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¿Cómo son los primeros años de vida de un niño? ¿Por qué son importantes los límites? ¿Es crucial que un niño juegue? ¿Le estoy dando una buena educación a mi hijo? Estas cuestiones, entre muchas otras, se abordarán a lo largo de esta obra.
Este libro va dirigido a madres, padres, maestros, cuidadores, y a todos los profesionales y personas que se dedican al cuidado de los menores. Invita a la reflexión, al conocimiento y al entendimiento...
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This book is for fathers. Most of us are not doing a great job and the world has noticed. We've garnered a bad reputation. Spend ten minutes around a group of wives and you are likely to hear a handful of criticisms about some guy's fathering skills.
Being a good father is not easy. It doesn't come naturally. Why should dads bother trying? Why are kids important? Why are fathers a necessary part of their lives? Why should we prioritize our kids over...
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Get the Summary of Andrew McCarthy's Walking with Sam in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Walking with Sam" is a memoir by Andrew McCarthy that recounts his pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago with his son, Sam. The journey begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, and is filled with minor mishaps and McCarthy's anxieties about fatherhood and masculinity. He hopes the walk will transition their relationship into...
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Good fathering is a powerful force in the lives of children, a force that can markedly reduce their risks of crime, substance abuse, depression and bad attitudes to school and at the same time increasing their chances of having fulfilled lives. But even when dads know this, they usually just don't know what to do. This book from best-selling parenting author Bruce Robinson includes stories and tips from US Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush, state...
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Imagine a son or daughter who realizes dad has chosen work, sports, or other addictions instead of them. This is abandonment-and the consequences will leave a negative life-long legacy. But there is a solution. It's not an easy road, but it's not impassable. The Legacy of Absence explores the ways in which involvement and reconciliation can heal the wounds created by a distant father, and turn even a physically absent father into one who is involved...
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Follow the journey of Michael and Connie Reid. Who together try to create their own blended family. Their quest for a baby begins in love with a bright future together. Going by the medical evidence IVF is the only choice, or is it?
The Reid's begin their monthly roller coaster ride. Finding the right answers leads everyone to question their faith in medical science.
Then a shock pregnancy leads this couple to start demanding answers from...
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Attachment Fathering is an encouraging guide to nurturant fathering from birth through infancy and provides a window into the opportunity for strong attachments and sensitive paternal caretaking. The multicultural images show involved fathers and their infants following birth, during comforting and play. These touchpoints are the mutual exchanges that will build the foundation for his infant's secure attachment exploration and learning. The key driver...
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A challenge has gone out, asking more from you as a man and father. Are you ready to take that challenge and become an Empowered Father? To successfully navigate this new journey and become an Empowered Father, you will need to challenge yourself to reach new heights.
On this journey, you will:
Identify with your goals and vision
Draw on the relationship for your powerful foundation as a father
Connect with and manage your emotional experience
Learn...
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Life isn't easy, especially for young men growing up without a role model that offers encouragement and direction. Most of these young men never find a safe place to go for straight answers that will help them find the direction and courage to be the man they want to become.
Straight Up! is filled with sound fatherly advice for a fatherless generation. It's the kind of candid, sometimes in your face, straight talk that will help readers not just...
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Eight years in the making, "Fatherhood in 60 Minutes or Less: 101 Humorous Observations, Rules of Thumb, and Untold Truths for Fathers by any Definition" is a quick-hitting read, perfect for busy fathers everywhere.
The advice in "Fatherhood in 60 Minutes or Less" is useful for fathers of all types including:
• Traditional fathers,
• Foster and adoptive parents,
• Big brother mentors,
• Single parents,
• Same-sex parents,
• Older,...
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Most of us today would agree that the children of this new millennium are growing up in a world that is filled with pitfalls and treacherous paths that previous generations have not had to negotiate. How do we prepare these children to not only survive these paths but be victorious? Father, former youth pastor, and now church pastor, Kevin Brown shares the vision he has been given for teaching about and expecting from our children an involved, discipled...
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The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to...
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Ok dads, so you thought you were the only one who had a boatload of embarrassing, funny and yest sometimes-painful life changing experiences. You will soon discover in this book that we are similar in so many ways. I have tried very hard to write this book the way you and I listen. This book is written to dads. Most of the men i know don't care to sit down for hours and read a book. Maybe i just hang around a slow crowd, but this book is written in...
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Every parent will tell you it is no easy task raising a child in today's society and many would love to have a manual available to look up a solution to the problems that arise each day. The 10 Steps to Almost Perfect Parenting offers a path that parents can take that will help guide them through the formative parenting years offering up the details of how to navigate through parenthood while preparing your childhood for adulthood. The book is composed...
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Do you feel like you are doing everything you know to do, yet it still isn't enough? No matter how hard you try, do you feel like you can't get to the next level financially, spiritually, relationally, physically, and in every other area of your life? If this resonates with you, I have another question. Have you ever considered that you could be living under a curse? Many people hear the word curse and start thinking about witches, warlocks, and Harry...
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A new book for a new generation of fathers. How do today's fathers meet the challenges and changes they encounter when they become parents. In our modern-day career-driven world of 12-hour workdays, being a Father competes with nearly everything, and yet when it comes to what is truly lasting, satisfying, and ultimately fulfilling in life, there is nothing else so rewarding as being a dad. Dr. Bruce Linton, founder of the Fathers' Forum shares his...
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As a father, you spend your days and weeks, months, and years encouraging others. But let us not forget that you need a little encouragement and reassurance yourself from time to time.
Whether your children are young or old, I hope these words help you to rediscover and cherish your fatherhood. Whether your children live on the same street or on the other side of the world, may you allow fatherhood to continue to transform you each day into a-better-version-of-yourself....
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The only difference between the future and today is choice. Wisdom is the oil refined squeezed from the mistakes of the past, and if we use the precious oils of wisdom to light the paths of our lives, we create a special opportunity to leverage our choice today in such a way that we are propelled toward our true destiny. Your future and present are 2 Close Apart. Enjoy the ride of living life to its fullest one day at a time!
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When Allen Appel asked hundreds of sons, young and old, to recall the most memorable and valuable words their fathers told them, there came an outpouring of things practical and indispensable, some familiar, many surprising.
From Father to Son celebrates the trials and satisfactions of manhood and captures dads' uncanny knack for seeing ahead. It is a useful gift any man can give proudly, perhaps remembering something his own father said. Advice...