Download or read book Mom I Fired the Babysitter written by Colleen H. Robley Blake and published by Eloquent Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex thinks he is quite capable of taking care of himself so he resents the fact that he has to be watched by a babysitter. He fantasizes about all the reasons why she needs to be fired and tries to convince his mother. Mom becomes the go-between for Alex's and the babysitter's complaints about each other. But in the end, will the babysitter stay or go? Mom, I Fired the Babysitter! is a fun and engaging reading experience that sheds light on the subject of getting along with people, but also standing up and voicing your opinion when it's appropriate. Colleen H. Robley Blake was born in Trinidad, West Indies and spent most of her childhood there until moving to Brooklyn, New York when she was twelve. She now resides in Connecticut. Colleen's work is deeply inspired by her family. She is also the author of I Can't Wait Till I'm Five and Living with Mom, Spending Time with Dad. She is currently working on her fourth book, Don't You Wish Your Momma Could Cook Like Mine? Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/MomIFiredTheBabysitter.html

Download or read book Mom You re Fired written by Nancy K. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1989-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Tina's mother is driving her crazy! She sings opera in the street and wears striped shirts with plaid skirts. Why can't Tina's mom be more like Melissa's mom?

Download or read book The Babysitters Coven written by Kate M. Williams and published by Ember. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it. And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let's just say she owes some people a new tree. Enter Cassandra Heaven. She's Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme's babysitters club? The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra's mother left her: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom." Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they're about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.

Download or read book Living with Mom Spending Time with Dad written by Colleen H. Robley Blake and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorce can be extremely traumatic to families, especially children. This book takes us through a myriad of emotions that two children, Stephen and Alex experience through this tumultuous period. The children, especially Alex, give an extremely candid and honest account of the day-to-day trauma, the hostility, and, at times, the many poignant memories that he has. Living With Mon, Spending Time with Dad also addresses the concerns and anguish of being torn between two parents. Throughout the story there is that underlying hope that everything will turn out alright and everyone will be back in their original comfort zone. This book is truly endearing and tugs at your heart strings, particularly with the fervent prayer from Alex that God will make everything alright again. This is a family book that realistically, insightfully, and sensitively depicts what happens when a family is torn apart by divorce. It is a must read for children and parents t know they are not alone in their feelings, and to understand, in time, life goes on and things do work out. Mary Lou Morong CT Teacher

Download or read book Become the Fire written by Elisa A. Schmitz and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Medal Winner for motivational nonfiction, Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards TURN OBSTACLES INTO FUEL FOR FULFILLMENT AND SUCCESS What does it mean to become the fire? It means not allowing yourself to be in the fire of life’s challenges, getting burned, but instead using the fire to ignite your motivation and drive, passion and grit. It means not focusing on what you don’t have or can’t do, but instead leveraging what you do have and can do. It means using your differences to your advantage and seeing life’s chaos as fuel to propel your success. Using her own story of entrepreneurial success as well as interviews with ten diverse and successful women, Elisa Schmitz presents ten actionable lessons for putting your personal power to work, with unstoppable results.

Download or read book Queen Bee Moms Kingpin Dads written by Rosalind Wiseman and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up? Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and other parents with grace. Reassuring, funny, and unfailingly honest, Wiseman reveals: • Why PTA meetings and Back-to-School nights tap into parents’ deepest insecurities • How to recognize the archetypal moms and dads—from Caveman Dad to Hovercraft Mom • How and when to step in and step out of your child’s conflicts with other children, parents, teachers, or coaches • How to interpret the code phrases other parents use to avoid (or provoke) confrontation • Why too many well-meaning dads sit on the sidelines, and how vital it is that they step up to the plate • What to do and say when the playing field becomes an arena for people to bully and dominate other kids and adults • How to have respectful yet honest conversations with other parents about sex and drugs when your values are in conflict • How the way you handle parties, risky behavior, and academic performance affects your child • How unspoken assumptions about race, religion, and other hot-button subjects sabotage parents’ ability to work together Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads is filled with the kind of true stories that made Wiseman’s New York Times bestselling book Queen Bees & Wannabes impossible to put down. There are tales of hardworking parents with whom any of us can identify, along with tales of outrageously bad parents—the kind we all have to reckon with. For instance, what do you do when parents donate a large sum of money to a school and their child is promptly transferred into the honors program–while your son with better grades doesn’t make the cut? What about the mother who helps her daughter compose poison-pen e-mails to yours? And what do you say to the parent-coach who screams at your child when the team is losing? Wiseman offers practical advice on avoiding the most common parenting “land mines” and useful scripts to help you navigate difficult but necessary conversations. Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads is essential reading for parents today. It offers us the tools to become wiser, more relaxed parents–and the inspiration to speak out, act according to our values, show humility, and set the kind of example that will make a real difference in our children’s lives. Also available as a Random House AudioBook and as an eBook

