Daddy Needs A Drink

Author : Robert Wilder
Publisher : Delta
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385339261

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Daddy Needs a Drink by Robert Wilder Pdf

In the tradition of Dave Barry, an irreverent look at fatherhood from a dad who truly loves his kids—even when they’re driving him nuts. “Robert Wilder’s hilarious and boldly candid essays about the realities of parenting go down like gin and tonic on a hot summer afternoon.”—People A Santa Fe dad shares heartwarming, comic, often ludicrous tales of raising a family in this laugh-out-loud book perfect for anyone who enjoys the edgy humor of David Sedaris or the whimsical commentary of Dave Barry. Waxing both profound and profane on issues close to a father’s heart—from exploding diapers to toddler tantrums, from the horrors of dressing up as Frosty the Snowman to the moments that make a father proud—Robert Wilder brilliantly captures the joys and absurdities of being a parent today. With an artist wife and two kids—a daughter, Poppy, and a son, London—Robert Wilder considers himself as open-minded as the next man. Yet even he finds himself parentally challenged when his toddler son, London, careens around the house in the buff or asks the kind of outrageous, embarrassing questions only a kid can ask. A high school teacher who sometimes refers to himself jokingly as Mister Mom (when his wife, Lala, is busy in her studio), Wilder shares warmly funny stories on everything from sleep deprivation to why school-sponsored charities can turn otherwise sane adults into blithering and begging idiots. Whether trying to conjure up the perfect baby name (“Poppy” came to his wife’s mother in a dream) or hiring a Baby Whisperer to get some much-needed sleep, Wilder offers priceless life lessons on discipline, potty training, even phallic fiddling (courtesy of young London). He describes the perils of learning to live monodextrously (doing everything with one hand while carrying your child around with the other) and the joys of watching his daughter morph into a graceful, wise, unique little person right before his eyes. By turns tender, irreverent, and hysterically funny, Daddy Needs a Drink is a hilarious and poignant tribute to his family by a man who truly loves being a father.

Author : Judith Vigna
Publisher : Albert Whitman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807535265

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I Wish Daddy Didn't Drink So Much by Judith Vigna Pdf

A young girl shares her feelings and frustrations about her alcoholic father's behavior.

Author : Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1459205405

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Crush by Andrea N. Richesin Pdf

Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection. Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

Author : Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781426854880

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What I Would Tell Her by Andrea N. Richesin Pdf

In this surprisingly vulnerable collection, twenty-eight talented fathers explore the complex, enigmatic bond they have with their daughters. These endearing, often funny and sometimes heartbreaking stories have in common an overpowering sense of responsibility and a depth of affection that is unflinchingly tender. Through their shared experiences, they examine relationships fraught with challenges and struggles, but always filled with love. The gentle strength they bring to this important role in their daughters' lives will speak to families for generations to come.

Author : Robert Wilder
Publisher : Delta
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385339285

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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge by Robert Wilder Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he’s learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers…manage “helicopter” parents…and cope with bullies—whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don’t help). In Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life’s learning curve with a warmth and humor you don’t find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780725417

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I Wish Daddy Didn't Drink So Much by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reverend Debra W. Haffner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781557048950

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What Every 21st Century Parent Needs to Know by Reverend Debra W. Haffner Pdf

A provocative new book that debunks the myths, validates the concerns, and advises parents on how to keep their children safe and healthy in a world so different from the one in which they grew up. Has raising children become more difficult, or are parents unnecessarily alarmed by the constant stream of stories and statistics in the media? How do those reports relate to their children? What's fact? What's exaggeration, or misinterpretation? These are some of the questions that parenting expert Debra Haffner, author of the award-winning books From Diapers to Dating and Beyond the Big Talk, answers in her new book. She addresses head-on the good and bad news about 21st-century parents' concerns: stress, self-esteem, drinking, achievement, drugs, Internet safety, cell phones, Facebook, depression, sports, nutrition, bullying, faith, abstinence, and sex. With compassion and clarity, backed by extensive research, Haffner provides invaluable insight into the world of children today, along with practical and reassuring tips for parents on how to tackle many of the day-to-day challenges.

