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Stepparenting Is Hard...but It Can Also Be Richly Rewarding
Stepparenting can sometimes feel like an overwhelming and thankless
challenge. Loving and caring for children who aren't biologically
yours means having to earn trust, establish authority, and often
put your own needs aside in favor of your stepchild's well-being or
a birth parent's wishes. But here's the good news: With some expert
guidance and God's help, you can have tremendous influence in your
stepchild's life and grow in your faith along the way. Seasoned
stepmom Laurie Polich Short understands and empathizes with the
difficult job you face. Drawing on extensive research, biblical
teaching, and her own real-life experience (including an insightful
chapter cowritten with her stepson, Jordan), Laurie provides
practical and spiritual advice to help you fully embrace and
succeed in your role as stepparent. Whether you are about to become
a stepparent or are further along on your journey, this
compassionate and insightful resource offers the hope, help, and
encouragement you've been looking for.
"...incredible opportunities to help your husband become the hero
your children need." -Dannah Gresh Every dad wants to lead his
family with wisdom, strength, love, and laughter. An astute
mom-like you-can make a huge difference when it comes to making
that happen. With Moms Bringing Out the Best in Dads, you'll learn
how to applaud and affirm the unique role a dad plays in his
children's lives and hearts. This book will encourage you to...
work and communicate with your husband to protect, shepherd, and
empower your kids nudge, sweet-talk, and motivate each other on
this mission that must not fail understand and appreciate your
husband's unique talents as a father-and identify how your own
gifts can serve as a complement You can do this...together! Moms
Bringing Out the Best in Dads is a heartfelt celebration of the
loving dads who are excited to invest in their families, and the
self-assured moms who inspire their husbands to become the fathers
they've always wanted to be.
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The perfect book for your daddy's birthday, Father's Day, a new
father, or for giving and sharing any time you want to say I love
you daddy. Join the PAW Patrol in this celebration of heroic
daddies and see how kind, funny, clever and adventurous daddies
are. From saving the day and cheering you up, to playing lots of
games and being a bit clumsy, daddies are fun to be around - just
like the PAW Patrol. Show your daddy just how much he means to you
and add your own words to the story to make an extra special gift.
The perfect way to say, 'I love you daddy'.
The most fundamental flaw in society is fatherlessness. It is time to
delve into the roots of this problem in ourselves and in our
communities. It is time to recognize the impact of father wounds in our
own lives. Some of those wounds have created hell on earth, not heaven.
It is time to seriously take up the responsibility of fatherhood so
that the sins of our fathers will not continue to destroy God’s
marvelous intention for our lives. It is the time to recognize how a
world suffers when Father God is not taken seriously and when His ways
are not transferred by His image bearers.
The World Needs A Father will be your guide to understand your role as
a father so that the ripples can start flowing through your home, your
community and eventually the world. You will learn how a father:
- Establishes moral authority
- Confers identity
- Provides security
- Affirms potential
The Ready to Go! Happy & Healthy Habits Reward Chart Kit contains everything parents need to help children create healthy habits through a strategic use of reward charts, including looking after and improving themselves, eating, sleeping and other health maintenance. Learn how to instil and reinforce these skills through targeted goals and rewards and using expert strategies and advice from renowned child-psychologist Dr Janet Hall. This dynamic reward-chart system has been developed in consultation with professionals and parents and features a comprehensive parenting guide.
Through motivation, encouragement and positive reinforcement, help build essential life skills, teach kids to improve themselves and instil healthy self-care habits that will last a lifetime with Ready to Go! Happy & Healthy Habits.
This book explores representations of fathers in select South African novels published from the birth of apartheid to the post-transitional moment.
Father figures in the texts reflect political and social climates in South Africa – at different times representing the oppressive apartheid government, righteous and authoritative liberation leaders and the unfulfilled promise of a democratic South Africa. Grant Andrews examines how father characters are linked to storytelling; they narrate the lives of their children and their patriarchal power is constituted through narratives. He features authors such as Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, K. Sello Duiker, Mark Behr, Zoë Wicomb, Lisa Fugard and Zukiswa Wanner.
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation also investigates how fatherhoods are being reimagined in light of shifting discourses of gender and identity. More recent novels have deconstructed the father figure and his paternal narrative power, representing conflicts around racial identity, sexuality, legacy and how the sins of the father are visited on his children.
It is so statistically unlikely as to be almost unbelievable.
Somehow, the Gronkowski family has produced three sons who play in
the NFL (Rob, Chris, and Dan), one who was drafted into Major
League Baseball (Gordie, Jr.), and another who is the starting
fullback for Kansas State (Goose). Their father, Gordy, even played
college football for Syracuse.
How did it happen? From an early age, Gordy realized the
potential his sons had and worked with them to make the most of it.
