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 baby sleep and feeding patterns. Millions of new mothers across the globe are coming toward this new brand at an increasing pace as they find and share the life changing success they are achieving with their newborns. This updated Anniversary edition celebrates 25 years with Bucknam and Ezzo's 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 25 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 28th 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. Early chapters start with explorations of everyday aspects of infant management such as the three basic elements of daytime activities for newborns: feeding time, waketime, and naptime. Practical discussions then focus on broad and niche topics including feeding philosophies, baby sleep problems, baby scheduling challenges, nap routines, sleep training multiples, baby sleeping props, Colic and Reflux and many other dimensions which impact breast feeding schedules, bottle feeding tips, and baby sleeping training. Five resource Appendixes provide additional reference material: 1) Taking care of baby and mom 2) A timeline of what to expect and when 3)Baby Sleep Training Problems and Solutions 4)Monitoring Your Baby's Growth 5) Healthy Baby Growth Charts On Becoming Babywise is more than an infant-management concept. It is a mindset for successful parenthood. It can help any parent develop a plan that meets both the needs of a new baby and of the entire family. These principles have worked for millions of parents and, when applied with common sense to your unique situation, can work wonderfully for you too! Recommended by doctors across the country.

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!

It's reality-check time! You're at least four months into your tour of parenting and the complexity of child-training is starting to multiply. The learning fields of toddlerhood are cultivated during the Babyhood Transition phase, 5 months to a year.

On Becoming PreToddlerwise continue picks up where Babywise II left off. During the next 180 days (12-18 months of age) the newly emerging walking, talking, explor¬ing child begins a developmental metamorphosis from baby¬hood to toddlerhood. This means the challenges successfully accomplished a few months ago give way to new abilities and challenges as your pretoddler's mind and world expands expo¬nentially. As mealtime and waketime activities become more complex, parenting strategies will have to adjust to properly accommodate your child's expanding world of discovery. On Becoming Pretoddlerwise was written to prepare parents for the hectic, fast moving, exciting and fatiguing toddler years.

While successful potty training in itself is not considered a developmental milestone in a child's life, it is nonetheless an important transition for both you and your child. This book is based on the simple fact that toilet training is a skill that children must learn early in life. All parents know this. It's a journey children must take with mom and dad navigating the way. But where do you begin? Is your child old enough to interpret and properly respond to the new sensations associated with elimination? What signs do you look for? What equipment do you need? How do you keep your little person focused? How do you motivate her to use the potty instead of her diaper and, once she achieves success, keep her going on her own? The answers to these questions and many more are only a few pages away.

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.

Do the math: If a mother averages six diaper changes a day, she'll change 2,190 diapers during her baby's first year. Things improve slightly over the next twelve months. Based on five changes a day, she'll add another 1,825 diaper changes to her score. By the time her child is half- way to her third birthday, Mom will pass the 5,000 mark. That's a lot of dirty diapers! If this mom is you, it's no wonder you might be thinking seriously about potty training.While successful potty training in itself isn't considered a developmental milestone in a child's life, it is nonetheless an important transition for both you and your child. The good news is that potty training doesn't have to be complicated and neither does a book that explains it. Busy moms need a resource that gives them comprehensive information without a lot of unnecessary details and presents them with options instead of a one-size-fits-all program. Potty Training 1-2-3 provides all of that and more. The more is in the results.

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.

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.

Sound biblical instruction for parents with questions about discipline, parental roles and other issues from the author of "The Smart Parent" and a practicing pediatrician.

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.

Baby wise: how 100,000 new parents trained their babies to sleep through the night the natural way.

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.