Download or read book Tears of a Teenage Mother written by Trouble’D Thoughts. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many others, Florence, along with her two daughters Eboni and Ivory, felt trapped in the small, gated projects of Shady Oaks located in the worst part of D.C. It was a place where the grass didnt grow above the surface and most wouldnt rise above poverty. A place where teens gave birth and senseless murders occured so much that people grew up actually thinking it was the thing to do. As a result, they turned out to be just as shady and willing to try any drug if it promised to leave them higher than a tree. And the new drug on the streets for young people was called Money. Although there was nothing new about powder cocaine except for the name it now went by, the kids in the neighborhood made it seem like it was something no one else had ever done. In fact, they made it seem as if it was so new that the consequences of using it would turn out completely different. However, it wouldnt be to the person they would least expect to succumb to its harsh reality, causing their perspective to change. She was encouraged to try Money for the first time by her closest friend. However, she didnt know it would also be her last time. When she felt her eyes uncontrollably roll in the back of her head and her spirit start to rise above the level of ecstasy, it is then that she knew she had made a fatal mistake.
Download or read book Teen Mom written by Tricia Goyer and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a mom is hard. Being a young mom has unique challenges. From a teen mom herself, Teen Mom speaks to your heart, sharing insight, encouragement, and practical advice to help you create a better life for yourself and your child. Everything changes the day you discover you're going to be a mom. It's not just yourself that you think about--you have a child to care for, too. While you wouldn't trade your child for the world, some days are just hard. Baby-daddy drama, dealing with your parents, and worries about school, work, and your future slam you. Your friends can't relate to your little family, and you wonder if God has turned His back on you, too. Tricia Goyer understands. A mom at age 17, Tricia remembers what it felt like to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, and she's here to help you through it too. In this book, she pours out her heart and shares practical advice on: Making decisions about work and school Dealing with changing relationships with friends Finding support as a single mom Relating to the baby daddy Handling hard days . . . and more! You are the great mom your child deserves! And you are stronger than you think. This book was previously titled Life Interrupted.
Download or read book Life After Birth written by Summer Owens and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to school, hanging out with friends, and being a normal teenager was all Summer Owens knew until her fifteenth birthday changed her life forever. Nine months later, she was a mother and didn't even know the father of her baby. "In Life After Birth, Owens depicts the real-life struggles she faced as a teenage mother. By sharing how she managed to finish high school, combat emotional issues, graduate from college with honors, build a career and buy a house all as a young, single mother, she demonstrates that life doesn't have to end when a child is born to a teenager. "Life After Birth details the heartbreak, struggle, and victory of a young woman thrust into the painful realities of being a teenage mother. Any young woman, or young man for that matter, will read this book with eyes wide open to the detailed struggles of being a young mother that strips away the delusional romanticism of having a baby too early. Summer sobers the reader to a better way and encourages those who are walking in her path that they too can have life after birth." Dr. Stacy L. Spencer, Author and Pastor, New Direction Christian Church
Download or read book Tears of a Tiger written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Download or read book The Rose That Grew From Concrete written by Tupac Shakur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry -- a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand at the age of nineteen, they embrace his spirit, his energy...and his ultimate message of hope.
Download or read book Raising and Losing My Remarkable Teenage Mother written by Stacey Aaronson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stacey Aaronson was born in 1969, her mother, Bree, was sixteen and barely out of braces. Hastily wed to Stacey's dad and divorced soon after, Bree raised Stacey with his and her parents' loving support. Growing up together in an often role-reversal scenario and mistaken for sisters, Bree would come to say, "I didn't raise Stacey. Stacey raised me." Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother tells the extraordinary story of this mother-daughter duo reminiscent of Gilmore Girls. Anchoring each other to the world through unwavering love and acceptance, Bree and Stacey take on life with an uncanny gift for seeing magic in the most ordinary moments. Whether bouncing between the markedly different homes of her mom, dad, and grandparents, discovering her religious and sexual identities, or starting college in her mid-twenties, Stacey is buoyed by Bree's devotion as a mother, a sister, a daughter, and a friend. She helps Bree navigate her own path as she seeks the biological mother she never knew and a partner to grow old with. But Bree-despite her vibrant spirit and astounding near-reversal of an MS diagnosis-learns too young she has cancer, whose underlying emotional roots even a cutting-edge, non-toxic treatment can't cure. As Stacey steps into the role of caregiver, the two face the most poignant leg of their journey: nurturing their deep soul connection even as one soul transitions to another realm. Brimming with miracles, wonder, and joy even in its saddest moments, Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother is a tender yet ebullient celebration of life, of love, of death's mysterious passage, and the mystical forces that bind us all. Includes a gallery of over sixty photos, book discussion questions, and an interview with the author.
Download or read book Best Babysitters Ever written by Caroline Cala and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of a funny new series about three 12-year-old best friends who start a babysitting club in their small California town. No parents. Unlimited snacks. And, okay, occasionally watching other people's children. What could possibly go wrong?
Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Download or read book A Teenager s Tears written by John R. Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the world of polygamy through a modern-day family that leaves traditional Mormonism and enters polygamy.
