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Commando Dad: New Recruits
by Neil SinclairIn your hand is an indispensable pocket-sized training manual for new dads. Written by ex-Commando and father of three, Neil Sinclair, this no-nonsense guide will teach you how to: * Prepare base camp for your baby trooper's arrival * Survive the first 24 hours * Establish feeding/sleeping routines And much, much more. Let training commence!
Commando Dad: A Basic Training Manual for the First Three Years of Fatherhood
by Neil SinclairAn indispensable training manual for new recruits to fatherhood—written by an ex-Commando and dad of three.Commando Dad provides clear and logical advice on all the practicalities of becoming a new father and offers simple, helpful instruction for all obstacles along the way. Neil Sinclair teach prospective fathers, in no-nonsense terms, how to survive the first twenty-four hours; how to Prepare and Plan to Prevent Poor Parental Performance; how to maintain morale in the ranks; how to feed, clothe, transport, and entertain your troops; how to transport the troops successfully on maneuvers; how to increase your “flash to bang” time and “square away” tasks along the way.
Commando Dad: Get Outdoors with Your Kids
by Neil Sinclair Tara SinclairThis fully illustrated field guide is loaded with dozens of activities, games and crafts for you and your troops to enjoy in the great outdoors, from forest skills to creative pursuits. These mission briefs are expertly designed to make sure your squad learns valuable skills, stays safe and has a lot of fun. Suitable for ages 3 to 13.
Comment améliorer le comportement de votre enfant dès maintenant
by Karen Campbell IsabelleLes trois secrets d'une bonne éducation consistent à donner le bon exemple, rester cohérent et définir des attentes. Ca a l’air simple, non ? Eh bien, si vous suivez les conseils dispensés dans ce livre et que vous vous y tenez, vous constaterez que les changements se produisent presque immédiatement. Nombreux sont les parents qui livrent un combat quotidien pour garder leurs enfants sous contrôle. Ils se débattent et ne savent pas comment façonner le comportement de leurs enfants. Les enfants sont de plus en plus nombreux à présenter des problèmes de comportement, tant à l’école que chez eux. Un nombre croissant d’enfants entrent à l'école maternelle en affichant un comportement antisocial, notamment par les insultes, les bagarres et le refus de coopérer. Beaucoup d’adolescents sont incontrôlables, irrespectueux et malheureux. Il appartient aux parents de modeler le comportement de leurs enfants, et ce dès la naissance. Certains ont beaucoup de mal à le faire. Ils baissent souvent les bras et se résignent à satisfaire les moindres désirs et exigences de leurs enfants. L’abandon laisse entendre à l’enfant que s’il crie suffisamment fort, s’il fait une colère ou devient physiquement violent, il obtiendra ce qu'il veut. Si vous vous trouvez dans cette situation ou si vous souhaitez uniquement que votre enfant fasse preuve de respect, achetez ce livre et suivez ses conseils. Karen Campbell et son co-auteur sont des professeurs plusieurs fois récompensés qui ont transformé la vie de nombreux enfants au cours des 30 dernières années. Elles vous transmettent leurs secrets d’un changement de comportement réussi dans ‘Comment améliorer le comportement de votre enfant dès maintenant’. Elles sont également les auteurs d’autres ouvrages sur la Parentalité disponibles sur Amazon. ‘La parentalité positive : Comment éviter les écueils et élever un enfant dont vous serez fier’ réunit les 7 livres
Comment Trouver un Epoux Pieux: Étapes pratiques pour trouver sa femme ou son mari
by Sesan OguntadeDésirez-vous vous marier avec un conjoint et jouir d'une vie conjugale longue et heureuse ? Si vous êtes célibataire et que vous voulez cela, vous devez apprendre comment trouver ce conjoint pieux. Selon un récent sondage, en 2020, le taux de divorce aux États-Unis s'élevait à 2,3 pour 1 000 habitants. Dans un récent sondage de Gallup, > Naturellement, le taux de divorce est très faible chez les jeunes adultes, dont beaucoup n'ont jamais été mariés. Seuls 6 % des 18-29 ans ont connu le divorce, contre 28 % des 30-29 ans. Bien que les statistiques ci-dessus semblent encourageantes pour les jeunes adultes, le fait que le taux augmente au fur et à mesure que ces jeunes adultes vieillissent devrait attirer l'attention de chaque jeune ou jeune adulte, célibataire ou non marié. De plus, chaque situation de divorce entraîne des conséquences diverses et