Pregnancy & Parenthood

Marriage of Honor is a Premarital Counseling Course that covers a number of different perspectives to help a couple think through issues that may come up in their future marriage. This Participant's Guide is a workbook to be used by participants in the Marriage of Honor Premarital Counseling Course in order for you to take notes during the course. My prayer is that you will find this material helpful to you in your current relationship and in your future marriage.2

A grand adventure is about to begin and what better way to prepare than by having friends & family share advise, fun stories, and their best tips on raising a little one! Add to it during your pregnancy or when the baby arrives as a helpful tool in navigating these new roads! This easy-to-fill-out book captures moments to remember such as your Belly Bump experience, what did you hear when sharing your due date, and what you are you most looking forward to as a new parent. Shower Me With Stories provides space for friends and loved ones to provide tips on giving baby a bath, bedtime routine, best movies & TV shows and more. A keepsake to treasure and remember these sweet days of expecting and life with a newborn!

This book is full of baby safety advice that can be a lifesaver to parents. From how to prepare your home to prevent accidents, to safety when out and about, this book has everything you need to know.Read how to prevent infant injuries and how to help children develop physical, social and emotional skills in this first-of-its kind book. The advice provided by pediatrics experts can help parents and caregivers keep babies safe in their homes and encourage healthy development.

When Lenora L. Wright gave birth to her son, she never imagined the impact her little boy would make on her life, her family, and her understanding of motherhood.With the support of family, friends, and medical professionals, Lenora was able to overcome the challenges facing her and then apply that knowledge to help other new moms.For anyone struggling with the ups and downs of postpartum, Mommy's Smile is sure to bring understanding, wisdom, and words of comfort.

Being a new mom is hard work! But the hard times can be easier to handle with this book. Daily Affirmations for New Moms is the perfect gift for a brand-new mama or even a treat for yourself when you need encouragement.Inside you will find daily affirmations written on beautifully designed backgrounds. These affirmations will help moms:Keep a positive outlook during the not-so-glamorous moments of motherhood.Enjoy the sweet moments in every day on this new journey.Know that it's ok to ask for help.Worry less about keeping a spotless house. Bonding with baby is more important.Be comfortable in her post-childbirth body.And so much more...If you have been searching for the perfect present for a pregnant loved one or just had a baby yourself and need something to help you in this wonderful but challenging time, look no further. This is the book for you!

In Penny Thoughts for the Homeschooler, veteran homeschooler Mary Kay Smith shares inspiring essays and photos to add warmth, sympathy, encouragement, motivation, beauty, and humor to your homeschool experience. Mary Kay is a writer, educational events coordinator, and editor of The Virginia Home Educator magazine. She is enthusiastic about homeschooling and loves to fuel other homeschoolers to actively pursue their goals. Her stories, reactions, and suggestions will add to the conversation about homeschooling, helping you think through the tough issues and create the homeschooling experience you want. You'll be glad you offered her "a penny for your thoughts!"

Most people, given the chance, just want to be happy and healthy, but getting there can be more than half the battle. Most people, given the choice, would want a friend to give them honest, reasonable, commonsense advice on how to be happier and healthier, but not everyone has a friend like that. Until now! Paula Sole is a forty-five-year-old housewife-domestic engineer, lover, artist, homemaker, chef, physician, and more-who wants to share just that sort of advice. Her book is filled with her down-to-earth, real-life advice on the things that matter to her: Discovering the Fountain of Youth is possible-by following her simple "lifestyle theory." Saving money and time is possible-by learning the truth about expensive gym memberships and fad diets. Raising wonderful, respectful children is possible-by following a few simple guidelines for shaping young lives. Staying healthy is possible-by following these tips to keep your cholesterol and blood pressure low, your bones strong, and your body and spirit young. Keeping a clean home is possible-by following these tips, you can eliminate the need for spring cleaning each year. Staying beautiful at any age is possible-by learning how to care for your skin and use makeup to your advantage. Cooking fun, delicious, and healthy food is possible-by using these simple recipes and tips in the kitchen. These tips and more await you in "Common Sense.""

