How to make potty training stress free for you & your child The Gentle Potty Training Book is a practical guide to helping your child through one of the most important developmental stages of early childhood. Avoiding strict timelines, rewards & plans that are based solely on a child's gender, Sarah Ockwell-Smith advocates an approach that is based on your child's unique developmental stage
- because the gentlest, easiest & most effective potty training happens when you work with your child as a team. Sarah's advice
Includes:: * Recognising the physical & emotional signs that your child is ready* How to talk to your child about potty training & prepare them emotionally* What you need to get started
- the practicalities* How to respond to accidents & setbacks* Potty training your child when you're in full-time work or co-parenting* The when & how of night-time potty training* What to do after previous false starts Comprehensive, practical & realistic, Sarah's advice will give you the necessary understanding & confidence to make potty training a smooth process for you & your child.


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There are few things as challenging as a young child's sleep
- or lack of! This book from the founder of Baby Calm, Sarah Ockwell-Smith,
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The Gentle Sleep Solution shows you the powerful yet gentle way to help your baby enjoy a good night's sleep. Drawing on CBT & mindfulness, this new book moves away from outdated approaches to ensure that your child feels comforted, reassured & loved as they drift off to sleep. This supportive guide, written by psychologist & CBT psychotherapist Chireal Shallow, teaches parents how to become experts in resolving their child's sleep problems. You'll first learn how to identify the underlying reason for your child's troubled sleeping by reading their behaviour, then apply new techniques for communicating & responding to reduce their anxiety & allow them to fall asleep independently. Offering an alternative to controlled crying, this approach gives your family a calm, happy & gentle bedtime. Positive, uplifting & nurturing, The Gentle Sleep Solution will give you & your baby the confidence you need to sleep soundly. ...

Every spiritual practice, every exercise of consciousness, all meditation -- indeed, every moment of true awareness -- we do with the 'gentle will', even if we are unaware of it initially & cannot fully activate it yet. Through practice, however, the gentle will begins to shine, & we gradually gain the ability to access it in our ordinary, daily activities, allowing our lives to become infinitely richer, meaningful & creative. The gentle will is relaxed, receptive, expressive, creative, soft, light & playful. It is not rigid or cramped. We use the gentle will in artistic activities such as playing a musical instrument, writing a poem, or painting a picture. In today's world, however, life is governed by the principles of usefulness, utility, comfort, & efficiency -- the hard will of egoism. Georg Kuhlewind writes in this book that the only hope he sees of avoiding global destruction is a change in human consciousness; the 'hard will' must become the 'gentle will'. To this end, he provides exercises through which we may transform the hard will into the gentle will. ...

A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers & ranks with Tolstoy & Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- & early twentieth-century Russia of his youth, in the countries that he visited & in France, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. In the title story, for example, a family's tour of fashionable European resorts comes to an unexpected end; ' Late Hour' describes an old man's return to the little Russian town in the steppes that he has not seen since his early youth; while ' Mitya's Love' explores the darker emotional reverberations of sexual experience. Throughout his stories there is a sense of the precariousness of existence, an omnipresent awareness of the impermanence of human aspirations & achievements. ...

From head-to-head Taylor OQuinn & Jeremy Carrigan always clashed
- & when they didnt see eye to eye on an important career choice,
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Botheration! Why her family had elected to spend an entire season in boring Bath, Georgiana Bellewether couldnt fathom. Nothing to stimulate her inquisitive mind ever happened here
- until the night Lady Culpeppers emeralds were stolen! Now, if only she could keep her mind on the case & her hands off the enigmatic man in black
- the beguiling Lord Ashdowne! As the newly made, ever-responsible Marquis of Ashdowne, Johnathon Saxton bemoaned the lack of excitement now marking his days. But when quixotic, exotic Georgiana Bellewether literally tumbled into his arms, he knew hed caught himself an armful. The woman was a disaster in the making!

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' Do not wear the same trousers two consecutive days. If you have a good stock, keep a roster, & let the first for duty take its turn. By this means they will always look fresh, & not hackneyed.' First published in 1876, The Gentleman's Art of Dressing with Economy is an indispensable guide to how to look good on a budget. Dressing as a gentleman, we learn, requires far more than throwing money at the latest fashions; a more prudent & knowledgeable approach is necessary. Written by the enigmatic 'A Lounger at the Clubs', the book takes the modern-day reader back to a time of fashionable London West End clubs in Piccadilly & Pall Mall where appearance was everything. From this we learn the essential characteristics of true gentlemanly dress & then, through a consideration of each article of clothing, how this look can be successfully achieved on a less generous budget. The combination of dry Victorian wit & genuinely sound advice makes this book the ideal gift for the modern-day man who is seeking to smarten his appearance whilst also tightening his financial belt. ...

Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of rigorous historical enquiry. Based on a close examination of letters, diaries & account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate & everyday lives of genteel women & transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period. ...

Careers & fortunes have been built on the back of a man's ability to show people a good time, & what better way than to perfect the art of mixing a cocktail. In The Gentleman's Guide to Cocktails Alfred Tong teaches you how to mix a Margarita with mojo, a Gimlet with grace, & a Peach Bellini that packs a punch. With over 150 recipes
- personally selected by Alfred for their style & flavour
- it covers classics like the Bloody Mary & Old Fashioned to more experimental mixes, such as the Alabama Slammer & Hellfire Punch. As well as recipes, Alfred imparts his wisdom on essential cocktail etiquette. Learn how to make a toast with a Martini, close a deal with your good taste & charm, & most importantly, when to release your inner cad. Illustrated with sophisticated drawings by Jack Hughes, this book will turn the amateur home barman into the perfect cocktail party host.

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