Download or read book Daddy s Disease written by Carolyn Hannan Bell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a lot of reasons why we don't talk to our children about alcoholism. We don't want to upset the drinker and make things worse. We don't want to bring attention to the drama and dysfunction. We don't want to be accountable. We want it to go away. We don't want our children to think badly of their parent. We don't know what to say or which words to use. There are a lot of reasons why we don't talk to our children about alcoholism, but none of them are good ones.Talking to children about alcoholism is not hard. NOT talking to children about alcoholism and addiction is hard. Maybe not in the moment, when it feels easier, and maybe even kinder, to cover things up, but in the future when a child's issues borne from misunderstanding, misinterpretation and lack of communication take flight.In an easily understood, beautifully illustrated style, "Daddy's Disease" helps families to navigate the difficult waters of alcoholism.Tommy doesn't know why his father doesn't show up for dinners, or soccer games or why he acts funny sometimes. Tommy thinks it's because his father doesn't want to be with him, that he hasn't been the best boy he can be, that he should try harder. But, Mommy tells Tommy that Daddy has a disease called "alcoholism." She helps Tommy, and his faithful dog Murphy, understand what this disease is and how it affects Daddy, and the whole family. She teaches Tommy that he is not responsible for Daddy's behavior and that gives Tommy the peace he needs to foster a healthy childhood."Carolyn Hannan Bell has given a gift to thousands of children and their parents with her book: "Daddy's Disease". A wonderful book for children who have a parent who has alcoholism. With gentle insight and poignant stories, she introduces us to 7-year-old Tommy whose father is an active alcoholic. Like most children of alcoholics, he is confused, angry and feels it's his fault. This is where Carolyn takes over the voice of Tommy's mother and holds his hand and heart while she guides them through these difficult waters.This is a children's book that everyone living with alcohol should read. Thank you Carolyn"Daniel Gottlieb, PhD Host: "Voices in the Family" WHYY FMAuthor: "Letters to Sam", "Wisdom of Sam" and forthcoming "The Wisdom We're Born With"

Download or read book When Pete s Dad Got Sick written by Kathleen Long Bostrom and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete is both angry and sad when his father becomes sick and can no longer race and play with him, but his father explains that, while he will probably never have fast legs again, he can still teach Pete about running. Includes note to parents.

Download or read book My Dad Loves Me My Dad Has a Disease written by Claudia Black and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Have Daddy Issues written by Jessica Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have Daddy Issues is the book that has the cure to a deadly disease that many people suffer with today. Do you ever wonder why are women so bossy, mean and always crave for attention? if you are looking for an answer the answer is that they have daddy issues. The effects of an Absent Father is a must read if you are dealing with a father-less woman, sister, step-daughter, niece or friend.

Download or read book Daddy Issues written by Camisha Broussard and published by Camley Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camisha Broussard's author debut, "Daddy Issues," offers a sometimes amusing, all-the-time hopeful, and eventual loving look at a dysfunctional parent-child relationship through the eyes of a fatherless daughter. Taking an atypical approach to the normal daughterless perspective, Camisha forces herself to reflect on the good things about her alcoholic father, humanizing him to the point of being more empathetic of the man he was, rather than remorseful of his shortcomings as the dad she wished him to be. From troubled teen to college professor, wife, and mother of four, Camisha's approach to the average fatherless daughter relationship is anything but stereotypical and is a profoundly holistic look at real life with real people who have real problems. From colorism to alcoholism, "Daddy Issues," promises readers a rollercoaster ride filled with every emotion imaginable reaching a final destination of forgiveness, hope, and finally love.