You're more than your miscarriage, mama. When a routine OB appointment brought tragic news in 2018, Victoria was left shocked, shaken, and cleaved in two. Instead of letting it make her feel small, she used this sacred loss as a catalyst to expand. To blossom. And to give herself the love she always deserved. Find Your Way Home takes you through Victoria's journey of choosing joy, connecting with her intuition, and honoring her inner child after miscarriage, so you can learn to do the same. This book of inspiring words, energy, and embodiment practices comes from Victoria's heart to help you navigate whatever part of the motherhood journey you're currently on. Allowing you to realize you are your own medicine and healer, and that you are so much more than the things that have happened to you. You can move through and come out the other side better than you ever thought possible. You can find the light again."Through poetry, storytelling and thought provoking prose, Victoria masterfully weaves the multi-faceted energy of motherhood, miscarriage and life as a woman. This book is the balm we all need to feel better and move through life's challenges with grace and insight. You can flip to any page and instantly feel seen and understood on a deeper level." - Meg Sylvester, Spiritual Entrepreneur, Creative Mentor and Founder of Miracle Way Leadership "As someone who has also experienced the devastation of a miscarriage, I wish I had this book by my side. Find Your Way Home is for anyone who wants to know there will be good again in their lives. Victoria's vulnerability + wisdom has created a beautifully written + loving companion for anyone looking to reconnect to their inner light and up-level their every day." - Robyn Miller Brecker, co-host of Seeking Center and former Oprah Executive Victoria is a trained Akashic Records Reader, certified inner voice & breathwork facilitator, and mama of two boys. Accessing Akashic perspective has been profoundly healing for both Victoria and her clients, and she helps women all over the world learn how to access their own Records for daily guidance.To learn more, visit spiritmamas.com/about-victoria

A testimony to the sufficiency of God in the gruelling day-to-day reality of raising a child with a mental health disorder. Mental health disorders have become increasingly prevalent, especially in children and teenagers. Suicide is the 3rd highest cause of death in fifteen- to nineteen-year-olds around the world. This effect of the Fall has left thousands of families in despair, confusion, and impotent desperation. Leslie Schmucker knows this all too well. Writing to encourage other parents who find themselves in a similar situation, she explores different aspects of her and her family's experience with their daughter, Jackie. Through violence and mayhem, joy and hope, intense isolation, shame and confusion, Leslie's honest testimony to the goodness of God is humbling. Leslie's testimony is split into four sections: Comfort from the God who Knows Sufficiency in the Fallout Guidance in the Storm Hope for the Journey Life in our post-Fall world is not always neat, not every story looks like a success, but Leslie shows us how the gospel is for every situation, the love of God is for everyone, and He can be trusted to write our stories. Whether you are raising a child with a mental health disorder or not, this book will challenge your comfortable Christianity and show you a love beyond measure.

Patricia believes that the soul of a child is priceless and that the ultimate determination of success orfailure in life will make its biggest impact on children at an early age. The Non-Art of Parenting offers analternative challenge to parents who seek an additional point of view on how to navigate the rigors ofraising children in this current climate. The Non-Art of Parenting focuses on three main themes: + choosing a simpler approach to parenting, + understanding emotional IQ and its impact, + and always being the CEO while working in concert with your own personal plan to help ensure success. Patricia concedes that there is no art to parenting, but the fact is that you have a wonderful opportunity to makean impact in your child's life. Why not shoot for the moon?You will want to read this book to get inspired.About the Author: Patricia debuts her first literary contribution with the book entitled, The Non-Art of Parenting: Lessons Learned on How to Appoint Yourself CEO Over Your Children. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences. In addition, she has studied child development and taught Elementary, Middle and High School students. Professionally she has maintained continued success as a Senior Account Manager in the Pharmaceutical industry. In her spare time Patricia likes to read, exercise, travel and spend time with close friends and family. She is the proud parent of two successful millennial

Do you ever worry about your children? Do you wonder if you have raised them right? Do you wonder if they will make the right choices when they grow up? Did we teach them all that they need to know? We have taught them right from wrong. We have taught them how to do their best. We have taught them how to stand out. We have taught them to be themselves, to be different, to be unique. But, in just a few short years, the words of different, themselves, and unique will have a new meaning. The police will soon call them suspicious. It doesn't matter if they are up to mischief or not, sooner or later, most of our children will have an encounter with the police. When they do, will they know what to do? Please join us, as we teach our children to keep calm and RAISE EM' UP!

An urgently needed guide to the alarming rate of psychological stress experienced by girls from the age of ten through to adulthood, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled

Now you have raised a baby first and then a child, so now it's time to raise a teenager. The bigger they are, the bigger problem they bring.¿At the same time you will develop your own skills during the road. But the road might be bumpy and you will never know what to expect. It might be calm or it might be a stormy journey, and not all but a lot of it is a reflection of your own behavior in different situations, and some of it is the personality of the teenager itself.This e-book will help you to be more prepared for your life as a teenager parent.

A bedtime story that Trent Brown II began telling his children evolved into a heartfelt tale that children all over the world now enjoy. Children come to experience friendship, love, and positivity through the adventures of the 3T Chronicles.The first installment of this children's series was published in 2014 and this special edition book shares a few of those amazing stories, all in one! You and your loved ones will be able to make lasting memories time and time again by enjoying this special edition release in hardcover.

