Career Parent

In a world where modern demands often pit career ambition against parenting ideals, Attachment Parenting for Working Parents offers a refreshing, guilt-free roadmap to do both well. Whether you're navigating sleepless nights, early daycare drop-offs, or big meetings on little sleep, this guide shows you how to stay emotionally connected to your child while building a meaningful, successful career.

Saying Goodbye to Dad covers the aspects of grieving the loss of one's father from a personal experience, not from a clinical or professional point of view. Listening to this will expand your awareness of the grieving process so it does not seem endless, realizing there is an end to the emotions you are experiencing, and that many are going through the identical journey.

Striking out on your own for the first time is exhilarating. But in a culture full of bad advice, predatory banks, and splurge-now-pay-later temptations, it can also be extremely dangerous - leading you to make financial decisions that could hurt you for years to come. Combine this with a slumped economy, mounds of student loans, and dubious examples from reality TV stars to politicians to your own parents, and it’s no wonder so many twenty-somethings are struggling.

As a single parent, your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home, you likely find yourself with many responsibilities but little support. It's a heavy weight to bear. Doing It All as a Solo Parent helps you to lighten the load. Drawing on the expertise from experts and parents alike, it provides practical tips and advice catered to your unique challenges as a solo parent.

Striking the right balance between career and motherhood is one of the most stressful, heart-wrenching tasks facing women today. In Torn, 46 women examine the conflict between the need to nurture and the need to work, and reveal creative solutions for having the best of both worlds. The stories in the collection offer hope and inspiration, but they also reveal the messy realities of modern motherhood and life's inevitable crises, both small and large.

L'enfant naît câblé pour apprendre et pour aimer. Chaque jour, les neurosciences nous révèlent son incroyable potentiel. Pourtant, par manque d'information, nous lui imposons un système éducatif inadapté qui freine son apprentissage et n'encourage pas sa bienveillance innée. Plus de 40 % de nos enfants sortent du primaire avec des lacunes qui les empêcheront de poursuivre une scolarité normale.

In Inspiring Champions in Manufacturing, the indomitable Terry M. Iverson challenges our culture’s axiom that sustainable careers may only be achieved through a college education. Through his own love, heritage, and mastery of the fine art of manufacturing, Iverson contends that careers in manufacturing offer stability, security, and prosperity for our entire nation. Iverson illustrates the power of manufacturing through in-depth research, personal stories, and over forty interviews with some of the most remarkable authors, CEOs, sports figures, and other influencers.

Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on an exciting adventure that introduces young readers to the world of work! In this delightful addition to the popular "What Shall We Do Today?" series, three curious friends discover the joy of exploration when their school gives them the afternoon off for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Initially reluctant Tommy soon embraces the adventure when he visits his mother's marine biology lab at the aquarium. Meanwhile, Imani helps her architect father design an inclusive playground, and Maya learns about sustainability and community while gardening with her...

Alyson Franz suffered a painful loss and didn’t know how she could ever get past it. Being a therapist herself at the time, she tried many traditional approaches with no success. This led her to a journey of healing, transformation, and a complete change in her professional work. She has now rebuilt both her life and her professional practice based on what she has learned on this journey which includes extensive training in transformative healing and coaching modalities. She specializes in helping others heal from grief and loss.

When you and your partner are prioritizing your careers and your family, every day can feel like a series of small and large negotiations. But it is possible to support your family, your children, your careers, and your relationship without collapsing into a heap every Friday night. In Two-Career Families, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent partner from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth.

While everyone was bemoaning their alleged laziness and self-absorption, the Millennial generation quietly grew up. Pragmatic, diverse, and digitally native, this massive cohort of 80 million are now entering their prime consumer years, having children of their own, and shifting priorities as they move solidly into adulthood. Millennials with Kids changes how we think about this new generation of parents and uncovers profound insights for marketers and brand strategists seeking to earn their loyalty.

Without your support, your middle school student's self-regard can crack. But a solid sense of self-worth now—in middle school—will help your youngster find future fulfillment in the adult world of work. Career Book 2 empowers parents and counselors to prepare youngsters (ages 11-13) with disabilities for meaningful employment as adults.

How can you foster an exceptional child's motivation to seek an independent life? Jim Hasse, who has athetoid cerebral palsy and served for 10 years as a Fortune 500 vice president during his 29-year career in corporate communication, has some answers - not-so-difficult things that your youngster probably won't pick up at school but you can practice together right now at home.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Discover how the nation’s largest senior living operator answered the call posed by the greatest public health crisis in 100 years with courage and resilience. CEO Cindy Baier shares a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at how Brookdale Senior Living navigated the COVID-19 pandemic as she stood at the helm of a company with $3.5 billion of revenue in 2020. Woven together with her own personal accounts, Cindy highlights the broad symphony of voices and diverse cast of players who proved pivotal in helping save lives.

Whether you're managing a multi-million-dollar division or contributing to a small team, blending work and life over the course of a career takes creativity, organization, cutting yourself slack, exploring strategies and asking for help. Career coach Kathryn Sollmann helps smart women integrate work and life, in her mission to keep women working towards long-term financial security. Through conducting this series of interviews she has compiled over 200 simple tips that will help you persevere and keeping moving forwards in your professional life.

We know running a business can be rewarding. However, it can also seep into every life crack, eat up your energy and leave you exhausted, stressed and snapping at your small humans. In Six Figures in School Hours, award-winning digital marketing coach and business mentor Kate Toon shares practical and doable tips for parents to run a successful business, make serious money and not burn themselves to a frazzle in the process.

The Best Life Stories by Reader's Digest are 150 of the best hand-picked real-life tales of resilience, joy, and hope - all in 150 words or less! I was born to a young soldier and his young wife.

The effects of narcissistic abuse on a fragile psyche are real and lifelong. Sensitive hearts raised by toxic minds are gripped by insidious spiritual wounds, invisible, but obvious. Earn Your Luck is an inside look into the mental framework of a codependent and the energetic patterns of an empath, braiding the two with the intent to draw a picture for its listeners that though someone else's narcissistic disorder at one time was our poison, it may now (to the codependent empaths of the world) be our immunity to its lasting effects.

"Balancing Acts of Grace" is more than just a guide. It's a lifeline for those in their late forties to early fifties, inviting them to explore the comprehensive world of caregiving for elderly parents with dementia while managing careers and family dynamics. It provides support, resilience, and expert guidance through the multifaceted challenges of dementia care, including comprehensive coverage of legal and financial preparations.