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Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents-and the kids they love-hone their emotional intelligence so that they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well with others (even when patience is thin), and become socially conscious and confident human beings.
How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding...
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Of course you think you're doing a sh*tty job. Every parent does. It's pretty much a byproduct of our society, with its incessant demands coupled with the in-your-face competitiveness parents see on social media. Unfortunately, the pandemic only made things worse, as parents juggled the stresses of the helping their kids navigate online schooling while they also had to work from home. All of which makes Carla Naumburg's new book utterly necessary....
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Should I stay married for my kids? Does this count as abuse? Why am I so unhappy? What does a healthy relationship even look like?
When you're ready for honest answers to these and other questions,
The D Word shows you how to dig deep and find them-and then move forward into a better, brighter future.
From the host of the critically acclaimed The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast comes a book that provides the clarity, peace, and answers women...
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Difficult employees are by far the worst part of a manager's job. Control freaks. Narcissists. Slackers. Cynics. Their outbursts, irrational demands, gripes, and countless other disruptions need to be dealt with, and you are the unlucky one with that job description. But every manager has to deal with these people. What separates the great managers is their ability to turn them into productive team players.
Leading the Unleadable turns this seemingly...
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"Highly sensitive people (HSPs) and those who identify as empaths are natural targets for narcissists, emotional vampires, and other controlling people due to their giving nature. The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People is a practical road map to help HSPs identify and deal effectively with toxic people-at work, in the family, in friendships, or in romantic relationships"--
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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...
9) 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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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.
11) 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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Fear. Avoidance. Division. The safest path can feel like the one without dialogue regarding conversations about equity and diversity. What if you offend the other person? What if they challenge your beliefs? What if you ruin a relationship?
When it comes to hard topics, effective communication skills are an asset, vulnerability is necessary, and forgiveness is vital. In Let's Talk About Race (And Other Hard Things), communication expert and equity...
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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...
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We are living in one of the most stressful times in human history. This abundance of stress is impacting families and in many cases, manifesting itself in children with difficult and severe behaviors. Homes often turn into intense fighting grounds of power struggles and control battles parents find themselves in us against them scenarios with their children. Tension continually builds and before long, parents are feeling completely overwhelmed, powerless,...
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While working with parents and children for nearly half a century, it has become increasingly evident that the Adlerian child psychology methods as outlined in this book are effective when applied to family conflicts. They have been tested by numerous teachers, counselors, and others in many locations over many years. Many parents have discovered for themselves that these strategies engage their children and win their cooperation. Still, parents often...
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You'd think if someone was caught having an affair that they'd make a full confession. You'd think they would know if they wanted to stay or leave. You'd think they would be able to explain why they were unfaithful. You'd think if they promised to 'fight' for their marriage that their actions would match their words. But for lots of people recovery is not so straightforward and takes far longer than they would have imagined on discovery day. Sometimes...
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Unplug your toddler with over 150 screen-free games and activities!
From Tunnel Tube to Party Play Dough, Bumper Ball to Hoop-Dee-Do, here are more than 150 screen-free games and activities to help kids enjoy the wholesome old-fashioned experience of playing creatively and freely... without technology. There are outdoor games and indoor games, games to play solo and games to play with others, crafts, songs, guessing games, puppet ideas, playdates...
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Are you tired of being miserable? I was until I realized I couldn't drive a nail with an over-ripe banana. I didn't have any tools. I hit the big cold world with a GED and no skills, social or otherwise. The only way I knew to solve people problems was to get angry or blame someone else, so obviously I never solved anything. I let a clerk sell me a hideous sport coat. Every time I put it on, I got mad again. I let a car salesman sell me a car I didn't...
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Conflict leads us through paths where we either thrive in our relationships, or we strive one against the other. Relationships thrive, promote growth, and expand creativity if problems are resolved in meaningful ways. Opposite of thriving is striving. When conflict is used as a chasm for control over others, violence, threats, and selfish gain, it's harmful to everyone involved. Conflict must be laced with love as in the yin and yang concept. They...
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