This is an advanced parenting book providing advice on selected topics listed below: Infant topics: Infant brain growth, infant sleeping through the night, tantrums, car seats and seat belts. Toddler topics: Tooth brushing, giving medication, a better way of discipline and punishment, fights and arguments among siblings, yelling at children. Child topics: Good child decision making, human nature, parenting strategy transitions, the family dinner table, praising children, deciding on who should raise your children (you or someone else), cheating/lying, diet and nutrition, consequences, apologizing. Teen topics: Teen dieting, consequences, violence, adolescent independence, sex facts for teens, adolescent discipline, teens' first jobs, teen nights out on the town. Family topics: Coaching youth sports drug abuse, alcohol, smoking, television, saving money, purchasing the family car. Education topics: Private versus public schools, college as a goal, selecting a college, paying for college, how much college is necessary. Medical topics: fever, seizures, colds, antibiotics, head injuries, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, broken bones, X-rays, allergic reactions, cuts and laceration repair options, vaccines (immunizations), vitamins, emergencies.