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Success is about more than accomplishment—it's about the people on the journey with you. From Start to Finish is more than a memoir from a lifetime educator—it's a legacy of wisdom, woven from a lifetime of stories and lessons meant to inspire future generations. Written with the intent of one day sharing with his grandchildren, this heartfelt, and often humorous, collection offers timeless insights into the value of faith, relationships, and integrity to shape a fulfilling life and career. “If I’ve learned anything at this point on my journey,” says Dr. Alexander, “it’s that ...

Are you a parent or educator struggling to decipher the complex adolescent brain? Do you find yourself bewildered by their sudden mood swings and rebellious acts, and you wish you could understand how their minds operate so that you can see things from their perspective to foster more harmonious interactions? Relax and let this guide break down the adolescent psyche for you!

Your mom and her emotional absence has a lot to do with your current state in life. The Emotionally Absent Mother will delve into your mother's apathy, and why such a lack of compassion may not be her fault. This audiobook will also help you find ways to cope with the pain that you suffered as a child, as well as look past the scars to see a better future.

New York Times number-one best-selling author Richard Eyre encourages gradfathers to ask themselves a very important question: what kind of grandfather will you be? Will you be a disengaged grandfather, who downsizes to an adults-only condo in Sun City by a golf course and rarely sees his grandkids? Will you be a limited grandfather, a supportive grandfather, or best of all will you be a proactive grandfather?

The award-winning memoir When All That's Left of Me Is Love is poignant and powerful. Linda Campanella provides an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives the joy-filled year and long good-bye leading to her terminally ill mother's death. In the process, she comes to terms with the permanence of her loss and finds comfort in profound gratitude for many unexpected gifts.

Congratulations! So, you’re all grown up and ready to spread your wings and leave the nest. But what’s next? How much will it cost? How do you build a career that will support you and one day a family of your own? As you have gotten older, you’re now taking on more responsibilities, and it will be 100% up to you to accomplish them all. There are many life skills that are NOT being taught in school! Do not worry; with or without a starting budget, you can do this!The good news is with this book you’ll be able to avoid many pitfalls and start with a strong foundation of knowledge to ...

Heading off to college is a monumental step. Is the high school graduate in your life truly prepared for what's ahead? Introducing College Bound, the essential guide to navigating the complexities of college life. No fluff, just real, actionable strategies to tackle the challenges they'll face. This book is a practical toolkit, turning overwhelmed freshmen into confident students.

Help your adult children live their best life possible. More than one-third of 18-34-year-olds are living in their parents’ home, and one in four of them does not go to school or work each day. This situation is leaving more than a few parents of adult children wondering how they can graciously nudge them out without flushing their relationship down the drain. Parenting young adult children includes teaching them adulting stuff so they can leave home and build their own life. You’ve done this, so why won’t they go? Susan Forester has gathered advice, guidance, and statistics from ...

From the acclaimed author of Stuffed comes an intimate memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives - the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother - to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.

There is a lot of information available to help children and teens work through their parents’ divorce. Unfortunately, that is not the same with adults who suddenly find themselves thrust into a situation of their parents divorcing. People often believe that the emotions surrounding such a pivotal event will not impact older individuals as harshly as a child or teens due to our being grown already. While our emotional intelligence is further developed, a divorce even for an adult child is traumatic, a large change, and often difficult to navigate positively.

Today's technology has made sinful experiences and deadly choices accessible to our teenagers and young adults with just a click. And parents are left with the disappointments—and devastating fallout—of their children's choices. Through sharing her own story of praying three very wayward prodigals home, Laine Lawson Craft offers not only hope and insight, but also a practical, tried-and-true battle plan for parents walking this heartbreaking season of life.

Coming out to Mom is a lesbian rite of passage. In the third edition of this landmark anthology, 34 remarkable women face their fears and confusion, prejudice and misunderstandings, and speak honestly and bravely about the difficulties and joys of life with their "different daughters". Among the topics of discussion are family, community, religion, grandchildren, bisexuality, transgenderism, and coming out.

Survive — and even laugh — your Sandwich Generation years, without losing your mind (or your sense of humor). Juggling kids, aging parents, and a busy career—and wondering if cloning yourself is your only option? Shuttling between school pickup, pharmacy runs, and group texts that never quit? Dealing with a moody teen while also getting “I’m fine” from a parent who clearly isn’t? If any of this hits home, breathe: you’ve found your people. The Sandwich Generation Diaries is your witty, down-to-earth companion on this wild ride. You’ll find field-tested tips, laugh-out-loud...

After her mother's passing, an unexplained memento prompts the author to take a deep dive into the past. Topics include mother-daughter relationships, interfaith marriage, and caregiving for loved ones with dementia and cancer, as well as successful methods of coping with grief.

Let’s face it! Parenting a teenage girl can be a real struggle, with heated tempers, raised voices, coupled with the feeling of constantly walking around on eggshells worried when the next fall out will be. Moments like these can often fuel an ever-growing void driving you both further and further apart. To be honest moments like this can often leave you both upset, frazzled, confused, angry and downright frustrated. Well, if this is you or maybe some degree of what you are going through, remember you are not alone! Chances are there are a number of important things you may need to more ...

When an aging loved one suddenly needs long-term care, families are often emotionally and financially unprepared for the road ahead. This essential guide gives you a comprehensive overview of the senior care industry so you and your family can make informed decisions. You’ll find valuable insights, practical advice and step-by-step strategies to help you define your assets, identify available financial resources and make the best choices about your loved one’s care.

In the fall of 2012, after working on a presidential campaign that suffered a devastating loss, Stuart Stevens, having turned 60, realized that he and his 95-year-old father had spent little time together for decades. His solution: a season of attending Ole Miss football games together, as they'd done when college football provided a way for his father to guide him through childhood - and to make sense of the troubled South of the time.

*** Winner Reader Views 2nd Place Reviewers Choice Award, Religion Category *** 4.1 on Goodreads 48 ratings BE PREPARED FOR YOUR NEXT ENCOUNTER WITH THE BULLY IN YOUR FAMILY OR CHURCH In this Revised Edition of her award-winning book Narcissistic Confrontations, Sister Renee Pittelli will teach you about abusive battle tactics, recognizing poisonous people, toxic group dynamics and helpful strategies for handling toxic birth-families as well as abusive church families, with invaluable insights and information about phony “Christians” and toxic churches, the biblically in-error “...

""Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..."" In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician, Prospero? The Tempest was the last of Shakespeare's comedies, completed just before he retired to his native...

The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a "year in Provence" with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a 77-year-old woman set in her ways....