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The House on Childress Street: A Memoir
By Kenji Jasper. 2005
In this vivid and piercing memoir of his grandfather, noted novelist Kenji Jasper captures the story of his family and…
sheds a keen light on the urban and rural experiences of Black America. Author Kenji Jasper only knew his maternal grandfather, Jesse Langley Sr. , as a quiet man who smoked too many cigarettes, drank too much liquor and quoted the Bible like it was the only book he'd ever laid eyes on. Jesse's children rarely hugged him, and his nearly sixty years of marriage to Sally seemed cold and complicated. But when the man who declared himself "The Lone Ranger" passed away in late 2002, Kenji began a long and life-changing journey to learn more about the grandfather he barely knew. From the streets of his native Washington, D. C. , to rural Virginia, North Carolina, and his home in Brooklyn, Jasper's journey to find the truth leads him through three generations of stories, through tales of love and loss, loyalty and betrayal, addiction and redemption. The House on Childress Street examines life, love, and survival through the eyes of one little family on one little block that somehow manages to speak for us all. From the Trade Paperback edition.All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets
By Alison Walsh. 2015
'A powerful story ... Walsh shows an innate understanding of people's lives, and the emotional truths that underpin them' Kathleen…
MacMahonIt hadn't been Rosie's idea - a 'quaint' wedding at her childhood home in the Irish countryside. Nevertheless she finds herself back in Monasterard after a decade away, with her American fiancé on her arm and a smile fixed to her face.As expected, the welcome from her siblings isn't exactly warm. Mary-Pat, the one who practically raised Rosie, is avoiding her. June is preoccupied with maintaining the illusion of her perfect family. And Pius, who still counts the years since their mother left, is hiding from the world. Each of them is struggling with the weight of things unsaid.In the end, it's their father who, on the day of Rosie's wedding, exposes what has remained hidden for so long. And as the O'Connor siblings piece together the secrets at the heart of their family, they begin to forgive the woman who abandoned them all those years ago.Frou-Frou, Frisby & Brick: The Book of Unfortunate Baby Names
By Russell Ash. 2010
Frou-Frou MallettExtravaganza Tomkyns-GraftonManiac KeeneReckless BakerIf there's one thing guaranteed to make a child shrink into their seat during registration -…
it's a stupid name. Unfortunately for kids across the world, parents keeping making crimes against nomenclature. Fortunately for us, Russell Ash keeps collecting them.The perfect gift book for expectant parents, FROU-FROU, FRISBY & BRICK is a helpful guide to the sorts of names, or name combinations, to avoid at all costs.The Joy of Fatherhood, Expanded 2nd Edition: The First Twelve Months
By Marcus Jacob Goldman. 2000
Month-by-Month Developments in Your Baby, Your Partner, and You"This first-rate, father-friendly manual answers questions you didn't even know you should…
be asking!" -- Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolThe expanded edition of The Joy of Fatherhood is for today's dad, touching on timely and relevant subjects from pre-natal care through year one of being a dad. Whether detecting an infant's illnesses, assessing a baby's development, or learning appropriate ways of playing with the newest member of the family, author Marcus J. Goldman, M.D., takes a down-to-earth, month-by-month tour of the first year of daddy's new life. Written for dads by a dad, the author applies his fathering experience and medical knowledge to cover all of the basics--from changing a diaper to feeding your baby, from packing a diaper bag to choosing the right babysitter--and enlightens you on hundreds of subjects, including:·Important physical, emotional, health, and developmental milestones for your baby ·Identifying the feelings often experienced by new dads, and ways to cope with them ·Maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner through your new experiences ·And much more!Written to fit in the busy lives of new fathers, The Joy of Fatherhood is a concise, practical guide loaded with essential tips, in-depth analyses, and important checklists. Full of valuable information, refreshing humor, and priceless wisdom, it is sure to enhance the joys of fatherhood.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old-Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It
By Lawrence J. Cohen, Anthony T. Debenedet. 2010
All over the United States, physical play--what some might call "roughhousing"--is being marginalized. Gym classes are getting shorter. Recess periods…
are being eliminated. Some new schools don't even have playgrounds. But Drs. Anthony T. DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen are here to shake things up--literally! The Art of Roughhousing teaches parents how rough-and-tumble play can nurture close connections, solve behavior problems, boost confidence, and more. Drawing from gymnastics, martial arts, ballet, traditional sports, and even animal behavior, the authors present fifty illustrated activities for children and parents to enjoy together - everything from the "Sumo Deadlift" to the "Rogue Dumbo." Arriving just in time for Father's Day, The Art of Roughhousing is the perfect gift for rowdy dads everywhere.Romancing the Billionaire: Billionaire Boys Club 5 (Billionaire Boys Club)