Diving into a new world of characters and experiences, Escape thrusts the readers into a journey marked with shocking surprise, shattering defeat and unconditional acceptance. The biggest obstacles in life are the ones we never see coming and the ones we cannot escape from. Tara Porter is an astute seventeen-year-old girl who is concerned with the simple things in life: school, her best friend Bella and her high school crush, Joel. Stepping out of her comfort zone and on the cusp of having everything she's ever dreamed about with Joel, her life is suddenly turned upside down with no warning. Forced to leave everything - and everyone - that she's ever cared about, Tara is faced with the reality of having no control over her situation. She is determined to return to those that were ripped away from her and nothing will stop her. A chance meeting with bubbly blonde Jessica and her magnetic step-brother Scott throws Tara into a different kind of tailspin. Soon Tara realizes that destiny has other plans for her and that her own assured plan to escape may not be what she wanted after all.

¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿

This book is full of baby safety advice that can be a lifesaver to parents. From how to prepare your home to prevent accidents, to safety when out and about, this book has everything you need to know.Read how to prevent infant injuries and how to help children develop physical, social and emotional skills in this first-of-its kind book. The advice provided by pediatrics experts can help parents and caregivers keep babies safe in their homes and encourage healthy development.

A Maternity Care Guide Bringing Humor and Empowerment to the Delivery, Decisions and the Other D

That belt and that scarf perfectly accessorize the outfit of the day, but wounds from abuse and trauma are the accessories we can't take off. They hide deep despair even from ourselves. Well, I'm done hiding. I'm healing ...

This book will open your eyes to some of the unspoken truths and challenges faced by women experiencing infertility. If you're struggling with infertility, then you need to read this book. Written like a conversation with an understanding best friend, this book sticks with you through thick and thin and offers a light in the dark moments, a laugh in the hard moments, and hope to get you through your own infertility journey. K.T. Ellie details navigating her own infertility journey and offers advice, help, and support for others facing the same heartache.You're stronger than the hardship you facing-and this book will prove it to you!Infertility: The Unspoken Hurdles will teach you: The fertility options you can choose fromAdvice to help you make difficult decisionsAnswers to questions you might not think to askThe honest truth about infertilityThat you're stronger than this, tooAnd so much moreYou don't have to face infertility alone. You have options and opportunities, even if they're hard to see right now. Let this book help you through.

As every parent from the beginning of time has discovered, kids don't come with a manual. Parenting is a learning journey from beginning to end, and like all learning journeys, it is full of lessons, challenges, questions, tests, mistakes, and messes. But what matters most on the journey of parenting is that we lock on to the right goal. One of the biggest reasons so many of us get scared, discouraged, frustrated, and overwhelmed as parents is that we think the goal of parenting is to be perfect parents who raise perfect children. This leads us to adopt fear-driven strategies that focus on avoiding and preventing mistakes and messes and using control and punishment to elicit desired behavior. In Imperfect Parenting, Brittney Serpell lays out the case for the true goal of parenting: a safe, loving, heart-to-heart connection with our kids. Pursuing the goal of connection is what sets us up to influence the hearts, minds, and behavior of our children as we guide them on their own learning journey to become healthy, confident, emotionally intelligent, and strong in character. Filled with relatable stories and real-life examples.

"The Motherhood Space" will carry you through the beautiful chaos of modern motherhood, offering advice, imparting wisdom, and sharing intimate stories to help you feel seen during the intense highs and lows in this season of your life. In this book, doula and mother of three Gabrielle Nancarrow shares her own motherhood journey alongside interviews and personal reflections from mothers around the world, who graciously share deeply honest and tender stories about the times that made them laugh, cry and fall to their knees. Whether you are experiencing identity and relationship shifts, isolation, sleep deprivation, feeding challenges or planning your return to work, the stories within this book will walk with you through each milestone and help you see that you are not alone.

In his powerful new book, David Steinman shows how today’s most popular items—from bubble bath to cereal to cleaning products to snack foods—are contaminated with unacceptable levels of chemical toxins and pesticides, and he proposes alternatives and substitutes to keep your family safe.

Discover how to nurture your child's can-do mindset and life skills through screen-free play ideas that fit easily into everyday family life. This book will help you: Nurture your child's can-do mindset and essential life skills including confidence, resourcefulness, resilience, critical thinking, problem-solving, and many more through a tried and tested play-based approachKeep children busy and engaged with easy and fun, screen-free activitiesMake family time more enjoyable for everyoneThe Can-Do Child(R) is an inspiring, practical book for parents and anyone who cares for, or works with children aged 3-11 years.

It's time to ditch perfection! "Mum guilt" is the term given to the feelings of inadequacy that women experience in relation to their children and their parenting choices. Offering top tips and techniques on how to overcome your parenting worries, Guilt-Free Mum will help you reject the notion of the perfect parent and be kind to yourself.

A book about love, loss and queer single parenting co-written with a machine-learning algorithm and a toddler.