No Perfect Parents
No Perfect Parents

Author: Dave Wilson

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0310362237

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Following the wildly popular Vertical Marriage with the same charming, relatable dialogue between mom and dad, bestselling authors and national hosts of FamilyLife Today Dave and Ann Wilson dive headlong into the monumental task of parenting in the 21st century. Raising kids with hearts for Christ may be the hardest thing you ever try to do, but it's also the most important thing. Packed with funny and honest stories, compelling illustrations, biblical insight, and practical steps you can put into practice today, this hands-on parenting manual will encourage and equip every parent through any stage. Founders of a multi-campus church and family coaches with 30 years of experience, Dave and Ann share the hard-earned but easy-to-apply principles that ensure a strong parent-to-child relationship and a strong foundation for your child. You'll get a front-row seat to the multidimensional nature of parenting through a conversational back and forth between Mom and Dad and even comments from their adult sons on what worked, what didn't work, and why. An inspiring and resourceful guide, No Perfect Parents will cover essential topics like learning to discipline without losing your mind or causing more chaos, the parenting guilt trip, the teen years, and the top five parenting mistakes. For parents and couples preparing to have children, Dave and Ann offer hope and strategies that really work, and some that didn't. No Perfect Parents will let you into the real, even raw, struggles and joys of raising kids that can impact their generation in a powerful way. To get the legacy that you've been praying for, start here. Your kids will thank you later.

Hurrah for Gin
Hurrah for Gin

Author: Katie Kirby

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1635060451

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The perfect gift, this book is not a how-to guide. It won't tell you how to get your baby to sleep, how to deal with toddler tantrums, how to be a good parent, a cool parent, or even a renegade parent. It's a book about parenting that contains absolutely no useful advice whatsoever. Instead, Hurrah for Gin shares beautifully honest anecdotes and illustrations from the parenting front line that demonstrate it is perfectly possible to love your children with the whole of your heart while finding them incredibly irritating at the same time. From pregnancy to starting school, Hurrah for Gin takes you through the exciting, frustrating, infuriating, and wonderful whirlwind of parenthood, offering solidarity and a friendly hug after a tough day. Best served with gin.

"You're Perfect--" and Other Lies Parents Tell

Author: Loni Coombs

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780985462741

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Includes real-world solutions to help parents of the "Me Generation" equip their offspring with the tools they need to avoid falling into the traps that society sets for them.

No Perfect Places
No Perfect Places

Author: Steven Salvatore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1547611081

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From lauded author Steven Salvatore comes a moving YA novel about twins whose incarcerated father dies and leaves behind a life-changing secret, perfect for fans of I'll Give You the Sun and Euphoria. When their father went to prison last year for embezzlement, twins Alex and Olly Brucke lost everything: their house, their college funds, most of their friends, and even their mother, who's so focused on making ends meet that she's never around anymore. The only thing they can count on lately is each other. But after their father dies unexpectedly in prison, the twins start to fracture. Alex is spiraling, skipping classes to spend all of her time drunk or high. And Olly is struggling with a secret his dad ordered him to keep: they have a secret half-brother named Tyler. When Tyler shows up in their lakeside town for the summer, hoping to get to know his siblings, Olly hides the truth from Alex. But as Alex and Tyler start to form a friendship, the lies become harder to juggle. If they can't confront their father's past and fix their relationship, Olly and Alex each risk losing two siblings forever. No Perfect Places is a thought-provoking novel about grief, family secrets, and figuring out how to belong against the odds.

Parent Traps
Parent Traps

Author: Donna G. Corwin

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1429925795

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From Donna G. Corwin, the bestselling co-author of Time Out for Toddlers, Parent Traps is an insightful book that helps parents explore experiences from their own childhoods to help them better understand their own parenting styles. With helpful solutions and psychological tools, Parent Traps can help you navigate the dilemmas that all parents face.

