Family For Life

Author : Akhil Sharma
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314621

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Family Life by Akhil Sharma Pdf

Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum. This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the repository of the family's hopes, and he spends every waking minute studying for the exams that will mean entry to the Bronx High School of Science, and reflected glory for them all. When a terrible accident makes a mockery of that dream, the family splinters. The boys' mother restlessly seeks the help of pundits from the temple, while their father retreats into silent despair - and the bottle. Now Ajay must find the strength of character to navigate this brave new American world, and the sorrows at home, on his own terms. By turns blackly funny, touching, raw and devastating, Family Life is a vivid and wrenching portrait of sibling relationships and the impact of tragedy on one family from a boy's eye view.

Author : Kelly J. Welch
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781544371054

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Family Life Now by Kelly J. Welch Pdf

Family Life Now is a candid, thoughtful examination of marriages, families, and intimate relationships that follows the Family Life Education framework. Written in a student-friendly, conversational style, the text encourages readers to draw upon their own backgrounds and experiences to understand theories and concepts vital to the family sciences. Author Kelly J. Welch incorporates scholarship from the social and behavioral sciences to cover topics that are important to students today, such as LGBTQ+ individuals and relationships, cohabitating, and financial compatibility with a partner. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Author : Jesper Juul
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781468579291

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Family Life by Jesper Juul Pdf

This book captures the essence of modern family life. Much has changed since our own childhoods; the good old days. Todays parents are challenged by the need to invent their own parenting style. This can only happen from within, based on our personal values and boundaries. Jesper Juul puts it very clearly: The love we feel for our children and our partners does not in itself have any value. It has no value at all until it is converted into loving behavior. Each chapter focuses on the values that form a solid platform on which to build a family: Equal dignity, Integrity, Authenticity and Responsibility. This makes family life more meaningful and parents avoid living frantically from conflict to conflict, desperately searching for quick solutions and trying to adapt to the most popular parenting technique of the day. A book full of everyday examples and practical ideas.

Author : Mavis Fuller,Christopher Graham,Barbara Jenkins,Clare Eastland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family life education
ISBN : 1405086696

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Health and Family Life Education by Mavis Fuller,Christopher Graham,Barbara Jenkins,Clare Eastland Pdf

Author : Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781483384566

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Family Life Education by Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard Pdf

Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach begins by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourages readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. Readers then learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and -principles of social marketing to promote programs.

Author : Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307440869

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Jewish Family and Life by Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman Pdf

A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.

Author : Swami Rama
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0893891339

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Love and Family Life by Swami Rama Pdf

Guides the reader to understand the interplay between loving relationships and the path to spirituality.

Author : Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456636531

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On Marriage and Family Life by Saint John Chrysostom Pdf

Inspired by the epistles of St Paul, St John Chrysostom has many important and practical things to say to Christian couples and families.

Author : Hal Young,Melanie Young
Publisher : Great Waters Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780984144303

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Raising Real Men by Hal Young,Melanie Young Pdf

Families with boys often find the world reacts to them in mock horror. Even though parents love their sons, privately they admit that boys can be a handful to raise--they are boisterous, competitive, reckless, distractable. The challenge of wills between parent and son starts early, and the quest to civilize young bulls may seem hopeless some days. Yet believers know that God has given them children as a gift of heaven, specially chosen for their particular families and marked as a blessing. If that's so, why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when it's all we can do to make it through another day? Isn't there a better way? Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys shows the answer is emphatically yes. Written by the parents of six boys, Raising Real Men provides hope and encouragement to families with sons. Starting from the premise that God made boys to become men, Hal and Melanie Young offer Biblical principles and tested, practical ideas for training the manly virtues that can drive parents and teachers up the wall. This is a practical guide to equipping the hearts and minds of boys without breaking or losing your own. "...earthy, realistic, humorous, and scriptural ..." -- Douglas Wilson, author, Future Men "This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character." -- John Rosemond, author, Parenting By The Book

Author : Renee Hooker,Karl Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524789381

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Life with My Family by Renee Hooker,Karl Jones Pdf

"Cute and familiar." - Kirkus From New York Times Best-Selling illustrator, Kathryn Durst, and Penguin Workshop editors and authors, Renee Hooker and Karl Jones, comes a tale of a young girl who imagines her family as a pandemonium of parrots, a swarm of bees, a smack of jellyfish, a wisdom of wombats, and more! When a young girl gets frustrated with her chaotic life at home, she imagines what things would be like if her family were animals instead. Would life be better as a pod of pelicans, a pride of lions, or a herd of buffalo? Or is it ultimately a family of humans that she needs? In this beautifully illustrated book, young readers learn the names for groups of animals through a sweet, whimsical narrative that focuses on the importance of family.

Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473586628

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Shine/Variance by Stephen Walsh Pdf

"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times "An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice" Donal Ryan "These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection" Roddy Doyle A sharp and insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of ordinary life A wife yearns to escape the tight-fisted confines of a package holiday. A boy dreams of footballing greatness as his mother mourns a loss. A man tries to assemble an absent child's playhouse, with impossible instructions and too much beer. A woman seeks clarity from automated voices. A father is distracted from Christmas tree shopping with his son by the looming pressure of quarterly sales targets. Shine/Variance captures the tiny crises and wonders of daily life with warmth, wit and decisive clarity. Ordinary people - commuters, call centre workers, children and parents - struggle for stability while craving more, and the schism between expectation and reality is only rarely bridged. Yet, amidst the faltering, recognition and bright moments of hope still illuminate their days. Fresh, tender and darkly funny, these stories are a window into the longings, frustrations and painfully human connections of ordinary life from a remarkable new voice in fiction. "The most powerful new collection I've read in some years" John Boyne "Brilliantly bats, staggeringly compelling, and ferociously funny. Stephen Walsh rips the concreteness of reality straight from us and reflects back a more wobbly version of our turbulent lives... Completely unique" June Caldwell "Full of assured originality and freshness - a new writer much to be welcomed" Bernard MacLaverty

Author : St. John Chrysostom
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Marriage and Family Life by St. John Chrysostom Pdf

This classic includes the following homilies: Homily XIX. 1 Cor. 7:1, 2 Homily XX. Ephesians 5:22–24 Homily XXI. Ephesians 6:1–3 Homily XII. Colossians 4:18

Author : Reginald M. Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226221441

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Family Life and School Achievement by Reginald M. Clark Pdf

Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.

Author : Clare Mackintosh
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
ISBN : 0751575577

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A Cotswold Family Life by Clare Mackintosh Pdf

A humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside from bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh. 'Insightful, funny, absorbing' Prue Leith 'Original yet totally recognisable' Katie Fforde 'Sheer bliss!' Jill Mansell 'Heartfelt and poignant' Sunday Express I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again. For 8 years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart.

Author : Michelle Janning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442254800

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The Stuff of Family Life by Michelle Janning Pdf

Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships? How does where you place your TV in your home affect your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From digital family photo albums to the growing popularity of “man caves,” author Michelle Janning looks at not only what large demographic studies say about family dynamics but also what our lives—and the stuff in them—say about how we relate to each other. The book takes readers through various phases of family life, including dating, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging, while paying attention to how our choices about our spaces and objects impact our lives. Janning has joked, “I'm not a social scientist who uses large national datasets to illustrate family life; I’m the social scientist who asks people to examine what’s in their underwear drawers to tell stories about their family life.” From underwear drawers to calendars, The Stuff of Family Life offers an illuminating and entertaining look at the complexities of American families today.