Parenting Boys

Do you want your teen to beat the odds on becoming successful by using proven traits and essential life skills? Are you worried about your child's future because you know how unprepared they are to take on the challenges of adulthood? Do you fear they might struggle because they don't possess the necessary essential life skills to be successful? Do you want to prepare them for success in college, career, and beyond, but have no game plan to help them succeed? Yes? It’s ok you are not alone – and your worries are valid. In fact, 60% of parents worry their teenage children are not ready ...

Adaeze and Chad―two different people, two different backgrounds―both brought a lot of baggage into their relationship. Adaeze, a black Nigerian American woman who has lived with racism and discrimination her entire life. Chad, a white man with a family from the South who mostly grew up in white spaces. Determined to learn to communicate honestly and effectively, they stepped into tough conversations about their differences. Walls came down and Adaeze and Chad discovered the trust and respect they could have in and for each other.

Este es un libro brillante, conmovedor, desgarrador y fascinante. La historia de Sheff es sincera, porque dice la verdad que a muchos se nos hace difícil reconocer en nuestros hijos y que a veces está latente y nos hacemos los ciegos para no verla.David Sheff nos presenta la adicción y sus confusiones de una manera clara y aleccionadora, poniendo como ejemplo su propia experiencia y la de su familia.

Give the Young Man in Your Life the Skills to Succeed! Looking for a gift that will truly make a difference? Want to help him avoid awkward situations and boost his confidence? Wish you could give him the tools to handle life’s everyday challenges with ease? Raising a confident and capable young man takes more than just advice—it requires real-life skills he can use. This audiobook is packed with practical guidance and 100 essential life skills every boy should know, giving him the tools to impress not only others but also himself as he grows.

A word-of-mouth best seller which has become one of the best-loved and most-successful books in the parenting field. In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Biddulph shares and gives practical and honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of boyhood and learn how to raise happy, confident, and kind young men.

Sometimes, life can be a little rough. And no one knows more about that than detective Ed Winslow. But just because the mystery of his stalker has been solved doesn't mean everything is all sunshine and rainbows now. The question is, will things ever settle down enough so he can make more permanent arrangements with the love of his life? Or will there always be something else to stand in their way?

Unlike books that focus solely on theory, Raising Good Kids provides real-world strategies that you can apply immediately. Each chapter is filled with actionable steps, examples, and tips to help you navigate common parenting challenges.

This is the account of the coming out of a respected adventure survival filmmaker, taken from her journal entries as she leaves behind fear and white male privilege to embrace truth, grace and womanhood. Her gut-wrenching journey of love, acceptance and honesty becomes the ultimate survival show. Scottie didn't make it easy on herself. Like many late-stage trans women, Scottie had made one helluva guy; succeeding as a husband of 25 years.

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

This audiobook is a thoroughly researched, fact-checked, and concise resource for you, whether you're a first-time parent looking to learn the ropes or a veteran parent trying to revise their old ways. With this guide, you’ll no longer have to dread potty-training your child.

He's gone and you're devastated! All those good times ended, all future plans as a couple gone up in smoke. The man of your dreams has walked out, left you, and never wants to see you again. Or alternatively, he may have delivered the line, "Let's be friends". Even worse, is the guy who says, "Let's take a break", which really means he's taking a break, while you wonder what the heck to do! The good news is, in couples that break up there is a 90 percent chance of re-communication.

While the elders and adults struggled to keep secrets in the midst of stolen shoes, stolen dreams, and misbehavior, the four-year-old professor desperately held onto his desire for the future and urgency to be an adult. The older the professor got the stronger his vision became and it wasn't long before hidden secrets were exposed. Although the names have been changed the people are real and the story is true right down to the little professor's vision of Esta.

Best-selling author Tim Austin notes, "We live in a troubled world, where raising loving, responsible young men is a challenge." He takes a deep look at the important issues relevant to raising “rugged gentlemen” in a world where it is necessary to, sometimes, give them “permission to be tough".

Caleb secretly wonders what his life would be like if his two parents were still together. He must learn to fight his way past the thoughts of living in two separate homes. In his quest to understand why he has a divided home, he eventually understands why.

"Best Served Frozen is a chick flick with the meddlesome mothers-in-law played not by Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton but more like...if the Kray Brothers were women."--Colin Quinn Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hardened mother of seven Fionnuala Flood plans on serving hers up frozen. Or so she thinks. The bells are ringing out in Derry, Northern Ireland, as the dirt-poor Floods and the rich and entitled Riddells prepare for the pairing in matrimony of their families and a bridging of the gap between the two sniping communities. But some are not best pleased, and it might be more ...

This audiobook makes Montessori accessible to everyone. It outlines the key principles that underpin the approach succinctly and makes applying them immediate and practical for the average time-poor working parent. It provides quick, simple and accessible ways to ensure that your child's environment is a stimulating one. It also explores the family values that Montessori instils, and how the way in which you parent and your approach to relationships can encapsulate these. Your child may not attend a Montessori school, but your family can still live by Montessori principles.

This is a book about a valuable lesson for families who have children, one of the many phases that parents face when raising up their children, their children see toys all the time and want them. Most of the toys that they see is on TV of companies advertising their toys in all shapes, forms, and sizes. Which is then instilled in the child’s mind that they want what they see. Nevertheless, a simple grocery shopping trip can turn into an overspending toy buying frenzy.

Navigate the path of raising emotionally strong and secure boys from day one, even if the concept of fatherhood has you quaking in your boots!

When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life — watching her boy play at baseball games, walking him down the aisle. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability.

Ryan and Phil had always been inseparable. Twins born 35 minutes apart, Ryan was the protective one, constantly looking out for his younger brother. They can't remember how old they were when the abuse started, but they can remember their uncle very clearly. A frequent visitor to their home in Lincoln, he lavished their family with expensive treats. School holidays and weekends were spent visiting him, when he would often take the two little boys aside to play the games he liked. Trapped with him, day after day, year after year, the abuse continued until Ryan and Phil turned 16.