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"Knowing Mama: Conversations Before Farewell" is a tender guide to truly understanding and cherishing your mother. This book encourages you to ask meaningful questions, creating a deeper connection and uncovering the profound stories and emotions that shape her life. Starting with the importance of asking questions and how to prepare for these conversations, Cindy de Viveros guides you through various aspects of your mother's life—childhood, family, values, dreams, and beliefs.

Human, Flawed, Forgiven is a transformative guide that explores the complex journey of forgiveness for one's parents. The narrative is structured to help listeners understand that while parents are inherently flawed—as all humans are—holding onto anger and blame is a self-imposed burden that serves no purpose. It emphasizes that forgiveness is a gift one gives to oneself, a crucial step toward healing and building a healthier, happier life.

You’re about to discover how to create a relationship with your child that will ensure that your child is going to love to spend time with you by using positive parenting techniques. You will learn that, regardless of your previous relationship, by using the techniques in this book you will be able to create the relationship that you have always wanted.

The first uncensored biography to investigate our era's most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmaker reveals the controversial private life behind the iconic public persona.

How to Raise a Teen will cover: how the brain develops from 13 to 21 years (and beyond), how hormones impact behaviour, why teenagers suffer from an 'empathy deficit', why teenagers struggle with impulse control and risk assessment, how to help teenagers struggling with mental health, how to help teenagers with big decisions (such as GCSE, A Level, College, University, and career choices), how to manage homework, revision, and exam stress and more.

The relationship between a child and parent is, without a doubt, a very private and personal matter. The idea of giving parents instructions on how to talk with their kids never sits right. However, parents should understand that the more they talk about things, the more comfortable it will be for them. Why not talk with kids in order to make them listen to you, and why not listen to kids to make them talk?

Now you can gain a super-sharp memory, quickly and easily, while you drive, exercise, or relax. The breakthrough techniques in this program are the result of intensive research into the best way to train the human mind.

As a child, author Olivia S. Benson was puzzled by her relationship with her father and his absence in her life. It took many years and much soul searching for her to understand her life experiences and how profoundly his absence affected her. Benson finally solved the puzzle, when she began to understand the nature of the Universe: what GEFS—God, Energy, Force, Spirit—really was and how her suffering could serve for good in her life.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Marilyn Ann Scales Underwood dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. Moving to New York City to study at the Traphagen School of Fashion, she became an assistant designer and eventually returned to her hometown where she began her career as the first Black female executive at Barmon Brothers Company. Independent and content with being single, she wasn’t interested in marriage until she met Lieutenant Frank Underwood.

“That’s nail soup, Janie. It will give you all the iron you need. Go ahead and eat up. We have work to do!” And there really is work to do. Jane Eden’s dad was once a successful farmer, construction-company owner, and church builder, and he tore right through Middle Tennessee successfully for more than half a century. But then her brother’s accidental death changed everything. And her dad started eating strange food, building odd contraptions to save money and hoarding. He simply refused to let go of anything from old fast-food containers to unfixable bull dozers and archaic ...

If you think her only options are parenting and abortion, this book is for you. American adoption is nothing like it used to be. Those forced, secret adoptions hurt women and their children. Thankfully, adoption in the US has changed dramatically. If you never thought about suggesting adoption, (and never thought you would!), this book is for you.

This is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it. Demanding worms around the clock, riffling through his wallet, sharing his baths and roosting in his hair.... About the jackdaw kept at a Cornish stately home by Heathcote Williams, anarchist, poet, magician, stealer of Christmas and Charlie's biological father who vanished from his life in the dead of night.

Discover a vital guide for today’s tech-driven world with "Technology and Family Life." This essential eBook dives deep into the pervasive influence of technology on modern family interactions and offers practical solutions to foster healthier, more balanced relationships. Begin your journey with an insightful exploration of technology’s role within family life. From the conveniences it brings to the dependencies it creates, understand the psychological impact of constant connectivity and how it shapes family dynamics. Assess your family’s tech usage with actionable strategies to ...

When Judith's son Alexander announces that he; his wife, Marla; their daughter, Olivia (age five); and their two sons, Isaac (age two) and Toby (four months); will be staying with her and her husband for 90 days while their house was being renovated, Judy doesn't know quite how to respond.

Are you navigating the journey of parenthood as your children transition into adulthood? Discover the key to maintaining a harmonious and fulfilling relationship with your grown children in "Balancing Act", a comprehensive guide that sheds light on every facet of this evolving dynamic. In this insightful eBook, delve into the emotional impact of the empty nest syndrome and learn to cope with shifting family dynamics. Explore strategies for setting boundaries that foster respect and understanding while embracing your adult child's independence. "Balancing Act" goes beyond boundaries to ...

In der Beziehung zur eigenen Mutter liegt der Schlüssel zur Freiheit. Viele erwachsene Töchter und ihre Mütter treibt die Frage um, warum sie nicht miteinander auskommen. Sie rätseln, warum Gefühle von Wut, Enttäuschung und unerfüllter Sehnsucht die Beziehung dominieren, gerade dann, wenn beide Frauen selbstständig und mit beiden Beinen im Leben stehen. Diese Brüche und Entfremdungen zwischen Mutter und Tochter können gekittet und viele Fehler und Missverständnisse in der nächsten Generation vermieden werden.

Ashley R Wood and her father, Lewis E Wood, embark on the difficult conversation of healing after divorce. Both share insights into their upbringing, which ultimately impacted their response to the family splitting up.

Coming from a place of overwhelming compassion for both the addict and the parent, Patty provides a no-nonsense approach to instructing parents on healthier ways to navigate the challenges they face as the parent of a struggling child, whether the child is 14 or 54. She offers clear and concise dos and don'ts to help parents protect themselves from the ravages of this disease. She debunks terms like enabling, detachment, and self-care and guides parents through practical tools and behaviors to help them begin to find peace even if their child continues to struggle.

The transition from teenager to young adult can sometimes be overwhelming and confusing. As a teenager, you must deal with stress and anxiety daily. But unfortunately, adults don’t always understand you. You are also still learning to do tasks such as cleaning, cooking, or keeping organized.

On a fateful day in the fall of 2008, Melanie Schwarz realized she had failed miserably as a mother. Her denial of her daughter’s recent actions and changes had brought her to a place where rejecting reality was no longer an option. As she finally accepted Morgan’s addiction, she knew that her every action and reaction from that point on would either positively or negatively mold their lives.