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Why do we say "no dice" when refusing someone's request? Why are some people born with a “silver spoon” in their mouths? What does it truly mean to be a “jack of all trades”? Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. In Why Do We Say That, we have curated 101 regularly used idioms, proverbs, turns of phrases, and colloquial terms that have the most fascinating backstories. For each phrase, we have explained how it was coined, how its use evolved through the ages, and how it gained its contemporary use.

This book explores the realities of considering sleep training a breastfed baby. Before making this decision, it is important to know how it might impact lactation. The book serves to educate and empower parents to go into the decision-making process fully informed. This includes exploring all the other ways to facilitate rest outside of sleep training options. Laying out data and options without judgement, this book can be a tool to help parents make the best personalized decisions for their family around lactation and sleep.

Learn how to homeschool high school with confidence! Learn what to cover during homeschool freshman year and homeschool sophomore year. If your plan to get homeschool started in are starting homeschool in 9th grade, get ready! These are exciting years in your child's life! Let Lee teach you how to get home school started right! Homeschooling for high school doesn't have to be overwhelming! Let Lee reassure you that you can relax during freshman and sophomore year - you can't mess it up beyond repair!

Empaths can be your best friend, or they can be your worst enemy. Empaths are the great people around you who feel and respond to things a little differently to most people. The physical empath will feel your pain, the emotional and intuitive empaths will feel your happiness and heartache as if it was their own, the dream empath will intuit meaning from your dreams, the plant empath will hear the needs of your plants, the earth empath will feel the needs and connectivity of the bigger picture in the earth, and the animal empath will understand why your Frou Frou is sad today.

Have you been hearing people all around you talking about Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies and wanted to learn more, but are afraid it may be too technical to understand? Or maybe you just do not want to feel like an idiot for asking what cryptocurrency is? Well fear not, this book was written for you! This is a quick and easy-to-follow guide to all aspects of cryptocurrency. I avoid getting into complex details while providing clear examples and analogies to help the listener digest the information.

"Love Made This Happen" is a heartwarming and uplifting book that explores the transformative power of love in navigating the challenges of life and relationships. Through real-life stories and insightful reflections, the author shows how love can shape our lives and help us overcome obstacles. Are you constantly facing relationship storms? "Love Made This Happen" will be your lifeboat! Discover how you can transform your relationships with the power of love without feeling overwhelmed or lost.

Fast-track your journey through the roller-coaster of parenting emotionally intense children. Are you constantly walking on eggshells, hoping not to trigger another emotional explosion from your extraordinarily bright child? Do you feel overwhelmed with your child's intense emotional reactions and, sometimes, aggression, not knowing how to respond effectively? You're not alone. Raising a brilliant child who struggles with emotional regulation is a unique, often challenging journey.

Discover the true spirit of teamwork and Christmas magic in this snowy adventure! This fun-filled Christmas story is perfect for children aged three to eight. It provides valuable lessons in teamwork, responsibility, respect for elders, keeping secrets, and recognition. This is the perfect Christmas story to listen to and cuddle with your child during the holidays.

Nicole is the wife of a 20-year law enforcement officer and gives us a glimpse into what LEO spouses deal with. Nicole tells us the story of watching her husband go through changes and ultimately try and take his life at the end of his law enforcement career.

Do you want to manage stress better? Do you struggle with blowing up at others? People all over the world have changed their lives by managing their stress and anger...It all starts with understanding how stress affects you and learning ways to relax. The trouble with managing stress is not knowing how stress presents itself in one’s life, thinking it takes hours and hours for a coping skill to work, and denying the negative effects poor stress management has on your life. Don't miss out. Start releasing stress today!

This story is about two friends. One is a catfish and the other is a water frog. They spend their time playing. The world around them does not understand why the two of them are friends because they are different. The two friends just do not see that they are that different, and their friendship is stronger than the peer pressure.

Making friends the first day at school a great experience. Young children often experience fear or anxiety about going to school for the first time. Many experience anxiety when starting a new class, even though they may have gone to school before. Although these fears may appear small and transitory to parents and other adults, they could be very real to the young children who experience them. These fears could sometime masquerade as stomach aches and headaches and can prevent the appropriate adjustment of young children to the school environment.

Ask not what your chickens can do for you; ask what you can do for your chickens. Gone are the days when chickens were merely egg-layers. Now more than ever, they are rightly being seen as cherished pets, uncommon friends, and even spiritual companions! This humorous and insightful audiobook is a hybrid between a memoir and "how-to" manual, a whimsical tour of discovery that reveals the magic of backyard chickens. Who would expect chickens to have it all: family squabbles, abiding loyalty, the joys of new life, the heartbreak of loss?

My life had changed dramatically since my eyesight loss had progressed. I ventured to my mailbox on an ordinary day without my service dog, King; unaware of the threat to me and the blood of my neighbor still fresh on the murderer's hands. Sensing a presence, I called for King, then 9-1-1. I saw the murderer by way of smell, taste, hearing, and touch; my remaining senses heightened since my sight loss. King saw him, too. But who would ever believe a blind girl and her dog?

When an attack happens, you don't want to be the person or team in complete panic. In an episode, terror becomes the worst enemy and can lead to mistakes. When we panic, we miss important clues about the attack, campaign, or attacker. Having a basic knowledge of general (cyber)security terms and concepts helps us respond faster and more professionally than most teams without that training or expertise. This book focuses on essential concepts in the least amount of time and pages to give you the basic knowledge to stay focused.

I Am Not the Cause of Your Problems will help you to identify behaviors that try to deceive you into thinking you are the cause of other people's problems, to help you begin to stand up for yourself in such a situation, distance yourself from such a situation, recover from erroneously being blamed for other people's problems, and to begin a life free from carrying other peoples weight around. You can gain the confidence to stand up and firmly state "I am not the cause of your problems" to anyone who tries to cast blame on you for their own problems.

Although even experienced gardeners must grapple with limited rainfall, dry temperatures, and scorching heat, you don't need to let that hold you back from growing a bountiful, organic harvest. Verda Hoffman knows firsthand the struggles of growing plants in a desert climate and has compiled a comprehensive guide that will take the guesswork out of desert gardening. Take frustration out of the equation and avoid time-consuming trial and error with these tried and true techniques. Get started on creating your desert oasis today!

Valerie isn’t welcome in Evil Castle because she isn’t a normal kind of witch - she loves to bake cookies. However, things start to change after Valerie opens her own bakery. The Baking Witch is a tale to teach children about accepting people for who they are and never changing just to fit in.

Did you know that hamsters are only able to blink one eye at a time? Did you know the longest video game marathon ever recorded was 29 hours and 31 minutes? Did you know the earliest case of hearing loss documented in writing is from ancient Egypt in 1550 BC? In that era, people injected red lead, goat urine, olive oil, bat wings, and ant eggs in the ear canal in an attempt to cure bad hearing. In these 1,500 facts, you're going to learn more than you learned from all your high school teachers combined.

A sweet pumpkin gets picked up from the farm and carved into a scary jack-o’-lantern for trick-or-treating. The night before Halloween, he comes alive and decides to look for a friend. However, everyone he meets along the way judges him by his appearance and refuses to be his friend. Will there be someone who will accept the way the pumpkin is and be willing to befriend him? Find out in the book The Lonely Pumpkin.