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Looking for a handbook on how to be a single mom to young children? Look no further. Perspective Parenting is a concise guide for the modern single parent raising one or more children. Take a peek inside the life of a single, work-at-home mom of three. Caroline Smith shares her successes and her mistakes in parenting and will help you shift into a positive parenting mindset to benefit you and your children.
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With the development of modern society, the number of single-parent families formed due to divorce or widowhood is increasing, and the education of single-parent children is also becoming increasingly prominent. As a form of family, single-parent families may not cause disastrous harm to children. Single - parent children can grow up healthily and even excel. The key lies in how to deal with the reality of single parents.
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This book is a 30-day inspirational guide for single parenting. While thirty days may not seem like a long time, if you can master these issues and challenges, your mastery can become a solid habit in thirty days.
Once you understand these basic steps, you can apply them to your daily personal life. It starts with us, parents. We have to understand that our children are a product of our parenting. Parenting isn't easy or trouble-free, but learning...
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Day-to-day parenting for most single parent homes becomes a challenge when one parent has the sole responsibility for caring for the children. Not only does life become complicated, most of the time it becomes overwhelming. Most parents are often caught in the cycle of survival, rather than becoming empowered to handle the role for whatever period of time is required to prepare their children for adulthood. If a bitter divorce is any part of the equation,...
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A Journey To Happy Single Parenting! Who's Taking Care Of You? is book one in a series of 4 Single Parent's Journey To Joyful Living Series. Often new single parents are full of fear, frustration, and a lot of guilt. They have a natural tendency to spend a lot of time, energy and money to come up with ways to keep the children happy. The good news is that single parents must begin by making themselves happy first. They then discover through this book...
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Sharon Yoder shares with the readers ways to bring out those old dreams....dust them off and take a bright new look at them again! We learn how to also create some new dreams to add to our bright and joyful future. Sharon gives the readers step-by-step instructions on how to re-believe in dreams again and how to light a fire to our feelings of enthusiasm and excitement about developing a new future. Once we learn to take a new look at old dreams we...
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1 videodisc (approximately 88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are...
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451 pages ; 25 cm
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"The moving story of a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her beloved father's hidden past. Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When...
10) Boyhood
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Criterion collection volume 839
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2 videodiscs (165 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
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Troubleshooters volume 17
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338 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Former Navy SEAL Peter "Grunge" Greene's lonely but comfortable life is upended when his longtime ex-girlfriend unexpectedly dies in a car crash, leaving him sole custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Maddie. They move to San Diego to start a new life together, but Maddie quickly falls in with the wrong crowd and soon goes completely AWOL. New to town with no one to turn to, Peter is frantic to track down his daughter and accepts help from his beautiful...
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Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
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"A taciturn carpenter has been too busy putting the final details on others' homes to pay much attention to his own fixer-upper. But when his wife becomes pregnant with their first child, he realizes he'll need to apply his art closer to home. For Taz and Marnie, their dreams are coming into focus, sustained by their deep sense of love and now family. The blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz, plummeting him head first in the new strange world...
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240 pages ; 24 cm
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A novel "about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a #bosshalfherage"--
Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like "taking a break" from being a husband and father. Without warning Rory is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming...
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223 pages ; 22 cm.
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"It's summer time and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky and free, and tired of living vicariously through nighttime erotic novels, Penelope can begin Phase 2 of her post-divorce life. First on the agenda is a date with the mysterious Fitzwilliam Darcy, who lives in a mansion with his snobbish cat, Algernon, and spends his spare time painting massive nude portraits. Nothing in her bedtime reading of Tycoon's Dare has prepared Penelope for an...
17) Against the wind
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When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal past comes back to haunt her.
18) Holiday country
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"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
19) At Middleton
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
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Emma, a politician constantly under fire who is lobbying for a new law to protect women and girls from online bullying, is pushed to the limit when a body is found in her house, and will do anything to protect her reputation and family, no matter what the cost.
"As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career -- including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving...
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