Download or read book Mommy s Choice written by Scott Curtis and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curtis pens a story of the strong bond that builds between a mother and her son, a story of love and friendship that grows deeper with each passing year. They share a closeness and a bond that can survive anything, or so they thought.

Download or read book Oh No Not Another Brat written by Donald L. Miller and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, at age 14, Don ran away from home with his younger brother after a one-way argument with his father. “I don’t give a damn if you want to finish watching your program!” Bring the boats in now!” After years of abuse, neglect and a family with no love, this incident broke the camel’s back. The next day, Don stole $35 from his father’s drawer before telling his mom of his runaway plans. “Oh, yeah?” she replied in her usual lackadaisical way, and then continued on with her sewing. The plan was to ride their bikes from Illinois to Florida, unbeknownst to them, a pedophile killer lurked the streets of Chicago. At 18, Don found an escape – he dropped out of school to join the Navy, where he met many other challenges. He was first stationed in Hawaii, right after it had become a state, and was attacked by a huge, crazed Samoan man, who may not have been fond about the US military being in his homeland! Several years later he got into a major argument with his wife and took off with the family car. He was going to Hollywood, California to find his sister, even though he didn’t know her last name, or where she lived. A miracle occurred when he got there. Now at age eighty, the author is going through his toughest challenge: caring for his wife of sixty-one years, who is struggling with the last stages of dementia and under hospice care. Join the author as he looks back at the obstacles he’s overcome and the lessons he’s learned along the way in Oh No! Not Another Brat!

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The Encyclopedia of Motherhood is a collection of approximately 700 articles in a three-volume, A-to-Z set exploring major topics related to motherhood, from geographical, historical and cultural entries to anthropological and psychological contributions. In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, and is written by academics and institutional experts in the social and behavioural sciences.

Download or read book Twenty first Century Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range of disciplines and themes in motherhood studies. She confronts the effects of globalization, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, politicians as mothers, third wave feminism, and the evolving motherhood movement, and she incorporates Chicana, African-American, Canadian, Muslim, queer, low-income, trans, and lesbian perspectives.

Download or read book A Portrait of Mommy written by J. L. Coston and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellawese Darden is a picture of beauty on the inside and out as her inner light shines brightly in this dark world. Affectionately known as Mommy, now at eighty-eight years old, she remains alert and vibrant while engaging in her daily work activities and conversations with others. She has a clear understanding of whats going on in todays world while keeping up with current events and always ready to discuss her opinion with anyone. Mommy has unselfishly showed love and compassion to others by giving of her time, talents, money and service. Her ultimate devotion and commitment to her faith through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, has been her ultimate inspiration throughout her journey in life. She is a precious jewel to her family who has graciously shared her over the years with so many others who call her Mommy. This book tells her story! As Darden leads others through her story that began in a small town called Jacksonville, Georgia in 1929, she details a challenging early childhood after tragedy temporarily forced her family apart. They eventually reunited in Pennsylvania, and she chronicles a coming-of-age journey filled with bullying, heartache, and the abandonment of her mother when she was eighteen. As she matured into womanhood, Darden discloses how she learned to lean on her faith to find joy in everyday life while bravely facing hardship. A Portrait of Mommy reveals the true story of a woman and her journey through life that will inspire both the young and old to persevere, no matter what problem or obstacles they face. Darden weaves personal anecdotes with faith-filled messages encouraging forgiveness and unconditional love for everyone. This way of living will create an atmosphere of triumph during lifes most difficult times and challenges.

Download or read book Ouija for the Record written by D. Lynn Cain and published by Diana Lynn Cain. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the used Ouija board Mary Cain bought in 1968 is not known, but Mary's family will never be the same. Their two-year odyssey is filled with unexplained and frightening twists and turns as they cede control to the spirits who inhabit the board. Will they survive being chosen for a destiny in Afghanistan?

Download or read book From Mom to Me from Me to You written by Mary Sue McGee and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mom to Me, From Me to You describes exactly how I believe faith is passed down from one generation to another. I discovered this reading 2 Timothy 1:5. I understood I had no power to save my children from their sins and that faith was a gift from God unto salvation. We can pass down money and material things to our children when we die, but I wanted the children I love to have the greatest gift ever given to man. The gift of faith. To this end, my prayer life continues. None of us deserve anything from God, but we all need faith to receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. That is my greatest desire for all my children.

