Kathleen Harper's Books
Described as a “Motherhood Survival Kit,” The Well-Crafted Mom: A Do-it-Yourself Guide for Making a Life You Love helps both new and experienced moms find fresh ideas to help them work through the daily struggles of motherhood. Author Kathleen Ann Harper blends been-in-your-shoes stories and smart self-care solutions with inspirational craft projects so moms can bring meaningful reminders of what they’ve learned into their day-to-day routines. In each chapter, moms discover new ways to manage motherhood, such as:
Kathleen Ann Harper provides compassion, creative insights, and well-researched advice on how to take small steps toward big change, even in the midst of temper tantrums, diaper blow-outs, and the exhaustion, disappointment, and resentment that often accompanies parenthood. Within the pages of The Well-Crafted Mom, mothers find reassurance that they’re not alone, see themselves in familiar stories, and discover new ways to craft their beautiful lives.
- How to grapple with mommy guilt and win.
- Ways to tell the difference between having a mess and being a mess, and why it matters.
- How to know when expectations are stealing happiness.
- What moms can do to reclaim joy.
Kathleen Ann Harper provides compassion, creative insights, and well-researched advice on how to take small steps toward big change, even in the midst of temper tantrums, diaper blow-outs, and the exhaustion, disappointment, and resentment that often accompanies parenthood. Within the pages of The Well-Crafted Mom, mothers find reassurance that they’re not alone, see themselves in familiar stories, and discover new ways to craft their beautiful lives.
Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book is a collaboration between Kathleen Ann Harper and William Paul White. The result is a beautiful blend of the Kathleen and Bill's very best skills: Kathleen's writing, research, and storytelling abilities with Bill's many years of inspiring thousands of families to sign with their babies in interactive and fun baby sign language classes.
What does your baby want to tell you? You can find out – even before your baby can verbally speak – by using baby sign language. Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book gives you everything you need to start signing with your baby:
Plus, each chapter includes a bit of parent coaching so you can discover how signing with your children helps to build better communication, better understanding, and better bonds between you all.
It’s super easy to learn baby sign language and Kathleen and Bill show you the way in the book, Signs of a Happy Baby. What your baby has to say will blow you away!
What does your baby want to tell you? You can find out – even before your baby can verbally speak – by using baby sign language. Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book gives you everything you need to start signing with your baby:
- How to link signs into your everyday activities so you can discover why your baby is crying, whether it’s because something hurts, she’s hungry, or wants her diaper changed.
- What to do when your baby is frustrated and you don’t know why. Signing gives pre-verbal babies a way to communicate and can later ease the tantrums of the “terrible twos.”
- Inspiration from stories from parents on how baby sign language eased mealtime battles because children could sign what they wanted to eat and when they were all done; built bridges in bilingual families; and created early signing conversations about what the child was fascinated by, like trains, balloons, dogs, and more.
- An extensive photo dictionary of more than 100 American Sign Language (ASL) signs.
Plus, each chapter includes a bit of parent coaching so you can discover how signing with your children helps to build better communication, better understanding, and better bonds between you all.
It’s super easy to learn baby sign language and Kathleen and Bill show you the way in the book, Signs of a Happy Baby. What your baby has to say will blow you away!