More than 200 clever tricks to help stubborn kids go to bed, clean their room, take a bath, and more—without tears or fights. As a parent, you want nothing more than to keep your child fed, clothed, clean, healthy, and safe. Your kid, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to eat junk, go nude, stay up all night, and fall down a well. Begging doesn’t work. Bribery isn’t sustainable. You don’t want to shout. But what are you supposed to do? It’s time to get sneaky. The Sneaky Parent offers a full playbook of clever ploys for beating kids at their own game. With the strategies outlined in this book, you can gently guide kids towards positive choices—while letting them think they’re the ones in control. Learn how to: Boost oral hygiene by pretending a toothbrush is a paintbrush for teeth Render long plane trips painless with a game of “name that cloud� Calm separation anxiety by developing fun ways to wave goodbye And dozens of other clever tactics, tricks, and games With a little benevolent sneakiness, your child will enthusiastically try new foods, embrace bath time, go to sleep on a schedule, and other necessary but unpopular life skills. The best part? They’ll be sure it was their idea. Previously published as How to Con Your Kid (2012) this edition includes gender-neutral language, updated screen time advice, and more for today's parent.

It’s the apocalypse—now what? Prepare for the end of civilization with the help of the world’s best-selling survival guide series and learn how to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again. The doomsday clock is seconds from midnight. Extinction-level dangers draw closer with every tick. But fear not! Here is an indispensable guide to preparing for and surviving the ultimate in worst-case scenarios, with humor to lighten the load. You can’t panic if you’re laughing. Dozens of survival experts provide illustrated, step-by-step instructions on: How to Pack a Go Bag in Thirty Minutes How to Make Your Bunker Feel Like Home How to Survive an Alien Invasion How to Defeat a Robot Uprising How to Survive the Next Pandemic How to Fend Off a Hostile Clan How to Eat Insects and Rodents How to Rebuild a Utopian Society And many more tips for the end of the world as we know it.

Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Cyberbullies. Sinkholes. From wresting an alligator to evading drones to landing a plane if the pilot passes out, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help with expert, illustrated, step-by-step instructions for life's sudden turns for the worst. Needed now more than ever, this revised and expanded edition-published on the international bestseller's 20th anniversary-delivers frightening and funny real advice readers need to know fast. With crucial information added from across the Worst-Case series and 20 all-new scenarios for twenty-first century threats (extreme weather, "fake news," dropping a cell phone in the toilet), this action-packed hardcover handbook brings emergency instruction for anxious times.

Based on the best-selling "WORST-CASE SCENARIOA(R) Survival Handbook," with more than six million copies in print, this handy pocket-size version prepares you for life's unexpected perils. Would you know what to do if the worst actually happened? How would you survive an earthquake? Would you know what to do if you had to deliver a baby in a taxicab? Step-by-step survival instructions for these scenarios and many more are provided in "The WORST-CASE SCENARIOA(R) Little Book for Survival":

How to Identify a Mail Bomb

How to Survive in the Line of Fire

How to Fend Off an Alligator

Carry this pocket-size volume with you at all times, because you just never know when you'll need it.

Published under license from Chronicle Books, LLC. Worst-Case ScenarioA(R) and The Worst-Case Scenario Survival HandbookA are trademarks of Quirk Productions, Inc. The little books are based on the books The WORST-CASE SCENARIO Survival HandbookA, (c) 1999 by Quirk Productions, Inc., and The WORST-CASE SCENARIO Survival HandbookA: Dating & Sex, (c) 2001 by Quirk Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. First published by Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California, USA.

Homework, hormones, heartache...middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed with funny-but-useful tips for the trickiest situations that crop up in middle school, like taking charge of a too-busy homework schedule, dealing with a cold shoulder from a friend who has suddenly become just too cool, avoiding common e-mail and cell phone disasters, and more.

Danger! It lurks at every corner - sharks, grid collapse, a sinking car, a malfunctioning parachute. This crucial, illustrated daily calendar from the authors of the internationally bestselling WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK SERIES is packed with step-by-step guidance and essential knowledge for extreme and everyday scenarios. Because you just never know.

Danger It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything you need to know FAST-from defusing a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab. Providing frightening and funny real information in the best-selling tradition of the "Paranoid's Pocket Guide" and "Hypochondriac's Handbook, " this indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse. The essential companion for a perilous age. Because you never know...

Es el manual mas util (y divertido) que como padre podrias conseguir. Contienen cientos de tips, tecnicas y trucos simples para lograr que tu hijo haga exactamente lo que quieres sin que lo note (aplicable a ninos entre los 2 y los 5 anos de edad). Muy efectivo para la hora de comer, de dormir y cualquier otro momento del dia (o la noche) y que los padres, educadores y responsables de la educacion de los ninos triunfen en las duras negociaciones de la crianza y la iniciacion en los buenos habitos.

This very useful (and fun) handbook is what every parent needs. It includes hundreds of tips, techniques and simple tricks to motivate your child to behave the way you want, without causing a conflict (applies to children between 2 and 5 years old). This is a very effective tool for lunch time, sleep time and any other time during the day or night and that parents, teachers and educators need to succeed during tough negotiations with children and inspire them to behave well.