Download or read book Life Lessons from Family Vacations written by Rick Tocquigny and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family vacations: we’ve all taken them. Many view family vacations as some of the greatest learning experiences and transforming moments of life. Life Lessons from Family Vacations is an indulgent adventure unto itself, with many engaging family stories that will remind you of your own travels and perhaps reignite your globetrotting spirit (and courage) to journey with family again.

Download or read book Life Lessons from Family Vacations written by Rick Tocquigny and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Span>Family vacations: we've all taken them. Many view family vacations as some of the greatest learning experiences and transforming points of life. Life Lessons from Family Vacations is an indulgent adventure unto itself, with many engaging family stories that will remind you of your own travels and perhaps reignite your globetrotting spirit (and courage) to journey with family again./span

Download or read book Shape of a Boy written by Kate Wickers and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shape of a Boy is a hilarious memoir of one family's travels across the world, filled with funny anecdotes from exotic locations.

Download or read book How to Be a Family written by Dan Kois and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together. What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together? In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble. HOW TO BE A FAMILY brings readers along as the Kois girls-witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-like through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go? A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, HOW TO BE A FAMILY will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take.

Download or read book Parent on Purpose written by Amy Carney and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amy Carney talks straight about the problems parents face when it comes to raising a child in today's complicated world and then shares practical advice, solutions and strategies on how to better connect family values with your behaviors, attitudes, and decisions while simultaneously preparing your son or daughter for adulthood. In this book, you'll learn how to better: LEAD: Embrace your parental authority. LOVE: Cultivate a strong and connected family culture. LAUNCH: Prepare your child for adulthood"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book People We Meet on Vacation written by Emily Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more!

Download or read book Life Lessons from Veterans written by Rick Tocquigny and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from Veterans provides an array of personal stories—from nightmarish fights on the islands of Iwo Jima to the shores of Normandy on D-Day. With unprecedented access to veterans and unpublished memoirs, Life Lessons from Veterans provides a new voice to the bravery and sacrifice of the American soldier defending our freedom through more than thirty stories.

Download or read book Family Road Trip Planning Guide written by Bradley Blake and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to turn driving into an adventure -- and keep the kids entertained the whole time. There's a reason why 68% of families have taken a road trip. Everyone loves a vacation... but the beauty of making that vacation into a road trip is that the fun starts as soon as you get in the car. It's as much about the journey as it is about the destination -- and if you've got kids, those drives will be remembered for a lifetime. If you've always fancied the idea of The Great American Road Trip (no matter where you live), but you're worried about the endless cries of, "Are we there yet?" or frantically searching for bathrooms and emergency pit stops, you'll be pleased to know that a road trip with children is not only possible -- it's fun too. Of course, a successful road trip means a little more than buckling up and setting off for your final destination. It needs a little more planning and pizazz than your regular drive to the grocery store. And that's where a comprehensive family road tripping guide comes in: you'll learn everything you need to know in order to plan an exciting, memorable, and entertaining trip for the whole family -- no matter what ages your kids are. In the Family Road Trip Planning Guide, you'll find the ultimate guide to the roadtrip of a lifetime. You'll discover: How to pick the perfect destination for the whole family (and why the singular word 'destination' is actually a red herring) How to make sure the route you choose is at least as exciting as the end-point Handy road trip adaptations to suit every scenario (including a global pandemic) Road trip packing 101: how to make sure everyone has everything (and it all fits in the car comfortably) A toolkit for keeping even the fussiest of kids entertained for the whole ride The weird and wonderful roadside attractions you can include on your trip -- and how to plan them into your route The 1 surprising thing you can pack to give your kids purpose (and buy yourself a moment of quiet time at the end of the day) Special advice for dog owners: how to make Fido your road trip sidekick Everything you need to know about car safety and maintenance to make sure you have peace of mind the whole way The benefits of having two qualified drivers -- and how you can use them for road trip gains Budgeting tips and tricks so you can make sure your road trip really happens And much more. If you've ever thought you'd have to put that dream road trip on hold until your kids are older, think again. A road trip is the perfect experience for family bonding -- and with a little careful planning and a whole lot of anticipation, you can take your family on an adventure that will give them a lifetime's worth of memories. If you're ready to take your family adventures to the next level, then scroll up and click "Add to Cart" right now.

