Everyone has a story to tell about their baby's daddy. These four friends, Lisa, Felicia, Angie, and Michelle, will tell their tales and discover that their sudden downfalls are somehow connected to the murder of the father of one of their children. As Lisa and Felicia embark on an investigative journey, they uncover deadly lies and secrets. After the two unearth that the quartet is tied to a drug lord who has placed a hit out on them, they find out that Jennifer, Felicia's neighbor, put her life on the line during her horrific escapade. Felicia embraces Jennifer for her heroic efforts and shelters her, but something goes wrong when their individual tales take an awful plunge. As action, mystery, suspense, infidelities, and murder attack this neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, everyone has one person to blame. Just as you think the story is over, someone has to continue the saga of the drug lord.
Brett and Evelyn where childhood sweethearts who’s lives drift apart. With one daughter in the middle, they agree to divorce. Though Brett isn’t sure that is what he wants. Evelyn merely wants to protect her heart. It has always belonged to Brett, but with him gone more and more her heart hurts. Can one last mistake be the thing that brings them back together?
"James, I want to marry you," "You have nothing to say?" "I can't. Not yet." "Isn't it too early?" "We've been together for almost three years now," Later, she discovered why he would not marry her when she looked into his phone... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betty Johnsons’ life was what people considered to be normal - wonderful job at the bank, peaceful apartment in suburbia, and a good-looking partner who’s a well-renounce businessman - what more can she ask when all of her dreams are in the palm of her hands. All’s well until one incident changed her life - the life she had, shattered after finding out that the three-year relationship she had were all lies, she found out that she was just a mistress to a man who already had a perfect life.
There’s nothing more magical than interacting with a child, especially when you know you’re encouraging them to say their first true words. Starting as early as birth, you can begin to talk, play, and read with your child and become actively involved in the initial stages of communication. Talk, Play, And Read With Me Daddy will not only guide you, but provide you and your child with many stimulating activities and games that are developmentally appropriate and designed to help enhance your child’s speech and language skills. There are many interactive activities for infants (e.g., Making Sounds, Tubby Time, Playful Reading), toddlers (e.g., Sorting Fun, Picnic Time, My Fun Box), and preschoolers (e.g., Listen Up, Story Telling, Searching for Shapes). These fun-filled learning games can be played when you and your child have a few extra minutes during daily routines, playtime, or story time. You can also use this book when you are on the move, so make sure you carry it wherever you go.
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the impact of fathers on child development from prenatal years to age five. It examines the effects of the father-child relationship on the child’s neurobiological development; hormonal, emotional and behavioral regulatory systems; and on the systemic embodiment of experiences into the child’s mental models of self, others, and self-other relationships. The volume reflects two perspectives guiding research with fathers: Identifying positive and negative factors that influence early childhood development, specifying child outcomes, and emphasizing cultural diversity in father involvement; and examining multifaceted, specific approaches to guide father research. Key topics addressed include: Direct assessment of father parenting (rather than through maternal reports). The effects of father presence (in contrast to father absence). The full diversity of father involvement. Father’s impact on gender role differentiation. Father’s role in triadic interactions of family dynamics. Father involvement in psychotherapeutic family interventions. This handbook draws from converging perspectives about the role of fathers in very early child development, summarizes what is known, and, within each chapter, draws attention to the critical questions that need to be answered in coming decades. The Handbook of Fathers and Child Development is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in infancy and early child development, social work, public health, developmental and clinical child psychology, pediatrics, family studies, neuroscience, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, anthropology, sociology, and all interrelated disciplines.
I thought I was an expert at resisting temptation, but she proved me wrong. What we did goes against every vow I made, but I don’t regret it for a second. When she left, she taught me the true meaning of devastation. Over the years, I’ve become an expert in dealing with grief, loss, and longing, helping others find the redemption I so desperately crave. When she appeared in my life again, it was like an angel sent to heal me. But she’s been keeping a secret that will change everything. Is the connection between us really heaven sent, or will the world get the better of us? How can I face seeing her again after it’s taken me so long to get over her? Of course, even I knew the truth. I was never over her.
