Fathering from the Fast Lane
Author: Bruce Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 2003-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781876451219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 70 Australian fathers speak about how they balance work and fathering. Presents valuable ideas.
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Raising Girls
Author: Steve Biddulph
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1607745763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys. In today's world, it's especially critical for girls to grow up strong and capable. In this impassioned follow-up to his bestselling Raising Boys, author Steve Biddulph brings together the best thinking from around the world on how to raise daughters of sound character who know that they are loved, and can stand up for themselves and others. Biddulph teaches parents how to build their daughters' self-assuredness, encourage friendships, and equip them to learn and believe in themselves. This detailed guidebook teaches parents, grandparents, and caretakers exactly what matters for and to girls at which age, and how to build confidence and connectedness from infancy to young womanhood.
Online and Personal
Author: Jo Lamble
Publisher:
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781876451172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the problems associated with Internet use and misuse, this guide provides practical information on how to deal with them. Included are useful strategies for dealing with such troublesome issues as online relationships that have led to marriage breakups, young people visiting inappropriate
Blind Sight
Author: Meg Howrey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307739295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen-year-old Luke Prescott has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy, surrounded by his divorced New Age mother, his religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. He is writing his college applications when his father—a famous television star— invites him to Los Angeles for the summer. Luke accepts and is plunged into a world of location shooting, celebrity interviews, glamorous parties, and premieres. But as he begins to know the difference between his father’s public persona and his private one, Luke finds himself questioning the new history he has created for himself.
9 Things
Author: Maggie Dent
Publisher: Pennington Publications
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0975125885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is easy in our fast-paced, competitive, consumer-driven world to forget that children are not mini-adults, projects to be managed or problems to be solved. This common-sense guide to parenting and caring for children under eight, reminds us that a child’s development cannot be rushed, or crudely measured again milestones. It takes an entire childhood to grow and there is no perfect when it comes to parenting. In her informed, heartfelt way, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent takes a comprehensive look at the 9 Things that truly matter in raising children, and why they matter so much. She uses the metaphor of a wise aunty, Wilma — a voice of ancient wisdom that seems to be disappearing amidst the chaos. With passion, warmth and humour, Maggie draws on current research and her extensive experience as an educator, counsellor and mother of four to guide parents and caregivers in their endless decision-making, to raise children who are happy, healthy, strong, kind and resilient. Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators, with a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience. Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling, and working in palliative care/funeral services and suicide prevention. She is a dedicated advocate to quietly changing lives in our families and communities. She is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother. Maggie is the author of 11 books including her 2018 release Mothering Our Boys which is already a bestseller.
Generative Fathering
Author: Alan J. Hawkins
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0761901183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch contemporary scholarship on fathers comes from a deficit model, focusing on men's inadequacies as parents. This volume goes beyond a deficit model of fatherhood to what the editors term a 'generative fathering perspective'. It presents research that helps readers to understand generative fathering in challenging life circumstances.
The Father Factor
Author: Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1615921397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe father factor is the conscious understanding, awareness, and appreciation of the critical influence that your father had, still has, or could have in your career development and future potential. Noting that the father-son or father-daughter relationship is one of the least understood relationships in adult life, Dr. Poulter helps you become acutely aware of the immeasurable impact (negative or positive) that your father has on your ability to relate to other people. From this recognition you will also learn to move past the career roadblocks that frequently stem from the lingering effects of your father''s influence. Defining five main styles of fathering, Dr. Poulter devotes a chapter each to: The Superachiever Father The Time Bomb Father The Passive Father The Absent Father (whether physically or emotionally) The Compassionate / Mentor Father. By becoming aware of how your father related to you, particularly in a destructive relationship, you''ll understand how your career relationships in many ways mirror your degree of comfort with your father''s emotional legacy. In this way, career roadblocks-often based on interactions with people on the job-will be more easily transformed into career building blocks that will lead to advancement and success.
Older Men's Business
Author: Jack Zinn
Publisher:
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781876451332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlder men present valuable insights into their lives, in areas such as work, retirement, family relationships, deteriorating health, sexuality, spirituality, widowerhood, loneliness and depression.
The King of Chicago
Author: Daniel Friedman
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-05-23
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1631440691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roth’s Patrimony. At its heart is a young son who tries furiously to heal his father from a violent childhood inside a Chicago orphanage. The orphanage, the Marks Nathan Home, still stands today on the West Side of Chicago, marked by a tarnished, barely legible plaque. Once home to 14,000 Jewish orphans, it is now just another barely remembered relic of a great city. Using original articles from the orphanage newspaper, Friedman attempts to reconstruct and understand his father’s childhood, a time that his father never discussed. Expanding its reach, The King of Chicago becomes a multigenerational saga of Jewish life, moving from a mysterious little man named Kasiel, who arrived in the Port of Baltimore in 1903 with two dollars to his name, to the factory floor of a scrap paper business, a golf course where children played without knowing the rules, and a home on the North Shore among fellow immigrants looking for something better for their children. At its core, this memoir is both a snapshot of immigrant life in Chicago in the early twentieth century and a poignant reminder about the need to never forget who you are and where you come from.