Download or read book Daddy Is That Story True or Were You Just Preaching written by Rev. James W. Moore and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular author James W. Moore recalls how several years ago, while delivering the sermon at his church one Sunday morning, he had told a moving story about a boy and his dog. The author’s then-five-year-old son, Jeff, was fascinated by the story, but feeling a bit uncertain about some of the details of it, during the family’s car ride home from church, Jeff asked his father, “Daddy, is that story true, or were you just preaching?” Highly amused by Jeff’s question, Jim Moore went on to explain to his young son that there are two kinds of stories: TRUE stories, stories that happened factually in history; and TRUTH stories, stories like Jesus’ parables, which are shared to underscore a dramatic truth in life. The several short chapters and stories in this book are designed to highlight such life-truths, with chapter titles such as “Go out Singing,” “Roadblocks,” “Should I Forgive?” “One Step at a Time,” “Who’s in Control Here?” “What Can One Person Do?” “Tell Me, Please, How to Be Happy,” “Why not You?” “Keep on Keeping On,” “Jesus: The Message and the Messenger,” “The Importance of Uniqueness,” and others. This book contains a discussion guide.

Download or read book My Daddy Has Sirr Oses written by Rita Lepe M.D and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Henry, a young boy whose father is dealing with liver disease. Henry is observing all the changes that his father is experiencing and how that is impacting the whole family and the relationship with his dad. Henry is the narrator and tells the story from his perspective. The book is intended to give hope to children experiencing similar stories as well as to ease any anxiety or fear they may be experiencing and to help parents to talk openly about the topic.

Download or read book Dana s Disease written by Jim Kanerva and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader meets five-year-old Dana, her dad, and her family on Wednesday November 13, 2002. A few things become obvious within the first few pages. Dana is sick, apparently with the flu, but something doesn't feel right with this diagnosis. There's something more sinister about this flu. Dana has Type 1 diabetes and this is complicating the already difficult situation involving her care. Dana's dad is disillusioned with God, but something in his relationship with Father Wes and in this troubled situation is drawing him to God. The reader is then taken back to Sunday January 16, 2000, before any of the troubles that Dana and her family now face have taken hold. The story reveals Dana and her family through her dad's perspective, from happy and carefree beginning through a three-year journey of suffering, quiet triumph, and personal awakening. Dana's Disease is based on the true accounts of the struggles of Dana Kanerva to be a healthy normal child, from soon after her third birthday to days before her sixth birthday.

Download or read book My Daddy Forgets Things written by Celisa Bonner and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daddy Has Cancer written by Sharon Coggins and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does someone you love have a terminal illness and you need to explain it to your child? Fabian Amin is just four years old. He lives in New York City with his family, but has been noticing some changes with his father. His dad isn't playing with him like he used to and doesn't seem to have the energy to do anything. Confused by the changes in his father, he learns that cancer is slowly taking his father's life. His mother has long talks with her son about the changes. Through love and understanding, they begin the healing process together. Told with heartfelt concern and understanding, this story will connect any reader with the difficult reality of losing a loved one to disease and can help explain the deterioration to a young child. Share this story of connecting with a loved one's memories at the heart. Heal from the shared experience of reading it together.

Download or read book Baby Daddy Disorder written by Jameca Falconer, PhD and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I see many examples of how the children have not been made a priority in many African American families. It seems that many African American men are content to produce children and then simply walk away from most, if not all of the financial, emotional and psychological responsibilities that serve as the foundation of parenting. Baby Daddy Disorder is a reality check on what is terribly wrong in the African American community. Families are the core of every issue that plagues our community. Alcoholism, obesity and poor health, economic hardship, education, crime and violence are just a few elements that need improvement within the African American community. Each one of these elements could be tackled more strategically if families were intact or if parents could work together as a team to ensure success for their children. It's been said that "It takes a village to raise a child." Even if grandmother, aunts and uncles create and work in the village, father's need to step up, man up and get up so that they can fulfill their role in the village. Baby Daddy Disorder is a reality check on what is terribly wrong in the African American community. Families are the core of every issue that plagues our community. Alcoholism, obesity and poor health, economic hardship, education, crime and violence are just a few elements that need improvement within the African American community. Each one of these elements could be tackled more strategically if families were intact or if parents could work together as a team to ensure success for their children. It's been said that "It takes a village to raise a child." Even if grandmother, aunts and uncles create and work in the village, father's need to step up, man up and get up so that they can fulfill their role in the village.