In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t think of themselves as babysitting their own children, but as central decision makers, along with mothers, as parents. Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary edited collection of essays authored by prominent scholars in the fields of media, sociology, and cultural studies who address how media represent the image of the father in popular culture. This collection explores the history of representation of fathers like the “bumbling dad” to question and challenge how far popular culture has come in its representation of paternal figures. Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of media, including how advertising creates expectations of play and father, crime shows and the new hero father, and men as paternal figures in horror films. The book also explores changing definitions of fatherhood by looking at such subjects as how the media represents sperm donation as complicating the definition of father and how specific groups have been represented as fathers, including gay men as dads and Latino fathers in film. This collection examines the media’s depiction of the “good” father to study how it both challenges and reshapes the ways in which we think of family, masculinity, and gender roles.
Desiree is torn between her feelings for Rashad and Tyrell ever since Tyrell stepped up to be a better father. Kendra plans to stop at nothing to keep Desiree as far away from her baby’s daddy as possible. Her efforts work, and Desiree gives up on her relationship with Rashad and decides to marry Tyrell—even though she still loves the “King of Houston.” She wants to make her family with Tyrell work, but a new addition to their family just may split them up. Keywords: Urban Street Fiction, Side Chick, Cuffing Season, Urban Books, African American Books, Urban Fiction, Urban Literature, African American Romance, Side Chick Romance, Urban, Urban African American, Urban Books, Urban eBooks, Urban Books Black Authors, Urban Books Black Authors, Urban Lit, Side Chicks
A tale of love, lust, and mistrust, Momma's Baby, Daddy's Maybe reveals the secrets that break homes as well as hearts. The Jacobs's siblings have done a good job of masking their secrets behind finely wrought facades, hidden agendas, and questionable paternity...until the day it all starts to unravel. Faced at last with the truth, Kennedy, Simone, and Derrick Jacobs find themselves vulnerable and exposed, determined to salvage the lives they have made for themselves. Kennedy Jacobs has it all: beauty, brains, and the confidence to match. She also has the man that sister Simone has officially declared off-limits. With sass, class, and strength to spare, Kennedy takes the world by storm—until tragedy jumps up and slaps her in the face. Simone Jacobs wants it all. She has the expensive home, the VP position at a top accounting firm, and a new man who tickles more than her fancy. But something is missing. Just when it seems that this something is within reach and her life is coming together, someone starts to tear it apart at the seams. Derrick Jacobs is a handsome Wall Street exec, a fully equipped ladies' man who can't be tied down by any woman. With charming good looks, a chiseled body, and a very healthy bank account, Derrick Jacobs can move mountains...but will his secrets cause them to crumble? Passions run high as the Jacobs try desperately to untangle themselves from a web of deceit and learn how tragedy can move toward truth and the strongest of all ties.
A humorous etiquette guide for parents of young kids full of real-world advice on how to handle everyday embarrassing moments. When you’re raising kids, you’re thrown into dilemmas you could never have dreamed up. A diaper disaster in the middle seat during take-off. Naked baby bath photos your mother-in-law posts online without permission. An unexpected gift that leads to a tantrum in front of the gift-giver. How can you turn these into opportunities to be an A+ parent and friend, role model, and member of your community? Authors Sarah Davis, Ed.D., and Evie Granville, M.Ed., are educators, manners mavens, and creators of a blog and podcast dedicated to parenting etiquette. Their two families total six young kids. Modern Manners unpacks the complicated social code for parents of kids ages zero to five. Discover a public parenting style within a unique framework, analyze your gut reactions to sticky situations, and choose a course of action that balances the needs of parent, child and others. Written by and for busy parents, this guide includes parenting tips, lists, charts, pop quizzes, personal anecdotes, and practical advice. Get child rearing guidance from real experts on: Leading your family with kindness and awareness Setting a good example (and realistic expectations) for little ones Maintaining friendships and good communication Praise for Modern Manners for Moms & Dads “This book is a perfect new-parent gift. A must-read . . . . Evie and Sarah do an amazing job of giving you the framework needed to feel confident in your personal parenting situation.” —Heather Chauvin, TEDx speaker, podcaster, coach, and author of Dying to be a Good Mother Evie and Sarah bring such a bright, new take on “parenting books,” which usually focus on the child. This book takes EVERYONE into account. A must-read based on research, studies, and years of experience.” —Eli Weinstein, licensed master social worker, podcaster, and creator of ELIvation The publisher issues a notice regarding a design error occurring in the chart “Is Your Kid Too Sick to Leave the House?” on page 77 of the print book (chapter 2 in the eBook). The chart should advise against leaving the house with a child with a temperature of 100.4 and above. As stated by the authors, this book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to their health (and their children's) and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. The authors and publisher advise readers to take full responsibility for their safety.
