Intentional Grandparenting: Contemporary Guide (Easyread Large Edition)
Intentional Grandparenting: Contemporary Guide (Easyread Large Edition)

Author: Peggy Edwards

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1458762165

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What is intentional grand parenting? This comprehensive guide offers ten basic principles for effective grand parenting, combining solid advice from experts with inspirational and humorous real-life stories. Intentional Grand parenting helps ease the transition for grandparents who face a vastly changed world of parenting by explaining the differences between ''then and now'' in childbirth and child-rearing practices, as well as what to expect in diverse family situations such as blended families and same-sex unions. This handbook includes a wealth of practical ideas, such as how to baby-proof your home, how to stay in touch (including cyber-grand parenting), and how you can best support your adult children as they become parents. Informative and fun, this book is an indispensable tool for anyone entering this challenging and rewarding life stage.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Author: Joyce L. Epstein

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1483320014

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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers
Raising Passionate Jesus Followers

Author: Phil Comer

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0310347785

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Hope and practical help for parents whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God. For Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God. After serving together in pastoral ministry and raising their now-grown children, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children. But now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents. Raising Passionate Jesus Followers is a manual full of practical, biblically based, and time-tested guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through every stage of their children's development, including . . . Formulating a plan Laying the foundation, ages 0-5 Doing the framing, ages 6-12 Installing the functional systems, ages 13-17 Completing the finish work, ages 18-22 And keeping the front door open for your grown children

Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care

Author: Dr. John Patton

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1426723474

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The essentials of pastoral care involve the pastor's distinctive task of caring for those who are estranged--the lost sheep. Taken from the biblical image of the shepherd, the pastor by virtue of his or her professional calling cultivates wise judgment in order to hear the hurting and offer guidance, reconciliation, healing, sustaining presence, and empowerment to those in need. This book will outline the quintessential elements pastors need to wisely minister in today's context by discussing four major kinds of lostness: grief, illness, abuse, and family challenges. The purpose of the Abingdon Essential Guides is to fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to the core disciples in biblical, theological, and religious studies. Drawing on the best in current scholarship, written with the need of students foremost in mind, addressed to learners in a number of contexts, Essential Guides will be the first choice of those who wish to acquaint themselves or their students with the broad scope of issues, perspectives, and subject matters within biblical and religious studies.

Because I Said So!
Because I Said So!

Author: Ken Jennings

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476706964

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Draws on medical case histories, scientific findings, and personal research by the author to separate myth from fact and debunk a vast array of parental edicts.

Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids
Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids

Author: Paul Axtell

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780943097183

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This is the second edition of Paul Axtell's award-winning book that helps parents use the power of conversation to create remarkable relationships with their kids. New sections on technology, self-esteem, and human hardwiring incorporate the latest research with how it impacts families.

Never Goin' Back
Never Goin' Back

Author: Al Roker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0451414942

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The popular television personality discusses his battle with weight loss, describing his initial successes after bypass surgery, his efforts to get back on track after regaining lost weight, and his confrontation with goal-compromising childhood issues.

Growing Up Social
Growing Up Social

Author: Gary Chapman

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0802487777

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Has Technology Taken Over Your Home? In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its harms. In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Through stories, science, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learn how to: Protect and nurture your child’s growing brain Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference Recognize the warning signs of gaming too much Raise a child who won’t gauge success through social media Teach your child to be safe online This newly revised edition features the latest research and interactive assessments, so you can best confront the issues technology create in your home. Now is the time to equip your child with a healthy relationship with screens and an even healthier relationship with others.

Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want
Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want

Author: Art Coombs

Publisher: Scrivener Books

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781949165173

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You can live easy-hard or hard-easy. This law will inevitably play itself out, so why not stop sabotaging your goals and relationships and use it to your advantage? This book will help you thoroughly understand what's getting in the way of making the changes you want and how to apply this law when faced with tough decisions.

My Summer of Love and Misfortune
My Summer of Love and Misfortune

Author: Lindsay Wong

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1534443347

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Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China. Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She’s always felt torn about being Chinese-American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She’s just a sad pizza combo from Domino’s, as far as she’s concerned. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris’s parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris would “reconnect with her culture” and “find herself.” Iris resents the condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life. With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. Instead, she gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing’s wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.