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Augusta National is golf’s Holy Grail. Navigating the azaleas to play the exclusive course that hosts The Masters is a pipe dream for every golfer. Imagine being afforded the opportunity not only to play the course, but to be able to bring your father along for the ride. To complete the priceless fantasy, Jack Nicklaus - “The Golden Bear” - hosts the round. Through fate, coincidence and good fortune, Joe Wessel managed to find a way to make that happen. In White Fang and The Golden Bear, Wessel recounts that special round, how it came about, and what happened....

“Fatherhood Matters!” delves deep into the complex dynamics of single parenting, shedding light on the trials and triumphs experienced by parents and children in single-parent households. Written by Anthony Owens, who was raised by a single parent himself, this book provides a poignant and empathetic narrative that resonates with readers facing similar circumstances. Through personal stories, Owens explores the unique challenges faced by single parents, from financial strains to emotional burdens.

Imagine your plane is going down. Prayer is useless. Fiery death awaits. Now imagine your children. The hours spent feeding, giggling, changing diapers, soothing tantrums, gazing into eyes...all will fade from their memories until you're just a name.

After becoming trapped in present-day Bath due to a mishap with her time-traveling charm, Jane Austen is safe and sound back in the 1800s thanks to Rose Wallace’s help. Now, Rose is ready to focus on her fledgling romance with dreamy Dr. Aiden Trevellyan. But when Jane reappears in the present, it looks like Rose and Aiden have no choice but to follow her back to 1813....

Take your parenting game to the next level with positive discipline! Do you question your parenting skills whenever your toddler throws a tantrum? Does bedtime feel like an uphill battle? Do you want to raise a happy and confident child? Positive parenting provides you with all the right tools you need to raise a happy, confident, and well-behaved child. Positive parenting is a simple concept that focuses on positive discipline. Remember, there are no bad children; it all boils down to behaviors.

You’re going to be a Daddy! Now what? Help I’m a Dad Now - This audiobook is a great resource for men becoming fathers, dad’s with children, and supporting co-parents...Through the journey of parenting, you will encounter happiness, difficulties, and everything in between. With help from this audiobook you will be able to feel more prepared and fully confident to tackle parenthood. You can become the best dad ever! With the aid provided through Help I’m a Dad Now. If you just believe in yourself, your experience as a father will be ground breaking! You got this!

An unlikely author, Cooper the Pooper, is a dog with a nose for the hilarious, and he’s sniffed out the most cringe-worthy dad jokes on the planet and collected them all into one glorious volume of cringe. With more than 400 hilarious jokes, your family will have enough witty one-liners and side-splitting anecdotes to fill a box of Christmas crackers (and Dad won’t be the only one embarrassing your teens on their birthday).

Marc Sedaka stood by while he and his wife endured endless rounds of drug therapies, 16 artificial inseminations, 10 in-vitro fertilizations, three miscarriages, and finally, a gestational surrogate ("womb for rent") who carried their twin girls to term. He was as supportive and loving as he could be, but he really wished he'd had a book like What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting during the process.

Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it, except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune (and now and then in many other papers), Erskine distills, mocks, and makes us laugh at the absurdities of suburban fatherhood. And now, he's gathered the very best of these witty and wise essays - and invited his kids (and maybe even Posh) to annotate them with updated commentary.

When Justin Taylor was 30, his father, Larry, drove to the top of an airport parking garage to take his own life. Thanks to the intervention of family members, he was not successful, but the incident would forever transform how Justin thinks of his father and how he thinks of himself as a son. Moving back and forth in time from that day, Riding with the Ghost captures the past's power to shape, strengthen, and distort our visions of ourselves and each other.

Single dads are as nervous as single moms about merging their parental responsibilities with their social lives, but they often don't have intimate friendships in which to share their concerns. Drawing on her own experience as a single parent, interviews and surveys she conducted with more than a hundred single fathers and their children, and the advice of family therapist Dr. Paul Halpern, Fisher gives the lowdown on a range of tricky topics.

This book encourages men to father with the knowledge that they are vitally important to the futures of their children. National speaker Michael Byron Smith discusses the implications of a fatherless home, the challenges of parenting, and the hierarchy of fathers. There are absent fathers, present yet uninvolved fathers, authoritative fathers, loving fathers, teaching fathers, and many more.

At first, Simon’s beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer’s. Ted was disappearing from the family, but Simon wanted to hold on to him. While music could bring him back temporarily - the video of the two of them singing along to Ted’s favorite song was a hit around the world - Ted could no longer tell his story. This is that story.

Marriage, children, money, and everyday battles take their toll on any parent. This book navigates a clear path through the roller coaster of life. Get ready to laugh, cry, and be motivated by author Rick Daynes, the keeping-it-real father of five, three of whom have special needs. Although he speaks to dads of special kids, these life-changing solutions inspire all parents who want to empower their marriage and shape the brightest future for their family.

Die Bedeutung, die das Thema "der Vater meiner Kindheit und Jugend" für unser heutiges Leben, für unsere ganze Art durch's Leben zu gehen, hat, wird immer noch sehr unterschätzt oder verdrängt...

Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father, John William, was, and remains, a family love story overflowing with tenderness and tall tales of sporting valour, usually involving Yorkshire cricket or Barnsley FC. However, it was the overwhelming grief which poured out of Michael when Piers Morgan pressed him about John William in a television interview that convinced one of the outstanding broadcasters and journalists of our time to delve deeper into the dynamics of their lives together.

When Brad Meltzer's first son was born eight years ago, the best-selling writer and new father started compiling a list of heroes whose virtues and talents he wanted to share with his son: Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Jim Henson, Amelia Earhart, Muhammad Ali...and so many more, each one an ordinary person who was able to achieve the extraordinary.

Most parenting books out there only seem to be for mothers - but you’ve probably already noticed that. No one is helping the dads through the responsibilities of fatherhood. Fatherhood can be one of the most beautiful roles you take on in your lifetime, if you play your cards right. Inside, you will find the resources you need to travel down the line with your newborn and create an everlasting bond between father and child.

In the Fall of 1970, at the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford wearing Frye boots, with long blond hair and a passion for his students that was as intense as it was rebellious. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also a twin competing for the attention and affection of his parents. He had a burning need to feel special. The new teacher supplied that need.

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!