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Michael Padraig Acton’s 30+ years of experience in psychological therapy, systemic life coaching and counselling, plus insights from leading international experts, are packed into this accessible, unmissable guide that will empower caregivers to take positive action to improve their parenting skills from a place of authenticity and honesty. Dealing with teenage behaviour, tackling loneliness, drugs and alcohol, online gaming, sex and more, Raw Facts from Real Parents explores the many challenging issues that parents encounter every day.

Living with Momma offers personal narratives and sacred stories for caregivers searching for measurable peace as they navigate unexpected paths within 21st-century families. Sixty-three million Americans are caring for aging parents and grown children at the same time, and they often find themselves wondering, “How is it possible to care for our families and ourselves at the same time?” In Living with Momma, Elizabeth Adams, an author and pastor, uses her life experiences, along with the wisdom found in open-ended questions, to show caregivers how they can.

Raising moral, responsible, and successful teenagers with a good sense of civic responsibility in the modern world is not a walk in the bag. Perhaps your kid is now getting moodier, breaking rules, immense into social media, raising their voice when you confront them, or have started exploring romantic relationships, and you are getting worried. Effective teen parenting is key. Now, you have an alternative to shouting, ineffective punishments, and micromanaging your teenagers—Parenting Teens.

Learn how to create and tell spellbinding oral stories for the special children in your life with The Storyteller's Kit Box. Children’s author and story weaver Judy Hubbard shows how easy it is to build magical stories using a simple four-step approach - character, setting, action, and resolution - and an armada of great story themes. The Storyteller’s Kit Box provides helpful tips on story delivery, instructions for creating props bags and story boxes...and sample stories to get you started.

The first uncensored biography to investigate our era's most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmaker reveals the controversial private life behind the iconic public persona.

In Anger Management for Parents, a workbook guide on how to manage your emotions, we will dive into how to first process and overcome your anger, with steps that will help you calm yourself and begin to turn away from angry outbursts.

Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, "The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged." This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John McDonough's presentation of the spiritual and the secular elements that led to religious reform will captivate listeners.

Normally, Olivia spends all year looking forward to her family's summer vacation in Florida. But not this year. Not when her parents have recently separated, and her father has to stay behind in Colorado. Olivia doesn't know what she'll do all summer without him. They've always been a pair, and she's never felt the same bond with her mother or younger sister. So Olivia plans to spend the summer laying low, and trying to ignore the hurt gnawing at her heart. Then she learns that the local sea turtle population is in serious risk of dying because of her neighbor's poorly designed house.

It is a love letter of sorts. And while there are some who might beg to differ, you'd have to know the author to know that that was true. Daisy Tatous. "The Petals of Rose" is a poignant exploration of the intricate and often tumultuous relationships between mothers and daughters. Through the compelling narrative of Rose Tatous, listeners are immersed in a multi-generational saga that weaves together the lives of women across time.

Daca ai fost crescut de un parinte imatur emotional, indiferent si egocentric, ai experimentat, cu siguranta, sentimente ca: furie, singuratate, tradare sau abandon. Iti amintesti copilaria ca pe o perioada in care nevoile tale emotionale nu au fost satisfacute, sentimentele tale au fost ignorate si a trebuit sa-ti asumi responsabilitati de adult pentru a compensa comportamentul nociv al propriilor parinti. Aceste rani pot fi insa vindecate, iar tu poti sa incepi o noua viata.

Aytül Akal, Abur Cubur Canavarı kitabında hem çocukların hayal gücünü genişletiyor hem de bol bol gülümsetiyor. Ergenlik döneminin başındaki bir çocuğun deneyimlerini, ailesi ve arkadaşlarıyla olan ilişkilerini, hayatı sorgulamasını Bora'nın gözünden aktarıyor. "İkisinin de aklı fikri beni doyurmaktaydı. Belli ki ikisinin de sağlıklı beslenme nedir, nasıl olur, haberleri bile yoktu. Neden beni bu kadar yedirmeye çalışıyorlardı?"

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my 13-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine-year-old a cell phone?

This good deed book for children and parents will help you or your child to record their random acts of kindness (either using a separate notebook or, see paperback version of this same book), good intentions and experiences with the whole family and within the community. There are suggestions and ideas, plus suggested activities inside the book. This book can make a perfect gift for a friend and their child or, as a treasured keepsake of your own, to look back on over the years with your own child when they grow up.

Today's technology has made sinful experiences and deadly choices accessible to our teenagers and young adults with just a click. And parents are left with the disappointments—and devastating fallout—of their children's choices. Through sharing her own story of praying three very wayward prodigals home, Laine Lawson Craft offers not only hope and insight, but also a practical, tried-and-true battle plan for parents walking this heartbreaking season of life.

Potter’s Child is a character-builder that focuses on the basics. Its contents include life experiences of the author and stories gathered from our generous contributors, research, and poems that can impact you and your children.

Learn the secrets to parent positively in a negative world. You’re about to discover how to parent with a more positive and healthier attitude.

Есть сыновья и дочери, которые каждый день звонят мама и папам – а есть такие, кто не звонит им никогда. Есть те, кто строит дом поближе к родительскому – а есть те, кто старается поселиться как можно дальше от них, и предпочитает не видеть их вообще. Есть такие дети, которым трудно принимать решения без папы, мамы, и другие – для которых уступки семейным обязательствам допустимы лишь на Рождество, свадьбы или похороны. Отношения у всех разные. И почти всегда у всех отношений богатая, а иногда тяжелая история.

As a child, author Olivia S. Benson was puzzled by her relationship with her father and his absence in her life. It took many years and much soul searching for her to understand her life experiences and how profoundly his absence affected her. Benson finally solved the puzzle, when she began to understand the nature of the Universe: what GEFS—God, Energy, Force, Spirit—really was and how her suffering could serve for good in her life.

Penguin presents the audio edition of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan, written and read by Rebecca Schiller. Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week by week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your relationships, body, work and emotional life right now, giving you practical tools, tips and real stories to help you make a plan that is uniquely yours yet flexible enough to accommodate whatever your pregnancy, birth and life throw at you.

Zum Erwachsenwerden ist es nie zu spät. Im Umgang mit den eigenen Eltern werden viele von uns gefühlt wieder zu Kindern. Die Eltern-Kind-Beziehung bestimmt immer noch unser Verhalten und unser emotionales Erleben. Eine „Entelterung“ wird notwendig, also der Ausstieg aus ungesunden emotionalen Abhängigkeiten. Es geht darum, den Eltern nicht mehr mit den gleichen Anpassungsstrategien zu begegnen, die als Kind nötig waren, um in der Familie einen Platz zu finden.