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Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition
A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The spirited child—often called "difficult" or "strong willed"—possesses traits we value in adults yet find challenging in children. Research shows that spirited children are wired to be "more"; by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent,...
by Taylor Edison, Jane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people,...
by Yoshie Okamoto - 岡本 佳恵
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“Let us offer simple words from the heart ...” I am here is a poetic journey through time and memory. It tells an emotional story of a childhood filled with pain, physical restriction and a “tangle of feelings” through the voices of a child, a youth and an adult. Shining throughout is a belief...
by Monica Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
I want to start by saying, without any doubt, that almost everything in life, if not all requires guidance. Yes, including human beings, it does not matter whether you are an adult or a kid.
However, parental guidance is very unique in that it affords parents the opportunity to mold their children...
Carried in Our Hearts
The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
"My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy, she carried me in her heart." Bailey, a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book.
According to People magazine, parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder...
Wordjazz for Stevie
How a Profoundly Handicapped Girl Gave Her Father the Gifts of Pain and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
How could a girl born with a genetic defect - who later suffered brain damage leaving her blind, epileptic and physically handicapped, and who lived only eight years - change the world? Wordjazz for Stevie is a letter written to Stevie by her father after she had died to try to explain to her (and...
by John Lavan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
One of the internet’s most prominent poets, John Lavan, presents his second book of collected poems.
John’s distinctive voice, enjoyed by his hundreds of thousands of blog and Twitter followers, carries effortlessly from the personal to the pastoral. Many poems are inspired by family relationships,...
The Little Locksmith
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
This early 20th century memoir of a woman’s faith in the face of debilitating disease is a “remarkably un-self-pitying book remains poignant and truthful” (Publishers Weekly).
“You must not miss it . . . It is the kind of book that cannot come into being without great living and great...
My Son's Not Rainman
One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This isn’t a story about autism. It’s a story about a young boy who happens to have autism, and there is a difference. John Williams is a stand-up comedian. He is also a single father and full-time carer for his son, who has autism and cerebral palsy. This is their incredible story. In 2012, John...
My Mysterious Son
A Life-Changing Passage between Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a “normal” life? That’s the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years...
by Torey Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world . . . until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence.
Nothing in all of Torey Hayden’s experience could have prepared...
Lost Child
The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
The first new book from beloved therapist and writer Torey Hayden in almost fifteen years—an inspiring, uplifting tale of a troubled child and the remarkable woman who made a difference.
In a forgotten corner of Wales, a young girl languishes in a home for troubled children. Abandoned by...
by Dan E. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his sons strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. Bens father Dan Burns puts the reader in the passengers seat as he struggles with medical service providers the school...
Parents of Teens Who Cut
Dealing with Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Dealing with a child who cuts or self-harms in any way breaks a parents heart. It does not matter if the child is a teen or a pre-teen all you can think about is how to help them.
This book is written by a parent of a child who cuts. I wrote this book because many times parents feel alone...