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How to be a Family

Author : Dan Kois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316452816
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book How to be a Family written by Dan Kois and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "funny and honest" (Pamela Druckerman) memoir, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together. What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together? In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble. HOW TO BE A FAMILY brings readers along as the Kois girls-witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-like through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go? A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, HOW TO BE A FAMILY will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take.

Becoming A Family

Author : Rena D. Harold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135692602
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Becoming A Family written by Rena D. Harold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement from young adulthood through coupling and the transition to parenthood may be among the most universal adult developmental transitions. These passages hold interest for all of us, but especially for those who study the psychological, familial, and sociocultural components of development, all of which interact and influence each other. This book enhances understanding of family-life development by shedding light on the meanings that family members ascribe to the developmental process of becoming a family. This is achieved through qualitative analysis of narratives through which individuals and families explain themselves, their thinking, and their behavior. These family narratives are windows into individual and family identity, as well as descriptions of connections to others. The book addresses issues including identity, child characteristics, social support, and work. Each chapter includes a review of seminal literature, parents' comments and ideas about the topic, and a discussion of practice, policy, and research implications.

Becoming a Family

Author : Margaret Shaw
Publisher : Hawthorn Press Early Years
ISBN 13 : 9781907359279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Family written by Margaret Shaw and published by Hawthorn Press Early Years. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Shaw explores how babies can be welcomed onto this earth with warmth, love, insight, joy, rhythm, structure and sensitive care. This helps lay healthy physical, psychological and spiritual foundations for life. The book follows the incarnating process of the child, starting before conception through the first three years of the family up to the third birthday.

Becoming a Family

Author : Lark Eshleman
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146163525X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Family written by Lark Eshleman and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story that moves us to tears. An American couple travels across the world to rescue a child from the hopelessness of a foreign orphanage, bringing their new son or daughter to a life of love and family. But does this transition always go smoothly? Adoptive parents hope their child will easily fit into the family and quickly become emotionally connected to the parents or siblings. But child psychologists and adoption experts say this connection is the most difficult aspect of international adoption. In countries where international adoptions are common-China, Russia, or Romania-orphanages commonly represent the available children to their new parents as healthy kids who just need a little love. In many cases, this is a gross misrepresentation. Children who spend time in institutionalized care may have experienced trauma, and therefore may not attach easily to their new family. Parents anxious to bring these children into their homes and their hearts struggle seriously with this issue. Although these children will eventually adapt in a healthy fashion, the road to emotional health and harmony can be a rocky one. Becoming a Family tackles this intricate issue head on. It provides parents with effective strategies for ensuring that their adopted child adjusts as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Practical and accessible, this book will help parents identify severe problems before the adoption, significantly reduce the risk of future difficulty, improve the damage already done to the child's otherwise normal, healthy development, and dramatically help enfold the child into a family ready to give love, security, and a new life.

Becoming Us

Author : Elly Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992385606
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Us written by Elly Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recommended: Childbirth educators"--Cover.

Becoming One Family

Author : Steve Houpe
Publisher : Harrison House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1577949307
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Becoming One Family written by Steve Houpe and published by Harrison House Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve and Donna Houpe successfully blended their two families to become one with many parts. They lived through the twists and turns of making two families, plus a few more, come together and, at the same, grew a thriving ministry. You will find amazing and practical insight for making this modern day dilemma really work.

Becoming A Stepfamily

Author : Patricia L. Papernow
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317758153
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Becoming A Stepfamily written by Patricia L. Papernow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcomes the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals better support this development? This book brings both clarity and depth to the unique and complex dynamics of remarried families. Patricia Papernow draws on interviews with over 100 stepfamily members, up-to-date research, a solid theoretical framework, and an empathic clinical sensibility to present an insightful model of stepfamily development, the Stepfamily Cycle. This details account of the sages of forming a lasting, cohesive group is richly illustrated by stepfamily members' own stories. Becoming a Stepfamily describes the developmental challenges involved in building nourishing, reliable relationships between stepparents and stepchildren, in the newly married couple, and between different family groups who must learn to live together in a remarried family. Papernow discusses the factors that influence the pace and ease of development, and she provides four full length case studies illustrating the varied paths through the stepfamily cycle to the successful remarried life. The author offers therapists, clergy, school personnel, and others involved with stepfamilies a range of effective interventions, including preventive, educational, and clinical approaches. She provides practical guidance for helping family members deal constructively with the differing attachments of children to their biological parents and stepparents, assisting stepparents as they cope with feeling excluded from the powerful biological parent-child bond, and guiding biological parents torn between their spouse's need for intimacy and privacy and their children's needs for support and attention.

Becoming Parents

Author : Pamela L. Jordan
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787955526
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Parents written by Pamela L. Jordan and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving into parenthood is typically a time of great joy and excitement, but it also brings fatigue, stress, and conflict. From the authors of the best-selling Fighting for Your Marriage and A Lasting Promise, this unique and innovative guide offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real-life examples, Becoming Parents challenges you to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship and in parenting together as a team. "If you're having a baby, buy this book! It will give your baby the most important gift of all-parents who know how to keep their relationship happy, satisfying, and stable-the kind of relationship your baby can count on and learn from." --Diane Sollee, director, Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education

