Family category: 58238 books
Becoming a Family
Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
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...
Orchard House
How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves.
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Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows, a neglected...
Love & Respect in the Family
The Respect Parents Desire; The Love Children Need
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Children need love. Parents need respect.
It is as simple and complex as that!
When frustrated with an unresponsive child, a parent doesn’t declare, “You don’t love me.” Instead the parent asserts, “You are being disrespectful right now.” A parent needs to feel respected,...
by Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in family life, from rapidly rising...
Good Nights
The Happy Parents' Guide to the Family Bed (and a Peaceful Night's Sleep!)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Your baby sleeps in your bed, and you love it. Except for those nagging worries about safety. ("She's so small, I'm so big!") And what your relatives are saying. ("She'll never leave your bed!") And that little foot that always ends up on your face.
Worry no more! Good Nights...
Fearless Motherhood
The Road To Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A small, emotionally charged look at one families choice to have a family when the odds were stacked against them.
When Sariah Fletcher and her husband discovered they would not be able to have biological children of their own, their dream of having a family of their own was shattered. What...
It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal
How to Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one’s addiction.
Two of today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one's addiction. As countless families can attest, addiction is a disease that destroys families, not just individuals. Secrecy,...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide France: Northeast France, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip to France.
With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas, travel...
by Judy Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Family therapist and nationally known parenting expert Judy Ford has a lot to say on the subject of family and home. Her accessible and friendly style offers practical suggestions and helpful advice from her own life and practice. This hard-won wisdom and tried-and-true approach to strenthening family...
All in the Family
Faith Issues for Families Dealing with Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Many excellent and informative books have been written on addiction. These books have provided information about the nature of the disease, characteristics of the addictive life-style, and ways to offer recovery to the addict. There have also been helpful books written on the dynamics of family life...
Stepfamilies
Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.
There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America....
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Italy: Florence & Central Italy, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip to Italy.
With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas,...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Italy: Milan & the Northwest Italy, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip to Italy.
With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas,...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Italy: Rome & Lazio, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip to Italy.
With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas, travel information,...