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Everything (R)

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Cover of Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls
"The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls" will assist parents through the most difficult years in their child's life - ages 13 and up. This guide offers detailed information on the various stages of development and challenges for raising adolescent girls and how to cope, covering: the adolescent brain and the debate over gender differences; the facts about puberty, sexual development and body issues (and how to talk to your daughter about all of it); dieting, peer pressure and self-esteem; female adolescent issues like dating and appearance; school issues and troubling girl issues, including risky behaviour; potential psychological problems that your daughter may face; facts about teen abuse and tips for helping your daughter resist alcohol and drugs; safe sex, STDs and unplanned pregnancies; and, effective parenting techniques and discipline approaches."The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls" is every parent's survival guide for raising adolescent girls, helping you to take care of and raise your daughter to have high self-esteem, emotional maturity and more!

Cover of Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes
As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are faced with overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like: Will my child be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to let them go out on their own? What is the newest technology and how can it help my child? Is a cure really on the horizon? The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on: Adjusting to life with diabetes Helping your children take control of their health Monitoring diet and insulin levels Handling emergencies Finding support for you and your children The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps parents deal with the challenges you and your child face when living with diabetesOone day at a time.

Moira McCarthy is a well-known parent in the diabetes community. She is the national chairman of government advocacy of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and volunteers as a Bag of Hope delivery mom to newly diagnosed families. An award-winning news reporter and magazine writer, Ms. McCarthy has appeared on CNN, many other national and local news programs, and twice on the front page of the New York Times.

Jake Kushner, M.D., was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Morris White, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Joslin Diabetes Center, and Harvard Medical School. He has worked as an instructor in medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and as a faculty member in the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group and Cell Biology and Physiology Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.