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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
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Flora y Mails, dos niños huérfanos, están bajo la tutela de su tío, un joven adinerado, dueño de la mansión Blay. Éste no desea hacerse cargo de la educación de sus sobrinos, salvo en lo estrictamente material. Para ello contrata los servicios de una joven e inexperta institutriz que viajará hasta la mansión para cuidar y educar a los niños. Con cierto recelo a su llegada, está dispuesta a hacerse respetar. Sin embargo, se verá sorprendida...
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"A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults. What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive...
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Todos hemos pensado que el cuento de Caperucita termina cuando el lobo muere ahogado en el río con la barriga llena de piedras. Pero no es así. En esta historia descubrimos que Jefe Lobo, en la asamblea donde se encuentra reunida la manada, planea no uno, sino varios ataques para vengar la muerte de Cabeza Gris y además tener comida en una época de crisis en el bosque. A Jefe Lobo no le importan los consejos de Profesor Lobo y precipita un final...
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En una reunión de Alcohólicos Anónimos en Nueva York, una joven conoce a un escritor a quien le encarga la elaboración de un libro. Este encuentro es el origen de una extraña relación entre dos exiliados colombianos que nos va enseñando la cruda realidad de una nación asiática que vive en medio de un conflicto y la psicología de varios personajes inmersos en luchas que parecen inacabables. Novela psicológica y de aventuras con un fuerte...
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Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas se publicó originalmente en 1865. Nació de los relatos que Lewis Carroll improvisaba para tres amiguitas suyas, las hermanas Liddell, a una de las cuales está dedicado este libro. Con el paso de los años, Alicia se ha convertido en un libro clásico de la literatura universal, y aunque su autor lo escribió como una historia para niños, personas de todas las edades se lo han apropiado gracias...
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Brokenness is a universal experience. It's woven into the fabric of the human condition. Loss, trauma, and disappointment are inevitable threads in the tapestry of life. Yet, brokenness doesn't have to define us. It can be a catalyst, a turning point on our journey.
This book is not a sugar-coated promise of quick fixes. It's a compassionate guide that shines a light on healing. Within these pages, you'll find permission to acknowledge your pain...
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Harry is in a hurry to catch the school bus. After he gets on to the bus, he realizes, "Oh no! I forgot my coat."
His mom told him not to, but he did. He starts to think what is going to happen throughout the day without it and how his mom is going to be mad. Harry goes through many emotions--surprised, scared, sad, and happy--all because he forgot his coat.
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A Path to Healing is about the obstacles that my family and I have gone through. Its about how my sisters decisions tore my family apart and how we have tried our hardest to bring us back together. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesnt. This book was my way to healing. I had a lot of anger and unforgiveness in my heart for what my sister did. God had to speak to me and encourage me to write everything that was brothering me down and tell the world...
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This book takes the reader on a journey through stages of life from the wild single days of studies abroad to marriage, career, child rearing, and empty nest. There are challenges to face and obstacles to overcome. Each chapter is filled with anecdotes that are sure to make the reader recall experiences from that stage of life. Alternately humorous, touching, and occasionally wise, it is ultimately an invitation to share experiences. At the end there...
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The man in the painting on the front cover is my father. A quintessential people person who wasn't interested in just being one of the crowd; the color scheme of his first house is a rich example! This meant in his late twenties, getting off the road well-traveled and finding the unique opportunities on the path that he wanted to take.
Anyone starting to build a career, a family, or both, needs a process and a plan, just like what my parents wanted,...
12) Two Trees Part 2
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Part two of a 5 Part series on a vital suject.The law of seedtime and harvest is a part of the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus and the law of sin and death.People make plans, but the plans they make are made in a temporary world, a world that is tied to time. But time is rapidly running out.In our daily lives, everything we do is connected to time, we get up by the clock and we go to bed by the clock, we keep appointments and we live by...
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The author's poetry are about the people in our lives, private reflections, and a celebration of faith. The reader can relate to their own family, friends, coworkers, mentors, and neighbors while different are still the same in our thoughts and characteristics. The sentiments described in her poems, love of family, a mother's anguish over the loss of a child, a celebration of our faith in God, admiration of our teachers and classmates, young or old....
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Our world is in desperate need of emotionally healthy children who will have the confidence and resolve to contribute their talents to the world, making it a better place. The principles discussed in Parenting from Your Soul are based in spiritual ideology, challenging you to examine the role of parent from another perspective. Conscious choices made from this place can help us honor our children's individual path; appreciate the phases of our children's...
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What type of pain are you experiencing in your life? Physical? Spiritual? Emotional? Have you ever wondered why? What is the purpose of the pain?
Join the author as she takes you on a journey through her life of physical pain, spiritual pain, and emotional pain where she learned that all pain has a purpose. She was born into a Southern family who had migrated to the North, bringing with them skeletons of pain that they passed on to the next generation....
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Raising grandchildren can be challenging for many reasons. Often, the children have experienced complicated family dynamics, heartbreaking loss, abuse, and neglect all of which may affect their emotions, behavior, and development. In Courageous Love, author Laura Montan Bailey draws on both professional and personal experience to offer grandparents the hero status they deserve and the encouragement they need, to continue to fight for the lives of...
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Frolicking together under rainy skies usually results in romantic fun for Angela and Roger, until they encounter the tempestuous storm of their lives the death of their child. Ac-company them through their struggle of shattered dreams, broken hearts, and torn relationships. Discover how they overcome their sorrow and the path they took towards mending their relationship and moving towards healing in their journey of grief. Learn also how you can have...
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Daniel Woytowichs father was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia while he was still in college. This memoir tells the story of the diagnosis of, acceptance of, and journey through the terrible illness that is dementia. Daniel hopes that his familys experience can help others, especially young people, who are dealing with loved ones that have terminal illnesses. It is the story of how a young man watched his fathers life unravel in gradual progression,...
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Joey was a quiet, shy, country boy from a small southern town who could not wait to turn eighteen. After a childhood marred by neglect and abuse, he planned to leave home and vowed never to return. The struggle to survive in a changing economy led Joey into debt. He made a fateful decision to return home after a decade on his own. Immediately after returning home, old wounds would be reopened. Still, after his mother suffered a debilitating stroke,...
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Better Living, Better Dying
Reconciling Freedom and Surrender in Aging
The aging baby boomer generation born from 1945 to 1965 poses a real challenge in aging services for themselves and their families. Many of them are not well prepared for the challenges coming their way. Neither are their children. Most people are so busy being human "doings" they have overlooked developing as human beings. You are never too old to begin the adult self-development...
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