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According to experts, being involved in a prior marriage decreases the success rate of subsequent marriages. The aim of this book is to reduce the failure rate of remarriages and to promote the success of blended families. Successful Blended Families addresses the common challenges of blended family life and provides practical tools for dealing with them effectively. Attention is given to children in these families, step-parenting, preparation for...
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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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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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This cut-to-the-quick how-to manaul offers its male audience no-bull advice on approaching the opposite sex in the dating arena. Topics discussed include: self-acceptance, hygiene, communication tips, physical contact, dancing, food &drink, money and dating strategies derived from the author's experience.
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Preston Browning Jr. entered the world in 1929, a few months before the Crash and the onset of the Great Depression. In Culpeper, Virginia, Browning grew up amid the pervasive poverty of the times where he recalls being labeled by his father as the world's worst grouch, led in song by Miss Lizzy Lovell who banged on the piano at the local Episcopal church, and seated astride a cow who needed a lot of convincing to take him for a ride around the pasture...
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Families are Forever: Communication Endorsements *I have read much of the book Families are Forever: Communication and I have found useful information in each chapter! This book has really opened my eyes to the way that I communicate with those in my life. I am very aware now that how I say what I say determines what others hear. I raise my glass to better communication! Bethany, Narrows, Virginia *Families Are Forever: Communication brings together...
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Father, Papa, and Dad are synonyms of a pivotal character in homes from time immemorial. It means several things to different peoplelogical or illogical, appropriately or erroneously. However, what is its truest meaning in the heart of the one who instituted the officeAlmighty God? The True Meaning of Dad promises to take you through a revealing journey into His heart, opening up what He originally had in mind right from Creation. It enables you to...
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Regardless of income, social status, or ethnicity, parents everywhere are concerned about their childrens academic performance. We all want our children to reach their academic potential. We all seek the peace of mind that comes with knowing our children are learning and mastering all the skills necessary for academic competence. In Boost Your Childs Academic Success, author Dr. Marshena McCoy-Williams offers a series of recommendations for empowering...
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mum baby toddler together we learn Jan shares in her book real parenting experiences of when she was raising a young family. Like most new parents, Jan did not see or comprehend what she was embarking on and was caught up in her own life and needs rather than truly realizing the impact she was having on her developing babies and children. The journey she experienced and the one all new parents experience goes far beyond what you know you are capable...
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HEALING AND RESTORATION TO A HURTING NATION This book is a practical guide for women coping with infidelity. For women finding themselves in an adulterous relationship - the reason why you should let go! It is proof that God is the God of the impossible. If you have by any chance given up on your marriage, just remember that God has the last say. If satan destroys a family, he destroys the church. Dont allow him to! God is waiting on you to call on...
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For author Dr. Barry Altman, growing up in an urban atmosphere during World War II made for a frightening childhood. Children like him latched onto dreams of success but also sometimes failure as they gleaned attitudes from their parents and elders. Also, at that time, urban children, particularly those in New York grew up faster, gaining knowledge from their environment more quickly than their parents might imagine. In Anthology of Innocence, Altman...
73) Helpmeet
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Helpmeet is the complete marriage prep-school handbook, providing you with insight into how to prepare logistically, emotionally and spiritually for the journey of a life-time. If you have ever wondered why some marriages succeed while others do not, Helpmeet helps you to understand the perspectives that can snatch your marriage from the road to failure and set it on the track to success. Using powerful historical examples, including the compelling...
74) Chewy's Chest
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Step into the world of Chewy, a five year old boy growing up on a farm back in the fiftys. Follow Chewy as he goes through difficult times learning to deal with the loss of a loved one and the discovery of things hidden. Watch Chewy as he goes from a boy lost in tragedy to a boy that finds long lost family secrets from the past that help to bring him out of his shell and back into the world with his dad. As Chewy struggles with the loss of his mother...
75) Mama Knew Best
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV). As a young child, Edie, raised by a single mother struggling with epilepsy, was placed in a girls group home. Sad, confused, scared, and not understanding why her mother left her at the Simpson Home to live with complete strangers, Edie begins her new life not knowing if she will ever see her family...
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In his poignant memoir, Ken Ludmer, details his often raucous, always conflicted, and yet loving relationship with his mother. After sixty plus years of their epic battle, Ludmer and his Ma attempt to heal their wounds as he cares for her, following her broken hip at age 91. In the last eighteen months of her once brave and independent, world traveling life, they tell their stories to one another as they relive their battles in this American family...
79) Laura Smile
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We do not get to choose our parents or the families into which we are born. That is predestined by God, for those who believe it. We are all born innocent, but for many, that time of innocence passes much too quickly. Such was the case for Laura Faye Flannery (Red), nicknamed for her thick copper red mane. Her days of childhood innocence came to an abrupt ending when she was thrown into a life that she did not want or ask for. Red would spend the...
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AS A CHILD As a child I remember the sermon; It was on hell. As a child I remember the sermon; It was on Jesus As He said, I am the way. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the truth. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the life. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, No man cometh unto the Father But by me.
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