Download or read book The Fire She Set written by Leigh Overton Boyd with Emily Adams and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They grew up knowing they had secrets to keep. They did not talk about their mom's extended absences or why their dad put Scotch tape on the backdoor frame. To cover up the chaos, they kept their clothes neat and got good grades. But when they were teenagers, an arson fire destroyed their home and killed their parents. Rumors were thick that summer that smart, angry, fourteen-year-old Lisa set the blaze. Then, adult powers they did not understand squelched the investigation. As teenagers accustomed to keeping silent, they packed up and moved on. Forty years later, Leigh, the oldest, decided it was time to find out who killed their parents. She obtained copies of the police and fire investigations and began unwrapping the past. This memoir is the story of that investigation as Leigh tried to piece together the truth, but found more lies instead. With the help of her sisters, Leigh was able to reconstruct much of what happened to them in the beach towns around Atlantic City in the early 1970s. After the fire, one sister turned to heroin and another to alcohol; Leigh became Miss Atlantic City. Then, one by one, they each moved to California and shut the door on their past, even though they privately wondered whether one of them killed Frank and Nancy Overton. It's funny. They never wondered whether one of their parents was trying to kill them.

Download or read book My Babysitter is a Vampire written by Ann Hodgman and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY BABYSITTER IS A VAMPIRE SUMMER VACATION TURNS BATTY! Moose Island doesn’t have many babysitters, so Meg and Trevor Swain figure they’ll have to put up with what they get. But when weird Vincent Graver shows up at their front door, they know they’re in for big trouble. Whoever heard of a babysitter who has pointy little teeth, carries a mysterious red liquid around in a bottle, and doesn’t like pizza? When Meg discovers Vincent’s fascination with sinking his teeth into other people’s necks, she and her friend Jack decide what Vincent really is. If they don’t act quickly to stop him, Moose Island will turn into Vampire Island before their very eyes! “Hodgman’s writing style is excellent, building suspense chapter after chapter.... This is a good read, and kids will love it.” —School Library Journal

Download or read book How to Babysit a Grandma Read Listen Edition written by Jean Reagan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you babysit a grandma, if you're lucky . . . it's a sleepover at her house! And with the useful tips found in this book, you're guaranteed to become an expert grandma-sitter in no time. (Be sure to check out the sections on: How to keep a grandma busy; Things to do at the park; Possible places to sleep, and what to do once you're both snugly tucked in for the night.) From the author-illustrator team behind the bestselling How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a funny and heartwarming celebration of grandmas and grandchildren. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.

Download or read book Playing with Fire written by Amy Knupp and published by Lake House Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons in Simply Being written by Carol O. Eckerman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons in Simply Beingis the memoir of a recovering control addict who finds meaning in life after the collapse of all she had clung to. Plunged into despair, she calls upon the skills honed in her thirty-four years as a behavioral scientist and professor at Duke University. She searches for order, change, and meaning as she walks through much of what she most feared (divorce, aloneness, physical disability, her mother’s dementia and dying, and her children’s struggles with cancer). She discovers a mysterious loving presence that permeates her world, even its darkest corners. As she moves deeper into this unknown faith territory and lives what she had never imagined possible, love trumps fear. A troubled mother-daughter relationship transforms into one of mutual mothering. She moves toward understanding, forgiveness, and intimacy with the man whose actions triggered her despair. Her dives into tumult awaken her to the peace within and to a single new lesson to live by: simply be. She is discovering her place within the flow of Spirit that permeates all of life. ,

Download or read book Caught Between the Blood and the Fire written by Yolanda Grady and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young girl grows up to fast in the city streets of Indianapolis. A urban area called Pigsville also known as the ghetto. Trinas early hurt in life with betrayal, deception, and lies from her family members had led her to join neighborhood cliques. Later she was introduced to crime, drugs, and alcohol. Her life changed when she interacted with Pigsville gang leader Freddy Love and her life was never the same.

