New Releases by Gary Ezzo

Attention all parents: Are you tired of the endless cycle of sleep deprivation and guilt? The truth is, the ''one-size-fits-all'' baby routine is a myth that''s harming both parents and infants. In Babywise, we expose the dangerous lie that every baby can be molded into the same rigid schedule. This isn''t just about sleep—it''s about the profound individuality of each child and the unique dance of biology and environment that shapes their development. Science shows that adaptable, responsive schedules yield better long-term outcomes than rigid training. This book isn''t about ignoring the experts; it''s about understanding that expert advice is a starting point, not a rigid rulebook. It''s about recognizing that every baby is different, every family is different, and what works for one may not work for another. Through real-life stories and cutting-edge research, Babywise reveals the power of informed discernment and situational flexibility. Discover how to navigate cultural pressure and make choices that respect your child''s individuality and your family''s unique context. Embrace the way of adaptable, responsive schedules—rooted in biological rhythms but flexible to individual needs. This is the way of better long-term outcomes, of happier parents, of healthier babies. Say goodbye to the myth and hello to a new way of parenting that truly works for you and your baby.

YOUR PRECIOUS NEWBORN COMES INTO THE WORLD LIKE A BUD ON THE VERGE OF BLOOMING, EAGER TO GRASP THE RHYTHM OF LIFE. AS THE DEVELOPING BRAIN EMBARKS ON ITS JOURNEY OUTSIDE THE WOMB, IT INSTICTIVELY SEEKS TO ORGANIZE AND MAKE SENSE OF THIS NEW WORLD, YET IT IS UNABLE TO SCULPT THE CYCLES OF FEED-WAKE AND SLEEP THAT IT NEEDS TO THRIVE. THIS IS WHERE THE PARENTS STEP IN, AS CARETAKERS AND CREATORS, MUCH LIKE ARTISANS MOLDING CLAY, THEY BEGIN TO SHAPE THE CHILD''S WORLD WITH GENTLE PRECISION GUIDED BY BABYWISE SLEEP SOLUTIONS. SERVING AS A RELIABLE COMPASS, THIS MULTIGENERATIONAL RESOURCE TEACHES NOT ONLY THE HOW OF CRAFTING THE NECESSARY STRUCTURE WITHIN A BABY''S DAY BUT WISDOM OF THE EZZO''S PARENT DIRECTED FEED STRATEGY, MILLIONSOF FAMILIES, ACROSS CONTINENTS AND 26 LANGUAGES HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT ROUTINE AND PREDICTABILITY ARE TWO ASSETS THAT HELP BABIES THRIVE.

Distinguished pediatrician Dr Robert Bucknam, M.D. and co-author Gary Ezzo are two of the world''s leading experts on infant management concepts. In this revised 5th edition, they have updated their groundbreaking approach which has found favor with over six million parents in all 50 states and has been translated into 20 languages around the world. For over 30 years, On Becoming Babywise has been the de facto newborn parenting manual for naturally synchronizing your baby''s feeding time, waketime and nighttime sleep cycles, so the whole family can sleep through the night. In his 32nd year as a licensed Pediatrician, Dr. Robert Bucknam, M.D. along with co-author Gary Ezzo, demonstrate how order and stability are mutual allies of every newborn''s metabolism and how parents can take advantage of these biological propensities. In particular, they note how an infant''s body responds to the influences of parental routine or the lack thereof.

Part One: Life, Children and Relationships speaks to the relational components associated with healthy parenting. Because children tend to reflect the priorities and values of their home life, what is important to Mom and Dad will become important to their children, and will influence what each child becomes in the future.

It''s reality-check time! You''re at least four months into your tour of parenting, and the complexities of child training are starting to multiply. While your baby is growing physically, his mind is adapting with ever-increasing awareness to new sights, sounds, sensations and relationships. He can now interact with his material universe withgreater attentiveness. Watch out: big changes are coming to his world and yours! Preserving the order and structure that brought security to your baby''s day, peaceful sleep in your baby''s nights and stability in your home is still the priority, but now it must be viewed through a new developmental lens. For example, feeding time is more than a biological response initiated by a baby''s sucking reflex. For the five-month-old, meal times become a complex and conscious interaction between him and his parents, food and drink, preference and need, likes and dislikes, must dos and won''t dos!

