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Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child
"Attachment to and dependency on parents .. is a normal, healthy aspect of childhood and not something that needs to be discouraged " This quote from Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child sums up the attitude behind the growing shift in many Western cultures toward a labor-intensive but arguably more rewarding, effective, and "natural" way to raise children. This philosophy, termed "Attachment Parenting" by its champion, pediatrician and father of eight Dr. William Sears (author of the popular child-care manual The Baby Book, among others), sees infants not as manipulative adversaries who must be "trained" to eat, sleep, and play when told, but as dependent yet autonomous human beings whose wants and needs are intelligible to the parent willing to listen, and who deserve to be responded to in a reasonable and sensitive manner. As with Sears's books, there are no plans or schedules here, no specific prescriptions for what to do with your child. Techniques to facilitate connection and communication are outlined, but mostly the book is an exhortation to listen and to trust yourself, and to trust your child's ability to convey to you what he or she needs. Information is provided in a well-organized format that parents will find useful. Common questions regarding some of Attachment Parenting's less orthodox tenets are answered, and each section of the book provides lengthy reading and resource lists, Web sites, and e-mail addresses. This book also provides a fairly broad discussion of how working parents can incorporate such a "high-touch" style of care into their busy schedules. The authors are sometimes painfully straightforward about the cost-benefit analysis parents must go through when deciding to work outside the home, but they do not patronize working parents by glossing over this difficult decision. They show how Attachment Parenting can be especially beneficial to these families and give advice on choosing child care, breastfeeding after returning to work, and the techniques for creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace. Given the overwhelming cultural paradigms that parents must resist if they are going to adopt this compassionate methodology, the book's sometimes defensive tone can be at least partially excused. As a whole, parents will find this a good overview of some compelling arguments for Attachment Parenting and a wonderful resource for delving deeper into the issues it addresses. How much of it they choose to integrate into their lives is, as the book emphasizes, their decision to make, with their baby. --Katherine Ferguson.
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Instinctive Archery Insights: Revised Edition
Instinctive Archery Insights (Revised Edition) provides unique information for the archer, traditional or compound, that cannot be found anywhere else. Within these pages are principles from applied psychology, communicated with an easy to understand style, that will dramatically improve any archer's ability. Dr. Kidwell effectively communicates many unique insights designed to accelerate learning and enhance performance. Discover the truth about consistency in both physical processes and mental processes. Uncover the real secret to attaining accuracy. Learn about the primary cause of missing and how to quickly remedy the problem. Gain insights into how imagery works and learn how to integrate imagery into your regular routine. Discover the true source of success. New to this edition is Dr. Kidwell's work on the development and treatment of target panic. Based on years of research and experimentation, it is the most accurate work on the subject to date with an effective therapeutic intervention. The real cause of target panic is explained in a simple and concise manner and the intervention is simple and effective for curing target panic..
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Instinctive Groundfighting: Fighting is playing jazz. Now, let us all play jazz!
Martial Arts is not about learning techniques. It is about reacting adequately to unexpected combat situations without thinking. If you think, you are slower, your focus is too narrow and your movements lack creativity. Instead of learning techniques, you should create useful instinctive reactions to combat situations. Instinctive Groundfighting presents a new Dynamic Training Method aiming at learning to fight without thinking..
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Instinctive Birthing: Heeding Your Inner Voice
Instinctive Birthing aims to help women rediscover the instincts that can promote a happy pregnancy and a successful delivery, whether at home or in the hospital. Every woman has an "inner voice," which can provide information on the health of her baby, laboring postions, even the right time to push. This instinct is also important when being asked to consider pain-relief options and other medical interventions. Val Clarke’s lifetime as a midwife has given her the experience to help women recognize and listen to this wise counsel; here, she covers the entire birth process, explaining where instinct has a role to play and why it is usually correct. .
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Instinctive Fly Fishing: A Guide's Guide to Better Fishing
In fly fishing, as in life, the very simplest things are the most important, and the easiest to overlook Streit, in this important new book, reveals what he has learned in more than twenty years of guiding fly fishing trips. Streit has witnessed thousands of clients catch trout over the years, and their successes and failures often boiled down to a few elementary rules: keep the sun at your back, keep your silhouette off the water, keep your fly in productive water, think like a predator, and so on. With an almost Zen-like scrutiny, Streit discusses his distilled techniques for fishing pressured trout. He looks into what separates the beginner from the expert caster, and dissects the mechanics of the perfect strike. Other chapters include Streit's novel approaches to: drift-nymphs-dries-swing-bluegills and bobbers-reading water-riffles-eddy fishing-hiring a guide-fighting fish-wading-catch and release--maps The result is a refreshing take on how simple this complex sport really is. .
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Natural Born Success: Discover the Instinctive DrivesThat Make You Tick!
Paul Burgess has developed a unique psychometric profiling tool called ID (Instinctive Drives). In this book, Paul will explain how your ID is the key to understanding what your natural motivations and natural talents are, and will reveal how you can tap into these drivers to optimise your results in life.This ground-breaking new tool (which has never before been promoted) is the only known program that delves beneath your observable behaviour traits and personality to your unconscious natural operating system and the innate characteristics that make you who you are. A person’s ID reveals why they do things the way they do; what they need to be at their best; and their talents and vulnerabilities. Paul shows readers how understanding your ID can allows you to be at your best by harnessing those characteristics that come naturally to you, rather than ignoring them and working against your natural grain, which we so often unconsciously do. Paul reveals how, by being aware of your ID, you can work and behave in a way that "fits" for you and it is easier, effortless, more enjoyable and fun..
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