Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
A veteran psychologist presents a proven roadmap to help ADHD kids succeed in school and life
You’ve read all the expert advice, but despite countless efforts to help your child cope better and stay on track, you’re still struggling with everyday issues like homework, chores, getting to soccer practice on time, and simply getting along without pushback and power struggles.
What if you could work with your child, motivating and engaging them in the process, to create positive change once and for all? In this insightful and practical book, veteran psychologist Sharon Saline shares the words and inner struggles of children and teens living with ADHD—and a blueprint for achieving lasting success by working together. Based on more than 25 years of experience counseling young people and their families, Dr. Saline’s advice and real-world examples reveal how parents can shift the dynamic and truly help kids succeed. Topics include:
Setting mutual goals that foster cooperation
Easing academic struggles
Tackling everyday challenges, from tantrums and backtalk to staying organized, building friendships, and more.
With useful exercises and easy-to-remember techniques, you’ll discover a variety of practical strategies that really work, creating positive change that will last a lifetime.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the chaos in your life? Ever felt like running away because it was all too much? Wanted to hide in the closet for a moment's peace and quiet? You know what you need? Some good ole mom humor!
If you need a break from the realities of this motherhood gig, wrap yourself up in the comfort of a book from someone who gets it. Heather chronicles real-life humiliation, embarrasses herself frequently, and shares the joys and heart-aches of helping her ADHD son find his place in the world while ensuring his brother doesn't get lost in his shadow. A successful day sometimes is simply managing to complete yoga class without passing gas.
Just Tell Me I’m Pretty delivers real-life stories of a woman who embodies the modern day struggle to be perfect, told with humor, honesty, and unabashed candor. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll ponder why moms talk so much about poop...
Grab your copy today - after all, it's the best book Heather's mom has ever read!
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids. “None call me dad,” Owen writes, “But they know that’s who I am.”
Intriguing and imaginative chapter titles chart a journey that turns into a virtual roller coaster ride of parenting an ever-changing alternative family. None Call Me Dad is the freewheeling narrative of facing the challenges of truancy and Type 1 diabetes, hopping trains and “flying a sign,” and kids finding their way on their own terms. At the same time, the book captures the joy and excitement of father-son trips to March Madness and the Rose Bowl, and father-daughter weekends on Broadway in Nashville and the French Quarter of New Orleans. More than a memoir, it is a story of always being there for your kids.
None Call Me Dad is a story of forgiveness, acceptance, and love. Told in the author’s unique writer’s voice, the story is both poignant and funny. Readers feel a father’s angst as he learns to forgive his kids’ mistakes, to accept their life choices, and to continue to show his love. “They’re my kids, and I’ll always be here for them. Even though none call me dad.”
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
Motherhood is not what it used to be, as more moms than ever before are having children later on in life. This is the must-have book for all moms who had a child after the age of 35--a group the medical profession not-so-kindly calls--'advanced maternal age.' Sharon O'Donnell writes about the humorous and poignant stories of having a child at 38 and how she discovered that breastfeeding and AARP membership aren't really all that far apart. Sharon says being a mom of a certain age can be tough and rewarding--and rather alarming when you realize that all the TV programs you watch have commercials for incontinence or the Scooter Store.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
Can you come sit at the table? Tammy Letherer’s husband of twelve years spoke these words on a Tuesday night, just before Christmas, after he had put their three children in bed. He had a piece of paper and two fingers of scotch in front of him. As he read from the list in his hand, his next words would shatter her world and destroy every assumption she'd ever made about love, friendship, and faithfulness.
In The Buddha at My Table, Letherer describes—in honest, sometimes painful detail—the dismantling of a marriage that encompasses the ordinary and the surreal, including the night she finds a silent, smiling Thai monk sitting at the same dining room table. It’s this unexpected visitation, this personification of peace, that sticks with her as she listens to her husband reveal hurtful, shocking things—that he never loved her, he doesn’t believe in monogamy, and he wants to “wrap things up” with her in four weeks—and allows her to find the blessing in her husband’s betrayal. Ultimately, it’s when she realizes that she is participating in her life, not at its mercy, that she discovers the path to freedom.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
On the morning before Halloween in 2007, Sarah receives a phone call from her husband’s arborist colleague: Matt, her spouse of seven years and father of their two small children, has been severely injured by a falling tree branch while working in a neighborhood east of Seattle. Visions of their future go dark as she learns to care for the man she depended on for support. Faced with choices about how to behave through this unexpected journey, she takes as many steps back as she does forward and begins a rite of passage she never imagined.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Parenting & Family
HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER?
If you’re a mom, you’re worried about your daughter. And you’re especially worried about her becoming a victim of sexual assault. If you want a solid plan to help you and your daughter survive the adolescent years safe and sound, The Way of the Warrior Mama is for you.
The statistics are real, and they are frightening. Today one in four college women report surviving rape or attempted rape. One in ten high school girls is the victim of date rape. A candidate can publicly boast about groping a women’s private parts and still be elected president! The prospect of raising a teenage daughter can seem like a crazy-making process.
By tackling the subject of sexual assault head-on, The Way of the Warrior Mama offers a roadmap to navigating one of the most treacherous parts of the journey from girlhood to womanhood. Columbia Journalism School graduate, former researcher for Naomi Wolf, and mother of two Sally Clark has over 20 years’ experience in covering women’s and girls’ issues. Through insights from and interviews with experts and leading practitioners in fields ranging from adolescent psychology to mindful self-compassion, you will discover:
How to talk to your daughter about sexuality and sexual violence.
