Discover sex-positive guidance to help you have important talks with your tween or teen Find out how you can tackle the sometimes difficult subject of sex in a way that encourages your child to open up, be honest, and not feel ashamed. This modern guide helps you confidently discuss 70 essential sex education topics. Each subject features an easy-to-understand explanation, as well as questions and prompts designed to help you start meaningful dialogues....

Every parent dreams of nurturing confident, resilient, and successful children in a world brimming with endless possibilities. "Sparkling Future: A Parent's Guide to Confident Kids" is an extraordinary roadmap, offering a treasure trove of wisdom, strategies, and insights to help parents embark on this transformative journey.Through the pages of this captivating guide, you will discover the essential principles and practices that lay the foundation...

These essays - moving, engaging, and deeply personal - explore the themes of family responsibility, growing up, and growing older. As the author, a divorced single mother beginning a new life and career in her forties, delves into the details of her own situation, she illuminates universal truths about what matters most: love, fulfillment, and the pain and necessity of huge change.These pieces about a woman in midlife struggling...

Former almost-rock-star Brian "Brick" Smith thought his punk-rock days were behind him. He was wrong. Before he became a mild-mannered English teacher, Brian was the songwriter and bass player for a one-hit-wonder punk band: Call Field. Two decades ago, Brian and his bandmates were on a stratospheric ascent through the music industry... until Call Field unexpectedly crash-landed and broke up. Since then, Brian has been living a quiet white-collar...

Building on the success of the 20 000 sales of the Terrific Toddlers books, this new book has updated and expanded the original books and added key sections in each chapter for parenting the school years (ages 5 to 12) and the teen years (ages 13+). Each short and easy-to-read chapter highlights practical activities you can include in a day that will promote the foundational skill of self-control. Once this is established, virtues such as kindness,...

Parenting Teen Boys with Love and Confidence "John is the real deal… He knows what kids are dealing with, what their struggles are, where their strengths lie, what they know, and what they need."-Giuliana Rancic, journalist, television personality, and infotainer #1 New Release in Parenting Teenages, Parenting Boys, and Popular Adolescent Psychology Dr. John Duffy; bestselling author of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, clinical psychologist,...

She's 22 years old, for heaven's sake! We thought she'd be grown up by now. But no, it's one more crisis after another. And then she calls on us-for emotional support, problem-solving advice. Even money...although we've gotten pretty tough about that. It's like she's still a teen! Why is it so hard for her just to act like an adult?' Around age 18, most young people expect, and are expected to, move out and live on their own-either at college or in...

Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that they initiated a letter-writing campaign to help lift her spirits. It was a tender gesture of solidarity that set off an overwhelming chain reaction of...

It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...

"When a house party goes terribly wrong, a small town fractures along lines of privilege, exposing disturbing truths about the community, perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes"-- Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going...