Author: Rose Anna Miller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465319646
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Let me start by saying I LOVE TEENAGERS! Considering my age you might chalk this off to dementia, but the truth is the more rebellious a teen, the more I love them. Rebellion is misdirected energy. What a challenge to guide that energy into positive channels. The fun and reward comes in the journey of getting there. I have spent most of my life working with teens and am now retired after thirty years employed by the State of Utah. This book is the culmination of my experiences with youththe laughter and the tears, the triumphs and the defeats.
Daddy Hold Me, I'm Scared
Author: Rose Anna Miller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465319646
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Let me start by saying I LOVE TEENAGERS! Considering my age you might chalk this off to dementia, but the truth is the more rebellious a teen, the more I love them. Rebellion is misdirected energy. What a challenge to guide that energy into positive channels. The fun and reward comes in the journey of getting there. I have spent most of my life working with teens and am now retired after thirty years employed by the State of Utah. This book is the culmination of my experiences with youththe laughter and the tears, the triumphs and the defeats.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465319646
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Let me start by saying I LOVE TEENAGERS! Considering my age you might chalk this off to dementia, but the truth is the more rebellious a teen, the more I love them. Rebellion is misdirected energy. What a challenge to guide that energy into positive channels. The fun and reward comes in the journey of getting there. I have spent most of my life working with teens and am now retired after thirty years employed by the State of Utah. This book is the culmination of my experiences with youththe laughter and the tears, the triumphs and the defeats.
Mommy Burnout
Author: Dr. Sheryl G. Ziegler
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062683705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause. Moms, do you feel tired? Overwhelmed? Have you continually put off the things you need to do for you? Do you feel like it’s all worth it because your kids are happy? Are you "over" being a mother? If you answered yes to these questions, you’re not alone. Parents today want to create the ideal childhood for their children. Women strive to be the picture-perfect Pinterest mother that looks amazing, hosts the best birthday parties in town, posts the most "liked" photos, and serves delicious, nutritious home-cooked meals in her neat, organized home after ferrying the kids to school and a host of extracurricular activities on time. This drive, while noble, can also be destructive, causing stress and anxiety that leads to "mommy burnout." Psychologist and family counselor Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is well-versed in the stress that moms face, and the burden of guilt they carry because they often feel like they aren’t doing enough for their kids’ happiness. A mother of three herself, Dr. Z—as she’s affectionately known by her many patients—recognizes and understands that modern moms are all too often plagued by exhaustion, failure, isolation, self-doubt, and a general lack of self-love, and their families are also feeling the effects, too. Over the last nineteen years working with families and children, Dr. Z has devised a prescriptive program for addressing "mommy burnout"—teaching moms that they can learn to re-energize themselves and still feel good about their families and their lives. In this warm and empathetic guide, she examines this modern epidemic among mothers who put their children’s happiness above their own, and offers empowering, proven solutions for alleviating this condition, saving marriages and keeping kids happy in the process.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062683705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause. Moms, do you feel tired? Overwhelmed? Have you continually put off the things you need to do for you? Do you feel like it’s all worth it because your kids are happy? Are you "over" being a mother? If you answered yes to these questions, you’re not alone. Parents today want to create the ideal childhood for their children. Women strive to be the picture-perfect Pinterest mother that looks amazing, hosts the best birthday parties in town, posts the most "liked" photos, and serves delicious, nutritious home-cooked meals in her neat, organized home after ferrying the kids to school and a host of extracurricular activities on time. This drive, while noble, can also be destructive, causing stress and anxiety that leads to "mommy burnout." Psychologist and family counselor Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is well-versed in the stress that moms face, and the burden of guilt they carry because they often feel like they aren’t doing enough for their kids’ happiness. A mother of three herself, Dr. Z—as she’s affectionately known by her many patients—recognizes and understands that modern moms are all too often plagued by exhaustion, failure, isolation, self-doubt, and a general lack of self-love, and their families are also feeling the effects, too. Over the last nineteen years working with families and children, Dr. Z has devised a prescriptive program for addressing "mommy burnout"—teaching moms that they can learn to re-energize themselves and still feel good about their families and their lives. In this warm and empathetic guide, she examines this modern epidemic among mothers who put their children’s happiness above their own, and offers empowering, proven solutions for alleviating this condition, saving marriages and keeping kids happy in the process.
The Last Day of Kindergarten
Author: Nancy Loewen
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761458074
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
As she prepares for her graduation ceremony, a first grader-to-be remembers her enjoyable year in kindergarten.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761458074
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
As she prepares for her graduation ceremony, a first grader-to-be remembers her enjoyable year in kindergarten.
Love, Hate and Other Filters
Author: Samira Ahmed
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616958480
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City—and pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school. But in the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616958480
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City—and pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school. But in the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs.
