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Discover how to celebrate your life as an empty nester…without guilt or sorrow. Does your quiet home give you heartaches and tears? Do you not know what to do with your life now that the kids are gone? Becoming an empty nester is a sudden and painful change. It is such a difficult time that 38.6 percent of empty nesters suffer from clinical depression and one in four marriages ends in divorce.

Just when Joey Pigza's wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man - literally. After a lucky lotto win, he has a crazy new outlook on life, and he's even changed his name to Charles Heinz. He thinks Joey and his mom should become new people, too. Soon Joey finds himself bombarded with changes, including a new name, a new home, and a new family business: running the beat-up Beehive Diner.

Ti accolli sempre i problemi degli altri anche quando non vorresti, reagisci in modo eccessivo davanti a piccole cose, hai sentimenti persistenti di rabbia, solitudine, tradimento o abbandono: se ti riconosci in questa descrizione potresti essere stato cresciuto da genitori emotivamente immaturi. La psicologa clinica Lindsay Gibson da anni studia gli effetti distruttivi che una genitorialità immatura può avere sui figli.

For most parents, the odd sleepless night is to be expected. Children, and babies in particular, can often be awake at odd hours, and their demands mean that you have to sacrifice your own rest to cater for them. While an odd day here and there isn’t too much of a problem, what do you do when it is every night? Clearly, that can’t be allowed to continue, and that’s where this new audiobook comes in, ready to help you to get the rest you and your baby need.

Good communication is a skill that can be learned. This audiobook provides you with all the tools you need to become better at communicating in relationships. Unlike many of the options out there, this audiobook does not just throw information at you, leaving you more confused than you were before reading it. Instead, this audiobook provides you with information that is easy to understand to ensure you grasp everything.

At a dance workshop held to address the threat of the AIDS pandemic, the author admits she doesn't know how to be a mother to her gay son. With the help of women in her spirituality group, she learns to say yes to what life is asking of her son and of her as his mother. The author's best friend, dying of breast cancer, asks the author to accompany her through what turns out to be 14 days of her dying, ironically preparing this mother for what lies ahead with her own children.

Danu has been learning about Narcissistic Personality Disorder for nearly two decades and has corresponded with many thousands of daughters of narcissistic mothers in that time. This has given her a unique insight into narcissists’ behaviour and its impact on their long-suffering daughters and other victims. The information in this book will of course not force you to go No-Contact: the choice always remains with you, as it should. What it will definitely do is to enable you to make a true choice from a place of strength and certainty.

The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection - but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was 47 years old, Diane got a letter from Switzerland: Her biological father, Otto, wanted to bring her into his life. With that, her world shifted on its axis.

Child psychiatrist and NAMI’s Associate Medical Director Dr. Christine M. Crawford provides a compassionate and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child’s mental health. Drawing on her own clinical experience and guidance from leading experts, Dr. Crawford provides a lens through which to understand the many complex factors affecting children’s mental health. Analyzing young people from preschool to high school, she shares insights into how mental health conditions may manifest at different ages, what kind of interventions may be necessary, and what to do to help kids thrive.

Choose a Better Path: Overcoming the Impact of Your Parents’ Divorce takes listeners on a journey of bite-sized stories, narratives, and teachings that help them discover how their parents’ divorce impacted and continues to impact them. Topics include anger, dealing with triggers, identifying common fears, learning to trust again, handling father hunger, sifting through Gray Divorce (when parents wait until the children are grown to divorce), grieving, unforgiveness, and setting boundaries.

There is a lot of information available to help children and teens work through their parents’ divorce. Unfortunately, that is not the same with adults who suddenly find themselves thrust into a situation of their parents divorcing. People often believe that the emotions surrounding such a pivotal event will not impact older individuals as harshly as a child or teens due to our being grown already. While our emotional intelligence is further developed, a divorce even for an adult child is traumatic, a large change, and often difficult to navigate positively.

Have you ever wondered how some people can skim through a book in minutes, pick up dozens of facts and ideas, and recall them with pinpoint accuracy, even months or years later? With Smart Reading, you won't need to wonder any more.

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.

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.

Mabel Nummerdor groeit op bij haar moeder en stiefvader. Nooit wordt er een woord gesproken over haar biologische vader, maar als student ontdekt ze dat ze het resultaat is van een kortstondige ontmoeting tijdens een zomervakantie aan de Franse westkust. Pas jaren later begint het te knagen: moet ze niet op zoek voor het te laat is? Mabel besluit het tv-programma Spoorloos in te schakelen. De aflevering waarin ze haar Franse vader Jacques voor het eerst ontmoet, trekt meer dan een miljoen kijkers.

This book will provide you with answers by giving you tools to be a change agent for your family. You will gain insights into your character, behavior, and thought patterns so you can identify the ways you contribute to or subtract from honoring your son. By the time you’re done listening to this book, you will have learned about yourself and the initiation and blessing ceremony I did for my sons. Hopefully, my story will spark your interest and generate ideas as you start planning to honor your son into manhood.

In today's tech-saturated world, parenting is more challenging than ever. Aliza Payne's "Parenting Glow Kids" offers a concise and practical guide to navigating the digital landscape and raising well-rounded, tech-savvy children. This essential resource equips parents with the tools and knowledge needed to foster healthy relationships with technology, ensuring their children grow into responsible and resilient individuals.

You’re about to discover how to create a relationship with your child that will ensure that your child is going to love to spend time with you by using positive parenting techniques. You will learn that, regardless of your previous relationship, by using the techniques in this book you will be able to create the relationship that you have always wanted.

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.

Para los padres que claman por soluciones claras…y ¡al grano!, Rosa Barocio nos ofrece un libro único con ayudas prácticas para situaciones que son “el pan de todos los días”. Señala actitudes que lastiman y muestra nuevas maneras respetuosas para poner límites y orientar desde un acercamiento amoroso.