The Good Housekeeping Book of Child Care offers the expert guidance you'll need on key child-rearing topics during the first twelve years, including: Parenting Advice, Commonsense fundamentals of raising a healthy, happy, and well-adjusted child. Health Care, Easy-to-follow advice on illnesses, prevention, and recommended first aid treatments. Child Development, Relevant and insightful tips on the major developments in every child's physical growth, skills, thinking, understanding, and behavior. Newly revised, The Good Housekeeping Book of Child Care now includes updated immunization charts, growth charts, and the latest information on coping with childhood illnesses. It will help you tackle every new challenge with confidence. Book jacket.

The first illustrated practical handbook for new parents & parents-to-be, complete with color photographs every step of the way. The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy & Baby Care is the most complete & fully illustrated guide to parenting ever published. As natural as having a child is, there are still thousands of questions to be answered. Good Housekeeping does just that, by showing you, in 800 glorious, wonderful, adorable, captivating color photographs, real parents caring for real children. No question, however small or elementary, goes unanswered or appears without illustration. In its inimitable style -- confident, caring, down-to-earth -- it takes you through every step of pregnancy & childcare from conception to age three. In the section on pregnancy, you'll find a thoughtful, up-to-the-minute lesson in prenatal planning, exercise, nutrition, labor, & birthing alternatives. A unique month-by-month photographic diary of one woman's pregnancy will help you understand what changes your body & emotions undergo. Chapters on baby care offer step-by-step photographs & explanations on every imaginable subject: How to bottle-feed, breast-feed, express milk; How to change diapers, choose a layette, buy a car seat; How to dress, undress, feed, & bathe your baby; How to deal with crying spells, sleepless nights, diaper rash, potty training. In the section on health care, everything you need to know to recognize & treat common childhood illnesses is presented in a clear, no-nonsense, easy-to-find & follow format, along with a guide to childhood first aid, growth charts, & immunization timetables. Authoritative, clear, practical, & comforting, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy & Baby Care will be your indispensable companion through the first three years of your baby's life.

Features sections on prenatal care, parenting issues, and childhood illnesses, with illustrations to show expectant mothers what to anticipate; updated to include information about amniocentesis, car safety, and health care.

Presents recipes for more than 1300 dishes together with information on cooking techniques, healthy eating, meal planning, food safety considerations, and an illustrated listing of fruits and vegetables.

This stunning cookbook is as practical as it is beautiful with 1,000 recipes and 1,800 color photographs that make cooking step-by-step simple pleasure. With tasty recipes ranging from traditional family favorites to new innovative dishes, The Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook covers scores of basic to advanced cooking techniques. From appetizers to meat and poultry, from pastas to flatbreads, from vegetables to desserts, every section begins with how-to photographs of a basic cooking technique as well as photographs of finished dishes and recipes that build on the technique. Preparation and cooking times as well as nutritional information are provided with every recipe. Know-How sections throughout are packed with essential information about food safety and storage, entertaining and menu-planning, food history, gadgets and equipment, ethnic ingredients, and cooking charts. Most appealing of all - and at the heart of the book - are the recipes!

By a child-care authority and mother of an only child, this useful, knowledgeable book provides sound advice on creating an enriching environment that's stimulating and enjoyable for only children and their parents alike.

A collection of over 1,400 recipes each featuring step-by-step instructions, including 900 color photographs of finished dishes.

Awesome S.T.E.A.M.-based science experiments you can do right at home with easy-to-find materials designed for maximum enjoyment, learning, and discovery for kids ages 8 to 12 Join the experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute Labs and explore the science you interact with every day. Using the scientific method, you’ll tap into your own super-powers of logic and deduction to go on a science adventure. The engaging experiments exemplify core concepts and range from quick and simple to the more complex. Each one includes clear step-by-step instructions and color photos that demonstrate the process and end result. Plus, secondary experiments encourage young readers to build on what they’ve discovered. A “Mystery Solved!” explanation of the science at work helps your budding scientist understand the outcomes of each experiment. These super-fun, hands-on experiments include: Building a solar oven and making s’mores Creating an active rain cloud in a jar Using static electricity created with a balloon to power a light bulb Growing your own vegetables—from scraps! Investigating the forces that make an object sink or float And so much more! Bursting with more than 200 color photos and incredible facts, this sturdy hard cover is the perfect classroom resource or gift for any aspiring biologist, chemist, physicist, engineer, and mathematician!