When your baby is walking - and you're sprinting to keep up - count on The Best Friends' Guide to Toddlers to keep you one step ahead! One moment your little sweetie curls up in your lap and kisses your neck, the next he's running through the local shop screaming 'No, no, no!' Just who is this little being who was formerly your baby? Does it seem l ike your precious infant has been replaced by a very small maniac? Are you alternately enchanted and terrified by your toddler's independence, imagination and inability to sit still for one single minute? Don't panic - the wise, witty and always honest advice of Vicki Iovine is here to help you figure out such things as- How to say 'no' and look like you mean it When to move your little tyke out of the cot and into a bed (and how to keep him there) Which vegetables your toddler will eat - and how to disguise the others Who decides when it's time to potty-train Whether you can ever win an argument with a person whose vocabulary is only a hundred words Iovine tells mothers and fathers what they need to know - straight-from-the-hip survival tips from the ones who've been there. The Best Friends' Guides tell it like it is and give frazzled parents a much needed laugh.

There's no magical formula for new mums, but The Best Friends' Guide to Babies can help you cope - laugh! When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr Spock to your mother-in-law has an armful of advice. But no one is delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery-room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms you fears and cracks you up as only a friend can with straight advice and hilarious observations on: - Baby euphoria: is it a mind-altering drug? - 'Partner? What partner?': taking care of the big baby as well as the little baby - 'I want my old body back!': what you can fix and what you can't - The droning phenomenon: the inability to discuss anything but your baby for more than thirty seconds - Competitive mothering: coping with know-it-alls, finger pointers and others who try to 'Out-Mum' you

The practical, comforting, honest, and hilarious bestseller for moms-to-be, with more than one and a half million copies in print! Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real skinny when you’re pregnant? Your girlfriends, of course—at least, the ones who’ve been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the way only a best friend can—in the book that will go the whole nine months for every mother-to-be. In this revised and updated edition, get the lowdown on all those little things that are too strange or embarrassing to ask, practical tips, and hilarious takes on everything pregnant. What really happens to your body—from morning sickness and gas to eating everything in sight—and what it’s like to go from being a babe to having one. The Many Moods of Pregnancy—why you’re so irritable/distracted/tired/lightheaded (or at least more than usual). Staying Stylish—You may be pregnant, but you can still be the fashionista you’ve always been (or at least you don’t have to look like a walking beachball)—wearing the hippest designers and proudly showing off your bump. Pregnancy is Down To a Science—from in vitro fertilization to scheduled c-sections, there are so many options, alternatives, and scientific tests to take that being pregnant can be downright confusing! And much more! For a reassuring voice or just a few good belly laughs, turn to this straight-talking guide on what to really expect when you’re expecting.

This advice on how to deal with toddlers discusses things such as: when to say no and act like you mean it; when to move your little tyke out of the cot and into a bed; which vegetables your toddler will eat and how to disguise the others; and who decides when it is time to potty train.

Friendships are like flowers. If you take care of them, they grow and bloom until you have a beautiful garden! The Little Book of Friendship shows young readers what they need to know to make a friend and to be one too.