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Parenting is NOT for the faint-hearted! Just ask the sleep-deprived mom taking care of both an infant and a toddler, or the dad at his wits' end with lecturing his middle schooler about doing household chores. Like the four seasons, parents experience beautiful days, bleak days, and everything in between. So what types of strategies can parents use to navigate these changing seasons of life with their children?Parenting Through the Four Seasons delivers candid, child-rearing content from a mom of four who is raising children in all different stages of life. In an engaging, anecdotal fashion, this book offers proven, practical ideas for navigating through everyday parenting challenges. How-tos on implementing successful routines, protecting family time at home, and helping children with transitions as they grow older are all packed into this parent-to-parent guide. You'll also encounter insightful tips for placing priority on the marriage relationship, age-appropriate discipline tactics, as well as establishing boundaries for extracurriculars and digital devices. This is not your parents' parenting book! Peek in the window of the Webb family's life as they parent through the seasons and provide you with hope along the way.FROM THE BACK COVER:This book teaches the tactics of a Christian couple raising their four children into confident young adults who know their worth in this world. Strategies addressed include:Placing priority on the marriage relationshipRoutines as a staple in early childhoodAge-appropriate discipline tacticsTransitioning children into responsibilityEstablishing boundaries for extracurriculars and digital devicesLike seasons, children transform before our very eyes. Some times in their lives can bring bitterness like the frigid winds of winter. Other times spawn growth like the green grass in spring. And although each season eventually comes to an end, it feels like it will last for an eternity. Peek in on the journey of Chanty and her husband parenting their children and discover how it can help to transform your family.TABLE OF CONTENTS:PrefaceIntroduction1. First Comes Love2. Self Less3. Transitioning4. Pass the Salt5. Stop It Right Now Before You Get Your Beats Butt!6. Be A Fan7. I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen8. Is Anybody Home?9. ConclusionExtra!!! Extra!!!

Establishing rich and rewarding relationships with adult sons, daughters, and their spouses frequently turns out to be surprisingly complicated and full of landmines. Ancient biblical wisdom, social science findings, and the personal application of coaching insights combine in Life's Third Tri to give empty-nest moms hope for finishing well.Retired psychologist and family therapist Dr. Charlotte Melcher Smith includes poignant stories from many perplexed moms In Life's Third Tri: Wisdom for Mystified Mothers Who Love Adult Children. Common experiences with other aging mothers invite readers into the sisterhood of those seeking a Christian perspective during life's challenging final season.Are you a perplexed mom craving answers to questions such as the following: - How can I overcome feelings of failure, establish boundaries, avoid turnoffs, heal wounds, tear down walls, and build friendships with my adult offspring?- How can I achieve serenity when I'm baffled by my grown kids' and grandkids' attitudes and choices?- Is it my fault if my adult child is making choices that don't match the values I tried to teach? Have I failed as a mother?. What's next? What's my purpose now and what new callings exist beyond motherhood?- Where can I go for help to figure out how to lessen intergenerational tension and thrive in my later years? When I was younger and pregnant, I built a trustworthy network of doctors, spiritual advisers, coaches, and mentors, but who can help me now to navigate the challenging empty-nest decades?Life's Third Tri encourages baffled moms to reframe their dilemmas as obstacles similar to those they successfully surmounted during the third trimester of their pregnancies. In order to make the most of the empty-nest era, Dr. Charlotte guides heavy-hearted moms to achieve the following desirable outcomes: . Transform into the best possible versions of themselves: caring, competent, contributing, connected, confident, and courageous while simultaneously embracing humility, forgiveness, and gratitude.. Discover a path to love, peace, and joy as they age, despite deep concerns about grown kids and grandkids and heart-wrenching losses like widowhood, divorce, and health challenges.. Improve communication, maximize fun, overcome roadblocks, build closer relationships, diminish intergenerational conflict and estrangements, and welcome prodigals home.. Follow a blueprint for flourishing and finishing well by contemplating remarkable parallels between the third trimester of pregnancy and women's current third trimester of life.Receive God's commendation, "Well done," when they complete the final chapter of their life stories here on earth.

Kristina Jenica Miles is 1 in 8. She unexpectedly joined the club of millions of women warriors who are silently battling the lonely and terrifying journey of infertility. Kristina, like her fellow warriors, has tried just about everything she can to get pregnant... including eating a pigeon.