variées. Même parmi les chrétiens, les couples ont de plus en plus de mal à vivre en harmonie, comme Dieu le veut. Ces statistiques inquiétantes devraient être un signal d'alarme pour les futurs mariés, les jeunes ou les célibataires d'aujourd'hui. Il est vrai que de nombreux facteurs sont responsables de l'augmentation du taux de divorce et de la difficulté des couples à vivre en harmonie l'un avec l'autre. J'ai eu l'occasion, par la grâce de Dieu, de conseiller des couples et d'intervenir dans des querelles conjugales, et j'ai observé que la plupart d'entre eux se trompent au moment de faire le choix du conjoint. Ce livre chrétien utilise des illustrations tirées des histoires de la Bible et des expériences personnelles de l'auteur et d'autres personnes sur lesquelles il a enquêté pour présenter un guide simple à comprendre sur la façon de trouver un partenaire pieux pour le mariage. Je veux que vous lisiez ce livre aujourd'hui et que vous le recommandez à vos amis.
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
by Dan SavageDan Savage's mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn't want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren't "allowed" to get married, but that he'd like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan's straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone--gay or straight, right or left, single or married--howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails. .
Commitment: A novel
by Mona SimpsonA NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother&’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.&“A sweeping family epic that took me from one American coast to another…Simpson is so attuned to the family heart.&” —Weike Wang, author of Joan Is OkayWhen Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she hasn&’t, she&’s worked hard to secure their future in caste-driven 1980s Los Angeles, gaining them illegal entry to an affluent public school. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother&’s dreams for them alive.At Berkeley, Walter discovers a passion for architecture just as he realizes his life as a student may need to end for lack of funds. Back home in LA, his sister, Lina, who works in an ice-cream parlor while her wealthy classmates are preparing for Ivy league schools, wages a high stakes gamble to go there with them. And Donny, the little brother everybody loves, begins to hide in plain sight, coding, gaming, and drifting towards a life on the beach, where he falls into an escalating relationship with drugs.Moving from Berkeley and Los Angeles to New York and back again, this is a story about one family trying to navigate the crisis of their lives, a crisis many know first-hand in their own families or in those of their neighbors. A resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill, Commitment honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the lives of our children left on their own. With Commitment, Mona Simpson, one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time, has written her most important and unforgettable novel.
Commitment in Couples Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to Assessing Relationship Durability
by Stephen J. BetchenCommitment in Couples Therapy offers a comprehensive clinical guide to help those who work with couples determine the authenticity of a couple’s commitment, and to guide their decision on whether the relationship is worth salvaging.The purpose of this book is to focus on those couples who have joined for reasons that pose a significant chance of relational failure. This specific dyad entails one seemingly “committed” partner and one apparently “less committed” partner, both of whom may be conscious or unconscious about their sabotaging behavior in the relationship. Betchen offers a clinical model to treat the commitment issue and help the couple’s therapist skillfully uncover each partner’s conflict with commitment, determine the couple’s true relational status, and determine how to re-contract the relationship on more authentic grounds. Chapters provide coverage of the unconscious match process, the sociocultural, transactional, familial, and psychological factors behind commitment, and countertransference, with case studies throughout. Finally, this book offers critical assessment and treatment strategies for therapists to implement in their practice.This book is an essential read for mental health clinicians of all levels, and a valuable resource for graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs.