By Jessica Clare. 2014
Fans of J.S. Scott, Louise Bay and Melody Anne - prepare to be dazzled by Jessica Clare's Billionaire Boys Club.The…
Billionaire Boys Club is a secret society of six incredibly wealthy men who have vowed success in business - at any cost. But success when it comes to love is a different matter...Jonathan Lyons. Playboy, billionaire, and adventurer, he lives life on the edge. When he hears that his mentor, Dr Phineas DeWitt, had a secret journal that leads to a legendary artifact, Jonathan takes action. It stirs his blood, but it comes with a heady challenge: DeWitt's daughter Violet. She has what Jonathan needs. And she's not giving it up it to the man who broke her heart.Violet is Jonathan's weakness - he's still in love despite their volatile breakup a decade ago. But Violet's memories have a sharper edge. She's never forgiven him for abandoning her. Or so she thought. When Jonathan's attentions turn seductive, she's in danger of falling for him all over again. And she can't help but wonder...does he really want her, or just what she's hiding?Want more irresistible romance? Look for the rest of Billionaire Boys Club titles, starting with Stranded With A Billionaire, as well as the sizzling spinoff series, Billionaires and Bridesmaids, starting with The Billionaire And The Virgin.Teenage Boys: Surviving and Enjoying These Extraordinary Years
By Bill Beausay. 1973
It's Time to Show Up for Your Son in a Big Way. A teenage boy's world is a dynamic, unpredictable…
place. That's why stringent parenting "techniques" don't always bring about the results we expect. Though we know there's a lot riding on our ability to wisely parent teenage sons, it's hard to know the best way to proceed-and parents are often overwhelmed by the challenge. But now, in this fun and down-to-earth guide, Bill Beausay offers six fresh principles that can help you overcome your fears and powerfully shape the man inside your teenage boy. BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR TEENAGE SON. You know that you need to be involved in your son's life. But just being there physically isn't enough. Parents who enjoy the most success in raising teen boys are present in dramatic, colorful, in-your-face ways. Teenage Boys! Will help you discover how you can develop a clear, do-able plan that will significantly impact your teen's life-and your own. NOW WITH ANSWERS TO THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKEDQUESTIONS ABOUT PARENTING TEEN BOYS.EXPANDED TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT MATTER MOST TO TEENAGE BOYS AND THEIR PARENTS. INCLUDES ADVICE FOR TWO-PARENT FAMILIES, SINGLE PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND STEPPARENTS. From the Trade Paperback edition.The First Five Years: From birth to primary school, understand and encourage your child’s development
By Dr Philippa Kaye. 2015
Why do toddlers throw food on the floor again and again so that they can watch you pick it up? …
What's the best way to help a child learn to walk? When does a child understand the word 'no'? Babies and toddlers are fascinating and changing all the time. Each month brings with it a breakthrough in new skills and abilities. Each chapter explores the developmental areas for each age band, checklists for development and ways to stimulate these skills. There are suggested activities for each topic making this a truly practical book.Spoiled Rotten: Today's Children and How to Change Them
By Fred G. Gosman. 1990
It starts with designer diapers. It extends to extravagant birthday parties, leads to boorish behavior and plummeting grades. What is…
the problem here? It's what we are doing to our children by not having the smarts to set boundaries, impose rules, and give them the firm, unwavering guidance they really need.Finally, someone has written a book to help beleaguered parents take back their homes and their children. With specific tactics, unforgettable one-liners, and dead-on-target advice, Fred Gosman shows you how to manage your children.Good Food to Go: Healthy Lunches Your Kids Will Love
By Brenda Bradshaw, Cheryl Mutch. 2011
Good Food to Go is the ultimate guide to packing healthy lunch boxes with food that kids will enjoy and…
parents can feel good about. Back-to-school means back-to-lunch-boxes, and the daily quandary of what to put in them. With this new book, two working moms - one a teacher, one a pediatrician - offer creative ideas for balanced lunches and nutritious snacks, as well as up-to-date health tips that will make packing lunch a joy and not a chore. Given that children consume approximately one third of their daily calories at school, what goes into kids' lunch boxes is vital to their well-being. Yet it still needs to be hot enough, cold enough or crisp enough to withstand a morning in the cloakroom. (And with allergies on the rise many schools are now nut-free, eliminating that old standby: peanut butter.) Most important, the lunch needs to be kid-friendly and delicious because after all, the healthiest lunch isn't very healthy if it goes uneaten.Good Food to Go fuses the how-to's of creating wholesome, homemade lunches with the latest information on food and nutrition. Practical tips will help parents make environmentally conscious food choices and eliminate lunch-box waste to ensure children are eating for a healthier planet. Many of the recipes outline what can be done the night before, while others may be made in bulk and frozen, facilitating easy, last-minute lunches. Handy meal planners help to ensure that kids are eating a healthy variety of nutritious lunches throughout the week.From the Trade Paperback edition.The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity
