“This is a memoir: a package of boasts, false modesty, flawed memories, dropped names, outright errors, and embarrassing disclosures that I think are pretty neat–but may appall you, if you’re squeamish or have an orderly turn of mind.”—Robert NylenThe thing is, Robert Nylen should have died several times in 1968. He was a goner in 2006, and 2007 as well, and yet he survived through a combination of dumb luck and sheer perseverance. Of course, as you read these words, he’s already b...

According to experts, being involved in a prior marriage decreases the success rate of subsequent marriages. The aim of this book is to reduce the failure rate of remarriages and to promote the success of blended families. Successful Blended Families addresses the common challenges of blended family life and provides practical tools for dealing with them effectively. Attention is given to children in these families, step-parenting, preparation for remarriage as well as the building blocks ...

The way you parent, the clothes you buy, your relationships with your boss and your daughter, your attitude to money and sex, are, to an extraordinary extent, defined by the era into which you were born. Parents, the church, teachers and employers think they understand youngsters because they, too, were young once. But adults no longer live in the world that existed when they were teenagers. We may occupy the same space, home, classroom or office but we live in different worlds. And these ...

Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values.Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of m...

Learn to live every day with purpose, passion, and joy with this practical guide to proven success strategies.We all start out with a personal vision of the ideal life. Then, all too often, the realities of living get in the way. So how do people like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, and George Clooney manage to live the lives of their dreams. Do they possess unique abilities or some magic elixir?The truth is that while these people's lives are ext...

Follow a family in a very remote part of southern British Columbia left alone by civilization until the world and progress forced them into the 20th century. The first of three books following the Magwin family and how the war and the coming of TB and all the other things that the human race brings on themselves affected this small town. A very cut off part of Canada had no choice but to open up to the world. How they had to adapt or die. the Kootenays remains to this day a slightly change...

**Have you ever found yourself thinking, “If one more friend gets engaged I’m going to scream”?Do the words taffeta and crinoline make you break into a cold sweat?Does reading the wedding announcements section in the newspaper induce outright hyperventilation?**If so, congratulations! You’ve hit the Panic Years.According to author Doree Lewak, the Panic Years mark the point (usually around your twenty-sixth birthday) when y...

Di’s life is built on the unshakeable rock of spiritualityLove for spirit, family, people, animals and earth is obvious to all who know her.This is evident in poems, written through good times, and hard, as she examines her life experiences, searching for the values she treasures – integrity, honesty, perseverance, hope and love.We can relate to her, and she is able to express in her poems the uncomfortable feelings we perhaps turn away from because we have too have...

Adolescence can be a challenging period under normal circumstances, but for five troubled boys, 1963 is a particularly difficult year. As social worker Airdrie Thompson-Guppy and her family settle in Waterloo, Ontario, Airdries life is about to dramatically change when those five boys are placed in her home by the Childrens Aid Society.One by one, the boys cautiously move into the home Airdrie shares with her husband and one-year-old daughter. Lefty is the unwitting victim of his f...

Do You Want To Help Your Children Save For College?Single fathers are worrying about college for their children due to the high cost of it in recent years. Plenty of single fathers have trouble sending their children for college due to the lack of funds. Single fathers, like any other parent, would want a better future for their children. This is tough when finances are tight.In Saving For College For The Single Daddy, Nick Thomas has obtained the advice from experienced si...

Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience.

One family's struggle for the past twenty-six years with Neurofibromatosis, and how we have coped with it. Especially how we have dealt with and come to terms with it. Especially how we have dealt with and come to terms with other people's attitudes towards the syndrome and facial disfigurement. In the belief that our own personal experiences may encourage others in similar situations.The author began to write this book with her husband and children ten years ago after a road traff...