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The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom

By: Ann Pleshette Murphy

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: September 2004

Seller ID: 260373

ISBN: 0375406433

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Motherhood is the ultimate transformation, a powerful and thrilling metamorphosis. Yet the vast majority of parenting books focus on the how-tos of baby and child care, not on the care or development of mothers. Ann Pleshette Murphy--the former editor of Parents magazine, current parenting contributor to Good Morning America, and herself the mother of two--looks at the emotional lives of mothers, at how we change and grow from the moment we get pregnant to the day we watch our kids graduate from high school."The 7 Stages of Motherhood" urges women to reflect on the seismic shifts they ...
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Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

By: Blankenhorn, David

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 1996

Seller ID: 348103

ISBN: 006092683X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sisters

By: Carol Saline, Sharon J. Wohlmuth

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers: September 1994

Seller ID: 298185

ISBN: 156138450X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here's the blockbuster bestseller that spent more than one year on the New York Times bestseller list. This tribute to the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood has touched the hearts of thousands of women across the country. Read tales of love, sacrifice, support, jealousy, and devotion from the famous and not-so-famous, including Christy Turlington, Dixie Carter, Coretta Scott King, and Chris Evert.
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Grandparents as Parents, First Edition: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family

By: Deborah Edler Brown,De Toledo

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Guilford Press: July 1995

Seller ID: 331838

ISBN: 1572300205

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Of the more than a million American grandparents who today are the sole caregivers for their grandchildren, most have found their lives changed, their finances challenged, and their parenting techniques antiquated with a new, and often traumatized, generation. An enlightening resource for all professionals who encounter this phenomenon and a perfect reading recommendation for grandparents and family members, this book offers compassion, encouragement, and fact-filled advice. It covers everything a grandparent needs to know to cope with the practical, day-to-day needs of raising a child today. ...
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Life Lessons From Fathers of Faith

By: Gary W. Toyn, Michael K. Winder

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc.: October 2010

Seller ID: 145086

ISBN: 1598116037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life's BIG Little Moments: Fathers & Daughters

By: Hom, Susan K.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Sterling: October 2007

Seller ID: 339579

ISBN: 1402743173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Family Reunion

By: Jennifer Crichton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: July 1998

Seller ID: 328678

ISBN: 0761105859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Today more than ever, American families are scattered to the wind. Yet perhaps for this very reason, families have also been getting together for reunions in unprecedented numbers. Planning a reunion is a pleasurable but complicated undertaking that requires foresight and planning, and here to assist is "Family Reuinion," an indispensable guide and sourcebook that shows how to organize and conduct four basic reunions: a Backyard Barbecue for siblings and cousins, a Homecoming Weekend, an Extended Family Reunion, and a Family Camp, which typically lasts a week and gathers up to 100 particip...
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The Joy of Family Traditions: A Season-by-Season Companion to 400 Celebrations and Activities

By: Jennifer Trainer Thompson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Ten Speed Press: May 2008

Seller ID: 286929

ISBN: 1587611147

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When a special activity evolves into a tradition within a family, it creates meaning, connection, and community and makes common occasions more momentous and memorable. Establishing a sense of stability and shared history has never been more important to parents than it is today, as families become more fractured and scattered. THE JOY OF FAMILY TRADITIONS offers more than 400 fresh ideas and creative approaches to cultivating birthday, anniversary, holiday, and other rite-of-passage and seasonal traditions that strengthen personal bonds and reflect a family's individual style, spirituality, a...
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When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along

By: Joshua Coleman PhD

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: August 2008

Seller ID: 244943

ISBN: 0061148431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In When Parents Hurt, psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with their child. Through case examples and healing exercises, Dr. Coleman helps parents: Reduce anger, guilt, and shame Learn how temperament, the teen years, their own or a partner's mistakes, and divorce can strain the parent-child bond Come to terms with their own and their child's imperfections Develop strategies for rebuil...
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The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study

