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As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...
2) The good news about bad behavior: why kids are less disciplined than ever--and what to do about it
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Today's parents live with an exhausting reality: persistent defiance from children. About half of the current generation of children will develop a mood or behavioral disorder or a substance addiction by age eighteen. And many parents feel increasingly unable to exert any influence over their children. In our highly connected age, the all-powerful parent is largely a thing of the past.
Parents often take the blame for their child's misbehavior, but...
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You can listen your way to better relationships. This often humorous book, loaded with practical tips, examples, and techniques, will bail you out of touchy situations. Dr. Jim Petersen's powerfully intuitive yet tongue-in-cheek Flat Brain Theory shows how and why we get upset and confused and what to do about it. We may think we're good listeners, but not many of us are. When others talk, we focus on what we think, rather than what they are trying...
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Do you need a breakthrough?
Do you have a difficult person in your professional or personal life? Is there a conversation you know you should have but don't want to risk damaging the relationship? Would you like to move past the pain into a more productive relationship?
Relational hurts are like pebbles in our shoes. Strained relationships, failed conversations and unresolved conflicts drain our energy and sabotage our success.
Business coach Linda...
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Every relationship goes through a few ups and downs. However, if you feel that yours has been in the "down" stage for a little too long then it is time to do something about it. Every partnership has the capability of being absolutely wonderful and amazing – if you know the secrets that all of the top experts know and use (both with their own clients and in their own personal lives too). Take a few minutes and read this e-book to discover these...
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This book discusses a multi-thronged approach to bullying prevention. The intent is to describe in detail a wide variety of methods and strategies proven successful to reducing or even eliminating bullying in schools. Principals learn how to hold successful bully prevention meetings with school personnel and student leaders. Teachers are provided with a wide number of creative exercises to help students reflect on bullying. Teachers are also presented...
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We live in an age of rapid change and instant communication. We also live in a Culture of Blame and Disrespect. Managing your responses to high-conflict emails, texts, letters, and social media meltdowns is imperative. A BIFF response can be applied in any communication anywhere - on the Internet, in a letter or in person. It can be used at work, earning you respect and success. It can help you get along with difficult family members, friends, neighbors...
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Life happens one conversation at a time, and almost everything you want is on the other side of a tough conversation. The problem? Communication is hard. You were born with a voice box, but it didn't come with instructions on how best to use it.
That changes now. Communications expert AmyK Hutchens shares how to confidently and competently navigate your toughest conversations without saying something you regret, giving your power away, or damaging...
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This book is about getting rid of our strongholds (which are nothing but false and distorted beliefs). Most times, we plant rocks and boulders in our own path, thinking we are planting seeds for growth. It's time to do away with the finger-pointing and accept accountability for ourselves. In order to see the bigger picture of things, you must be willing to let go of old beliefs that never helped you in the first place. This book will lead you to the...
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"The Art of the Committed Relationship" ingeniously takes Sun Tzu's ancient military strategy, "The Art of War," and applies its timeless wisdom to the landscape of personal relationships. This insightful guide offers readers a new way of looking at their committed relationships or the ones they plan to enter. The book is an invaluable resource to all those who have found the initial gloss of their relationship dimming over time and are seeking ways...
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A life of freedom, joy, and authentic connection is what God has always desired for us. On Earth, as it is in Heaven, is not merely an ideal, but a framework for the way we are to live in the fullness of Christ's redemptive love. Engaging in authentic relationships are a key part of how we live that out. In his latest work, Author Omar Bryan pulls no punches with tackling the issue of unforgiveness and the threat it poses to individuals and the body...
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Creating peace in our lives is a life-long journey. The author, a successful conflict resolution and mediation consultant, draws on knowledge and techniques from many different disciplines: neurology, psychology, teambuilding, communication skills, negotiation, martial arts, alternative dispute resolution, law, education, diversity training, and spirituality.
All her concepts and tools are solidly based on accepted research; nevertheless the book...
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HAPPINESS, HORSE APPLES AND HAND GRENADE: A Guide for Creating a Stable Relationship with a Man (or a Horse) makes the humorous but insightful observation that "Women and men are different. Women and horses... still different. Men and horses... not so much." By breaking down the similarities of man and horse, Connie teaches women how to see their partners as the unique beasts they are and how to truly appreciate the differences between them and us...
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Filled with commonsense ideas that can apply to any relationship, this guide will help anyone interested in improving communication with their partner. It emphasizes that communication is the key to a good relationship, and that an inability to understand one another is the main reason most couples enter into therapy with a professional counselor. It offers twenty tips that are likely to improve the way couples talk and listen to each other.
15) Raising Arthur
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The book begins with Arthur, age four, and his older brother, Bobby, age six, playing in an outhouse. Bobby teases Arthur by pretending to fall in but their older sister, Glenna, stops it. The boys then go to a neighbor's house, abscond with a rabbit and bring it home. After an argument, the boys return it. Due to the illness of their mother, Bobby and Arthur are temporarily housed with others. Arthur is unjustly accused of minor theft and is sent...
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Novela de ficción que desnuda la dura historia de un hombre que transcurre su vida desde la infancia, sin la presencia de su madre y con un padre ausente y poco afectivo. LLegada su juventud decide alejarse de su padre e intentar hacer su propio proyecto de vida. Durante ese tiempo aprende a sobrellevar su soledad y la intensa necesidad de saber de su madre.
Es así que pasado el tiempo y descubriendo huellas ocultas , hará un descubrimiento inesperado,...
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Seeking Solace is Chani Barlow's story of following God's plan despite a series of unforeseen obstacles, in order to find true meaning and peace. Though Chani Barlow grew up going to church on Sundays, she never really knew if God was real or just a name mentioned over the pulpit. As a teenager, she jaywalked across a busy highway and found Him waiting for her in the recovery room. God gifted her powerful dreams, snapshots of a little boy and girl...
18) Chance Evers
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Perry Ellis's life looks like a complex jigsaw puzzle with pieces scattered about and no clear picture of how to return to the contentment he enjoyed early in life.
As Perry slips into despair following the death of his wife, he decides to take his own life. He quickly ends the suicide attempt, however, when he envisions how his brother, Clark, will react upon finding him.
Perry assumes an alias (Chance Evers) to reinvent himself and seek atonement...
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Le présent ouvrage traite du programme Crise-Ado-Famille-Enfance (CAFE), un outil d'intervention pour les familles en crise.
Il est l'aboutissement de plus de 15 années de collaboration entre des chercheurs, des étudiants, des dizaines d'intervenants et plusieurs gestionnaires. Le programme a été créé en 1999 en réponse à une situation critique en Montérégie: 70 % des interventions effectuées auprès de jeunes et de familles non connus...
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Naughty or Nice - Whose List Are You On? brings you value and benefit by revealing ten red flag behaviors and personality traits that can be observed in people's handwriting. These traits may be warnings that bear further investigation as you build relationships throughout your life. Being aware of others' characteristics naturally allows you to modify your own actions and behavior, and that can help save your life. Has anyone ever asked if you've...