Great Family

In our stressed-out culture, too many parents are just coping rather than thriving, juggling demands on their time and energy, and tuning out their inner voices and deeper visions for family life in order to keep their heads above water. There is a better way. Coaching parents through his holistic health practice, Dr. Steven Fonso has helped thousands of families reconnect with what matters most: slowing down to savor authentic moments of connection and letting go of the noise and stress that all too often get in the way.

How to have great kids from a Scriptural Perspective. Specific tips on how to have responsible, loving, giving, obedient, and sharing children. Testimony included.

HD Schenk is a maker—an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He's got a plan for the summer: He'll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he'll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle's overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there's more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?

Parenting great kids doesn’t happen by accident, and with the proper training, anyone can raise positive, motivated children. In today’s fast-paced culture, vast amounts of information bombard our children from all sides, competing for their attention. Nevertheless, research demonstrates that a parent’s involvement is the number-one contributing factor to the ultimate respectfulness and motivation of kids. So the question is, how do you structure your communications and activities with your children to create a positive attitude with a bright future?

There's nothing like being a parent. Parenting is the absolute greatest and most honorable job on earth. It's also the most difficult, terrifying, amazing, and most fulfilling job on earth. That's the reason for this book - to provide you with the encouragement and instruction necessary to raise up your children to be respectful, intelligent, confident, compassionate, responsible, and godly people.

1916. At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet Canadian pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision…one that will haunt them both forever.

The messages you will find in this audiobook are related to what I think any parent would like to instill in their child. If you like the idea of making your kids have fun while learning great life lessons, get this audiobook now and have fun!

PI Hallie James is asked to assist in the investigation into the robberies at local banks. The crafty criminals change their MO with each bank, making them difficult to predict. When they begin to kill, Hallie knows they must be stopped before they strike again. At the same time a friend asks her to look into a string of mysterious deaths at a seniors only apartment building. Is it murder or just unfortunate accidents? With two cases heating up, a major glitch in her personal life threatens to change everything. Hallie must fight to keep herself from becoming distracted and solve the cases-...

10 Great Dates revolutionizes dating by providing you with 10 innovative great dates based on marriage enriching themes guaranteed to energize your relationship with fun, friendship, and romance.

Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife. While her husband spends his days disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers baking scones for her son's cricket match in a beautiful cottage in the manicured school grounds. Anyone who peered through the downstairs sash window at the four figures sat easily around their scrubbed-pine kitchen table would see a happy family without a care in the world. They would envy Kathryn her perfect life. But they would be wrong. Kathryn is trapped in a nightmare.

Life hasn't been great for Jeff Hicks. After years at his beloved St. Catherine's, he's forced to spend eighth grade in the public middle school, which he hates. He's no longer speaking to his former best friend, Tom Bender, because of "that burned girl" Jessica Feeney. But worst of all, his family is changing, and it's not for the better. When his mom comes home announcing that she's lost her job, Jeff begins to worry about things far beyond his years.

For nearly fifty years, Dave Lopez covered every major story in the Southland. The veteran news reporter was a nightly presence in LA living rooms on KCBS Channel 2 for a remarkable 48-year career on camera. General managers and news directors came and went in the unforgiving world of major market TV news, but Dave outlasted more than twenty regime changes.

In A Choice Theory Psychology Guide to Parenting, international child expert Dr. Nancy Buck offers listeners a new and far more effective way to parent while maintaining a loving relationship with their sons and daughters. Parents and children have different agendas, children push for freedom while parents pull for safety. This push-pull relationship between parents and children starts at birth, and continues throughout childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.

Bigfoot and Steller Jay plan a trip to the city for a night of trick-or-treating. The thought of getting all the yummy candy makes them very happy. But Bigfoot is a little scaref becuase of all the humans in town. But they would have to wait until it was dark before they could go, so they must find something to do until then.

Too old for love? Widowed Isabella Rossi is content with her life at the villa. In the past year, all her grandchildren have discovered faith and love. But what about her? When a beau from her teens returns to Tuscany, can the flame of love be rekindled, or is eighty-something too old for romance? A shorter novella follow-up to the wonderful A Tuscan Legacy multi-author series! Visit the A Tuscan legacy page (click on the author name) to see all the books in the series.

The Dust Bowl has devastated farms across the midwest. World war looms on the horizon. Banks are failing. The Great Depression has come to Jubilee Junction. In the present day, Gracie and her team of history sleuths have a new quilt mystery to piece together, one that will join two families together. And in the midst of it all, Christmas in Jubilee Junction is celebrated with new family, new babies, old traditions, and a fresh and unexpected opportunity to practice forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace on Earth.

Winner of Eric Hoffer Book Award “We came here for America’s freedoms,” Weam Namou writes. “As an immigrant, I saw through the Dawn Hanna case how we are losing the very things we came here for.” One day, a family approached Namou to write a story about their daughter, Dawn Hanna, who was accused of conspiring to broker telecommunication equipment to Iraq during the sanctions. Unbeknownst to Dawn and the jury which tried her, her co-conspirator was actually a CIA operative. The project was sponsored by the United States to listen in on Saddam and his men. Namou was drawn to this ...

If you've ever yearned for your parents' approval, felt the weight of their high expectations, or experienced the burden of unspoken obligations to care for them as they age, you're not alone. Too often, we hesitate to ask our parents about their lives, held back by mistaken beliefs or past conflicts. With warmth, wit, and vulnerability Amy Yip explores the profound influence her parents had on her life and offers you a roadmap to navigate conversations with your own parents.

After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had left behind. Determined to give their children the rural upbringing she had enjoyed, the young couple moved to an isolated, crumbling cottage not far from the forest. But even in the 1950s, they lacked heating or running water, and money was tight. Food was begged, borrowed or homegrown, and their clothes were hand-me-downs.

Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists and turns of history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day.