Committed: A Love Story
by Elizabeth GilbertAt the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other,but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said. ) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U. S. government, who -after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing -gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving completely into this topic, trying with all her might to discover (through historical research, interviews and much personal reflection) what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. The result is Committed- a witty and intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood. Gilbert's memoir - destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage - is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
Committed: A Memoir of Madness in the Family
by Paolina MilanaAfter a decade of caring for crazy and keeping her mother&’s mental illness a secret from the outside world, twenty-year-old Paolina Milana longs for just one year free from the madness of her home. When she gets the chance to go to an out-of-state school, she takes it, but her family won&’t leave her be. Letter after letter arrives, constantly reminding her of the insanity rooted in her family tree. Even worse, the voices in her own head whisper words she&’s not sure are normal. &“Please don&’t make me be like Mamma,&” she prays to a God she&’s not sure is listening.The unexpected death of her father soon after she returns home leaves Paolina in shock—and in charge of her paranoid schizophrenic mother. But it isn&’t until she is twenty-seven and her sister two years her junior explodes in a psychotic episode and, just like Mamma, is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and must be committed, that Paolina descends into her own despair, nearly losing herself to the darkness.Poignant and impactful, Committed is one woman&’s story of resilience as she struggles to stay sane despite the madness that surrounds her.
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
by Adam SternGrey&’s Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist&’s charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities around the nation. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them &“The Golden Class,&” but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned while studying the human condition, and ultimately, the value of connection. The narrative focuses on these residents, their growth as doctors, and the life choices they make as they try to survive their grueling four-year residency. Rich with drama, insight, and emotion, Stern shares engrossing stories of life on the psychiatric wards, as well as the group&’s experiences as they grapple with impostor syndrome and learn about love and loss. Most importantly, as they study how to help distressed patients in search of a better life, they discover the meaning of failure and the preciousness of success. Stern&’s growth as a doctor, and as a man, have readers rooting for him and his patients, and ultimately find their own hearts fuller for having taken this journey with him.
The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
by Daniel Thomas CookIn this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture--and the commodification of childhood itself--by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children's clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of children's clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather than the mother. Cook situates this fundamental shift in perspective within the broader transformation of the child into a legitimate, individualized, self-contained consumer. The Commodification of Childhood begins with the publication of the children's wear industry's first trade journal, The Infants' Department, in 1917 and extends into the early 1960s, by which time the changes Cook chronicles were largely complete. Analyzing trade journals and other documentary sources, Cook shows how the industry created a market by developing and promulgating new understandings of the "nature," needs, and motivations of the child consumer. He discusses various ways that discursive constructions of the consuming child were made material: in the creation of separate children's clothing departments, in their segmentation and layout by age and gender gradations (such as infant, toddler, boys, girls, tweens, and teens), in merchants' treatment of children as individuals on the retail floor, and in displays designed to appeal directly to children. Ultimately, The Commodification of Childhood provides a compelling argument that any consideration of "the child" must necessarily take into account how childhood came to be understood through, and structured by, a market idiom.
Common Cold: A Troubleshooting Guide for Parents (The Everything®)
by Adams MediaFor parents, few experiences provoke more anxiety than the thought of a sick child. The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to understand your child’s ailments and provide the best possible care. Childhood illnesses are inevitable; the way you approach treatment is not. Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on what causes the common cold, what does not, telltale symptoms, when to let the cold run it’s course and when it could be more serious, and the best treatment options. With a little guidance, you can abbreviate your child’s cold and help them return to a happy and healthy childhood.
Common Complaints in Couple Therapy: New Approaches to Treating Marital Conflict
by Joan LachkarMarriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions feeling depressed, traumatized, and sometimes abused by their partners. Joan Lachkar examines the vicissitudes of love relations by taking into account aspects of aggression, cruelty, sadism, envy, and other primitive defenses lurking in the shadows of love and intimacy. Each chapter revolves around a specific situational conflict, with guidelines and treatment suggestions offered to the therapist. Numerous vignettes and detailed descriptions of theoretical technique, methodology, and diagnostic distinctions are included throughout the book to help readers see theory in action. The theoretical concepts drawn on include psychoanalysis, object relations, self-psychology, attachment theory, DBT, mindfulness, and others, with a heavy emphasis on listening and non-verbal and verbal communication throughout.
Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy
by Judith P. LeavittCommon Dilemmas in Couple Therapy addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices – problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. These dilemmas encompass not only the difficult challenges therapists face everyday, but also the passions and profound disappointments of human intimate partnerships. The purpose of this book is not only to explore and give case illustrations of these dilemmas, but also to give therapists strategies to use and help them understand and handle their own profound experiences while doing this work.
Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy
by Sean Davis Douglas SprenkleGrounded in theory, research, and extensive clinical experience, this pragmatic book addresses critical questions of how change occurs in couple and family therapy and how to help clients achieve better results. The authors show that regardless of a clinician's orientation or favored techniques, there are particular therapist attributes, relationship variables, and other factors that make therapy specifically, therapy with couples and families effective. The book explains these common factors in depth and provides hands-on guidance for capitalizing on them in clinical practice and training. User-friendly features include numerous case examples and a reproducible common factors checklist.
Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy: The Overlooked Foundation for Effective Practice
by Douglas H. Sprenkle Sean D. Davis Jay L. LebowThe major strength of this book is that it is the first of its kind in marriage and family therapy. It does a very good job of summarizing all of the existing literature (e. g. , journal articles and psychotherapy books), so if you haven't read much on common factors, this will be a great book for you. If you have a solid understanding of common factors, this can still be a very good book, but I wouldn't expect anything new or groundbreaking. The authors acknowledge that a great deal more research is needed to truly understand common factors, but they do a good job of presenting the information that currently exists. Some of the information you will gain from this book is (1) an understanding of how common factors influence relational therapy; (2) the history of common factors in other fields; (3) a few specific common factors that have been studied more than others (e. g. , therapeutic alliance, client motivation); and (4) how a common factors approach/framework can influence clinical work with couples and families.
Common Grace: Poems (Raised Voices)
by Aaron Caycedo-KimuraThe first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wifeIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, Common Grace offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love.Part 1, &“Soul Sauce,&” describes the poet&’s life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound.Part 2, &“Ubasute,&” is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein &“a grown son lifts / his aged mother on his back, / delivers her to a mountain, / leaves her to die.&” This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parents&’ decline and death, reaching back to his father&’s time in the American internment camps of WWII and his mother&’s memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the two outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents.Part 3, &“Gutter Trees,&” gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives they&’ve built together.Ranging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimura&’s poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet.
Common Man, Extraordinary Call: Thriving as the Dad of a Child with Special Needs
by Jeff Davidson Becky DavidsonChallenges, equips, and inspires fathers of children with special needsBecoming the father of a child with special needs can feel like being drafted into the military--and starting duty as a general. Dad is expected to know how to set rules and run drills without any training in leadership. And there are very few resources for men who want to be involved but need guidance and specific ideas. Overwhelmed, many fathers end up going AWOL on their families.As a twenty-year veteran of special-needs parenting, Jeff Davidson wrote a field manual to give fathers the skills required for the day-to-day demands of parenting. Jeff helps men discover God's new mission for their lives in each of five specific roles: warrior, protector, provider, encourager, and equipper. He offers rich, real-life examples from dads in the field and a no-nonsense approach from initial diagnosis onward. This book is filled with practical how-tos for parenting in the special needs world, bullet points for easy reading and quick reference, and a Mission Critical synopsis at the end of each chapter.Informal and task-oriented, Common Man, Extraordinary Call offers growth and hope for men with little free time. And as they process their instructions, they'll be able to mentor other fathers, creating a strong army of men who not only survive but thrive as capable dads to their children with special needs.