Scared Silent
Author: Mildred Muhammad
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416597107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Mildred Muhammad shares her story about rising up from the domestic abuse she endured from her ex-husband, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted D.C. Sniper. Mildred witnessed firsthand John’s bizarre behavior after he returned from the Gulf War, but no one—including her family, friends, and local police—took her warnings seriously. Even when John kidnapped their three children for eighteen months, changing their identities and living with them on the run in Antigua, or when he threatened to kill Mildred, her pleas for help went unfounded and she was forced to live undercover for eight months in a women’s shelter. Everyone knew John as a charming and intelligent man. No one could fathom that he posed a serious threat to Mildred, let alone the ten innocent victims he and his seventeen-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo would later kill to carry out John’s heinous plot to get custody of his and Mildred’s children...permanently. What began as a domestic case eventually victimized millions. And it has taken years for Mildred and her children to heal from the fear and psychological trauma they endured. In Scared Silent, Mildred shares her personal story to show how domestic violence devastates entire families, including the children, and hopes that what she reveals will give new insight on this national social ill.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416597107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Mildred Muhammad shares her story about rising up from the domestic abuse she endured from her ex-husband, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted D.C. Sniper. Mildred witnessed firsthand John’s bizarre behavior after he returned from the Gulf War, but no one—including her family, friends, and local police—took her warnings seriously. Even when John kidnapped their three children for eighteen months, changing their identities and living with them on the run in Antigua, or when he threatened to kill Mildred, her pleas for help went unfounded and she was forced to live undercover for eight months in a women’s shelter. Everyone knew John as a charming and intelligent man. No one could fathom that he posed a serious threat to Mildred, let alone the ten innocent victims he and his seventeen-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo would later kill to carry out John’s heinous plot to get custody of his and Mildred’s children...permanently. What began as a domestic case eventually victimized millions. And it has taken years for Mildred and her children to heal from the fear and psychological trauma they endured. In Scared Silent, Mildred shares her personal story to show how domestic violence devastates entire families, including the children, and hopes that what she reveals will give new insight on this national social ill.
Desperate
Author: Virginia Phiri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitutes
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"This anthology of short stories is a tribute to these women (sex workers) who, more often than not, are victims of a society that shackles women to a dependence on men"--from p. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitutes
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"This anthology of short stories is a tribute to these women (sex workers) who, more often than not, are victims of a society that shackles women to a dependence on men"--from p. [4] of cover.
Without a Map
Author: Meredith Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807020230
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father—in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807020230
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father—in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.
Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
Author: Paula Daly
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
“Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent’s worst nightmare with page-turning results.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Lisa Kallisto—overwhelmed working mother—is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, she cares for three demanding children, and she worries that her marriage isn’t getting enough attention. During an impossibly hectic week, Lisa takes her eye off the ball for a moment and her world descends into a living nightmare. Not only is her best friend’s thirteen-year-old daughter missing, but it’s Lisa’s fault. To make matters worse, Lucinda is the second teenage girl to disappear within the past two weeks. The first one turned up stripped bare and abandoned on the main street after a horrible ordeal. Wracked with guilt over her mistake, and after having been publicly blamed by Lucinda’s family, Lisa sets out to right the wrong. As she begins digging under the surface, Lisa learns that everything is not quite what it first appears to be. “This intriguing blend of suspense tale and domestic drama, which has a number of delicious plot twists, will keep readers riveted . . . First-rate fiction from an outstanding new thriller writer.” —Booklist, starred review
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
“Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent’s worst nightmare with page-turning results.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Lisa Kallisto—overwhelmed working mother—is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, she cares for three demanding children, and she worries that her marriage isn’t getting enough attention. During an impossibly hectic week, Lisa takes her eye off the ball for a moment and her world descends into a living nightmare. Not only is her best friend’s thirteen-year-old daughter missing, but it’s Lisa’s fault. To make matters worse, Lucinda is the second teenage girl to disappear within the past two weeks. The first one turned up stripped bare and abandoned on the main street after a horrible ordeal. Wracked with guilt over her mistake, and after having been publicly blamed by Lucinda’s family, Lisa sets out to right the wrong. As she begins digging under the surface, Lisa learns that everything is not quite what it first appears to be. “This intriguing blend of suspense tale and domestic drama, which has a number of delicious plot twists, will keep readers riveted . . . First-rate fiction from an outstanding new thriller writer.” —Booklist, starred review
Incognegro
Author: Frank B. Wilderson III
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later in a California university classroom: "How come you came back?" Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is at heart a quintessentially American story. During South Africa's transition, Wilderson taught at universities in Johannesburg and Soweto by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing political memoir, Wilderson's lyrical prose flows from unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa to his return to political battles raging quietly on US campuses and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson's biting wit, rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no matter the cost.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later in a California university classroom: "How come you came back?" Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is at heart a quintessentially American story. During South Africa's transition, Wilderson taught at universities in Johannesburg and Soweto by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing political memoir, Wilderson's lyrical prose flows from unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa to his return to political battles raging quietly on US campuses and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson's biting wit, rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no matter the cost.
Dazzling
Author: Paula Wallace
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426917813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Dazzling, Volume 1 of the Mallory O'Shaughnessy series, is a story about love: God's love and provision, parental love and protection, and romantic love and perseverance. Can God meet the needs of Mallory and Suzanne O'Shaughnessy, now that Patrick has passed away? Seventeen-year-old Mallory discovers that Psalms 104:24 is absolutely true: O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom thou hast made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. The Lord has filled her life with riches from the diamonds in her yard, to her friends, to the guardian and his family whom her daddy put into place before he passed away. Can her love for her childhood sweetheart prevail over physical separation and the attempts people are making to keep them apart? Mallory is amazed at the Lord's tender presence as danger opposes, and her life takes some unexpected turns. "You may contact Paula by email at [email protected]"
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426917813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Dazzling, Volume 1 of the Mallory O'Shaughnessy series, is a story about love: God's love and provision, parental love and protection, and romantic love and perseverance. Can God meet the needs of Mallory and Suzanne O'Shaughnessy, now that Patrick has passed away? Seventeen-year-old Mallory discovers that Psalms 104:24 is absolutely true: O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom thou hast made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. The Lord has filled her life with riches from the diamonds in her yard, to her friends, to the guardian and his family whom her daddy put into place before he passed away. Can her love for her childhood sweetheart prevail over physical separation and the attempts people are making to keep them apart? Mallory is amazed at the Lord's tender presence as danger opposes, and her life takes some unexpected turns. "You may contact Paula by email at [email protected]"