House Parent

Rosa Galvez’s attraction to Officer Wyatt Townsend is as powerful as the moon’s pull on the tides. But with her past, Rosa knows better than to act on her feelings. When Wyatt and his adorable son become Brambleberry House’s newest tenants, Rosa finds her resolve slipping. Her solo life slowly becomes a sun-filled family adventure - until dark secrets threaten to break like a summer storm.

Being a caregiver for aging parents, close friends and family, and other elders in your life is an overwhelming experience, whether you are one who has stepped into this role without warning or one who is also contemplating their own care plan. Now in its fourth edition, The Complete Eldercare Planner will help you navigate today’s complex caregiving landscape while addressing your unique needs.

Before You Sign an Apartment Lease is a cautionary guide for college students, parents, and friends. Find out how a bad landlord can rip off good tenants. Learn research strategies to protect yourself, your kids, and your friends. Discover why lawsuits are a bad idea. And read about two stories involving the same bad landlord being taken to court.

Allie is British and dreams of being a spy. Sage is an only child from sunny California. They meet when their families swap houses for the summer. Though they’re polar opposites, Allie and Sage quickly realize that they’re both dealing with family issues—Sage’s parents may be on the brink of divorce, and Allie’s struggling to feel heard in her big family. It may take a trip around the world for them to find their place at home.

¿Quién fue realmente la Malinche? ¿Por qué ocupa un lugar tan importante en la historia, la identidad y la idiosincrasia de los mexicanos? La Malinche es una de las figuras fundacionales de la historia de México, pero su historia siempre ha sido objeto de polémicas y contradicciones. Intérprete y compañera de Hernán Cortés, ha sido deificada por algunos y satanizada por otros, ha inspirado tragedias, dramas románticos, crónicas, poemas y hasta caricaturas.

Our hero comes downstairs and to his utter surprise, finds a gorilla jumping in his Daddy's chair. Now, he's not allowed to do that and he KNOWS that this gorilla is not allowed to do it either. He tries shouting, "Abracadabra!" He tries shouting, "Kaleidoscope!" He tries shouting, "Geronimo!" but until he uses the magic word, nothing works. This book offers you a chance to dialogue your family values with the children in your life. It is wonderfully and whimsically illustrated by my best book buddy, Johnny Ray Turner.

Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. And for as long as he can remember, the old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. That is, until a new family - with a particularly annoying girl his age - moves into the neighboring house and, without warning, cuts it down.

Este libro habla de las múltiples incertidumbres y confusiones que los padres divorciados tienen en relación con sus hijos: cómo ayudarlos a superar este proceso, cómo decirles que se divorciarán, de qué forma organizarán la convivencia de los hijos con cada uno de los padres y el resto de la familia, el manejo del dinero, cuándo y cómo es aconsejable iniciar una nueva relación de pareja y la forma en la que harán frente a los múltiples cambios que inevitablemente suceden en las rutinas y el cuidado de los hijos.

Seguridad, curiosidad, límites, enfoque, crecimiento, independencia son algunas de las herramientas que le puedes inculcar a tus hijos ejercitando la creatividad en conjunto a través de este maravilloso libro.

A certified World Class Manufacturing Instructor (WCM/Lean) shows you how to step-by-step turn your family cleaning routine into a process of calm, joy, and purpose. "The 4th Simple Step to Your Perfect Home" is the fourth book of the 5 Steps series. Ivan Kuznietsov takes us on a family cleaning tour of our own houses and apartments, focuses on the psychology of involving our parents, spouses, kids, and friends in the tidying process. He also offers practical guidelines for integrating mindfulness in our relationships and everyday life. So the purpose of this book is not just to create a ...

Are you ready to move out? Maybe you feel like you’re ready to spread your wings and your parent(s) are trying to suffocate you. You might be tired of the rules that haven’t seemed to change enough since you were in grade school, and think you should be making your own decisions now. Or maybe it’s the opposite, and you’re perfectly happy hanging with the fam or in your room, but they’re either hinting or outright telling you that you need to get an exit plan together and get going!Regardless of why you’ve got this book in your hands, I’m here to help guide you through some of ...

Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads is essential listening for parents today. It offers us the tools to become wiser, more relaxed parents, and the inspiration to speak out, act according to our values, show humility, and set the kind of example that will make a real difference in our children's lives.

The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you're gone the reputation you leave behind?

In this smart and subversively funny memoir, Kristen Howerton navigates the emotional and sometimes messy waters of motherhood and challenges the idea that there’s a “right” way to raise kids. Recounting her successes, trials, mishaps, and hard-won wisdom, this mother of four advocates for letting go of the expectations, the guilt, and the endless race to be the perfect parent to the perfect child in the perfect family.

This Children's book is about a little boy named Rusty, who goes out of his yard without permission. He finds a friend and goes to her tree house and they play Cowboys and Indians. Then his father comes looking for him. It was raining and his father was holding an umbrella.

Darío Galicia fue un poeta cercano a los infrarrealistas con una personalidad extravagante y un genio que no pocos relacionaban con Wilde. Según un rumor incitado en parte por un poema de Roberto Bolaño, Darío Galicia San Epifanio fue sometido por sus padres a una lobotomía para «curarlo» de la homosexualidad y, de paso, de la poesía.

"Uplifting and utterly compelling..." - Robert Dugoni, International Best-Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite Series. “Watch out for the crazy ones,” they said. But dating after 40 means you gotta sort through all that, right? Sure, Alex Hill had baggage, but he wasn’t crazy—it was just everything around him, like his ex-wife. And maybe his kids. Ok, and his job. A guitar-playing cop on a top-secret FBI task force who borrows his parent’s station wagon while struggling to raise 5 kids on his own wasn’t really what the straight-forward human resources professional Nikki Myers ...

Our country is in a profound crisis: a crisis of decency, of civility, of character. And families today are experiencing a new set of realities. Our best instincts are undermined at every turn, and our families, to which we turn in crisis, are feeling the strain. Working parents are harried, tired, and overextended. Mary Pipher understands this. She's a good listener, perhaps the best listener in America. And what she has to say goes straight to the heart.Confronted with today's challenges, parents feel helpless to protect their children from the enemy within their homes: the innapropriate television their kids watch for hours, the computer and virtual reality games that keep them from playing outside, when they should be learning from and about the real world. Compounding this is the fact that our psychological theories don't work anymore. These theories were developed decades ago, when families were tightly knit, relatively monolithic institutions, and they're dated. Pipher argues that such theories are of little help in our violent, sexualized contemporary culture. And while diagnosing the problem is the first step in curing it, Pipher offers ideas for simple actions we can all take to help rebuild our families and strengthen our communities.

Around the world each night, parents tell stories to children as they put them to bed. Margaret Read MacDonald - a folklorist, storyteller, and children's librarian - uses bedtime tales in the daytime to end her story hours on a calm note. Here, with accompaniment on dulcimer and autoharp by musician Richard Scholtz, she includes seven of her favorites from around the world.

¿Qué padres y madres no han sentido alguna vez desesperación ante el reto de lidiar con los conflictos cotidianos con sus hijos e hijas? ¿Quién no ha estado al borde de un ataque de nervios cuando los niños tienen que ducharse, obedecer, ser más responsables, menos contestones, más obedientes, más empáticos, menos nerviosos o mejores comedores?