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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover |
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline , · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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The Sandwich Generation's Guide to Eldercare
Kimberly Wickert MRC CRC , · Demos Health; 1 edition |
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Gold Winner, 2013 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, Family Relationships Category A practical, accessible, and comprehensive guide to the legal, financial, emotional and daily living challenges of caring for aging parents while raising your own family. If you are caring... |
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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. · AMACOM
Pages: 245
Format: Print book |
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As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,... |
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Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now
Ann Imig · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover |
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Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers.Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers... |
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Middle School: The Inside Story: What Kids Tell Us, But Don't Tell You
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias · Focus on the Family |
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Remember middle school? Many parents would rather not. Its often a rough ride, filled with insecurity, peer pressure, awkwardness, and world-rocking change. This book provides practical, hands-on advice for helping your child through this minefieldwith information about what he or she is really... |
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover |
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A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. . . . Beam gives foster children a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system cant, or wont She advocates for them. -- New York Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care? What, as a country,... |
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Instant Mom
Nia Vardalos · HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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"Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family."Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that... |
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