Download or read book To Our Children s Children written by Bob Greene and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers lists of questions about ancestry, childhood home, school, college, military experiences, career, parenthood, and personal philosophy that can be used to create a family history
Download or read book God Bless My Children and Children s Children written by Michelle Jordan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Bless My Children and Children's Children is the story of a mother's love ... a mother's desire ... a mother's simple prayer and the promised blessing fulfilled. This heartfelt picture book has colorful illustrations and rhyming verse, ideal for reading aloud.
Download or read book To My Children s Children written by Sindiwe Magona and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa gives an account of her eventful first 23 years--a candid story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
Download or read book How to Ruin Your Children s Lives written by Mary McHugh and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but the alien known as teenager comes from a place way beyond those two. What else would account for that incredible transformation from loving child to the hostile creature who wants zilch to do with dear old Mom and Dad? How to Ruin Your Children's Lives is a survival manual for enduring this transmutation and-with a little luck-maintaining enough sanity to one day hear those longed-for words, Hey, I guess you weren't so stupid after all.Purple hair? Belly rings? Bizarre musical tastes? Not a problem as long as readers have How to Ruin Your Children's Lives' nearly 300 tips and tactics close at hand. With resident teenagers slamming doors and screaming at the top of their lungs, Mom! You're ruining my life! parents should at least make certain they're handling the job with aplomb.Consider these tips: o Call them at their friend's house to ask if they want lasagna for dinner.o Ask them about girlfriends (or boyfriends) in front of relatives.o Tell them about the time you streaked when you were in college.o Sing old Beatles songs when their friends are in the car.o Dress like Christina Aguilera.Author Mary McHugh is right on target. She shows parents how to match attitude with attitude and how to carry on whether the teen-parent subject is sex, using the family car, grades, or curfews. This book's perfect for any parent in the trenches and for empty nesters trying to stem their tears.
Download or read book My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World written by Malcolm Mitchell and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Super Bowl champion and literacy crusader Malcolm Mitchell comes an exciting new story that shows even reluctant readers that there is a book out there for everyone! Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. When he's supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow.What's a kid to do? How can Henley find a story that speaks to everything inside of him?Malcolm Mitchell, best-selling author of The Magician's Hat, pulls from his own literary triumph to deliver another hilarous and empowering picture book for readers of all abilities. Through his advocacy and his books, Malcolm imparts the important message that every story has the potential to become a favorite.
Download or read book The Mindful Grandparent written by Shirley Showalter and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandparenting is a sacred, challenging, and sometimes bewildering calling. As educators, writers, and grandmothers with twelve grandchildren between them, Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter team up to share practices, tips, and ideas for grandparenting with intention and grace.
Download or read book My Princess Boy written by Cheryl Kilodavis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming book about unconditional love and one remarkable family. Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy. Inspired by the author’s son, and by her own initial struggles to understand, this heartwarming book is a call for tolerance and an end to bullying and judgments. The world is a brighter place when we accept everyone for who they are.
Download or read book Raising Your Children s Children written by Martha Evans Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over six million children live in grandparent-headed households in the United States today. The number continues to rise.
Download or read book Thinking Developmentally Nurturing Wellness in Childhood to Promote Lifelong Health written by Andrew S. Garner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Developmentally presents a clinical framework for understanding the impact of toxic stress and both adverse and affiliative childhood experiences on development and lifelong health, including adult-manifest diseases.
Download or read book Be Kind written by Pat Zietlow Miller and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.
Download or read book Thy Children s Children written by Diana McCain and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel vibrant with intimate detail and intense emotion, Thy Children's Children traces five generations of a real New England family through the turbulent decades that saw a handful of American colonies transformed into a young nation on the cusp of the modern industrial era.The seeds of a grassroots dynasty that flourishes to this day were planted when John and Hope Lyman began life on a small Connecticut farm in 1741. Here the first five generations of Lyman men and women built and maintained a family homestead, facing challenges large and small, with courage and conviction.Even as the Lymans sank roots deep into New England soil, they were active in charting the course of the nation's history from colonial times to after the Civil War. They fought for American independence, crusaded against slavery, advanced industry - and more. In this debut novel, Diana Ross McCain skillfully combines meticulous research and vibrant imagination to illuminate the everyday heroism of a remarkable family.
Download or read book Where Is My Mind A Children s Picture Book written by Black Francis and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Way out in the water See it swimmin’ . . .” Where Is My Mind? is an imaginative picture book based on Black Francis’s lyrics to one of Pixies’ most beloved songs. The song was released on their certified-gold album Surfer Rosa, and later appeared in the film Fight Club.Parents and children alike will delight in following the story of a young girl who loses her mind when she falls off a skateboard, then travels to magical lands in search of it. Brilliantly illustrated by Alex Eben Meyer, Where Is My Mind? is a celebration of creativity, both in song and story.
Download or read book Why Is My Child in Charge written by Claire Lerner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.
Download or read book My Body Belongs to Me written by Jill Starishevsky and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without being taught about body boundaries, a child may be too young to understand when abuse is happening—or that it’s wrong. This straightforward, gentle book offers a tool parents, teachers, and counselors can use to help children feel, be, and stay safe. The rhyming story and simple, friendly illustrations provide a way to sensitively share and discuss the topic, guiding young children to understand that their private parts belong to them alone. The overriding message of My Body Belongs to Me is that if someone touches your private parts, tell your mom, your dad, your teacher, or another safe adult.
Download or read book Conscious Parenting written by Robert A. Saul and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anybody who cares about the people who will shape our future should read this book!" --A. Scott Henderson, PhD, Professor of Education, Furman University Parenting in today's society is complex. Dr. Saul knows that parenting requires instruction and constant tinkering as we learn what we did right and what we need to improve. Conscious Parenting: Using the Parental Awareness Threshold provides a basic framework, a map, for such a process. Using real-life vignettes from infancy through adolescence that are drawn from a lifetime of work with children and parents, Dr. Saul seeks to give parents the learned ability to understand their interactions with their children and to change their responses to maximize positive results and minimize negative results. Parents will find numerous examples and suggestions on ways to enhance those opportunities at all ages. Brief and right to the point, Conscious Parenting: Using the Parental Awareness Threshold can be referred to again and again, day in and day out.
Download or read book A Child Through Time written by Phil Wilkinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original look at history that profiles 30 children from different eras so that children of today can discover the lives of the cave people, Romans, Vikings, and beyond through the eyes of someone their own age. History books often focus on adults, but what was the past like for children? A Child Through Time is historically accurate and thoroughly researched, and brings the children of history to life-from the earliest civilizations to the Cold War, even imagining a child of the future. Packed with facts and including a specially commissioned illustration of each profiled child, this book examines the clothes children wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the historic moments they witnessed-all through their own eyes. Maps, timelines, and collections of objects, as well as a perspective on the often ignored topic of family life through the ages, give wider historical background and present a unique side to history. Covering key curriculum topics in a new light, A Child Through Time is a perfect and visually stunning learning tool for children ages 7 and up.
Download or read book I Have Two Homes written by Colleen LeMaire and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An age appropriate story that navigates the concept of having a Mom's house and a Dad's house. This book takes the negative emotion out of the equation and assures the reader that living in two homes does not make them an outcast. The story emphasizes that a child with two homes is loved by both Mom and Dad no matter what, and that love is what makes each family special.
