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When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing. After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of life that didn't fit anymore, and he settle…
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Talittuq is excited to start his first day of grade two. He is looking forward to the new school year, but as he meets his friends again for the first time after summer vacation, he notices that a lot of his friends? families are very different from his own. Some have one mom and one dad, and some …
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A young boy faces adversity from classmates when he wears an orange dress at school.
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Votre enfant est toujours dispersé? Il ne supporte pas la frustration? Il s'endort difficilement? Il est souvent dominé par ses émotions et vous aimeriez l'apaiser? Avec cette méthode simple et accessible basée sur 50 exercices de méditation, découvrez comment détendre tout type de pressions intern…
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Mentalization is the idea that understanding a person's mental state can help you understand their behaviour. This book explores how mental states relate to attachment style, internal regulation, emotional compass, and parenting. It also offers tips on play, boundaries, sexuality, and sibling relat…
In this sweet and lyrical picture book, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world.
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This collection of essays, most of them previously published in magazines and newspapers, touches on the joys and challenges of family life. Author Lisa Bendall is married to Ian, who is intelligent, funny and kind... and happens to be quadriplegic. Together they are raising a spectacular daughter.…
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Set in the Nicola Valley, British Columbia, an Indigenous family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. A grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life and the natural world to her young grandchildren.
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Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child.; The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby's birth; a fluffy white eagle p…
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Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior - th…
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Mom never had long hair - she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn't have long hair - hers was taken from her. But one young girl can't wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who…
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Le corps se transforme et se transformera encore et encore! Ma sexualité de 9 à 11 ans propose aux filles et aux garçons une réflexion joyeuse sur le besoin de se sentir belle et beau, sur le goût de se rapprocher de l'autre, sur les phénomènes liés à la puberté et sur bien d'autres sujets encore. …
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Le sommeil est incontestablement la clé du bon développement de l?enfant, mais aussi d?une vie familiale sereine et équilibrée. Pourtant, il reste un défi à atteindre pour plusieurs personnes?Fruit de nombreuses années d?intervention, Enfin je dors?et mes parents aussi présente une nouvelle fois le…
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Votre adorable fils de sept ans pique une colère noire ? Votre petite princesse de onze ans tombe en mille morceaux lorsqu'elle n'obtient pas le rôle principal dans le spectacle de fin d'année de son école ? Votre trésor de quatre ans a des peurs irrationnelles que vous ne parvenez pas à calmer ?; …
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Il est parfois difficile de te préparer pour aller à l?école le matin ? Tu as du mal à te concentrer en classe ? Tu as souvent la bougeotte ou de la difficulté à demeurer assis ? Tu contrôles difficilement tes émotions ? Tu vis avec un TDAH (trouble déficitaire de l?attention avec ou sans hyperacti…
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Cette encyclopédie en quatre volumes se propose d'aborder de la manière la plus large et la plus objective les problèmes de la sexualité, sous leur double aspect scientifique et relationnel. Racontée sous forme d'histoire dans les tomes 4-6 ans et 7-9 ans, la vie sexuelle est mise en scène sans pré…
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Cette encyclopédie en quatre volumes se propose d'aborder de la manière la plus large et la plus objective les problèmes de la sexualité, sous leur double aspect scientifique et relationnel. Racontée sous forme d'histoire dans les tomes 4-6 ans et 7-9 ans, la vie sexuelle est mise en scène sans pré…
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Le premier livre d'initiation au yoga pour aider les enfants à se sentir bien dans leur corps et dans leur tête ! La pratique du yoga est très bénéfique pour les plus jeunes pour leur apprendre à se détendre, à se concentrer ou gérer leurs émotions. Basé sur Little Flower Yoga, un programme dévelop…
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Le livre révolutionnaire, premier du genre, qui endormira votre enfant en quelques pages seulement. Une méthode testée et approuvée par des milliers de parents du monde entier.
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