Download or read book The Impact of Interactive Violence on Children written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members met to discuss the various forms of interactive violence and the potential negative impact it has on children at this hearing. Statements made by the following individuals are included in this document: [Panel I]Senator Sam Brownback; Dr. David Walsh, President, National Institute on Media and the Family (additional documents); Mrs. Sabrina Steger, Pediatrics Nurse, Lourdes Hospital; Miss Danielle Shimotakahara, Student;[Panel ii] Dr. Craig Anderson, Professor, Iowa State University, Department of Psychology; Dr. Eugene F. Provenzo, Professor, School of Education, University of Miami; and Dr. Jeanne Funk, Professor, University of Toledo, Department of Psychology. Submitted for the record were: Video Software Dealers Association (vsda); Mr. Douglas Lowenstein, President, Interactive Digital Software Association; and Mr. Jeffrey Goldstein, Department of Social & Organizational Psychology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. (Ma).

Download or read book Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire written by Raymond D. Johnson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond D. Johnson spent 31 years as an investigator. First with two police departments in Washington State and then with two Fire Departments in Oregon and California. He has investigated several crimes and death investigations. Mr. Johnson spent some time assisting with the Green River Killer investigation and several murder investigations. Most of his career was as a fire investigator and over the span of 20 years he has participated in the investigation of over a thousand fires for their origin and cause. During his time with the Salem, Oregon fire department Mr. Johnson was part of a fifty-two member fire investigation team and was ultimately the president of the team for two years. Mr. Johnson has achieved two college degrees and was an adjunct instructor at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He was selected to be a guest speaker at the New York City fire investigation conference. Mr. Johnson is currently retired and living in Auburn, Washington.

Download or read book Flight of the Parrot written by Polly O. Wilkie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Wilkie wrote this book to inspire others to expand their horizons no matter what their beginnings were or the circumstances from which they came. Polly expresses the emotions brought forth by writing this book in the following quote, "During this time, I felt as if I was shedding the skin of my past. I felt as if Polly the Parrot was taking flight. I could stay a victim of circumstances or I could change the course of my flight path." The book is a life history starting with her great grand parent's oil exploration in Illinois. Polly continues to tell the story of how with only a sixth grade education her great grandfather became a member of the board of directors of a savings and loan bank. He also owned a coal mine. Polly tells how her grandparents raised eight children and the tragedies they endured. Her grandfather was a part time minister who delivered the St Louis Globe Newspaper to the local small town farmers during the week. Polly's family had many difficulties due to her father's illness which eventually lead to him becoming a drug addict. The family consisted of two children. Polly's tells what a very important roll her grandparents, aunts, and uncles played in her daily life. They were always there for her due to her father's illness when she was very small. The author shares with her readers the secrets of why she did and felt so many things that were based on her past experiences. It all comes out after her visit with a hypnotist. The realities of her past are revealed.

Download or read book Workplace Flexibility written by Kathleen Christensen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce. Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices—in the United States or abroad—redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance.

Download or read book Fire Season written by Hollye Dexter and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would you be if you lost everything? Hollye Dexter and her husband Troy woke one night to find their house ablaze. To escape the fire, they had to jump from their second-story window with their toddler son—and then watch their house and home-based businesses burn to the ground. Over the next two years, the family went bankrupt, lost their cars and another home, and got dropped by their best friends. As the outer layers of her life were stripped away, Dexter began to unravel emotionally; but then she found herself on the brink of losing her marriage, and she realized that if she was going to save her family, she would have to pull herself back together somehow. As she fought to reassemble the pieces of the life she’d had, Dexter discovered that a shattered heart has the ability to regenerate in a mighty way; that even in the midst of disaster, you can find your place; and that when everything you identify with is gone, you are free to discover who you really are. Poignant and inspiring, Fire Season is a story for anyone who has ever lost hope—and found it again.