Author: Lorna Mae Johnson
Publisher: Bookclick 360 Wordeee
ISBN: 1959811207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This heartwarming memoir explores the complex and multifaceted life of the author's mother, Renza Bryant. Through her example, support, and guidance, Renza Bryant inspired and empowered others. Johnson describes her mother as a guiding light, a champion, and a woman who profoundly impacted her and everyone she met. Her mother’s leadership, humility, accomplishments, and deep commitment to her community are highlighted. Woven into the narrative as the author explores her mother's remarkable life is a journey through Jamaican culture, offering the reader a chance to learn about her country. Details
M Is for Mama
Author: Abbie Halberstadt
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736983783
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736983783
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.
Lessons Mama Never Taught Me
Author: Karen R January
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lessons Mama Never Taught Me, is unlike any other book that addresses women's issues. It follows the dramatic real - life stories of ten women and a coddled man who survived the darkest moments of their lives without lessons they felt their mother never taught them and emotional influences that impacted their judgment of choosing their love wisely. Each story focuses on the topics of (sex, dating, education, money) and questions that were avoided while they were growing up and how the lack of communication from their mother's affected their lives. You will find out what these lessons are, how they survived these challenges and the steps they each took toward healing. The stories offer candid thoughts of personal experiences with extra-marital affairs, abortion, Internet dating, domestic and sexual abuse, chemical dependency, mental illness, rape, gender identity, teen pregnancy and other topics that have been minimally addressed, considered taboo, or not addressed at all. The importance of this book is to emphasize the importance of teaching our girls and women that their value does not lie in their beauty, sexuality, and body image or domestic duties that may impact both women and men. We must have those discussions about relevant social issues that are affecting our young girls more now than ever before. As women and the first teachers of the family it is our responsibility to provide the foundation needed to handle the challenges and pressures that they deal with on a daily basis.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lessons Mama Never Taught Me, is unlike any other book that addresses women's issues. It follows the dramatic real - life stories of ten women and a coddled man who survived the darkest moments of their lives without lessons they felt their mother never taught them and emotional influences that impacted their judgment of choosing their love wisely. Each story focuses on the topics of (sex, dating, education, money) and questions that were avoided while they were growing up and how the lack of communication from their mother's affected their lives. You will find out what these lessons are, how they survived these challenges and the steps they each took toward healing. The stories offer candid thoughts of personal experiences with extra-marital affairs, abortion, Internet dating, domestic and sexual abuse, chemical dependency, mental illness, rape, gender identity, teen pregnancy and other topics that have been minimally addressed, considered taboo, or not addressed at all. The importance of this book is to emphasize the importance of teaching our girls and women that their value does not lie in their beauty, sexuality, and body image or domestic duties that may impact both women and men. We must have those discussions about relevant social issues that are affecting our young girls more now than ever before. As women and the first teachers of the family it is our responsibility to provide the foundation needed to handle the challenges and pressures that they deal with on a daily basis.
Mama Made The Difference
Author: T. D. Jakes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101205687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller that celebrates motherhood—for mothers and those who love them. Beloved pastor and bestselling author T. D. Jakes pays tribute to his mother—and mothers everywhere—with powerful, heartwarming stories and lessons from his own experiences as a son and pastor. Woven into these vignettes are Biblical stories and testimonials from famous children of mighty mothers whose nurturing wisdom and influence helped to shape their worlds, and whose invaluable lessons were the building blocks of great character. Bishop Jakes incorporates those lessons—from believing in God and oneself, to learning the value of support, responsibility, and celebrating others, to understanding the power of prayer, wisdom, and endurance—in Mama Made the Difference, a must-have not only for mothers, but also for daughters and sons, brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents—and anyone else who has ever felt the power of a mother’s love.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101205687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller that celebrates motherhood—for mothers and those who love them. Beloved pastor and bestselling author T. D. Jakes pays tribute to his mother—and mothers everywhere—with powerful, heartwarming stories and lessons from his own experiences as a son and pastor. Woven into these vignettes are Biblical stories and testimonials from famous children of mighty mothers whose nurturing wisdom and influence helped to shape their worlds, and whose invaluable lessons were the building blocks of great character. Bishop Jakes incorporates those lessons—from believing in God and oneself, to learning the value of support, responsibility, and celebrating others, to understanding the power of prayer, wisdom, and endurance—in Mama Made the Difference, a must-have not only for mothers, but also for daughters and sons, brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents—and anyone else who has ever felt the power of a mother’s love.
Child, Please
Author: Ylonda Gault Caviness
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698158431
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent (and sharing with the world as a parenting expert and journalist) didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's old-school wisdom as a strong black woman and mother. With child number one, Caviness set her course: to give her children everything she had. Child number two came along and she patiently persisted. But when her third child arrived, Caviness was so exhausted that she decided to listen to what her mother had been saying all along: Give them everything they want, and there'll be nothing left of you. In Child, Please, Caviness describes the road back to embracing a more sane--not to mention loving--way of raising children. Her mother had it right all along.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698158431
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent (and sharing with the world as a parenting expert and journalist) didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's old-school wisdom as a strong black woman and mother. With child number one, Caviness set her course: to give her children everything she had. Child number two came along and she patiently persisted. But when her third child arrived, Caviness was so exhausted that she decided to listen to what her mother had been saying all along: Give them everything they want, and there'll be nothing left of you. In Child, Please, Caviness describes the road back to embracing a more sane--not to mention loving--way of raising children. Her mother had it right all along.