Download or read book Rethinking Language Arts written by Nina Zaragoza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rethinking Language Arts: Passion and Practice, Second Edition, author Nina Zaragoza uses the form of letters to her students to engage pre-service teachers in reevaluating teaching practices, thus bringing to life a vision of an alternative classroom environment in which the teacher is the prime mover and creative leader. Zaragoza discusses and explains the need for teachers to be decision makers, reflective thinkers, political beings, and agents of social change in order to create a positive and inclusive classroom setting. This book is both a critical text that deconstructs the way language arts are traditionally taught in our schools as well as a visionary text with clear, no-nonsense directions on how to provide much needed change in our schools.

Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

Download or read book A Mission Divided written by Dr Kirstie Close-Barry and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901. This book outlines the colonial concepts of race and culture, as well as antagonism over land and labour, that were used to justify this separation. Recounting the stories told by the mission’s leadership, including missionaries and ministers, to its grassroots membership, this book draws on archival and ethnographic research to reveal the emergence of ethno-nationalisms in Fiji, the legacies of which are still being managed in the post-colonial state today. ‘Analysing in part the story of her own ancestors, Kirstie Barry develops a fascinating account of the relationship between Christian proselytization and Pacific nationalism, showing how missionaries reinforced racial divisions between Fijian and Indo-Fijian even as they deplored them. Negotiating the intersections between evangelisation, anthropology and colonial governance, this is a book with resonance well beyond its Fijian setting.’ – Professor Alan Lester, University of Sussex ‘This thoroughly researched and finely crafted book unwraps and finely illustrates the interwoven layers of evolving complexity in different interpretations of ideals and debates on race, culture, colonialism and independence that informed the way the Methodist Mission was run in Fiji. It describes the human personalities and practicalities, interconnected at local, regional and global levels, which influenced the shaping of the Mission and the independent Methodist Church in Fiji. It documents the influence of evolving anthropological theories and ecumenical theological understandings of culture on mission practice. The book’s rich sources enhance our understanding of the complex history of ethnic relations in Fiji, helping to explain why ethnic divisive thinking remains a challenge.’– Jacqueline Ryle, University of the South Pacific ‘A beautifully researched study of the transnational impact of South Asian bodies on nationalisms and church devolution in Fiji, and an important resource for empire studies as a whole.’ – Professor Jane Samson, University of Alberta, Canada

Download or read book Mothers of the Military written by Wendy M. Christensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers of the Military examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers of U.S. service members in the War on Terrorism through the stages of recruitment, deployment, and post-deployment. Bringing to light the experiences and stories of women who are largely invisible during war—the mothers of service members. Over 2.5 million members of the U.S. military have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan during the now 16 year-long war. Each service member has loved ones—spouses, parents and children—who provide necessary emotional and physical support during deployment. This book has three goals. The first is to make mothers experiences during wartime visible. The second is to interrogate what support means during war. Finally, it examines the impact of war support on mothers’ political participation. Ideally, civilians provide moral approval of war, patriotism, and extend understanding and appreciation of the sacrifice enlistees and their families are making. But, in these long wars, public and political approval has plummeted. It is not surprising this narrow slice of Americans dealing with the daily realities of war feels increasingly separate from civilians. Military families are isolated from those Americans who are able to ignore the war or offer superficial expressions of patriotic gratitude. Mothers occupy a complex gendered location during wartime. Even though women are now serving in combat positions, women have historically held down the home front, where family labor is still assigned disproportionately to women. However, the military does not treat mothers and fathers equally. The military assumes fathers will be supportive of service, and calls on them to be proud of the courageous decision their child has made. They consider mothers, on the other hand, potential impediments to service, not wanting their child in harm’s way. Through each stage of service, mothers take on different kinds of support for their child, for the military, and for war policy. At each stage of war, mothers are prescribed a gendered support position. In recruitment material, the military assumes mothers will be emotional and worried about enlistment, so they appeal to mother’s love and need for their child to be safe. During deployment, mothers provide supplies and moral support. Declining enlistment numbers and a long war have led to multiple deployments and unprecedented burdens on military families. These mothers step in to help with childcare and finances. Furthermore, mothers are overwhelmingly, according to military studies, the ones providing mental and physical healthcare when veterans need it. As providers of critical systems of war support, mothers bear much of the burden of the current wars. War provides mothers a way to participate in the national project, but the uneven burden of being a constant “supporter” further marginalizes their citizenship. The gendered support role the military designs for mothers is not designed to facilitate active democratic citizenship but rather to make it seem natural that they, too, fall in line with the chain of command. Mothers of the Military, as a whole, asks how the acts of supplying material, moral, and medical support end up so often marginalizing mothers as citizens from the political process and under what conditions do mothers resist?