By: Judith S. Wallerstein, Julia M. Lewis, Sandra Blakeslee

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hyperion: September 2001

Seller ID: 272349

ISBN: 0786886161

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Finally in paperback, the New York Times bestseller that has fundamentally changed the way children of divorce see themselves as adults--updated with a new preface by the author. Divorce is at once a widespread reality and a painful decision, so it is no surprise that this landmark study of its long-term effects should both spark debate and find a large audience. In this compelling, thought-provoking book, Judith Wallerstein explains that, while children do learn to cope with divorce, it in fact takes its greatest toll in adulthood, when the sons and daughters of divorced parents embark on rom...
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True and Constant Friends: Love and Inspiration from Our Grandmothers, Mothers, and Friends

By: Kelley Paul

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Center Street: April 2015

Seller ID: 251447

ISBN: 1455560758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now--With Questionnaires and Family-Centered Action Plans to Meet Your Child's Specific Needs

By: Lawlis, Frank, McGraw, Phil

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: August 2004

Seller ID: 344357

ISBN: 0670033367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Every year, 17 million new cases of attention deficit disorder, or ADD, are diagnosed in children. But medications designed to treat the disorder donat work for many children and often leave families frustrated and searching for more options. In "The ADD Answer," Dr. Frank Lawlis draws upon his thirty-five years of experience as a clinical and research psychologist to show parents how they can reclaim their central role in healing their children with comprehensive step-by-step advice on dealing with the problems of ADD. His approach blends the latest medical, nutritional, and psychological tre...
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I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better

By: Lundberg, Gary B., Saunders, Joy Lundberg

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Riverpark Publishing: August 1995

Seller ID: 347992

ISBN: 0915029022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better makes two propositions: First, you don't have to solve other people's problems. And second, by appropriately validating feelings, you empower people to be their own problem solvers, which will significantly increase the quality of your relationships.The techniques of validation the Lundbergs share give people the space to solve their own problems while still feeling that someone cares. In the first half of the book the Lundbergs discuss the principles behind validation, while the second half shows how these techniques can work to improve communicat...
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Meeting Amazing Grace

By: Lundberg, Gary, Lundberg, Joy

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Brigham Distributing: August 2008

Seller ID: 255847

ISBN: 0915029065

Condition: Used - Very Good

Helping Your Kids Cope With Divorce the Sandcastles Way

By: M. Gary Newman

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Crown: May 1998

Seller ID: 337592

ISBN: 0812929020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Downsizing The Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go (Downsizing the Home)

By: Marni Jameson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sterling: January 2016

Seller ID: 310399

ISBN: 1454916338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families

By: Mary Pipher

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: April 1997

Seller ID: 338000

ISBN: 0345406036

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for adolescent girls and their parents in her bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: she opens our eyes wide to the desperate realities we are facing and shows us a way out. Drawing on the fascinating stories of families rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and probing deep into her own family memories and experiences, Pipher clears a path to the strength and energy at the core of family life. Wise, compassionate, and impassioned, The Shelter of Each Other challenges each of us to face the ...
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Family

By: Mead, Margaret

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Collier Books: January 1971

Seller ID: 342620

ISBN: B000717HXK

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Your Genes, Your Health: A Critical Family Guide That Could Save Your Life

By: Milunsky MD DSc, Aubrey

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 2011

Seller ID: 338492

ISBN: 0199792070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New advances in genetics have dramatically expanded our ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of disorders. Now, more than ever, families need to know about these new discoveries, especially as there are some 7,000 rare genetic diseases that afflict about 1 in 12 of us. In Your Genes, Your Health, Aubrey Milunsky provides an invaluable and authoritative guide to what you should know about your genes. Illustrated with poignant family histories that underscore the lifesaving importance of knowing one's family medical history and ethnic origin, the book highlights the import...
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The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier

By: Miriam Weinstein

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Steerforth: September 2006

Seller ID: 243865

ISBN: 1586421131

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The Surprising Power of Family Meals "is the first book to take a complete look at a ritual that was virtually universal a generation ago but has undergone a striking transformation. No longer honored by society as a time of day that must be set aside, some families see family supper as little more than a quaint relic. But others are beginning to recognize it as a lifeline - a way to connect with their loved ones on a regular basis and to get more enjoyment out of family life. "The Surprising Power of Family Meals" presents stories, studies, and arguments from the fields of psychology, educat...
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