Résultats Éditeur "Phoenix Books" dans Éducation des enfants et relations

"Children don't fail, the adults around them do - and it is up to us to light the candle of excellence within each one we know and love," begins Marva Collins, one of America's foremost educators, in her important work, Values. This practical guide is for those of us who strive to be role models, who want to know the important values, live them, and teach them to our children.

Our increasingly complicated lifestyle demands clear and constructive thinking: making decisions, making choices, taking initiatives, and being creative. Watching television for 20 to 30 hours a week, as many children do, results in a passive mind that can only copy what others are doing (including drugs, sex, and violence). Give your children a better chance in life. Thinking is a skill...even a superior brain is wasted without it. You can start to teach your children to think - now.

Millions of listeners have come to value the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. Many thousands of those listeners have had questions for him — questions about good and evil, angels and devils, health, death, prayer, spiritual paths, the nature of God and the universe, and much more.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series delivers inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients on today's most pressing health topics. It provides the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about weight loss.

She's one of the most successful women in America, and now you can sit down and listen to her best advice, in her own voice - as if she were you best friend sharing a cup of coffee and telling all her secrets. Best-selling author and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown has become model for women who won't settle for less than the best in their lives. In this intimate, revealing audiobook, she invites you to follow her personal, passionate program.

When a woman acts assertively, makes demands, and struggles for what she wants, she is labeled a bitch. The secret is to know when and how to turn on (or turn off) that "bitch switch." Locating your switch prevents you from being exploited or being saddled with a label that is hard to shake. Omarosa wants women to not just find their inner bitch but learn to control it. Whether you're striving to reach your career goals or struggling to maintain a personal relationship, this manual on the use and control of your bitch switch provides intelligent strategies for success.

Looking for career advice, tips on how to write a resume, improve interview skills, or dress for success? Then this is not the book for you. But if you're willing to take charge of your career and be responsible for the choices you make, then get ready to take yourself to the top."

Whether on the job or at home, we've all yearned for a way to simplify our lives and become more organized. In A Simpler Way, authors Margaret J. Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers use the latest scientific research to develop new structures to help us become more cooperative, creative, and free. By simplifying our individual worlds, Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers explain that we will inevitably increase our self-assurance, resulting in a continuous cycle of creativity, accomplishment, and learning.

If anyone ever calls you a "towhead," don't be insulted. It only means you have really blond hair and that perhaps you need to expand your vocabulary. Word Power will help you do just that. You'll listen to the definitions and sample uses of 101 challenging words that may have been unfamiliar or confusing to you. Based on the popular series by Peter Funk, this edition is just the first Word Power in a series.

With the same sassy tone that made Skinny Bitch laugh-out-loud funny, in Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin give expectant moms the information they need to :use their heads" and have a healthy pregnancy and baby.

Everyone faces illness. Whether it's a personal health crisis or the sickness a loved one is experiencing, none of us is immune to illness or death. While we can try to ignore the reality, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen suggests we do the exact opposite: face it. Dr. Bolen shares how illness gives us purpose, guiding us towards finding the truth. By practicing self-compassion, empathy, listening, and learning, we set ourselves on a path to finding hope.

This is an absolutely indispensable guide for anyone considering coupling or uncoupling. Filled with solid legal advice, tricks of the trade you will not find anywhere else, and even hilarious anecdotes, this is THE must-have guide to what everyone needs to know when it comes to the legal ramifications of relationships, marriage, and divorce.

Four women, each diagnosed with breast cancer, were dismayed to learn that the conventional vocabulary for healing is a language characterized by a terminology of warfare and survivorship, and one which is fraught with winners and losers. Speak the Language of Healing is the product of their collective endeavor to develop a new framework for the emotional stages of illness and a new means for its discusson. Their experiences reflect their four different spiritual backgrounds Christian, Jewish, Sufi, and Twelve Step, with each rewriting the combative language of illness.

At age 40, people are basically at the halfway point in their lives. Levine adds a touch of humor to this reflection on the halfway marker.

Dave Barry exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960's that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. His new book gives parents-to-be the hard facts they need. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prison - to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down with an attorney who normally charges $600 per hour and receive expert legal advice on what is no doubt one of the biggest decisions you will ever make in your life?

Women, usually the caretakers of relationships and health issues, are often frustrated when the men in their lives resist managing their own well-being. In recent years, though women have learned much about their own health, most do not understand the many significant ways in which men's health issues differ from their own.

Whatever their ages, you can still turn your kids into super savers, savvy shoppers and cautious users of credit. The author, a mother of three and senior editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, has compiled an invaluable guide for parents.

The country is in a sexual funk. What are we to do about it? Discover the all natural alternative that can improve your sexual health safely at any age. Authors Stuart W. Fine, M.D., and Brenda D. Adderley, M.H.A. examine the causes of decreased sexual desire in men and women and offer a simple 4-step plan for recapturing vigor and improving the sexual health of you and your mate.

What if, all of a sudden, everyone started performing good deeds every day? This inspiring collection presents many true stories of people who've committed, received, and observed voluntary acts of kindness. Hearing their stories reveals how these simple, small acts of goodness can have a profound positive effect in the world. As explained in the text, "every hand we extend, every act of kindness we commit, sends a ripple out into the world that is magnified by every life it encounters."