Download or read book Rare Like Us written by Taylor Kane and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor Kane was a daddy's girl from the moment she was born, smiling and cooing whenever her father was around and refusing to sleep until he held her in his arms. But shortly after she turned three years old, the unthinkable happened. Her father was diagnosed with a rare, genetic disease for which there was no cure. It wasn't long before he began to experience a number of bizarre and frightening symptoms, and young Taylor watched helplessly as the disease ravaged his body and mind, transforming him into a shell of the father she once knew: a man unable to walk, talk, swallow or understand what was going on around him. A man who no longer recognized her.Fast forward five years. Her beloved father now gone, nine-year-old Taylor is dealt another devastating blow when she learns that she is a genetic carrier of the disease that took her father's life. Not only will her future children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting the disease, she, too, faces the risk of developing symptoms of her own in the future. In Rare Like Us, Taylor, now a twenty-one-year-old college student, shares the invaluable lessons she learned growing up in a family plagued by a genetic disease so rare that most doctors have never seen it, much less heard of it. She recounts with raw honesty how she managed to conquer her childhood demons and come to terms with her grief and loss; how she transformed her pain into passion and purpose; and how she continues to strive to honor her father's legacy by living her life in a way that would make him proud. This compelling memoir of a young woman's resilience and determination will captivate and inspire not only those who have experienced the isolation and despair that comes with having a rare disease, but anyone who has struggled to find the silver lining in heartbreak or tragedy, or who is searching for hope in the face of an uncertain future.

Download or read book Daddyboy written by Carol Konek and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and approximately 20 million more cope with its effects. Daddyboy: A Memoir is the intense, well-crafted tale of the author's experience of her father's progressive mental and physical deterioration from Alzheimer's disease.

Download or read book Genetic Twists of Fate written by Stanley Fields and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well. News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with their newborn's complete DNA code along with her footprints and APGAR score. In Genetic Twists of Fate, distinguished geneticists Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston help us make sense of the genetic revolution that is upon us. Fields and Johnston tell real life stories that hinge on the inheritance of one tiny change rather than another in an individual's DNA: a mother wrongly accused of poisoning her young son when the true killer was a genetic disorder; the screen siren who could no longer remember her lines because of Alzheimer's disease; and the president who was treated with rat poison to prevent another heart attack. In an engaging and accessible style, Fields and Johnston explain what our personal DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of DNA letters makes each of us unique, and how that code influences our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such common diseases as diabetes or cancer.

Download or read book Long Good Night written by Simpkins and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uplifting story of hope for caregivers everywhere. The Long Good-Night contradicts the prevailing opinion that suffering and chaos are all that is possible during seasons of caring for an aging parent, even one with Alzheimer's disease.

Download or read book Healthy Dad Sick Dad written by Glen N Robison and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you living toward a healthy retirement? Far too many people retire needing to take five to twenty medications a day for health conditions that could easily have been prevented. They retire to their recliner and don't take full advantage of the opportunities that retirement offers because they're dependent upon oxygen from the oxygen tank or because they're just too stiff and sore to get out and enjoy life. It doesn't have to be that way-in nature, when things are in balance, there is no disease! In Healthy Dad, Sick Dad, Dr. Glen N. Robison shares his personal journey with two very similar fathers who ended up in drastically different retirements. Determined to understand why, Dr. Robison studied his healthy father's lifestyle and emulated it for fifteen years, with dramatic improvements to his own health. Now, he shares the secrets of living toward a long, healthy life.  Start living today for your greatest asset-YOU-and look forward to a retirement you'll love.

Download or read book Daddy Is Feeling Blue written by Kenneth Braswell and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daddy Is Feeling Blue" continues to stimulate critical and complicated conversations between parents and their young children. Brandon (father) has a minor heart attack and it creates a situation for the family to learn the importance of encouraging Brandon to pay attention to his health for the sake of himself and family.