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1) Parenting With Ease: How to Use an Appreciative Mindset to Create the Life You Want with Your Child
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2022
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Feeling overwhelmed and stressed in your day-to-day parenting? Have you looked for solutions to no availa? Parent Coach Jacqueline Telgheder can relate. Like her clients, she felt drained and defeated. Nothing seemed to work. Filled with relatable stories, fresh approaches, and impactful action steps, this honest and insightful guide presents a way out of the trenches. For parents of toddlers to teens, 'Parenting with Ease' will help you see the good...
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"To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents' Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center's first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang"--
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2023.
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"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
5) Saving Myles
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"When the FBI can’t help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son home Wade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an expensive treatment center after a streak of harmful behavior. After a year of treatment, Myles comes home, seemingly rehabilitated. But soon, he sneaks off to Tijuana to buy drugs—and is...
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2023.
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"A small cockatoo and large cockatoo celebrate their unconditional love for each other in this sweet story full of gentle rhymes. Beloved children's book creator Emma Dodd explores important themes of growing up and learning to be independent."--
8) Our dragon
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[2023]
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"What are two parents to do when their beloved little dragon keeps breathing fire all over the house?"--
10) Project Earth
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Jina is learning about climate change for a class project, but her efforts to save energy at home (by turning off all appliances) just seem to inconvenience her parents, and frustrate them all.
11) Tadpoles
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[2023]
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On a rainy morning, a father and son bond over a walk through a field full of freshly formed ponds teeming with tadpoles.
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2024.
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"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
13) All is nat lost
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2024
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"When an overnight class trip to Philadelphia gets off to a bad start, with one disaster after another, Nat must turn things around or lose the independence her parents' finally gave her"--
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2024.
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Drawing on nearly twenty years’ experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned to their own values and their children’s unique temperaments.
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[2023]
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"A thoughtfully curated daily devotional full of inspiring quotes and advice, from the bestselling author of THE DAILY STOIC-for any dad as they navigate the most important journey of their life What does it mean to be a great father? And then, how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with incredible meaning and purpose, one that men have a responsibility to take seriously. But every father needs guidance. Men need someone to inspire and...
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