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"Mit euren großen Augen schaut ihr mich an. Ihr scheint schon so viel von mir zu erwarten. Bald geht ihr sorglos an unserer Hand. Aber woran halten wir uns fest, wir Großen?" Ein Mann wird Vater, er ist stolz und glücklich, fühlt sich aber genauso oft ohnmächtig, wütend, hilflos. Auch angesichts bedrohlicher Zeiten, in denen einem selbst in der U-Bahn mulmig werden kann. Was ist das für eine Welt, in die unsere Kinder da hineinwachsen? Was geben wir an sie weiter, wie vermitteln wir ihnen die Umbrüche des Lebens? Ein berührender Text über die Kraft des Erinnerns, die Sorge vor der Zukunft und das flüchtige Glück unserer Zeit. Eine Liebeserklärung an die nächste Generation.

Raise Your Kids to Succeed: What Every Parent Should Know describes what parents can do to be effective and help their children succeed, both in school and in life. Part I opens with some big foundational questions, including the need for parents to realize their own importance. It goes on to discuss how to create a family mission statement, the importance of creating family traditions and rituals, and the pivotal need to model good behavior.

Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it, except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune (and now and then in many other papers), Erskine distills, mocks, and makes us laugh at the absurdities of suburban fatherhood. And now, he's gathered the very best of these witty and wise essays - and invited his kids (and maybe even Posh) to annotate them with updated commentary.

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family, and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough.

Parenting: You and Baby’s First Year Products is a one-stop guide for new moms and dads who want to set themselves up for success from the start. With so many baby products available, it can be really confusing and expensive to go through continual trial and error. On top of that, you are short on sleep, and you don’t want your baby to be a guinea pig for all kinds of products. I want to save you mounds of stress and hours of time by sharing the tools, tricks, and products that worked like a charm for us.

Would you like to understand the world from the mind and eyes of a child and a loving and experienced parent? Would you like to hear typical real-life dialogues between that parent and child? Would it help to understand the psychology of a child who is just stepping out into a new and awesome environment? This world is full of awe and wonder, but laced with challenges that may set your child back or help him or her move forward into a hope-filled, loving, and responsible future. This book contains the knowledge and tools you can use to aid your child on the way to success. It also has its moments of humor.

Do you spend your days following your toddler from room to room, cleaning up their path of destruction? Do you feel like you’ve done everything within your power to keep them from destroying everything and anything that’s within their reach? Have you dreamed of booking a one-way ticket to Fiji? Ever have the desire to hide under the mountain of laundry that’s waiting to be folded and put away? This parenting thing ain’t easy! You’ve heard this before—parenting is the most challenging, stressful job there is, harder than any other job out there. As the parent of a toddler, you are laying critical groundwork and the foundation to be built upon for the rest of their lives. No pressure, right? There is so much information and advice out there on toddler discipline, it can actually be overwhelming. There are tons of parenting books, Pinterest boards and mommy blogs with tons of information. Being a busy parent—who has time to track down and weed through all that advice? Great news, you don’t have to! I’ve done the work for you. I was overwhelmed too, when I was trying to deal with my toddlers. That’s why I wrote this book, based on my own experience, as well tips from stacks and stacks of books I read about discipline for my own toddlers during those crazy years.

Solo un figlio può far nascere un papà. Io, come papà, sono nato un po' per volta scrivendo questodiario per raccontare a mia figlia come ci siamo trovati tra otto miliardi di persone, ma legati da un filo cheabbiamo riavvolto fino a lei. In un incontro con altre coppie adottive mi sono resoconto che a tutti noi mancava qualcosa che ci prendesse per mano e ci aiutasse a sorridere di fronte alle difficoltà di questa avventura chiamata adozione.

This book is designed to give you the tools to communicate under high-pressure situations. Most people feel uncomfortable and struggle with communicating in tough settings. We will leave you with many answers to questions that you may have about how to communicate effectively in these kinds of situations.

Existen gran cantidad de libros sobre el embarazo destinados a las mujeres, pero por fin se publica uno escrito por un hombre y dedicado al sexo masculino. Y ya era hora, porque si la mujer en dichos libros encuentra respuesta a absolutamente todas sus preguntas o casi (¿acaso en estas obras se han parado alguna vez a pensar en lo que siente el progenitor?), el hombre, desde que le dan la noticia de su futura paternidad, deberá sobrevivir en un solitario y desconocido mundo, lleno de sorpresas....

It is my hope that fathers that listen to this audiobook will be stirred by the Spirit of God to a renewed sense of dedication, focus, and resolve, as it pertains to the call on their lives as fathers. I pray that every father that listens to this audiobook will be inspired in some way, be changed in some positive way, and that generations will be impacted as of result of fathers listening to and applying what they find in this audiobook.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brady vs. Manning and dean of football writers - an audiobook that explores the many interesting facets to NFL quarterbacks and their relationships with their fathers. My First Coach goes behind the scenes to explore the unique relationship between these and other quarterbacks and their fathers, as well as investigate various approaches to parenting through their stories. Can young athletes overcome helicopter parents? How did the kids with NFL aspirations deal with their fathers who'd already made it?

Four years after his wife's suicide, Jason MacKenzie had his moment of reckoning. After yet another day of heavy drinking his daughter Melody, who was nine years old, looked him in the eye and told him she was disappointed in him. She found the courage to be honest with her dad and that finally gave him the courage to be honest with himself.

One thousand women were asked one bold question. What must a dad do, be, or say to raise a confident, successful daughter in today's society?

Marriage, children, money, and everyday battles take their toll on any parent. This book navigates a clear path through the roller coaster of life. Get ready to laugh, cry, and be motivated by author Rick Daynes, the keeping-it-real father of five, three of whom have special needs. Although he speaks to dads of special kids, these life-changing solutions inspire all parents who want to empower their marriage and shape the brightest future for their family.

As his 50th birthday dawned, Peter Dunne had a life-changing conversation with a friend and realised that, while he may not have invented the internet or found a cure for cancer, he had nonetheless fathered three remarkable and beautiful children. Inspired by that fact, he set out to leave a trail of metaphorical breadcrumbs for them, so that if they ever needed to know what their father might have had to say on a particular subject, it would be set down for them.

Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion as his daughter, Jay, realizes he is a boy and a son. Most of all, this is a story about love - its necessity and fragility and its capacity to enable us to be who we are.

This inspiring true story of a single dad's long journey home pokes gentle (and not so gentle) fun at our frail human efforts to gain from our losses, and begin again. A returning son makes three promises to his ailing mother to be a good man after his wife attempts to replace him over Christmas. When the divorce - and a legal maneuver to separate him from his children - is filed on the day his mother dies, he is unprepared to defend himself against the male stereotypes he must fight to remain an equal parent.

My Son's Not Rainman is a heartfelt and uplifting account of everyday events in the life of John and his son (The Boy). The Boy is 12 years old and autistic. He isn't a genius. His only special power is making his dad laugh. A lot. Following the success of his blog, John talks not just about the difficulties of having a child who is considered 'different' but also the joy of living with someone who looks at the world in a unique way.

Cancer has given Garth Callaghan a new purpose: to inspire parents to connect more with their children even in small ways, as he has done before and since his diagnosis by tucking a napkin note into his daughter's lunch every day. Every morning, as he packs Emma's lunch, Garth adds a little surprise: a "napkin note" - a short, tender message to convey his love, encouragement, and pride. Garth began writing his napkin notes when Emma was in grade school, and as she grew up, his notes became more meaningful.