Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
Written by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive and withdrawn children is staggering—and still growing! Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse or sexual molestation. Many other kids have been traumatized from more “ordinary” ordeals such as terrifying medical procedures, accidents, loss and divorce. Trauma-Proofing Your Kids sends a...
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Free the Children
Written by Bruce Scott
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Free the Children, a story based on events between the author, his young son, and the unusual people they meet traveling from Taos, New Mexico, to California, can help the adult reader unravel learned cultural adult beliefs to rediscover the adult heart. The story illuminates the possibilities of trusting the children...
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Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Written by Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce...
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Craniosacral Therapy for Babies and Small Children
Written by Etienne Peirsman and Neeto Peirsman, Foreword by John Upledger
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
This unique first book shows, through pictures and step-by-step instructions, how to give a baby or small child a full craniosacral treatment. The authors approach babies as conscious beings who endure enormous stress during the birth process. They show how CS therapy can help restore the correct alignments in babies' bodies...
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Gimme Five!
Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Veg etables
Written by Nicola Graimes
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
When children learn how to eat right at an early age, they take pleasure in it for the rest of their long, healthy lives. This guide shows parents how to involve youngsters in planning and preparing meals, so that eating right becomes a hands-on family activity. Colorful page design and mouth-watering...
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Calm Birth
Empowering Preparation for Childbirth
Written by Robert Newman, Read by Dara Knerr, Contribution by Michael Mish
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
Calm Birth is a safe, noninvasive, and drug-free childbirth method, based on meditation and mind/body medicine, which has been used in hospitals for more than 10 years. Supported by many highly respected childbirth specialists, including Jeannine Parvati Baker, Ina May Gaskin, and Ruth L. Miller, it encourages natural childbirth, but is...
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Calm Birth
New Method for Conscious Childbirth
Written by Robert Newman, Foreword by David Chamberlain
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
The “trauma of childbirth” is a commonly heard phrase, but one that Calm Birth authoritatively counters. Beginning with a history of the repression of women as midwives and healers and a look at the lingering legacy of that time, the book shows how to restore childbirth to its sacred status. Calm...
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Baby Greens
A Live-Food Approach for Children of All Ages
Written by Michaela Lynn and Michael Chrisemer, Preface by Gabriel Cousens
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
The typical American diet is a major factor in the epidemic of obesity and poor health in the country’s children. Baby Greens helps parents establish healthy eating habits in their children—and themselves—through a diet rich in raw foods. A lively mix of education, philosophy, recipes, and activities, the book adapts the...
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Child Health Guide
Holistic Pediatrics for Parents
Written by Randall Neustaedter
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
The number of children taking prescription drugs for every type of ailment has reached epidemic proportions. Child Health Guide offers sensible alternatives to this disturbing trend, providing the information parents need to make informed decisions about natural healing for their children and the integration of natural treatments into their children's medical...
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Magical Parent Magical Child
The Art of Joyful Parenting
Written by Michael Mendizza and Joseph Pearce
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today's turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight. With the goal of raising happy, healthy, intelligent young people, the book adopts proven strategies that allow top athletes and...
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Childhood Ear Infections
A Parent's Guide to Alternative Treatments
Written by Michael A. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
Research increasingly questions the safety and efficacy of antibiotics in treating ear infections in small children. This guide explores the underlying causes of the problem and suggests new strategies. The author discusses diet, homeopathic care, and children's vitamin absorption process. The book includes a checklist that advises parents when they should...
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Perfect Health for Kids
Ten Ayurvedic Health Secrets Every Parent Must Know
Written by John Douillard
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
According to Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu science, health is a state of balance among the body, mind, senses and soul. This book shows specific ways to promote children's health and well-being using Ayurvedic principles. Douillard explains how to identify the signs of imminent illness, how to make the home chemical and...
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I Can Show You I Care
Compassionate Touch for Children
Written by Susan Cotta, Illustrated by Gregory Crawford
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
This full-color picture book written for school age children shows the famous Upledger Technique's 'Healing Hands' program at work with children. Conducted at schools around the country, the program teaches children—at a young age—the importance of compassion and caring for others. Children have shown remarkable behavioral improvements after participating in this...
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Children with Emerald Eyes
Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls
Written by Mira Rothenberg, Foreword by Peter Levine
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Mira Rothenberg pioneered both the clinical distinction and treatment protocol for autistic and severely disturbed children as separate from those for the mentally retarded. Winner of a Woman of the Year award from the New York City Chamber of Commerce and the National Organization for Mentally Ill Children, she eloquently recounts...
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The Vaccine Guide
Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults
Written by Randall Neustaedter
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
The Vaccine Guide covers each disease and its vaccine, providing difficult-to-obtain facts about vaccine reactions. Also discussed are vaccine effectiveness, toxicity and adverse effects, legal requirements, alternatives, and the latest information on the threat of bioterrorism. New to this edition are topics of particular concern to adults, including smallpox and anthrax...
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Homeopathic Remedies for the Stages of Life
Infancy, Childhood, and Beyond
Written by Didier Grandgeorge
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
This book explains each of the successive phases of life, referencing common physical and psychological symptoms and their homeopathic remedies. Homeopathic Remedies for the Stages of Life provides practical and illustrated case histories of former patients, insights into child development, and the workings of the human psyche.
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Uncommon Voyage
Parenting a Special Needs Child
Written by Laura Kramer, Foreword by Seth Kramer
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Uncommon Voyage, first published in 1996, documented Laura Shapiro Kramer’s search for alternative treatments for her son Seth’s cerebral palsy in the face of an uncomprehending medical establishment. In this revised and expanded edition, the author redefines the main complementary therapies discussed earlier and explores new solutions she and Seth have...
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Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful
Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom
Written by Donna Goertz
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to...
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The Mind of Your Newborn Baby
Written by David Chamberlain
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
This is the long-awaited tenth-anniversary edition of Dr. Chamberlain's 1988 classic, Babies Remember Birth. In paperback format and enriched with a new last chapter, this book has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at babies, both before and after birth. Part I is filled with "user-friendly" information about the...
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Dharma Family Treasures
Sharing Buddhism with Children
Written by Sandy Eastoak
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
In this updated revised second edition of Dharma Family Treasures, Sandy Eastoak combines previous essays by lay and ordained Buddhist practitioners, children, spiritual teachers, young adults, educators, parents, writers and poets, including Diane Di Prima, Barbara Gates, and Thich Nhat Hanh, with nine new essays by Robert Aitken, Richard Nelson, Jin...
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The New Natural Family Doctor
The Authoritative Self-Help Guide to Health and Natural Medicine Second Edition
Edited by Andrew Stanway, M.D.
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
This book answers the needs of the growing number of people looking for safe alternatives to orthodox medicine. The New Natural Family Doctor is an encyclopedic self-help reference for those who are alarmed by the side-effects of modern drugs and who want to be in full control of their own health...
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The Homeopathic Treatment of Children
Pediatric Constitutional Types
Written by Paul Herscu
Price: $22.50
North Atlantic Books
The Homeopathic Treatment of Children is indispensible at giving both a clear overall impression of the various major constitutional types, and also a detailed outline for reference at the end of each chapter. Not only does Paul Herscu draw from various sources (repertories and materia medica), he also adds indispensable original...
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