Download or read book Captain Carson Goes to Bali written by Carson Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Carson is a series of children's books made to inspire young readers to travel and see the world!!

Download or read book Life Lessons from My Five Year Old written by Kimber Lynne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Lessons from My Five-Year-Old shares the journey Kimber Lynne took to remember what matters most in life. Her aha moment came when she realized that her young daughter could save her from herself and show her what really matters in life. Once she realized this, she began to enjoy the extraordinary moments that happen every day instead of trying to anticipate what the future might bring. It is through teaching her daughterand being taught by her in returnthat she has been able to change her view of lifes important moments, value, and fears and learn to live more in the present. Her journey also included recognizing and overcoming some of the negative and destructive behaviors that have formed her own beliefs and making the necessary changes in her life so she would not pass negative traits on to her daughter. The first lesson she learned from her five-year-old was that all of the risks and emotional hurdles can help move you from the off-ramp back onto the main road moving forward. Her journey of becoming a parent to her little girl definitely moved her in the right direction. Life Lessons from My Five-Year-Old is about recognizing the fact that we need to trust ourselves and our instincts because we probably already know the answers. Doing the work to get to know our inner self a little better can certainly help kick-start uncovering our truth and passion.

Download or read book Conversations on the Bench Life Lessons from the Wisest Man I Ever Knew written by Digger Cartwright and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I only met Sebastian Peréy in person on one occasion, but that was enough for him to make a lasting and indelible impression. I'll never forget that day. Even though it happened many, many years ago, it still lingers as fresh in my mind as if it were only yesterday. It was a hot, humid September morning in South Carolina in 2007. I had been invited to the Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach to participate in a symposium that was hosted by the think tank, Thinking Outside the Boxe, what was supposed to be a gathering of great intellectuals to discuss the world's problems and come up with solutions to the pressing issues of the day. I didn't really know what to expect. I had received an e-mail from Robbie Clinger and Sebastian Peréy of Thinking Outside the Boxe back in early 2006. They wanted to know my thoughts on the Dubai Ports World takeover of P&O. There had been some controversy over an Arab company taking over the UK-based ports operator that controlled five or six container terminals on the east coast of the US. Robbie and Sebastian had found out about Cartwright Industries' shipping operations and, for whatever reason, wanted my opinion on the matter; I gave it to them obligingly. They asked some clever and intelligent questions, and I looked up their website to find out more about their think tank. I remember being impressed by the depth and scope of their work, but I couldn't really find out much about them as individuals. Off and on for the next year, they kept in touch with me, e-mailing me questions or asking for my opinion about certain economic or business matters or geopolitical events. I guess they liked what I had to say or respected my opinion, as controversial as it was at times. It was the spring of 2007 when Robbie and Sebastian first made mention of the Thinking Outside the Boxe Annual Symposium. They presented it to me as a chance to meet with other intelligent folks to discuss the issues of the day and try to come up with feasible solutions. They wanted it to be a real think tank, with multiple perspectives and input from people of all walks of life. I was intrigued, and seeing as though I'd recently written a book set in Myrtle Beach (albeit in the 1940s), Murder at the Ocean Forest, I figured I might as well see what their gathering was all about. I hadn't been to the Dunes Golf & Beach Club before, though I had heard much about it and recalled seeing it on television and in magazines; it hosted the Senior PGA Tour back in the 1990s. I expected it to be like any other country club, stuffy and full of ostentatious people who hadn't really done much in life other than ride their wealthy and powerful parents' coattails and live off of old money, generational wealth. Thus, I was almost convinced Robbie and Sebastian would be of that ilk, but I was pleasantly surprised it was not at all the case for the club or the people. The lavish clubhouse, the hospitable staff, and the $100 million view were astounding, a panorama of the blue Atlantic beyond the sand dunes that separated the Dunes Club from any other private club. The driver pulled the tinted-window Town Car under the porte cochere and opened the door for me. I could smell the salty sea air, which was quite invigorating. I could faintly hear the waves crashing ashore on the other side of the sand dunes, but other than that, there was a peacefulness and serenity that enveloped the place. As I gazed over the vast green lawn leading toward the sand dunes, my mind wandered from my purpose for visiting. I was quickly jolted back to reality by the sound of a young woman's greeting. "Mr. Cartwright?" she said with some authority, holding the double-doors open. I snapped my head in her direction and nodded. "That's right," I said. She smiled and motioned me inside. "Mr. Clinger is expecting you," she said. "I suppose he is," I assured her, perhaps a little too bluntly and coldly. She was very beguiling, but I wasn't one to be fooled by her