By Meg Meeker. 2010
Mothers are expected to do it all: raise superstar kids, look great, make good salaries, keep an immaculate house, be…
the perfect wife. In this rallying cry for change, Meg Meeker, M.D., uses her twenty-five years' experience as a practicing pediatrician and counselor to show why mothers suffer from the rising pressure to excel and the toll it takes on their emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health. Complete with an all-new tool kit of wellness tips and exercises, Dr. Meeker's book reveals the 10 most positive and impactful habits of healthy, happy mothers, including * making friends with those who know the meaning of friendship* finding out what money can buy (and what it cannot)* lightening the overload--and doing less more often* discovering faith and learning how to trust it* taking some alone time and reviving yourself By implementing Dr. Meeker's key strategies, you can be happy, hopeful, and can teach your children to be the best they can be--and isn't that the most precious reward of motherhood?Now with wellness tips and exercises! that still the most precious reward of motherhood?From the Hardcover edition.Lift: An inspirational letter of love from a mother to her children
By Kelly Corrigan. 2010
Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and…
love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children.Lift takes its name from hang gliding, a pursuit that requires flying directly into rough air, because turbulence saves a glider from 'sinking out.' For Corrigan, this wisdom becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors, particularly the great flight that is parenting. Corrigan serves it up straight--how mundanely and fiercely her children have been loved, how close most lives occasionally come to disaster, and how often we fall short as mothers and fathers. Lift is for everyone who has been caught off guard by the pace and vulnerability of raising children, to remind us that our work is important and our time limited.Like Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea, Lift is a meditation on the complexities of a woman's life, and like Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place, Lift is boisterous and generous, a book readers can't wait to share.The ADHD-Autism Connection: A Step Toward More Accurate Diagnoses and Effective Treatments
By Diane Kennedy. 2002
At last, long-awaited answers to the questions you've been asking. Help for frustrated ADHD patients and their families. (As well…
as those with autism, PDD, Asperger's syndrome, and other related conditions.) Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is one of the most rapidly growing diagnoses of our generation. Often the diagnosis fails to provide real help, leaving patients, doctors, and families at a loss to know what to do next. But for the first time ever, new insights into the overwhelming number of similarities between Autism and ADHD are giving those with ADHD genuine hope. For years, the label of Autism has carried a negative connotation. Parents were afraid to admit the diagnosis and banished the term from discussion. Finally, The ADHD-Autism Connection gives parents, educators, and doctors a reason to embrace autism with a renewed sense of hope and understanding. This book will show how these understandings can minimize the frustration, misdiagnoses, and misunderstandings ADHD sufferers and their families face.From the Trade Paperback edition.Potty, Fartwell and Knob
By Russell Ash. 2007
Russell Ash has trawled parish registers and censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of…
breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible and diverse range of totally genuine names, evoking everything from body parts (Dick Brain), sex (Matilda Suckcock), illness (Barbaray Headache) and toilet functions (Peter Piddle) to food (Hazel Nutt), animals (Minty Badger) and places (Phila Delphia). Every single one has been checked for authenticity and its source is given, as well as extra notes where further fascinating illumination is possible. The book provides a rigorously researched yet laugh-out-loud overview of Britain's eccentricity through the ages. And in this fully revised, expanded and enhanced paperback edition, it is no exaggeration to say that it's Pottier, Fartier and Knobbier than ever before.Finally, a resource that guides you through the toughest--and most important--conversations you'll ever have with your son. Ideal for all…