Someone I Love Is Gay
Someone I Love Is Gay

Author: Anita Worthen

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 1996-05-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780830819829

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Finding out that a child, spouse, relative or friend is homosexual can be an unwelcome surprise. You're hit with a complex combination of emotions - grief, shame, fear, guilt. You are flooded with questions ranging from why to what's next. You wonder what a biblical response would be. At the same time, someone you care about deeply may be awaiting your response. What should you say? Someone I Love Is Gay was created out of Anita Worthen's struggle over these issues with her son and her work with New Hope Ministries in San Rafael, California, and Bob Davies's personal experience and professional experience with Exodus International in Seattle, Washington. Drawing also on the experiences of others, they will help you to handle your feelings while responding appropriately to your loved one.

Parent to Parent
Parent to Parent

Author: B. Janine Fulla

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 152551119X

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Planned Parenthood isn’t just about planning the right time in your life to have a child. It’s also about making choices regarding how you want to raise your child by understanding yourself, discovering your own coaching abilities, and developing a conscious map that allows for a few side excursions along the way. It’s about opening the drapes and letting the light in, taking deep breaths, and embracing all the sweet, inconvenient, laughable, stressful, playful ups and downs of this great adventure. At its heart, this book is a personal journey of raising children to be empowered, authentic and confident in themselves. It is about helping the parent engage in effective communication, teaching skills such as, leading your children to be responsible for their choices and actions and teaching them to trust their own intuitive signals along with, insights on breaking old parenting patterns. Parenting has changed dramatically since you were raised, and by the time you raise your children, it will dramatically change again. This is known as the Highway of Life and as such, there are times you will find the process... slow. Other times you will find the ride is going way too fast, and just want to put your foot on the brakes. Every child is different, every child has challenges they will test you with, and every experience can be the most profound moments of your life. This book is for parents of children of all ages, including grandparents, caregivers, teachers, coaches, babysitters – anyone who interacts with growing children, in any setting. They say it takes a village to raise a child. This book is for the village.

Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love
Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love

Author: John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-01-11

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1637641877

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Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love By: John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP Pediatrician John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP, has years of experience with parenting methods and children’s health in both America and in South Korea. With these combined experiences, and his own as a father, Dr. Lee puts forth Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love, a guide to raising children with kindness, empathy, and love. He describes in detail the types of love needed for parents to raise their children well, eye-contact love, physical-contact love, and focused-attention love. With his familiarity of American and South Korean parenting styles, he sets forth to create a shared foundation of parenting knowledge using the positive childrearing practices of both nations. Whether you are a new parent or already have children of your own, Dr. Lee’s in-depth explanations of newborn, toddler, child, and adolescent physical and mental health combined with insightful guides on how parents should handle difficult or new situations is an essential read.

I Love You But How Do I Live With You?
I Love You But How Do I Live With You?

Author: Des Hunt

Publisher: AWC Business Solutions

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 099255537X

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Statistics show that nearly half of all first marriages end up on the rocks and finish in divorce. These figures do not take into account all the couples that don’t marry, try living together and eventually break up. Nor do they take into account all the unhappy marriages that are ‘staying together for the sake of the kids’. The incredible thing that the statistics show is that the odds of a second marriage working out are not much better. They also show that couples who try living together before they get married are no more successful at staying together than those who don’t ‘try before they buy’. I Love You But How Do I Live With You? is the long awaited companion to Des Hunt’s best-selling book What Makes People Tick: Understanding Yourself and Others. In this book you will: • Discover the personality style of yourself and your partner, plus: • A full description of yours and your partner’s personality style which reveals: Ø How you each defend yourselves Ø How you each handle conflict Ø How to relate to each other more effectively Ø How not to relate to each other Ø How to live and love for life Ø How you each see life Ø What each of you want from life Ø You loves and your hates Ø How You each want to be related to Ø How you each prefer to communicate Ø Your different strengths and weaknesses

The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents
The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents

Author: Dennis Klass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 131777177X

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This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints or bodhisattvas, can offer a bridge between the profane and sacred worlds, support parents as they find meaning in a world made forever poorer, and bind together a community adequate to parents' grief. The book reports Klass's clinical practice and his work as advisor to a bereaved parents self-help support group.