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Getting Back Together is the solid, comprehensive guide you can count on to get your relationship back on track. No matter what issues you may face, this step-by-step program shows you how to take the initiative, reconcile your differences, and remake your relationship - from the ground up. In this completely revised edition, Drs. Young and Goetz provide the most current studies and relationship evaluation tools available. They also include numerous inspiring real-life stories of couples that have resurrected and renewed their relationships.

Soft, smooth, and lustrous, a pearl offers a wonderful symbol for the human experience. Its beautiful polished surface conceals the difficulty with which it was created - by a living creature struggling with its environment. The same can be said of the human spirit. Often it is only when we are confronted with adversity that our souls are transformed to reveal the powerful, radiant life-force within. Dr. Bettie Youngs shares real-life pearls, the inspiring stories of people who have been transformed by the hardships they've faced - emerging stronger, wiser, and more alive than they have ever been.

Everyone has heard of Habitat for Humanity, the faith-based housing initiative that has built homes for more than a million of the world's poor. Many are familiar with its founders, Millard and Linda Fuller. But few know the amazing love story behind the movement a story that began accidentally and will conclude in a world forever changed by its impact. By age 29, Millard Fuller was a self-made millionaire. But that success came at a cost.

Most teens see the 10 Commandments as a bunch of old rules that no longer apply to them, but once the mystery is removed, it becomes clear they are as meaningful today as ever before. Adept at making sense of issues at the heart of young adults, Youngs shows how each commandment is an integral part of the foundation for moral and spiritual conduct, as well as for peace and prosperity.

A Teen's Guide to Christian Living takes a refreshing look at real faith in God and how it sustains the younger believer through the ups and downs of life. As teens cope with the pain and fear of divorced parents, broken or abusive relationships, illness, or simply the pressures of everyday living, this book will help to keep them on solid ground and gain a deeper understanding of their faith.

New from the Smart Teens-Smart Choices series: Information and encouragement for teens with stories by teens, for teens, about: The difference between using, dependency, and addiction; what to do if you or a friend can't stop using; withdrawal, relapse, and recovery; and cool ways to stand your ground and say "no" when being enticed to use drugs or alcohol.

This book helps parents understand the pressures that their children face every day: stress at school, stress from peer pressure, stress in the playground, and stress within family relationships. It explores the essential ways to reduce, manage, and prevent stress from birth to age 20. This guide leads parents through each stage of a child's emotional and social development.

The award-winning Kids Korps founders present parents with a fresh framework and the tools necessary to shape children into productive, well-adjusted, compassionate individuals. By focusing on the five Touchstones, they offer ways to surround their children with actions and messages designed to strengthen character, build self-esteem, and develop inner contentment.

This book argues that children with high self-esteem do better in school, and outlines the positive steps that parents can take to empower their children to meet life's challenges.

Helping Your Teenager Deal with Stress recognizes that you as a parent are undergoing a great deal of stress yourself and emphasizes that you don't need to be perfect to help your child. With anecdotes that show how other parents deal with problems, with practical exercises for you and your child, and with lists of organizations to contact and additional materials to read, this audiobook is a realistic and reassuring guide to helping your adolescent - and you - through the turbulent teenage years.

In the newly revised Gifts of the Heart, award-winning author Bettie B. Youngs gives us 18 beautiful, poignant short stories showing us that it is our honor, as much as it is our responsibility, to use the events of daily life to help others see their lives in the most positive way possible, so as to improve the world we live in and the lives of those with whom we share it.

The audiobook is divided into units on self-worth, self-respect, and self-esteem; friendship; love and meaningful relationships; finding meaning, purpose, and direction in life; giving, sharing, and making a difference; encouragement and success; and coping with pressure, stress, and tough issues. Real teens reviewed this work, and the authors completed it with the collaborative feedback of those teens.

How the commandments speak to you, the love behind each commandment and what each guards for daily living, support for guiding the choices we make, and, how to be confident and bold in your faith. A very inspirational book.

On the glorious journey to motherhood, this beautiful keepsake journal is the ideal traveling companion. Moments and Milestones Pregnancy Journal offers the expectant mother a week-by-week guide to her baby’s development and her own physical and emotional changes. Through her own weekly entries, the expectant mother will track every milestone - from check-ups and sonograms, cravings, and mood swings to that first kick and preparing for labor and delivery - while learning about the amazing changes happening as she nurtures a new life.

Offers a model to parents on the physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual well-being of their children.

Closely examines the causes of stress and offers techniques for both parent and child to deal with them individually and in an interactive way so as to overcome this often debilitating condition.

This practical guide for administrators promotes the idea that stress can be channeled constructively into peak performance and productivity and used for an added edge of zest. You’ll discover what professional and personal factors commonly produce stress for you, learn how stress affects you, and identify its physical, emotional, and behavioral manifestations. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to intervene, prevent, and offset the debilitating aspects of negative stress so that you can draw vitality from it.

Raising teenagers in today's society is more challenging than ever. Helping your teens to avoid drug and alcohol use, value an education, and construct a healthy identity is indeed an achievement. How can you do all of that? Of all your parenting actions, what will have the highest payoff in helping your teenagers? In this book, child-development counselor Dr. Bettie Youngs provides practical suggestions on how you can safeguard your teenagers and teaches you what to do if your child is already at risk.

In a time when many of us have stopped believing in the goodness of humanity, we need to remind ourselves that though there is dissonance in the world, there is even more peace, kindness, and love. In Taste-Berry Tales, Bettie B. Youngs inspires listeners with 25 poignant short stories of real-life people who make a difference in the lives of others. These individuals, by their example, teach us how to use the events of daily life to improve the world we live in and the lives of others with whom we share it.

In the Midwestern United States, blankets of wheat, alfalfa, and corn stretch as far as the eye can see. Farmers till the rich soil and harvest its abundance to feed a nation. This is a region where family values and respect for God and country are instilled in citizens from childhood. It was here, growing up in America's heartland, that Bettie Youngs learned the many values of family life: love, respect, honor, loyalty, and self discipline, among others. Told here in loving detail are nostalgic stories recollected from Youngs' life.