Author : Michelle Windsor
Publisher : Michelle Windsor
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tempting Secrets by Michelle Windsor Pdf

My name is Maddox Stone. Or at least, it’s the name my clients call me. I work for the elite escort agency, Temptations, and for a price, I’ll be whatever you want and need me to be. I have the body, I have the looks, and I have a smile that makes any woman swoon. But It’s just a job. A necessary evil to help fund my dreams of becoming a doctor. I’m simply a robot, performing my required tasks. Until the night I’m hired to seduce Charlotte Harvey and remind her how good a man can make her feel. I didn’t expect her beauty to spark a desire in me long buried. I didn’t expect her smile to turn that spark into a flame. And I definitely didn’t expect her passion to ignite that flame into an inferno. I should have walked away without looking back, but she started a fire in me that I can’t seem to tame. Tempting Nights is the first book in the Tempted Nights Romance Series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone and features a happily ever after. Content: Escort, Romance, Contemporary, Steamy, Doctor, Nurse, Military, Sexy, MF, Happily Ever After

Author : Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358447719

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Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage Pdf

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123015823

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New Mexico Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. K. Landa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462841653

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Dad Is a ''Drinking Man'' by R. K. Landa Pdf

Dad is a Drinking Man is a moving story about an individual who overcomes his drinking problem. It is about family, about the positives and negatives in relationships, the stuff people generally cant seem to put into words. Slippery things like tradition, neglect, pride, tender affection, and wrenching emotion. It is about denial and the power of addiction to delude generations. Dad is a Drinking Man is also entertaining and its bound to make you smile as you read about people who seem familiar. The narrators relatives are outgoing in society and reserved in private. His family spends a lot of time together. Banter between them is easy, though subjects that provoke, like anger or worry, are subtly avoided. An only child, the son feels incredibly special and basks particularly in the attentions of his beguiling dad with whom he often travels. A Drinking Man, the Dad champions this family tradition. The son mimics the father he idolizes and grows up to live a parallel lifestyle. In time, he gains insight about his forefathers succession of shattered relationships. As he seeks a life of emotional abundance, the narrator rethinks his growing up from angles a child could not see and angles a drinking man could not imagine. Ready to relinquish his immature image of his dad and let go of the grasp his past has had on him, the narrator writes of his journey away from the familys tenacious hand-me-down.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : C.L. Gillmore
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781935636298

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Uncommon Bond by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandy Gowers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1480128775

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Daddy Please Don't Drink by Sandy Gowers Pdf

A children's book. This book was written from a poem I wrote as a twelve year old girl. It is truly from the mentality of a child with an alcoholic father.

Author : Annelise Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798593635044

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Domesticated by Daddy by Annelise Reynolds Pdf

SerenaI have a bad reputation, and my antics have pushed my father to take drastic measures. If I don't take a position as a live-in nanny for the assistant district attorney, then I'm going to be cut off from my trust fund, and escaping to college goes out the window.After meeting Tyson, I no longer want to escape. Where my father failed to tame me, my Daddy knows just what I need to keep me in line-a firm hand and a gentle touch.TysonI knew it was a bad idea the minute I agreed to let her work for me, but nothing could have prepared me for the woman who knocked on my door. Serena is a Little Minx and completely unaware of what she wants or needs. From the second I laid eyes on her, I knew she needed a Daddy to fill her needs both in and out of bed.I shouldn't touch her, but I'm not strong enough to resist. I'm going to teach this party girl a lesson-one spanking at a time.**This book contains aspects of DD/LG role play. If this isn't for you, you might want to pass on this one.

Author : Mary E. Twomey
Publisher : Mary E. Twomey, LLC
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sins of the Father by Mary E. Twomey Pdf

When parents can send their children to jail to serve time in their place, corruption gets a free pass. Arlanna’s life quickly turns upside-down when her father, the feared and revered mafia boss, finally gets caught in one of his many schemes and elects to send her to prison in his stead. The broken system was never more than a frustration for her, but now that her freedom has been stolen away, Arlanna makes it her life’s mission to force the parents of the world to see the error of their ways. Arlanna knows she can’t endure a life sentence behind bars, paying for a crime she didn’t commit. If she has to take matters into her own hands, she knows she won’t hesitate to find a way to escape her doomed life—no matter who she has to cross. If you like Veronica Roth, Bella Forrest, and first kisses with the possibility of more, you’ll love this paranormal prison series with a dystopian edge. One-Click this paranormal penitentiary romance series written by USA Today Bestselling Author Mary E. Twomey today! Google keywords: paranormal romance, Ava DuVernay, prison romance, LGBTQ fantasy romance, urban fantasy romance, prison romance, shifter romance