The importance of teaching your daughter personal boundaries.
Why fostering healthy female friendships can protect your daughter.
Advice from trauma survivors on what they wish they and their parents could have done differently.
How you can work with, not against, media to educate and bond with your daughter.
This invaluable guide will dramatically reduce your parenting stress and give you faith that you can protect your daughter from experiencing sexual trauma.
Tracey Carisch thought she had it all. As a wife, mother, and successful executive, she seemed to be living the modern American dream. But one night, a panic attack sent her tumbling into an existential crisis and questioning everything about her life. That’s when she and her husband made a decision that shocked their family and friends: they sold everything they owned, pulled their three young daughters out of school, and became a family of wandering globetrotters.
Loaded with hilarious mishaps as well as deeply meaningful revelations, Excess Baggage chronicles the Carisch family’s extraordinary, eighteen-month adventure across six continents. As they navigate the trials and tribulations of international travel, the family encounters unique people and bizarre situations that teach them about the world—and themselves. Carisch’s candid and insightful account of her family’s journey will have you laughing out loud, shedding a few tears, and bringing the lessons of family travel into your own life . . . without ever having to leave home.
Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, "conditioning" each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships.
Explores a groundbreaking concept developed by two psychiatrists with 80 years of combined experience in dynamic psychotherapy with almost 2,000 patients
Offers strategies to help readers liberate themselves from limiting ways of relating to others, avoid automatic emotional responses, live life with intention, and create happier relationships
Brings to life the principles presented through vignettes from dynamic psychotherapy treatment
Would you like to enhance your communication skills to grow and strengthen all your relationships? If so, this book is for you...
4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work--Anywhere! is an excellent 'How-To Guide' for practicing the key skills that will help you identify and overcome communication barriers and achieve relationship success with the important people in your life--your spouse or partner, child or children, parents, siblings, friends, co-workers, customers--everyone! Plus, there are Self-Review Questions and Action Items at the end of several of the chapters.
In this book you will learn:
Empathic awareness and empathic listening skills
Listening blocks to effective communication
Empathic dialogue skills to achieve mutual understanding
Effective conflict management and problem-solving when there's a disagreement
How to nurture your relationships on a consistent basis
The power of expressing gratitude and appreciation
And more...
You will also get the 12-Day Communication Challenge! This Action Guide at the end of the book will help you practice a particular skill step each day thus growing in confidence and ability as you do.
The book is excellent to read and discuss as a couple, or in a book club or small group.
When a seemingly routine medical procedure results in her mother's premature death, Anne Panning is left reeling. In her first full-length memoir, the celebrated essayist and short story writer draws on decades of memory and experience, piecing together hard truths about her own past and her mother's.
We follow Panning's winding path from rural Minnesota to the riverbanks of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. A stark, poignant tale of two women deeply connected, yet forever apart, Dragonfly Notes is a testament to the prevailing nature of love, whether in the form of a rediscovered note, a sudden moment of unexpected recall, or sometimes, simply, the sight a dragonfly flitting past.
Through a series of letters written to his son who died from a drug overdose, the author explores on various levels the experience of parenting and ultimately, losing to death, a son who drifted into heavy and long term substance abuse. The letters are personal, open, honest, informative, intimate, at some points heartbreaking, and at other points humorous. Along with providing reflection on the impacts of death by overdose, the book shows how such letter writing can be a valuable medium for processing grief and moving toward healing.
Sweet Magnolia is a reflective journey of a daughter's precious memories shared with her mother. A mother daughter relationship cut short by terminal illness, at the very pinnacle of her adulthood, the author reflects on the 23 years they shared together and those valuable life lessons that helped shape, strengthen and sustain her through life's joys and pains.
"First time children's book author Francie Aguilera has teamed with illustrator Katia Goa to give Pre K- 2nd Grade students a timely and much needed fable. Few books are found for this age group [kindergarten book list] that address topics of loss of family, adoption and self-identity without being heavy handed. The illustrations by Goa transport Edward throughout his journey to go on his own and find out about life. But it is the story told by Aguilera that will comfort those children who feel a sense of loss or a challenge to how they look. This brief story charts Edwards’ desire to break free from an adoptive family and search for identity with other geese with the same color feathers as his. Edward finds that looks can be deceiving and new friendships can be shallow. He becomes the “prodigal” goose who returns home where he knows he will be accepted. In today's world of family hardship and transition, Edward will soar in the minds of readers and listeners. Edward the White Goose will offer comfort and reflection on what matters in life and how appearances may not be all they seem to be." --Michael Powell, Library Director, Sonoma County Office of Education, Santa Rosa, CA
This book reveals hundreds of practical relationship tips you can use to save, enhance and sustain your marriage. Focusing on what makes successful marriages work, this book reveals the essence of four decades of interviews with happily married couples throughout the world. The findings demonstrate that no love survives without doing the simple things. The stories and advice included show couples how to do the simple things necessary for a happy marriage.
Written by a popular and very active couple known as "America s #1 Love and Marriage Experts," Dr. Charles and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz help audiences around the world answer questions about love, marriage and relationships. They are frequent guests on radio and television, and in the print media. Their upbeat, positive approach to living happily ever after has been well received by their vast worldwide readership. With more than 37 years of research on successful marriage throughout the world and their own 52-year marriage, Dr. Charles and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz know what makes marriage work.