Download or read book Life Lessons from Scouting written by Allen Reidhead and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be able to reach in and touch a boy's heart and bring him to a new understanding, to new heights, where something suddenly clicks within his heart and mind, is walking on sacred ground. He is never the same again. What a priceless experience! That is why I love Scouting. To touch the life of a boy in a way that he will hang onto it and remember it. That is what Scouting is all about." Bill BurchThis book is dedicated to Scout Leader, Bill Burch, and other great scoutmasters and volunteer leaders who have made a significant difference in the lives of young men everywhere. Stories and values from Lessons of Life transcend Scouting in time and application. They go far beyond Scouting and apply to many different areas and seasons of our lives. These lessons will last a lifetime.

Download or read book Family Vacations and Other Hazards of Growing Up written by Steve White and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever gave serious thought to leaving your sister behind at an interstate rest stop, this book is for you. Family Vacations & Other Hazards of Growing Up isn?t just one person?s story of triumph over crowded, smelly station wagons. And fly-headed bullies. And first dates that nearly ended up as last rites. No, let?s face it. There are a whole bunch of wacked-out stories in here. These 40-oddball adventures take a light-hearted look at everything from family trips to favorite ice cream stands, from impure thoughts to summer camp cramps. So peel back the years and join us for a long overdue trip into Family Vacations & Other Hazards of Growing Up. ?What fun reading...Steve is able to turn back the clock and remind everyone that childhood is one of the glorious aspects of life.? Visit the award-winning FamilyV.com or contact the publisher for more info by emailing from FamilyV.com.

Download or read book Family Vacations that Work written by Tim Hansel and published by Lifejourney Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding Meaning through the Valley written by D. Geovanny Godoy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wonders as to the meaning of pain and suffering. When we walk through these valley experiences, sentiments of loneliness and hopelessness undress our hearts of meaning and reason, as well as with time, pain and suffering do not discriminate against race, gender, or creed. Yet there exists the possibility wherein happiness, meaning, and hope can converge in the most desolate of places. If you yearn for meaning and cannot see through your pain, allow the author to share a compelling and riveting journey in discovering the essence of what you are really made of. The author writes from a unique perspective, as he continues to walk through his own valley experience. He has lived the majority of his life in this valley without something that most of us take for granted""freedom.

Download or read book A Vacation to Remember written by Emily Hemstock and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baker Family is off to the vacation of a life time: Hawaii. From skipping the most important party of the year - to risking their lives to save a sibling in trouble - this clan learns one of life's most important lessons: family first.

Download or read book Prime Time Health written by William Sears and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago, renowned physician and author Dr. William Sears was diagnosed with cancer. He, like so many people, wanted-and needed-to take control of his health. Dr. Sears created a comprehensive, science based, head-to-toe program for living a long, fit life-and it worked. Now at the peak of health, Dr. Sears shares his program in PRIME-TIME HEALTH. This engaging and deeply informative book will motivate readers to make crucial behavior and lifestyle changes. Dr. Sears explores how to keep each body system healthy and delay those usual age-related changes. Written in Dr. Sears's wise, accessible, and entertaining voice, PRIME-TIME HEALTH is a practical program to help you live your best life possible-pain-free, disease-free, stress-free, and medication-free.