Download or read book Close to Mommy s Heart written by Mary Cromwell-Hillenburg and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that a baby's heartbeat can be detected 18 to 21 days after conception? Did you know that God says in Jeremiah 1:5 that "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you.?" I didn't know those things when I had my abortions. I believed the Lie-that until a baby takes its first breath, it isn't a child. Close to Mommy's Heart will teach children that life begins at the moment of conception. It is also written for us post-abortive mothers and others who share the pain of abortion. God has made a way for us. We can experience healing and peace as we release the guilt and shame of our sin and receive forgiveness from Him who died for it. Close to Mommy's Heart is a blessing you will want to share with everyone you know. Mary Cromwell-Hillenburg served for more than 11 years at the Life Pregnancy Care Center in Concord, NC, as a board member, client services director, and finally as executive director for approximately seven years. As a post-abortive woman herself, she has been able to share a message of hope and healing to thousands of women and teenagers throughout the years. Her poems, articles and stories (both serious and humorous) have been published in magazines and local newspapers, and most recently in Mature Living Magazine. She often speaks at local churches, community functions, and pro-life rallies, and she counsels women who are suffering from the aftermath of abortion. She has four children and eight grandchildren and lives in North Carolina. Don't miss her upcoming books, Christians and the "S" Word and The House that Jack's Kids Built to be published by Spring 2009.

Download or read book The Christian Mama s Guide to the Grade School Years written by Erin MacPherson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepares moms for the time when their school-aged kids take their first few steps into the world and away from mama's nest. Sending a child off to school is a whole lot more than stocking up on school supplies and packing a (somewhat) healthy lunch. This helpful guidebook walks Christian moms through: discovering a long-term vision for the person that Christ has purposed for your child to become instilling a sense of "who I am and where I came from" in your child choosing a school for your kids helping your kids to develop key attributes--courage, kindness, perseverance--that lead to success in school dealing with teachers, sports, and lessons navigating those difficult conversations that will come sooner rather than later a special feature includes sidebars "From the Principal's Office" with insights from a 35-year elementary school principal and educator Moms will learn how to cover their children in prayer so that their launch into the world, and away from her control, is done with grace and wisdom--helping them grow into the men and women God intended them to be.

Download or read book TheTycoon s Secret Child written by Cindy Redding and published by Cindy Redding. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo Vitale’s life changes with one middle of the night phone call. The sinfully handsome hotel tycoon never expected to hear the name Rose Steele again. Three years ago, Leonardo told Rose he never wanted marriage or children. The sexy grad student walked away from their sizzling passion filled Neapolitan nights, taking her secret back to Texas with her. Now, an injured Rose wakes to find the man she once loved sitting by her hospital bed. Leonardo vows to help her recuperate at his home in Sicily so he can bond with his daughter. Can Rose be near him and ignore the memories of their heated nights? Free.

Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

Download or read book Semisi Nau the Story of My Life written by Semisi Nau and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motherhood Memoirs Mothers Creating Writing Lives written by Justine Dymond and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this collection examine and critique motherhood memoir, alongside the texts of their own lives, while seeking to transform mothering practice— highlighting revolutionary praxis within books, or, when none is available, creating new visions for social change. Many essays interrogate the tensions of maternal narrative—the negotiation of the historical location of writer and readers, narrative and linguistic constraints, and the slippery ground of memory—as well as the borders constructed between the “objective” scholar and the reader who engages with and identifies with texts through her intellect and her emotional being.