Potty Training doesn't have to be complicated and neither should a resource that explains it. On Becoming Potty Wise for Toddlers looks to developmental readiness cues of children as the starting point of potty training. Readiness is a primary prerequisite for successful training according to the best selling authors, Gary Ezzo & Dr Robert Bucknam. While no promises can be made, they can tell you that many moms successfully complete their training in a day or two. Some achieve it literally in hours. What makes the developmental readiness approach work so successfully? Timing:Learn to recognize the optimal window for potty training your toddler. Education: Learning the most effective way to teach your toddler the potty training process. Motivation: Learning how to instill into your toddler a sustained excitement about using the potty on his or her own.

Stories are entertaining and provide a unique conduit for dispensing practical wisdom and moral truth that otherwise might be lost in an academic venue. When we read or hear a story we find ourselves feeling for the characters through their speech and thoughts. We often identify and empathize with their fears, hopes, dreams and expectations. Most importantly, from their successes and failures we can learn lessons for life. Stories have the power to change us and indeed they do!The Let''s Ask Auntie Anne series consist of five stories and five pertinent parenting themes. Each story is embedded with practical advice that will guide the reader to greater understanding of the complexities of childrearing and hopefully serve as a friend to motivate positive change.

Stories are entertaining and provide a unique conduit for dispensing practical wisdom and moral truth that otherwise might be lost in an academic venue. When we read or hear a story we find ourselves feeling for the characters through their speech and thoughts. We often identify and empathize with their fears, hopes, dreams and expectations. Most importantly, from their successes and failures we can learn lessons for life. Stories have the power to change us and indeed they do!The Let's Ask Auntie Anne series consist of five stories and five pertinent parenting themes. Each story is embedded with practical advice that will guide the reader to greater understanding of the complexities of childrearing and hopefully serve as a friend to motivate positive change.

Stories are entertaining and provide a unique conduit for dispensing practical wisdom and moral truth that otherwise might be lost in an academic venue. When we read or hear a story we find ourselves feeling for the characters through their speech and thoughts. We often identify and empathize with their fears, hopes, dreams and expectations. Most importantly, from their successes and failures we can learn lessons for life. Stories have the power to change us and indeed they do!The Let's Ask Auntie Anne series consist of five stories and five pertinent parenting themes. Each story is embedded with practical advice that will guide the reader to greater understanding of the complexities of childrearing and hopefully serve as a friend to motivate positive change.

Stories are entertaining and provide a unique conduit for dispensing practical wisdom and moral truth that otherwise might be lost in an academic venue. When we read or hear a story we find ourselves feeling for the characters through their speech and thoughts. We often identify and empathize with their fears, hopes, dreams and expectations. Most importantly, from their successes and failures we can learn lessons for life. Stories have the power to change us and indeed they do!The Let's Ask Auntie Anne series consist of five stories and five pertinent parenting themes. Each story is embedded with practical advice that will guide the reader to greater understanding of the complexities of childrearing and hopefully serve as a friend to motivate positive change.

Who can understand the mind of a preschooler? You can! Know that above all else, a preschooler is a learner. His amazing powers of reasoning and discrimination are awakened through a world of play and imagination. Through home relationships, he learns about love, trust, comfort, and security; through friends he learns to measure himself against a world of peers; and through unconditional love, a child establishes his own unique selfhood. The growth period between ages three and five years is all about learning, and On Becoming Preschoolwise is all about helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child's learning potential.Now influencing over two million homes worldwide, trusted parenting authors Gary Ezzo and Dr. Robert Bucknam once again bring their collective wisdom, experience, and insight to bear on this critical phase of preschool training. From teaching about the importance of play to learning how to prepare a preschooler for the first day of school, from organizing your child's week to understanding childhood fears and calming parental anxiety, sound advice and practical application await the reader. You will find this resource as practical as it is informative, curative as much as it is encouraging.