Beyond their monstrous size, physicality, and raw talent, he
instilled in them a commitment to fitness, health, drive, and
determination that would give his boys a leg up in ways other
families simply couldn't match. And the boys' motivation certainly
wasn't something solely triggered by a driven father. They were
like a pack of adolescent wolves readying themselves for the
recruiting hunt. Still, all were honor roll students; the three
oldest earned college degrees. Each was motivated and inspired by
his brothers. Competition and bragging rights were -- and continue
to be -- a big part of what makes the Gronkowskis tick. "Growing Up
Gronk "reveals the secrets to the Gronkowski's astonishing
collective success while opening the door to a lively,
entertaining, one-of-a-kind household.
A real-world guide to Attachment Parenting from the "Big Bang
Theory" actress, neuroscientist, and mother Mayim Bialik--a book
hailed by Dr. William Sears as "delightful" and by Ricki Lake as "a
fantastic guide to birth and parenting that is packed with
invaluable wisdom."
Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom
"Blossom, " but she definitely didn't follow the typical child-star
trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD in neuroscience from UCLA,
married her college sweetheart, and had two kids. Mayim then did
what many new moms do--she read a lot of books, talked with other
parents, and she soon started questioning a lot of the conventional
wisdom she heard about the "right" way to raise a child. That's
when she turned to Attachment Parenting, a philosophy and lifestyle
popularized by well-known physicians like Dr. William Sears and Dr.
Jay Gordon.
To Mayim, Attachment Parenting's natural, child-led approach not
only felt right emotionally, it made sense intellectually and
instinctually. She found that when she followed her intuition and
relaxed into her role as a mother instead of following some rigid
parenting script, both she and her children thrived. Taking into
account her experience as a mother (and her scientific background),
Mayim presents the major tenets of Attachment Parenting, including:
Baby wearing: How to "wear" your baby in a sling or a wrap to
foster a closer bond with your child--it's possible even for mamas
with bad backs (and with big babies)
Breastfeeding: Learn how to listen to your baby's cues rather than
sticking to a rigid schedule--and why people on airplanes love a
nursing mother
Gentle discipline: How to get your child to behave without yelling,
threats, or time-outs--it really is possible.
Co-sleeping: How to avoid "sleep training" and get a great night's
sleep for the whole family.
Without the pretense and luxuries typical of so many Hollywood
actors and parents, Mayim describes the beauty, simplicity, and
purposefulness of Attachment Parenting, and how it's become the
guiding principle for her family. Much more than a simple how-to
parenting guide, "Beyond the Sling" shows us that the core
principles underlying Attachment Parenting are universal and can be
appreciated no matter how you decide to raise your child.
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic parenting book,
now updated to reflect Steven Vannoy's two decades of experience
helping both families and businesses better care for their children
and employees.
For more than twenty years, "The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My
Children" has been helping parents to put the joy back into
parenting. Steven Vannoy's unique parenting style is designed to
create a harmonious family atmosphere with self-esteem, compassion,
balance, humor, communication, integrity, responsibility, conscious
choice, and full expression of emotions.
And parents are not the only ones who have benefitted from Vannoy's
wisdom: in the years since the book was first published, Vannoy has
used the principles in this book to help businesses worldwide
create healthier and more fulfilling workplaces. With updated
principles and a new foreword by the author, this twentieth
anniversary edition will help both new and old readers of "The 10
Greatest Gifts I Give My Children" build better relationships with
their children and colleagues both in the office and at home.
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of
China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the
lives of Chinese women. She has gained entrance to the most pained,
secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers--students,
successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants--who, whether as a
consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old
traditions, or hideous economic necessity, have given up their
daughters. Xinran beautifully portrays the "extra-birth guerrillas"
who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying
to hold on to more than one baby; naive young girl students who
have made life-wrecking mistakes; the "pebble mother" on the banks
of the Yangtze River still looking into the depths for her stolen
daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they
can't produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby
fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state.
For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children
themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely
moving book. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by
love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they
have turned the final page.
"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent
question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling
author Carl Honore's son sparked a two-year investigation into how
our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is
damaging both parents and children. When the impulse to give
children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools,
communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces to create
over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. The mere
mention of potty-training, ballet classes, preschool, ADD, or
overeating is enough to spark a heated debate about the right way
to raise our children. The problem is that despite the best
intentions of all involved, the pressure to manage every detail of
our children's lives from in utero through college is
overwhelming.
Delivering much more than a wake-up call, international
bestselling author Carl Honore interviews experts in Europe, North
America, and the Far East, talks to families around the world and
sifts through the latest scientific research. Not only do we see
the real dangers of micromanaging children, but Honore also shows
us an emerging new movement inspiring many to slow down and find
the natural balance between too little and too much. Blending the
finest reportage, intellectual inquiry, and extraordinary true
stories, Under Pressure is the first book to challenge the status
quo by mapping out an alternative to the culture of hyperparenting
that is presently pushing children and their parents to the
brink.
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