Common Sense Pregnancy
by Jeanne Faulkner Christy Turlington Erin ThorntonBecome a mama without the drama When you're pregnant, your friends, the Internet, and even your doctor often give advice that leaves you anxious and overwhelmed. You deserve a calm, straightforward, no-nonsense pregnancy. It's time to dial down the stress and dial up the common sense. Common Sense Pregnancy is a breath of fresh air: accessible, authoritative, funny, reassuring, and personable, while still chock-full of comprehensive, medically-sound advice. Women's health expert, labor nurse, mother of four, and Fit Pregnancy.com columnist Jeanne Faulkner has been at the bedside for thousands of deliveries and provides the honest insider advice you need during pregnancy, labor, birth, and beyond, including straight talk on: · Which prenatal tests you actually need, and which you don't. · Who's on your labor team--and how to keep your labor room drama free. · What about sex? · How to deal with feeling lousy. · What works and what doesn't for starting labor naturally. · How to avoid unnecessary and risky medical interventions. Whether you want your pregnancy and birth to be all natural, all medical, or something in between, Common Sense Pregnancy eliminates the fear and puts you in charge of your body and prenatal experience, and helps you make the right choices for you and your baby.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Common Thread: Mothers and Daughters: The Bond We Never Outgrow
by Martha ManningNo relationship is more fulfilling, infuriating, emotional, and problematic than that of mother and daughter. Now, in a work filled with truth, surprises, and humor, renowned psychologist and author Martha Manning offers mothers and daughters of all ages a new way to understand each other. Challenging the accepted premise that this powerful bond must be severed for emotional growth, Manning shows us why this precious attachment is never outgrown, how, if it is damaged, it can be healed, and what will enrich this lifelong commitment while fostering essential independence. The key is empathy, and Manning provides potent tools to help us build stronger ties and celebrate the crazy twists, joys, and secrets inherent in this most glorious of life connections.Combining personal experiences and scrupulous research, The Common Thread helps each of us develop a mutually empowering relationship -- and laugh, too -- as we more deeply connect with and appreciate the mother or daughter we love.
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett<P>The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. <P>One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. <P>Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. <P>When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. <P>Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Commonwealth Caribbean Family Law: Husband, Wife, and Cohabitant (Commonwealth Caribbean Law)
by Karen TesheiraThis important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. It is the first and only legal text that comprehensively covers all the main substantive areas of spousal family law, including marriage, divorce, financial support, property rights and domestic violence. The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. The book also covers the number and variations of divorce regimes applicable to the region – the matrimonial offence divorce model of Guyana and Montserrat, the English five fact model of Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Grenada, Anguilla, and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hybrid model of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and St Kitts and Nevis, and the no fault model of Jamaica and Barbados. This book will prove an indispensable resource for law students and legal academics, as well as for family law practitioners across the English-speaking Caribbean. Other professionals, including sociologists and social workers, will also find the book useful and informative.
Communicating Better with People on the Autism Spectrum: 35 Things You Need to Know
by Paddy-Joe MoranCovering verbal and non-verbal communication, Paddy-Joe Moran presents 35 simple tips and strategies to help professionals improve their communication and relationships with individuals on the autism spectrum. The language that professionals choose to use can have a long-term impact on autistic people. This book provides easy-to-implement suggestions to guarantee effective and sensitive communication. It explains everything from person-first language through to the use of specific, rather than open-ended, questions, and a focus on taking the individual's lead with their preferred language and terminology is central to the book.
Communicating with Children
by Rachel FearnleyWhen a parent is nearing the end of life, children can feel like their world has been turned upside down, and they are often scared and confused about what is happening. Sensitive and clear communication with children is vital to help them understand and cope with their parent's illness. This accessible book demonstrates how to support children through effective and sensitive communication, covering types of communication, language, information sharing, and overcoming common barriers. Developing confidence and skills such as talking, listening, giving children a voice and breaking bad news is also covered. The author outlines the concept of a 'communication continuum' which can be used to assess how much a child knows or understands about their parent's illness and how much they would like to know. The book contains a wealth of practical strategies and ideas, as well as case vignettes, practice tips and reflective exercises. This is an essential resource for anyone working with or supporting a child whose parent is at the end of life, including palliative care workers, nurses, social workers, teachers and counsellors.