'I absolutely raced through this book - beautifully suspenseful, pacy and smart. A real talent in the psych thriller genre.' L.V. Matthews, author of The TwinsShe trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Emily loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Like any frazzled mum, she spends her time wiping up spills, cooking their favourite meals and putting plasters on scraped knees, trying her best to be the perfect mum as well as keep her sanity. Internet forum MumsOnline proves to be a lifeline in her darkest days, an anonymous place where she can voice the problems that she would never say in real life. She finds a connection with fellow mum-of-twins, TwoIsTrouble, and soon, the internet friends are chatting daily. But when Emily tries to pull back, realising she has shared too much about the darkness in her past, she finds herself being stalked. As Emily's history is exposed, it's clear that someone is using her secrets against her...and they will threaten everything Emily loves to destroy her perfect life. A gripping domestic suspense thriller that asks if we really know who we are talking to online, with a twist ending that will make you gasp. Fans of T.M. Logan, Lisa Jewell and Gillian McAllister will love this unputdownable read. Praise for Keep Them Close:'A splendidly twisty psychological mystery' Daily Mail'Expertly paced and totally compelling...a bruising exploration of motherhood and family secrets.' Anna Bailey, author of Tall Bones'A terrifying, twisty thriller in which seemingly no one can be trusted. Very cleverly written - I raced through this. Highly recommended.' Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet'I sped through Keep Them Close... before being slammed by an ending I didn't see coming. Nuanced and pacey, this is a must-read.' Polly Phillips, author of The Reunion'Chilling, creepy and frighteningly plausible with a clever twist. A real page turner.' Sarah Linley, author of The Wedding Murders'The very definition of a page-turner, but also heartbreaking and relatable - a real rollercoaster of a read' Charlotte Duckworth, author of The Perfect Father'A compulsively readable twisty thriller... I couldn't put this well plotted and immersive psychological thriller down.' Emily Freud, author of What She Left Behind'Pacey, insightful, emotionally rich and full of twists - I loved it.' Holly Seddon, author of Try Not to Breathe'What a chilling, thrilling ride!...The plot line gave me goosebumps. Five stars from me.' D.E White, author of Glass Dolls'A superb thriller - fast-paced, thought-provoking, and so cleverly plotted that it's impossible to know who to trust.' Sarah Clarke, author of Every Little Secret'Sure-footed and suspenseful' Cara Hunter, author of Hope to Die

¿Taking Control¿ aims to provide a guidance for Muslim women who are trying to conceive. Author Farah Dualeh, who herself has tried to conceive for many years, shares her personal experience along with psychological tools to cope with this traumatic ordeal for women who struggle to become mothers. Dualeh also gives extensive content from Islamic perspective, including rulings on certain issues, as well as prayers.In this book, women who are trying to conceive will be encouraged to take control of their infertility experience at different levels:* within themselves * within their marriage * in relation to social pressures * on treatment options * and on what their family can look like (even when different from the 'norm')

An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience.After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phillip Done decided that it was time to retire. But a teacher's job is never truly finished, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. From the first-day-of-school jitters to the last day's tears, Done writes about the teacher's craft, classrooms and curriculums, the challenges of the profession, and the reason all teachers do it?the children. Drawing upon decades of experience, Done shares time-tested tips and sage advice: Real learning is messy, not linear. Greeting kids in the morning as they enter the classroom is an important part of the school day. If a student is having trouble, look at what you can do differently before pointing the finger at the child. Ask yourself: Would I want to be a student in my class? When children watch you, they are learning how to be people, and one of the most important things we can do for our students is to model the kind of people we would like them to be. Done tackles topics you won't find in any other teaching book, including Back to School Night nerves, teacher pride, the Sunday Blues, Pinterest envy, teacher guilt, and the things they never warn you about in "teacher school" but should, like how to survive recess duty, field trips, and lunch supervision. Done also addresses some of the most important issues schools face today: bullying, excessive screen time, the system's obsession with testing, teacher burnout, and the ever-increasing demands of meeting the diverse learning needs of students. But The Art of Teaching Children is more than a guide to educating today's young learners. These pages are alive with inspiration, humor, and tales of humanity. Done welcomes us like visitors at Open House Night to the world of elementary school, where we witness lessons that go well and others that flop, periods that run smoothly and ones that go haywire when a bee flies into the room. We meet master teachers and new ones, librarians and lunch supervisors, principals and parents (some with too much time on their hands). We get to know kids who want to hold a ball and those who'd rather hold a marker, students with difficult home lives and children with disabilities, youngsters who need drawing out and those who happily announce (in the middle of a math lesson) that they have a loose tooth. With great wit and wisdom, irresistible storytelling, and boundless compassion, The Art of Teaching Children is the new educator's bible for teachers, parents, and all who work with kids and care about their learning and success.

"Future's Hope" addresses an extremely neglected area of twin loss, i.e. What happens to our survivors when they grow up? This book helps to instil the sense of hope that is often missing when families experience the grief of losing a twin or higher order multiple birth child. "The Diary" was the beginning. "The Survivor" was the middle. "Future's Hope" is the final part of this twin loss trilogy; a unique story of the complete twin loss life-cycle. This book is not the end; only the beginning of a new journey for the next generation.Share our journey and rejoice in the fact that happiness can be found even amongst the darkest of times!