Download or read book Stand up for Yourself written by Shelley Bridgman and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, no-holds-barred account of one woman's quest to find her true self.Shelley Bridgman is an award-winning stand-up comic, actor, script writer, professional speaker and a leading Psychotherapist - but it wasn't always this way.First she survived the hedonistic sixties with the inevitable round of clubbing, fashion and drugs; then she made the most of the seventies, travelling to over sixty countries whilst running a travel business - but it was the eighties that tested her to her limits. Battling depression, bankruptcy, addiction and suicide attempts; Bridgman found the courage to confront her need to change gender and achieve harmony with herself.This is a story about identity, self-discovery and acceptance. It is also testament to a profoundly touching love story that has lasted over forty years."e;Brilliant, captivating and thought-provoking. Shelley shares her story with such honesty and openness. Highly recommended"e;Peggy McColl New York Times Best-selling Author'If you buy one inspirational book this year, make it this one"e;Jo Good, BBC radio presenter"e;Anyone performing Stand-Up deserves respect. To do it after overcoming life threatening illness and overcoming the obstacles in this story is truly remarkable. If you need uplifting read this story"e;Caroline Lucas, MP & Former Leader of The Green Party"e;There are writers who merely write words and then there are writers who craft emotional moments in our lives.If the happenings of an ever increasingly plundered world turns your face awayAnd saddens your shoulders... Stop!Take time right now - to join a true traveler of time in her journey of unearthing the truth - both for herself and those she encountered along the path.I cried and wept.I laughed and chortled.I sat and thought and changed. You will too.Time will confirm it was for the better"e;.Peter Thomson"e;The UK's Most Prolific Information Product Creator"e;"e;Shelley Bridgman is unique, her book and her life is full of humour and honesty, she is a stunning writer and brings to life her amazing true story. Don't miss this"e;Janey GodleyBest-Selling Author & Top Scottish ComicShelley Bridgman is a woman with not just one perspective on life, but many. A born traveler, her journey has taken her not only around the world, but around herself, ob- serving her own life from every angle, even as the smooth exterior began to crack. It is only after entering through those cracks that this extraordinary and brave woman was able to work from the inside to create a strong, shimmering self, that is entirely her own. Told with intelligence, honesty and humility, hers is a story unlike any other, and yet it speaks to all of us.Paul LucasNew York Producer
Download or read book God the Heart and the Darkness written by John Parrilla and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our hearts, as Christians, we place the almighty God and his Son, Jesus Christ, in the highest regard possible. We make the connections of history placing God on his throne, and our love for God shines the golden throne to a bright brilliant finish, with beautiful angels serenading him day and night. Yet in the real world, as we all live, life-changing moments with God are hardly described or remembered in the such grandeur. They are experienced and remembered in the depth of our deepest pain, in our darkest hours of trial and failure. As it states in the book of Corinthians, God is not of this world, and the fact that he chose to make his Son from usthat Jesus was brought to us so that we could make a simple yet eternal connection between God and his childrentells a mostly unspoken reality about our Creator. The truth of Gods love for Adam is in the death of his Son. If you really believe in Jesus Christ, then there is no mistaking Gods love for you or the fact that love is the sole common bond between us and our Higher Power. We are most like God in Love. It is the emotion that God intends for us to understand above all others, so much so that he gave his Son, knowing how we love our children, so that we can make the connection plainly and without fail. If you, as a parent, saw your child in peril and in the dark, at the end of their sanity and crying out for you, where would you be? This book is a timeline collection of writings, a visual interpretation of Feeling. A search for God from the depths of a very personal, inherited darkness. It is a faithful expression of the world we live in, in accordance with unseen world of Emotion and Faith.
Download or read book Variety TV REV 1991 92 17 written by Prouty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Rose that Grew from Concrete written by Tupac Shakur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela.
Download or read book Red at the Bone written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates 'Generous and big-hearted' Brit Bennett 'A true spell of a book' Ocean Vuong 'A proclamation' R.O. Kwon 'A little masterpiece' Paula Hawkins 'I adored this book' Elizabeth MacNeal 'Pure poetry' Observer 'A sharply focused gem' Sunday Times 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist 'Haunting' Guardian 'A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story' Metro 'Prose that sings off the page... Gorgeous' Mail on Sunday 'A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships' Financial Times 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Razor-sharp' Vanity Fair 'Dazzling... With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us. From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, identity, class, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times; Washington Post; Time; USA Today; O, The Oprah Magazine; Elle; Good Housekeeping; Esquire; NPR; New York Public Library; Library Journal; Kirkus; BookRiot; She Reads; The Undefeated ***
Download or read book On Our Own written by Melissa Ludtke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ludtke brings the voices of women having children on their own into a public debate from which these voices have been conspicuously absent. Interweaving their voices with her own savvy and intuitive commentary, she has written a vitally important book."—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice
Download or read book The Gift written by Rebecca L. Masker and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Forrester is a young single mother afraid of opening her heart to a man after her ex-boyfriend abandoned her before the birth of their daughter. Ten years later, she has reentered the dating world, and just as she thinks she's found the love of her life, her daughter is diagnosed with cancer. Julie is forced to contact her daughter's biological father who, in turn saves the child's life, which leaves Julie with a dilemma. With two men she loves who love her in return, who does she choose: the man from her past who abandoned her once before or the man who has made her believe in love again?
Download or read book Tears of a Ballet Mum written by Sabine Naghdi and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mother of Yasmine Naghdi, Principal ballerina of The Royal Ballet, takes you on a journey from her daughter's years in classical ballet training to dancing on the stage of the Royal Opera House