Mama Rock's Rules
Author: Rose Rock
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061536121
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"To be a parent is and should be a calling. There is absolutely nothing as great, challenging, or rewarding as raising a child." So says ber-mom Rose Rock, who has raised 10 children in addition to caring for 17 foster children in her 40-plus years as a mother. As a mother who does not shy away from the hard conversations, Rose isn't afraid to present strong ideas about boundaries, discipline, choices, and consequences--and she tells it like it is. In Mama Rock's Rules, Rose shares the funny and highly practical lessons she learned both as a parent and an educator, while offering strategies for teaching a child to be self-reliant in this world. Written with a kicky blend of maternal spirituality and a "don't mess with me or you won't get old" sense of authority, the book spotlights 10 vital rules, each tackling a specific parenting issue. From "I Am Your Mama, Not Your Friend," which helps parents regain their authority and establish respectful relationships with their children, to "Don't Lie Down with Anything You Don't Want to Live with Forever," which takes a different approach to the often tricky conversation about sex, each topic is lovingly explained and bolstered by stories from Rose Rock's own childhood and parenting experiences. We will also hear from her own kids, as they share memories and anecdotes about what it was like to grow up in the Rock household. Rose's heartfelt and no-nonsense advice--delivered with a dose of wit and homespun humor--will resonate with thousands of parents and will inspire them to teach their kids right, whether their brood is one child or ten.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061536121
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"To be a parent is and should be a calling. There is absolutely nothing as great, challenging, or rewarding as raising a child." So says ber-mom Rose Rock, who has raised 10 children in addition to caring for 17 foster children in her 40-plus years as a mother. As a mother who does not shy away from the hard conversations, Rose isn't afraid to present strong ideas about boundaries, discipline, choices, and consequences--and she tells it like it is. In Mama Rock's Rules, Rose shares the funny and highly practical lessons she learned both as a parent and an educator, while offering strategies for teaching a child to be self-reliant in this world. Written with a kicky blend of maternal spirituality and a "don't mess with me or you won't get old" sense of authority, the book spotlights 10 vital rules, each tackling a specific parenting issue. From "I Am Your Mama, Not Your Friend," which helps parents regain their authority and establish respectful relationships with their children, to "Don't Lie Down with Anything You Don't Want to Live with Forever," which takes a different approach to the often tricky conversation about sex, each topic is lovingly explained and bolstered by stories from Rose Rock's own childhood and parenting experiences. We will also hear from her own kids, as they share memories and anecdotes about what it was like to grow up in the Rock household. Rose's heartfelt and no-nonsense advice--delivered with a dose of wit and homespun humor--will resonate with thousands of parents and will inspire them to teach their kids right, whether their brood is one child or ten.
My Mother, My Champion: Lessons and Inspirations From My Mother's Story
Author: Lorna Mae Johnson
Publisher: Bookclick 360 Wordeee
ISBN: 1959811207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This heartwarming memoir explores the complex and multifaceted life of the author's mother, Renza Bryant. Through her example, support, and guidance, Renza Bryant inspired and empowered others. Johnson describes her mother as a guiding light, a champion, and a woman who profoundly impacted her and everyone she met. Her mother’s leadership, humility, accomplishments, and deep commitment to her community are highlighted. Woven into the narrative as the author explores her mother's remarkable life is a journey through Jamaican culture, offering the reader a chance to learn about her country. Details
Publisher: Bookclick 360 Wordeee
ISBN: 1959811207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This heartwarming memoir explores the complex and multifaceted life of the author's mother, Renza Bryant. Through her example, support, and guidance, Renza Bryant inspired and empowered others. Johnson describes her mother as a guiding light, a champion, and a woman who profoundly impacted her and everyone she met. Her mother’s leadership, humility, accomplishments, and deep commitment to her community are highlighted. Woven into the narrative as the author explores her mother's remarkable life is a journey through Jamaican culture, offering the reader a chance to learn about her country. Details
Mama's Pearls: Thoughtful devotionals about everyday life through the lens of Scripture
Author: Diana Brown
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098010280
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book started out as an advice-and-answer column for the young adult women at church. I was amazed and humbled by their insights and questions about life. We decided to keep a dialogue going through e-mails they aptly named "Mama Said," and I became their MamaInResidence. Sections of a few of their letters and my responses are included in the book. In the months I didn't receive questions, I wrote stories about my experiences as fillers. In another discussion, a young lady commented that the Bible wasn't relevant to today's issues, only "the old times," with no bearing on our lives. I hoped to debunk that notion with stories infused with scripture and a skosh of mother wit. It also occurred to me that these stories could help other Christians spark conversations about how God's Word is working through their everyday experiences too in very real and practical ways they just hadn't thought about yet.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098010280
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book started out as an advice-and-answer column for the young adult women at church. I was amazed and humbled by their insights and questions about life. We decided to keep a dialogue going through e-mails they aptly named "Mama Said," and I became their MamaInResidence. Sections of a few of their letters and my responses are included in the book. In the months I didn't receive questions, I wrote stories about my experiences as fillers. In another discussion, a young lady commented that the Bible wasn't relevant to today's issues, only "the old times," with no bearing on our lives. I hoped to debunk that notion with stories infused with scripture and a skosh of mother wit. It also occurred to me that these stories could help other Christians spark conversations about how God's Word is working through their everyday experiences too in very real and practical ways they just hadn't thought about yet.