Becoming a Happy Family

Author : Susan Smith Kuczmarski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692228326
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Happy Family written by Susan Smith Kuczmarski and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no perfect family. We are all works in progress. This book is a must read for anyone searching for answers to the family happiness puzzle, which in many ways is all of us. It serves as a guide to find the "sticky glue" that supports the family bond, to enhance the family's spirit and energy and to deepen connections across the family network, which is today refreshingly diverse in membership and structure. Every family has some degree of imbalance, some more than others, and every reader of this book can gain a clearer picture of how to nurture happiness, care for a family's soul and, just as importantly, engage and encourage other family members in this quest. You can't touch the soul of the family, but you are touched by it every day. Family soul is the memories and traits that make the family unique, including rituals, stories, experiences, conflicts and love. It is the family's complex network of relationships, values and activities. It is how we talk, feel and interact when we're together. You will discover how to: * Fortify the family soul with six vitamins or strengtheners--humor, emotion, acceptance, renewal, togetherness and struggle* Identify and applaud the "caretaker"--the champion of the family soul* Use the happiness tool kit--ten tangible ways to strengthen families* Recognize and apply practices that are integral to carving out happy and dynamic families: start a family of one's own, welcome in-laws and special people, bond with friends, discover a soul friend and add pets to the sceneThe exercises and tools are practical, accessible and easy to implement. The author weaves together dozens of colorful, funny and tender anecdotes that surfaced in her research, with illustrations that capture their spirit and theme. Written with empathy and good humor, the inspiring ideas and tips found here will motivate you to listen selflessly, speak from the heart, and practice whooping and praising descriptively--starting now! Susan Smith Kuczmarski, Ed.D., currently teaches at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. She is an award-winning author of five books.

Sins of the Family

Author : Beverly Hubble Tauke
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842386975
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Sins of the Family written by Beverly Hubble Tauke and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has relational habits—both positive and negative—passed down from generation to generation. Family counselor Beverly Hubble Tauke, citing real-life stories and suggesting specific “transforming practices,” shows how to put an end to a cycle of negativity and change family patterns so that you and your family can enjoy healthy relationships for generations to come. Full of surprising wit and inspiring insight, "Sins of the Family" will help families find the joy God intended for them.

Learning to Be a Family

Author : Ken Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934688161
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Be a Family written by Ken Smith and published by . This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It Runs in the Family

Author : Frida Berrigan
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1939293669
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book It Runs in the Family written by Frida Berrigan and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on the stories in her popular column for the website Waging Nonviolence, Berrigan has crafted a welcome antidote to the various parenting fads currently on offer from French moms and tiger moms and mean moms. She offers a unique perspective on parenting that derives from hard work, deep reflection, and lots of trial and error.

Free to Be...a Family

Author : Marlo Thomas
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553345599
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Free to Be...a Family written by Marlo Thomas and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs and stories about different types of families and family relationships.

Belonging and Becoming

Author : Mark Scandrette
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 0857218085
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Belonging and Becoming written by Mark Scandrette and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us feel overwhelmed about the prospect of raising children in our high-performance, rapid-pace culture. Reflecting on difficulties from our own families of origin can increase our doubt and insecurity about being a good parent. Positive examples of family life can seem few and far between. Mark and Lisa Scandrette understand these challenges, and in Belonging and Becoming they cast a compelling vision of what the family can be. They offer wisdom from the joys and struggles of their own life, and practical guidance for creating a healthy and deeply rooted family culture. Whether you've been a parent for some time, you're just starting out, or you're only starting to think about it, this book will inspire you to take new steps toward family thriving. Now more than ever, we need a new vision for family that is creative, intentional, soulful, and globally aware. This book offers just that. Its goal is a thriving family, where each member is loved and supported to become all they were made to be for the good of the world.

Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family

Author : Michelle Anthony
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0781411416
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family written by Michelle Anthony and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to guide our children into the abundant life that Jesus offers. But when we pursue the more and better that the world offers above our pursuit of Jesus, we fall into dangerous parenting habits. In Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family, Michelle Anthony unpacks six common dysfunctional parenting styles that we fall into out of habit, lack of attention, or just oversight due to busyness. If you long to show your children Jesus but don't know how to do it, you'll find hope in this practical guide to creating a relentlessly grace-filled home that is focused on God as first in charge. Includes Scripture guides, reflection questions, ideas for family rites of passage, and other real life family examples.

Far Apart, Close in Heart

Author : Becky Birtha
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807512761
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Far Apart, Close in Heart written by Becky Birtha and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 - Best Picture Books to Give Readers Strength STARRED REVIEW! "This book is a necessary one."—Kirkus Reviews starred review STARRED REVIEW! "A highly recommended title that serves as an excellent entry to discuss incarceration in an age-appropriate way."—School Library Journal starred review Millions of children worldwide have a parent in jail or prison. Kids can have all kinds of feelings and questions when a parent is incarcerated. Rafael is embarrassed. Rashid is angry. Yen wonders if it's her fault. This sensitive story illustrates a range of situations children may face with moms or dads behind bars, while reassuring them they are not alone.

Clutterfree with Kids

Author : Joshua Becker
Publisher : Becoming Minimalist
ISBN 13 : 0991438612
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Clutterfree with Kids written by Joshua Becker and published by Becoming Minimalist. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children add joy, purpose, and meaning to our lives. They provide optimism, hope, and love. They bring smiles, laughter, and energy into our homes. They also add clutter. As parents, balancing life and managing clutter may appear impossible—or at the very least, never-ending. But what if there was a better way to live? Clutterfree with Kids offers a new perspective and fresh approach to overcoming clutter. With helpful insights, the book serves as a valuable resource for parents. Through practical application and inspirational stories, Clutterfree with Kids invites us to change our thinking, discover new habits, and free our homes. It invites us to reevaluate our lives. And it just may inspire you to live the life you’ve been searching for all along.