parents of boys: fathers, mothers, single moms.It's never been easy for a father or mother to talk to a son about sex. For Christian parents, it's always been a challenge to know exactly how to teach God's standards of purity and integrity.But today, the stakes are higher than they've ever been. So it's vital that fathers and mothers prepare their sons to withstand the sexual onslaught of their culture through movies, television, music, and the internet. But what should you say? And when and how should you say it?Now there's help you can trust: Preparing Your Son for Every Man's Battle. The authors behind the best-selling "Every Man" series have put together all the resources and guidance you need to experience frank, thorough, and natural conversations with your son about sexual integrity. They offer an effective new communication process that ensures a deep, abiding relationship between you and your son as he moves into his teen years and beyond.Equip your young man with the biblical information and spiritual insights he needs to stand strong, overcome temptation, and experience the blessings of godly obedience...for the rest of his life.From the Trade Paperback edition.Weaning Made Easy Recipes: Simple and tasty ideas for spoon-feeding and baby-led weaning
By Dr Rana Conway BSc Hons. 2014
Weaning Made Easy Recipes is full of tasty recipes and family meal ideas to suit all babies, toddlers and approaches…
from traditional purees to baby-led weaning. Whether you find that your baby loves being spoon-fed, only wants to feed themselves, or you want to try a mixture of both, Weaning Made Easy Recipes provides you with a range of fresh home-cooked recipes that include mashed meals, weaning recipes with pasta, finger foods and family favourites, to make mealtimes enjoyable for everyone.Whether youre a first-time parent, trying to find weaning recipes for your 6 month old or a busy mum of three, Weaning Made Easy Recipes takes the stress out of weaning, bringing you: 150 healthy and simple dishes Food charts of what foods to introduce and when Weekly meal planners for a varied and balanced diet Clear dos and donts and FAQs for each age Recipes suitable for food allergies or intolerancesAs well as tasty and healthy recipes author Rana Conway provides clear and simple advice in this brand new weaning book through each stage, and covers common problems you may encounter, such as introducing lumpier food or how to deal with fussy eaters.Rana is a registered public health nutritionist, specialising in healthy eating during pregnancy and childhood for over 20 years. She has created each dish to contain the nutrients your baby needs for healthy growth and development, helping ensure your child gets a balanced diet.How to Help Your Autistic Spectrum Child: Practical ways to make family life run more smoothly
By Jackie Brealy, Beverly Davies. 2015
Over half a million people in Britain are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. It can be devastating to discover that…
your child has an ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) and even tougher helping them to cope with life. Many books will tell you the latest theories about what causes ASD, but what you really want to know is how to get a decent night's sleep, or stop your child flapping their arms, or find some time for your other children. This second, fully updated edition of this lifeline for parents helps them understand their ASD child and offers practical advice on all the problems that can make day-to-day life so tough.Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman
By Don Elium, Jeanne Elium. 2003
The Passion of the Hausfrau: Motherhood, Illuminated
By Nicole Chaison. 2009
Behold, brave readers! Herein lies the first epic hero’s journey told by a mother–the Hausfrau, whose odyssey is a 24/7…
adventure of pandemonium, sleep deprivation, madness, and transcendence. But beware! This journey is not for the faint of heart, as Nicole Chaison (a. k. a. the Hausfrau) boldly demonstrates in this brilliantly witty and vivid graphic memoir. The Hausfrau weaves a tale of sidesplitting trials and addresses age-old questions: Does a good mother have to give up her own dreams? What is a good mother, anyway? And is there a bathing suit that will fit her gargantuan behind? And so the journey unfolds, illuminating all things mommy, including • The Laborynth: an intricate maze of hormones, exhaustion, and ego struggles. • the Björn Conspiracy: Can a mother go to the bathroom with a slumbering newborn tethered to her chest? • Monsterfrau moments: Hell hath no fury like a sleep- and serotonin-deprived Hausfrau. • the Unhip Mama: Piercings, spiky hair, and tattoos do not a trendy mama make. • a Hausfrau Holiday Bake-off: yet another portrait Norman Rockwell forgot to paint. Fiercely funny, wholly original, and sure to be recognizable to mothers everywhere, The Passion of the Hausfrau is filled with the messiness, meltdowns, mayhem, and bliss of modern motherhood.The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
By Whitney Moss, Heather Gibbs Flett. 2008
Bookstores are full of activity books for babies and toddlers, but The Rookie Mom's Handbook is the only one designed…
exclusively for first-time mothers. Here are 250 enjoyable activities to help rookie moms maintain their individuality and boost their confidence about leaving the house, socializing, and doing things they've always liked to do -- either with or without baby. Inspired by the popular blog www.rookiemoms.com, this handbook offers bite-sized activities organized according to the baby's age. Some are crafty, some are adventurous, and some simply help get a meal on the table. Full of lively advice and adorable illustrations, The Rookie Mom's Handbook is the perfect reminder that there's more to life than dirty diapers and 3 a.m. feedings!