Cindy Kitten’s Adventures
Author: Cynthia Rachal-Bennett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465305114
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
My stories are about many things. My love cats and kittens. I realized there were many stray cats around. Sometimes they just wander, from house to house. They hunted mice, in the hay barn. Cats wander like free spirits. We gave them nick names. Sassy kitten she was gray. They played, on the porch. I named a few like gray boy, snowball and Mama Cat. I would rock, on the porch trying to play with them. Every cat had a bowl. There was one brave kitten. I named her, Cindy kitten. There fore “Cindy kittens’ Adventures” were born. Hope my stories about Cindy kitten and her friends, make you smile. Cindy kitten has more adventures for you. Enjoy reading my stories, until our next adventure.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465305114
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
My stories are about many things. My love cats and kittens. I realized there were many stray cats around. Sometimes they just wander, from house to house. They hunted mice, in the hay barn. Cats wander like free spirits. We gave them nick names. Sassy kitten she was gray. They played, on the porch. I named a few like gray boy, snowball and Mama Cat. I would rock, on the porch trying to play with them. Every cat had a bowl. There was one brave kitten. I named her, Cindy kitten. There fore “Cindy kittens’ Adventures” were born. Hope my stories about Cindy kitten and her friends, make you smile. Cindy kitten has more adventures for you. Enjoy reading my stories, until our next adventure.
Trash
Author: Dorothy Allison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101117818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story. First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison's legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101117818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story. First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison's legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.
Calling Home
Author: Janet Zandy
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813515281
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Working-class women are the majority of women in the United States, and yet their work and their culture are rarely visible. Calling Home is an anthology of writings by and about working-class women. Over fifty selections represent the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of working-class experience. This is writing grounded in social history, not in the academy. Traditional boundaries of genre and periodization collapse in this collection, which includes reportage, oral histories, speeches, songs, and letters, as well as poetry, stories, and essays. The divisions in this collection - telling stories, bearing witness, celebrating solidarity - address the distinction of "by" or "about" working-class women, and show the connections between individual identity and collective sensibility in a common history of struggle for economic justice. The geography of home, identity, parents, sex, motherhood, the dominance of the job, the overlapping of private and public worlds, the promise of solidarity and community are a few of the themes of this book. Here is a chorus of working class women's voices: Sandra Cisneros, Barbara Garson, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Smith, Endesha I. M. Holland, Mother Jones, Nellie Wong, Agnes Smedley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Sharon Doubiago, Carol Tarlen, Hazel Hall, Margaret Randall, Judy Grahn, and many others! The aesthetic impulse is shaped by class, but not limited to one ruling class. What connects these writers is a collective consciousness, a class, which rejects bondage and lays claim to liberation through all the possibilities of language. Calling Home is illustrated with family photographs as well as images of working women by professional photographers.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813515281
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Working-class women are the majority of women in the United States, and yet their work and their culture are rarely visible. Calling Home is an anthology of writings by and about working-class women. Over fifty selections represent the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of working-class experience. This is writing grounded in social history, not in the academy. Traditional boundaries of genre and periodization collapse in this collection, which includes reportage, oral histories, speeches, songs, and letters, as well as poetry, stories, and essays. The divisions in this collection - telling stories, bearing witness, celebrating solidarity - address the distinction of "by" or "about" working-class women, and show the connections between individual identity and collective sensibility in a common history of struggle for economic justice. The geography of home, identity, parents, sex, motherhood, the dominance of the job, the overlapping of private and public worlds, the promise of solidarity and community are a few of the themes of this book. Here is a chorus of working class women's voices: Sandra Cisneros, Barbara Garson, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Smith, Endesha I. M. Holland, Mother Jones, Nellie Wong, Agnes Smedley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Sharon Doubiago, Carol Tarlen, Hazel Hall, Margaret Randall, Judy Grahn, and many others! The aesthetic impulse is shaped by class, but not limited to one ruling class. What connects these writers is a collective consciousness, a class, which rejects bondage and lays claim to liberation through all the possibilities of language. Calling Home is illustrated with family photographs as well as images of working women by professional photographers.