puts the first three years of life under These days the microscope discussions - and argues equally vehemently that parents need delaying tactics - are more likely to identify their own needs accurately be about technology - and build their children's care into a 'good enough' framework, mobiles in order for the whole family to flourishparticular. HeWhilst it's a controversial figure whose interest in parenting goes back to his own childhood (yeswonderful that children do embrace technology, youit shouldn've guessed itt be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, his parents where psychoanalysts). He argues being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably with all the case for modifying childcare decisions to accord with parenting styles while avoiding working mumsfamily doing it '' guilt trips: “together'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for you and your child,' as the cover has it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor BirneWilliams_Son|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A - Z of BabyhoodMillion Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5

|summary=When it comes In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to parenting, I have discovered that write a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and show charting his experiences as the effects parent of a screaming newborn on your marriagean autistic boy. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising After registering the baby. Itdomain name: ''My Son's all glowing skin Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffeeexperiences. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as After a dog for 5 months, shaky start (''I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror a handful of a non-sleeping babyfollowers. NowThree of them were my brothers''), four and the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a half years on from giving birth connection with John and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby 'The Boy'. This book, mainly because fills in some of the title roused such familiar feelings gaps in methe story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakMbaya_Brain|title=NLP For TeensMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya

|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and is a follow-on from NLP for Childrenhe enjoyed making ill people better. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for potential, often through the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parentuplifting power of music. Life was good. But then... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy AndrewsAllingham_Beloved|title=The Ultimate Guide Beloved Old Age and What to Bicycle MaintenanceDo About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones

|summary=This We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book seemed like the answer to my husbandwas not a novel but ''The Relay's prayers. I've had , a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike combined account of caring for about ten yearsthree elderly relatives, but shamefully(Em, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've even cleaned it. Well-used it certainly is, but I must confess Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to leaving all the maintenance to aforementioned husbandhow other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Having conceded that Margery died in this day 1966 and age I ought to be more independent that that, I dived into this book with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which it was written.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel LezanoRodgers_Peace|title=Getting Started in DSLR PhotographyPeace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53

|summary=The magazine-style layout promise of this 'magbook' (an uglya book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, but aptin the title, term for the format) lends itself particularly my job description (busy mum...well to the subject in hand, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showing. It's published by just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the team problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine the same time, and it reads like carry out a collection multitude of the most useful articles published thereinroles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, particularly for the novice with everything from poetry and colouring to SLR photographymindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn FitzpatrickEhrlin_Rabbit|title=Passing the 11+ with NLP: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus StudentThe Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=45

|summary=The 11+ process is nerve-wracking for parents and children alike and many parents find it difficult to know how best Roger the Rabbit wanted to help their child. Over-enthusiastic intervention can make a child more nervous and conscious that there's a lot at stakefall asleep, whilst leaving the child to get on with it can well make the child feel that their success or failure doesnbut somehow he couldn't , no matter to youhow hard he tried. Itwasn's also important t that any preparation is built up in a steady way and he didn't do much during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that it leaves he could fall asleep on the child feeling confident of their successswings. 'Passing the 11+ with NLP' is One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a dual purpose book: notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there are the strategies for giving your child self-esteem, focus and concentration along with the other skills needed as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to pass bed and then there are details of the type of questions your child will face in the examfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685731</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Barbara Warmsley|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''Green'' is the mantra Move on most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tap. This book has a universal message. How to waste less. There is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfam's[Newest Horror Reviews]] ''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In China.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}