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The kids wanted a trip to the zoo...easy enough, or so you thought!
Maybe you had such a great day at the zoo, you got a yearly membership. Now how often can you go? Once a month, once every two months?
What about all the other weekends and holidays? How do you create regular weekend adventures to motivate your kids, to spark their wanderlust, and want to explore and engage with the world around?
Adventuring is a practice, much like yoga or your...
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Ambitious and hard-working, but wrapped in the cocoon of parental love and easy success, I followed my husband from Moscow to New York City determined to pursue my budding academic career. Instead, I fell in love with the challenges and creative opportunities of motherhood and became a stay-at-home mother. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, my child-rearing travails acquired a well-defined practical goal: I wanted our two daughters to graduate...
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This gift book for expectant mothers-a nice addition to the Fortune-Telling book series-divines the secrets about the baby they carry. From determining the baby s sex and temperament to decoding dreams and omens associated with pregnancy, this little book is a perfect way for moms-to-be and baby shower guests to consult with the cosmos.
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Markus Keinhorst's debut book FTD (First Time Dad) was developed from a desire to record the key events leading up to his son Max's birth and first year milestones. The notion that it may enlighten anticipating and new fathers, or parents, during an exciting and nervous time in their lives developed the as he recorded significant events and magical moments. The book is written to highlight potential expectations for new fathers and also introduce...
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The simple question, "How are you feeling, Momma?" wins the prize for the most loaded inquiry in the history of all things wonder. As moms, we've concocted a gazillion ways to dodge and deflect the question in order to avoid giving an honest answer. A trite "I'm fine" keeps the heaviness of authenticity from mucking up our everyday living.
Yet, the truth is, beneath our facade are countless felt needs just begging for healing and resolve. Motherhood...
2366) Mask of a Man
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An abusive marriage can ruin your mental health. It can destroy your peace, emotions, ability to function properly and you slowly stop being yourself. An empty vessel you become, devoid of feeling any emotions.
Bella, the protagonist of the story, falls in love with a charismatic handsome man who, for a moment, makes her feel like her life might be whole now. His presence had overtaken her, and her life revolved around him. Number one mistake.
All...
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They put the tiny, red-faced bundle into her arms, and time stopped. She gazed at that puckered little face and whispered, Welcome to the world, baby girl.
Little did she know that within weeks, she would become a single mother-not exactly what she had imagined for her daughters and herself, but exactly what needed to happen.
This is the story of a single mother, but it's more than that. Sometimes funny, sometimes reflective, it's also your story-a...
2368) Special Education Savvy
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Wouldn't it be helpful if your child's IEP came with an instruction manual? What if you were given a mentor to grab your hand and guide you along your child's special education journey, every step of the way? Special Education Savvy and Mary Beth Gilliland are both of these wishes granted.
Mary Beth is a special education teacher, IEP mom, and professional non-attorney advocate with over 20-years of combined experience. She is passionate about encouraging...
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Streetwise Safety for Children teaches parents and kids the most effective ways to prevent a threat to a child and what to do if a threat does occur. Today, more than ever it is essential for people to become aware of self-defense and crime prevention techniques for themselves and their family. Learning just one of the simple instructions in this martial arts book could prevent you or your child from becoming the victim of a violent crime. The first...
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This book takes a 'warts and all', sensible, yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child will involve two people; there is every reason that your partner's pregnancy should also involve the two of you, together.
For any man that has been...
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A parent's love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.
One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this knock, this threat, that began the family's journey out of the Bible Belt but never far from the hate and fear resting at the nation's core.
Self-aware and intimate,...
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¿Te encuentras gritando constantemente a tus hijos, pero todavía no escuchan?¿Siempre sientes que estás al límite?¿Le gustaría poder mejorar su relación con su hijo para acercarlos más?Si respondiste afirmativamente a alguna de estas preguntas, querrás seguir leyendo...Ser padre no es facil, y cualquiera que te diga que lo es está mintiendo o negándolo. Ser padre puede ponerse realmente difícil. Si bien es realmente gratificante y pasará...
2373) Faithful Families for Lent, Easter, and Resurrection: Simple Ways to Create Meaning for the Season
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How do you share the deep mysteries of Lent, Easter, and Resurrection with children? Parents, guardians, teachers, and ministers will find dozens of fun and easy practices for celebrating the Easter season with our kids. The practices and seasonal prayers are grouped into chapters titled Ash Wednesday, Symbols, Lenten Prayers, Lenten Refraining, Lenten Acts of Service, Holy Week, Easter Vigil and Easter Day, and the Season of Resurrection. Smith also...
2374) 21st Century Parenting: A Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children in an Unstable World
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As co-founder of Outreach Concern, Inc., one of the largest school-based counseling services in the country, Dr. Rick Capaldi developed a guide to raise kids into confident, independent adults. His "three Rs"-Read your child's environment, Regulate their emotional temperature, and Redirect their behavior-will help parents and teachers steer children toward emotional stability and success. This model has been effectively utilized in counseling over...
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Who's Going To Watch My Kids? is the true story of working mom Rachel Levy Lesser's struggles to find and hold on to a nanny for her two young children. It also includes the stories of 15 other working moms and their humorous and heartfelt nanny tales. Each mother longs to employ the modern day Mary Poppins - that perfect nanny who they soon learn doesn't exist. This book explores the unique relationships that develop between working mothers (and...
2376) One Womb Wound at a Time
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One-hundred days of the emotional ups and downs that come along with postpartum and parenting. Ways to manage, affirmations for encouragement, Space to write and help you through the process on a daily basis.
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Why Parents Secretly Hate Children's Birthday Parties, says it all. Finally, a book that spells out what a lot of parents think and feel, but never say. Hosting a children's birthday party will make some parents cringe or can bring some moms to tears. This survival party guide is like having a professional party planner on retainer. Ashia Watson's lighthearted journey into the children's birthday party industry is refreshing, comical, entertaining,...
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The laugh-out-loud answer to the guide that has terrified millions! So the pregnancy test is positive, and the only thing growing faster than your appetite for anything fried is your list of questions: How long until I have to pay through the nose for maternity wear? Is there anything I can do to prevent the scrapbooking instinct from kicking in? Relax. The advice in this book will be as easily digested as the now - forbidden caffeine you used to...
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What happens when the very same system designed to protect children fails?
That's exactly what is happening right now in the UK family courts in cases of Parental Alienation, a form of post-divorce abuse.
Cafcass define Parental Alienation as 'when a child's resistance or hostility towards one parent is not justified and is the result of psychological manipulation by the other parent'; yet experts, therapists and social workers are not trained to...
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Baby sleep training is pretty much simple- it's about getting your baby to sleep. But it does not, and will not, end there. After your baby has gone to dreamland, there are instances when he'll wake up in the middle of the night, and then won't go to sleep, no matter how much you beg for him to do it. Baby sleep training is getting your baby to sleep, and helping him stay asleep through the night.
Whether you are pregnant, a young parent or an experienced...
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