What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective is a tender, revealing look at adoption from the parent perspective. Whether you are an adoptive parent, an adoptee, someone considering adoption, or simply curious about adoption dynamics, What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective will touch your heart and increase your sensitivity to the challenges and joys that are unique to adoptive parenting.

Bacchetta wrote the book in response to a need common among adoptive families. "Adoptive families navigate emotional terrain that fully-biological families don't have to. This is a book adoptive parents can give to their child and say, 'I know adoption is painful, unsettling, joyous, and affirming. It's that way for me too. More than anything, adoption is the way we came together, and I'll always be grateful for that.'"

Bacchetta's words echo with the collective voice of over 100 adoptive parents interviewed for this book. With chapters like "I Would Do it All Again," "You Are Not Different Because You Were Adopted," and "I Regret What I Can't Give You," What I Want My Adopted Child to Know is by turns affirming, challenging, thoughtful, wistful, and poignant.

The greatest influence on what children eat at home is simply what is in the house to eat (or to make for lunches). When children don't have the money and transport to access their own food, their parents have almost total control over how healthy, or fattening, their diet will be. 'The Ruler of Family Food Land' literally holds the lives of their subjects in their hands as lifelong habits are created. These habits can become so entrenched that changing them becomes almost impossible for many people. Recent research found 72 per cent of the food decisions made in the family were controlled by one parent or caregiver. This is an enormous amount of power! Use it to limit the more fattening foods and increase the availability and variety of fresh, healthy foods. Then there's the question of how you 'sell' healthy food to your children. Ultimately, it may affect how long your children live. This book shows you how to wield this power to help kids love healthier foods and develop habits to live healthy, vibrant lives. This book is designed for adults to read to (and stimulate discussion with) children between the ages of 2 and 10 years.

Messages from the media and pressures from peers all seem to conspire against raising children with strong Christian values. As kids grow older the potential for things to go wrong just seems to multiply. How can parents nurture their families with confidence, without the fear that they are making some big mistake? Tim Stafford sets you free from worrying about the Joneses or anyone else. He shows you how to build core Christian values into your children in a way that fits who God made your family to be, unique and different from every other family. In this practical and freeing book, you'll find: Why your family doesn't have to be like other families How to build core values into your children that will last a lifetime How you can find the patterns that fit who you and your family are Ways to build family life that kids enjoy and that parents find satisfying Why there's more than one, good, right way to be a family How to build grace and freedom into your family life while still providing structure and security Release from the fear that you are parenting the wrong way Stafford identifies thirteen core biblical values and describes a wide variety of ways to build these into families. He explores the many options that are available for parents to help their children develop in truthfulness, contentment, hard work, joy, rest, forgiveness and putting God first. Some books suggest there is only one right way to parent, no matter who you are. InNever Mind the Joneses Stafford frees you to explore the ways God has provided that fit your family best.

Bestiario Femenino es una colecci n de animales que sirven como referencia para describir algunas de las distintas reacciones y actitudes de la mujer en su entorno familiar, laboral, social, y hacia ellas mismas tambi n. Ofrece un panorama de posibilidades a trav s de las cuales la mujer actual pueda reinventarse, como si se le presentara un lienzo en blanco en donde dibujarse a s misma seg n su propia creatividad, y no a trav s de las ideas heredadas y transmitidas como patrones inamovibles. Sin necesidad de traicionar a sus madres y abuelas, la mujer de hoy puede elegir libremente aquello que desea conservar como parte de su identidad, y reacomodar todo lo otro que le estorba en su camino hacia la felicidad.

Made teen-friendly with contemporary language, BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND FOR TEENS equips a new audience desperately in need of guidance with a means of winning the war raging inside them.

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives. On The High Wire looks at a specific subset of university faculty, education faculty with school-aged children, and the specific professional/ personal balance these faculty need to find. The title On the High Wire suggests the precarious nature of the "walk" for education faculty who are parents of school-aged children. We know that our identities are central to how we experience the world and how the world reacts to us. This reality is clearly visible in this book. These multiple identities and roles come into conflict at multiple points and in different ways. This book explores these identities and roles through auto ethnographic accounts written by varied education faculty in order to make these tensions visible for the field to address.

"111 Wonderful Ways To Build Children's Self Esteem & Confidence Everyday" makes an amazing difference in your life. ARE YOU A PARENT? Parents Love This Book. "111 Wonderful Ways To Build Children's Self Esteem & Confidence Everyday" is a blessing for you and your child. The book gives you the exact words necessary to build your child's self-esteem and confidence everyday. Yes, everyday, your child wants to experience positive feelings learned from the 111 wonderful self-esteem ways and the daily self-esteem pledge. Your child learns the skills of self-awareness and self-trust at an early age. Yes, everyday you're proud to see your son/daughter develop a sound and positive understanding of who they are. ARE YOU A TEACHER? Teachers Value This Book. "111 Wonderful Ways To Build Children's Self Esteem & Confidence Everyday" is a blessing for you and children. Everyday your students look forward to saying words that fire them up for school. Words that build self-respect. Words, that don't hurt their feelings or discouraged their desires. As their teacher, you see clearly how the book changes what your students say to themselves and to each other. Everyday becomes a new self-esteem and confidence experience for your students. Everyday is a magnificent experience that is remembered and utilized at school. WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF? Your Child Within Adores This Book "111 Wonderful Ways To Build Children's Self Esteem & Confidence Everyday" speaks to your little child within. Your child within that was never told the loving, caring, inspiring words in this book. Your child within feels whole and complete from the empowering words. Yes, your child within will thank you again and again. Self-esteem has no age or time limit.

Yea, Tho' I Walk is the third book of Sera's spiritual growth from an immature and unhealthy Christian to an educated, mature, working disciple. Sera is a successful career woman who has earned a promotion in her corporate job in The Last Miserable Day when everything goes wrong and Sera finds herself literally on the floor. In Sera's Stand she has become wiser and stronger and learns to stand with faith on the Word of God and gains momentum to walk through life's valleys. Finally, Sera has become an adult in Christ. She has learned to place Jesus as the center of her life and the Kingdom of God at the pinnacle of her reach. Now she is ready to walk Other books in Sera's trilogy by Reverend Bowman: The Last Miserable Day Sera's Stand Coming soon: God's Affirmative Actions: Diversity God's Way (planned for 2009)

A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Becky Brown. There are poems which celebrate the anticipation of the happy event and the outburst of joy and hope which it brings. There are gorgeous lullabies and rhymes to read aloud as well as wise words of encouragement and advice. Poems for New Parents also looks forward to a child's own discoveries and flourishing imagination. In this perfect present for new parents, you'll find poetry that's inspiring and poignant, sometimes funny and sometimes reflective, from a wealth of famous poets such as William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll and Mary Coleridge.