 | The Family by J. R. Miller
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $18.16 Excellent book on family life. The starting point for everything else.
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 | Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life by Margaret Kim Peterson
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.80 Could also be known as the Witherspoon housekeeping book.
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 | Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $7.99 The practical side of life.
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 | Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
Buy new: $17.27 / Used from: $15.21 Keep your family healthy through real food.
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 | The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A. G. Sertillanges
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.00 A good reminder that the intellectual life does not consist in getting a degree. Also see the section on the wife of an intellectual. Also read anything by Josef Pieper and then give it to your husbands to read...
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 | The Pregnancy Book: Month-by-Month, Everything You Need to Know From America's Baby Experts by William Sears
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.09 Read Nourishing Traditions on preparing your body for pregnancy. Read this as your "pregnancy book."
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 | Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way: Revised Edition by Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $5.21 Have a natural birth. It is possible.
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 | The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) by William Sears
Buy new: $14.29 / Used from: $3.97 Don't trust the mainstream about babies and children. Babies are not convenient. This is how to take care of them.
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 | The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $1.46 I found this the best resource among all of the other breast feeding books. But, join a La Leche League chapter as soon as you learn you're pregnant and start going to meetings.
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 | The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.37 Read this while you are still pregnant.
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 | Raising Godly Tomatoes by L. Elizabeth Krueger
Buy used from: $999.99 Past the first year, Dr. Sears is a bit too permissive. I wish this woman had a Catholic equivalent.
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 | What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.09 Fun read and great for those of us who like to research everything :)
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 | Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Ph.D.
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $4.75 Beware of "Baby Einstein" type stuff.
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 | For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $12.25 Yes. I am actually recommending a book by a Schaeffer.
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 | The Complete Homeopathy Handbook: Safe and Effective Ways to Treat Fevers, Coughs, Colds and Sore Throats, Childhood Ailments, Food Poisoning, Flu, and a Wide Range of Everyday Complaints by Miranda Castro
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.90 |
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