Who can understand the mind of a preschooler? You can! Know that above all else, a preschooler is a learner. His amazing powers of reasoning and discrimination are awakened through a world of play and imagination. Through home relationships, he learns about love, trust, comfort, and security; through friends he learns to measure himself against a world of peers; and through unconditional love, a child establishes his own unique selfhood. The growth period between ages three and five years is all about learning, and On Becoming Preschoolwise is all about helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child's learning potential. Now influencing over two million homes worldwide, trusted parenting authors Gary Ezzo and Dr. Robert Bucknam once again bring their collective wisdom, experience, and insight to bear on this critical phase of preschool training. From teaching about the importance of play to learning how to prepare a preschooler for the first day of school, from organizing your child's week to understanding childhood fears and calming parental anxiety, sound advice and practical application await the reader. You will find this resource as practical as it is informative, curative as much as it is encouraging.

The emerging toddler has his own peculiar way. He thinks in the here and now, with no tomorrow in sight. He is not easily moved to self restraint or seeks to secure some future blessings. "A penny saved is a penny earned" is quite beyond his grasp and interest. And all his peers would agree that crying over spilled milk is essential if you're really thirsty--you'll get more milk faster that way! Your toddler will first be concerned with the concrete, not the abstract. Moral qualities such as justice, mercy, and truth are quite beyond his reach, but he does understand these qualities when expressed toward him. His actions and developing speech reflect his self-oriented desires rather than socialized values that will change in a few years. Clearly the adult life, while distinct from childhood and adolescence, is wholly built upon the foundation of early training parents put into their children. It is important to see that a child is adequately prepared from the beginning for a safe arrival in the many stations of life, starting with understanding all the components that make up the little person emerging under your roof. On Becoming Toddlerwise is the guide to help parents achieve understanding of the this critical phase of growth and development.

On Becoming Childwise, the Series for Home and Classroom is the supplimental workbook to the 10 part video presentation by the same name. This Childwise educational curriculumn provides parents and teachers a clear pathway to influencing and raising emotionally balanced, intellectually assertive, and morally sensible chidlren. It is the essential guidebook for the adventurous primary through grade-six shchool years.

Offers clear strategies for parenting preadolescent children, including insulating them from harmful peer pressure, encouraging harmony at home, and building future friendships with grown children.

It''s reality-check time! You are at least five months into your tour of parenting duty by now. The complexity of child-training has begun to come into focus. You have learned that as your baby matures both constant and variable factors continually influence his or her development. What behaviors can and should you expect from your pretoddler? Feeding time for your pretoddler, for example, is now more than a response controlled by a sucking reflex. For the pretoddler, mealtime is part of a very complex, conscious interaction between what the child does and what his parents expect him to do. Right and wrong conduct will be encouraged, discouraged, and guided when necessary. In fact, right and wrong patterns of behavior will now be part of your baby''s entire day. That''s why feeding time, waketime and sleeptime provide wonderful opportunities for training and Babywise Book II will guide you all the way, from the high chair to playpen, from the living room to the back yard. This series teaches the practical side of introducing solids food, managing mealtimes, nap transitions, traveling with your infant, setting reasonable limits while encourage healthy exploration and much more. You will learn how to teach your child to use sign language for basic needs, a tool proven to help stimulate cognitive growth and advance communication. Apply the principles and your friends and relatives will be amazed at the alertness, contentedness and happy disposition of your baby

The final book in the On Becoming Series helps parents to learn how to move past current struggles and start over with credibility, prevent teenage rebellion in the future, and determine how to build lasting parent-teen friendships starting today.

As a child moves beyond the toddler years, new challenges arise for parents. Be prepared for this exciting stage with fifteen "Childwise" principles for training children ages 3-7 in happy and responsible living.

Now parents can avoid problems with teens before they occur and discover how to help their kids make the transition into adolescence with less trauma for both parent and teen.

A biblically-sound handbook for raising teens who can successfully survive adolescence in the 90s, Reaching the Heart of Your Teen effectively reminds moms and dads how to parent from the heart and build solid relationships that are rewarding. Holding fast to the conviction that relationships between parents and children aren''t limited to eighteen years-but can last a lifetime-Ezzo teaches how to build quality relationships that endure. Reaching the Heart of Your Teen is filled with practical examples to help moms and dads build bridges that will help them reach and establish lasting relationships with their teens.

Gary Ezzo, director of the ministries of Growing Families International, and Anne Marie Ezzo present an approach to parenting aimed at raising "morally responsible and biblically responsive" children.