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Becoming a parent is considered to be one of the most exciting times in a person's life. You often embark on this new adventure with great hopes and expectations about what life will be like as you raise your children. Sometimes, however, the path into parenthood can surprise you. This book helps you meet with six people and their journey with their parenthood. You will be able to see what they thought during the process of becoming a parent. Their experience, journey, and evolvement to a new life process will be there in those minutes of the book.

In the Fall of 1970, at the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford wearing Frye boots, with long blond hair and a passion for his students that was as intense as it was rebellious. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also a twin competing for the attention and affection of his parents. He had a burning need to feel special. The new teacher supplied that need.

Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels so much praise, W. D. Wetherell tells the true story of his high-school-age son's winning soccer season. Soccer Dad is simultaneously the candid reflections of a devoted father and the enthusiastic observations of a diehard soccer fan. When Matt enters his senior year of high school, it is not without myriad parenting concerns on the part of his father, author W. D. Wetherell. What is his role in shaping his son's future? What will life be like when Matt is away at college? And what of Matt's soccer season?

Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds - a self-described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is her story - a brash, personal, and sometimes shocking memoir.

Written in a fun and engaging style, The New Dad's Survival Guide is the perfect gift for any new or expecting dad. With its practical advice, relatable stories, and witty humor, this book will help you navigate the ups and downs of fatherhood with confidence and humor.

Are you an expectant father? This book is about what comes after the birth. It’s about how to raise your children. It’s about how to teach them how to think. This book teaches you the deeper level algorithms that will give your kids a compounding advantage throughout their lives.

You’re going to be a Daddy! Now what? Help I’m a Dad Now - This audiobook is a great resource for men becoming fathers, dad’s with children, and supporting co-parents...Through the journey of parenting, you will encounter happiness, difficulties, and everything in between. With help from this audiobook you will be able to feel more prepared and fully confident to tackle parenthood. You can become the best dad ever! With the aid provided through Help I’m a Dad Now. If you just believe in yourself, your experience as a father will be ground breaking! You got this!

This book is a firsthand account of the 1998 kidnapping of Kamiyah Mobley, given by her father, Craig Aiken. In it you will learn true events that went on during the almost two decade search for Kamiyah and life experiences and details that were never told before now.

This book encourages men to father with the knowledge that they are vitally important to the futures of their children. National speaker Michael Byron Smith discusses the implications of a fatherless home, the challenges of parenting, and the hierarchy of fathers. There are absent fathers, present yet uninvolved fathers, authoritative fathers, loving fathers, teaching fathers, and many more.

With humor and sincerity, Yousafzai describes his life before the Talibanization of Mingora, scenes of his sons Khusal and Atal fighting kites on the roof, his progressive partnership with his wife, Toor Pekai, and the challenge of raising children in an unfamiliar country. After Malala was shot by the Taliban, the Yousafzai family was completely uprooted from their home in the Swat Valley and forced to start over in the United Kingdom. Now, Ziauddin expresses the complex pain and joy of his return, six years later, to the site of Malala's attack.

La disciplina para niños pequeños es un trabajo en progreso para cualquier padre e hijo.Si desea tener éxito, entonces necesita una guía que explique esas preguntas con las respuestas adecuadas. Mientras que su niño pequeño todavía es joven, y se pueden hacer correcciones, comience a aprender las veinte estrategias disponibles para usted sobre cómo criar un tot seguro, curioso, responsable y respetuoso.

Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children, and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological makeup. James Garfield enjoyed jumping on the bed with his kids. FDR's children, on the other hand, had to make appointments to talk to him.

Most parenting books out there only seem to be for mothers - but you’ve probably already noticed that. No one is helping the dads through the responsibilities of fatherhood. Fatherhood can be one of the most beautiful roles you take on in your lifetime, if you play your cards right. Inside, you will find the resources you need to travel down the line with your newborn and create an everlasting bond between father and child.

At first, Simon’s beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer’s. Ted was disappearing from the family, but Simon wanted to hold on to him. While music could bring him back temporarily - the video of the two of them singing along to Ted’s favorite song was a hit around the world - Ted could no longer tell his story. This is that story.

When Adrian Kulp first learned that he was about to become a father, he was essentially a teenage boy trapped in the body of a 32-year-old high-powered executive. He did what his wife asked him to do: Grow up. He packed away his Phillies baseball memorabilia, hid his GI Joes, and converted their guest bedroom from his private man cave into a nursery. Goodbye sticky beer cozy. Hello Diaper Genie. Based on his mercilessly funny and brutally honest blog, here is the hilarious story of one man's journey from being the one who brings home the bacon to the one who fries it.

The key to success in your first year of fatherhood is also a key to success in life: keep it simple. This audiobook is a simple guide to what you really need to know during pregnancy and your baby’s first year.

Do you spend your days following your toddler from room to room, cleaning up their path of destruction? Do you feel like you’ve done everything within your power to keep them from destroying everything and anything that’s within their reach? Have you dreamed of booking a one-way ticket to Fiji? Ever have the desire to hide under the mountain of laundry that’s waiting to be folded and put away? This parenting thing ain’t easy! You’ve heard this before—parenting is the most challenging, stressful job there is, harder than any other job out there. As the parent of a toddler, you are laying critical groundwork and the foundation to be built upon for the rest of their lives. No pressure, right? There is so much information and advice out there on toddler discipline, it can actually be overwhelming. There are tons of parenting books, Pinterest boards and mommy blogs with tons of information. Being a busy parent—who has time to track down and weed through all that advice? Great news, you don’t have to! I’ve done the work for you. I was overwhelmed too, when I was trying to deal with my toddlers. That’s why I wrote this book, based on my own experience, as well tips from stacks and stacks of books I read about discipline for my own toddlers during those crazy years.

Wie Mütter und Väter sich ihren Wunsch nach Stärke und Geborgenheit erfüllen und den Kindern liebevolle Orientierung geben - Jesper Juuls kreative Vorschläge unterstützen sie darin, einen Führungsstil zu entwickeln, an dem alle wachsen: Kleinkind, Teenager und nicht zuletzt die Eltern selbst. Was Eltern im Beruf gelingt, bereitet zu Hause oft Schwierigkeiten.

Este audiolivro é sobre um pai de tenista e sobre o pai de um tenista. São papéis diferentes que Osvaldo Meligeni, argentino de Buenos Aires, interpretou ao educar e formar seu filho Fernando como pessoa e como jogador. Em primeira pessoa, Fernando relata momentos marcantes da convivência com o pai, conversas a bordo de um veleiro na infância e adolescência e exemplos de conduta que determinaram sua forma de enxergar a vida e o mundo. É uma história de amor e renúncia, de liderança e paciência, de retidão e esperança.

Becoming a super dad isn’t by chance but by choice. Discover how you can become the best father and partner, one step at a time. It’s Friday morning, and you’re all set to shut the week with a bang. The big presentation went well, and your weekend is booked with friends and fun. Then your phone rings. It’s your partner on the other side, calling to break the big news: "You’re going to be a father!" As her words echo in your head, you can’t make sense of anything. The good news is that, although challenging, fatherhood is a joyous and enriching experience.