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We can not raise a happy child if we are constantly screaming threats at them. No parent sets out to hurt their child, but this type of parenting does just that. To raise a happy child that wants to behave, you need to retrain yourself first. You need to change the way you think and react to their behavior. You need to understand your triggers and heal yourself. Only then you can begin to heal your relationship with your children. 

Those voices, those feelings and those emotions - they are a part of you. To be more precise, they are the negative sides of you. They are a part of your inner negativity that stops you from almost anything you want to do in your life. This book is all about teaching you how to recognize and master your negative thoughts: not to blindly follow them, but to learn to question them instead.

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World: Thriving in the New VUCA Context is the thoughtful analysis of nine expert authors from around the globe who put VUCA under the microscope and take the listener on a journey that looks at VUCA from a number of different leadership perspectives. Through their research and writing these nine authors seek to provide sense-making and insights that are combined with practical tips and frameworks to help leadership embrace this new VUCA context and learn how to thrive within it.

The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story, one touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair in your marriage, the heart cry of this audiobook is: You are not alone. Join Jennifer to learn how God can remove your own veil and lovingly guide you to a place of spiritual transformation, true intimacy, and lasting joy.

Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your conversation or speaking classes. During their decades of experience teaching English, authors Jackie Bolen and Jennifer Booker Smith have developed countless games and activities for their students. They're sharing their low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world.

A new puppy brings joy and excitement. Once you add this bundle of energetic fur and fuzz to your family, you'll find that you have extra reasons to be playful. It's not all cuddles and games of fetch, however. Puppies need to learn how to behave, and your puppy will be counting on you to show him how to live in the world.

Pregnancy - it can be a time of joy, but it can also be a time full of fear and concern for the baby growing inside you. No matter if this is your first pregnancy or your third, Pregnancy Week by Week will walk you through your pregnancy, ensuring you know exactly what is going on in your body.

As we all know, children have a hard time listening when we are yelling at them. Most of the time, we are yelling not because we are trying to make them listen but because we are frustrated, angry, and let’s admit it – helpless! Shouting never helps the situation. We know that, the kids know that, everyone in the universe knows that. But we still shout. 

This audiobook will help you realize that the only thing that’s holding you back from having a better life is you! You had the key to turn your life around. By listening to this book, you will become empowered to take charge of your life and stop playing victim to life’s seemingly impossible challenges.

Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. 

More and more parents are dealing with children who are out of control or angry, and parents do not know how to handle them. What studies have found is that this anger that these children are experiencing can be caused from the type of parenting technique that is being used. Most parents begin by using negative discipline, which involves spankings or time out, but when they do not see the results that they expect, they are left confused and not understanding what they should do.

Since the very beginning, God's design for marriage is for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of holy love to a hurting world. Still, so many couples stop short at happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied. Rather than "you and me against the world", God calls each couple to the rich and meaningful mission of "you and me for the world".

Our lives are hectic. Many people have simply accepted this as the norm today. But have you ever sat down after a long day when your kids are in bed, and you feel like you didn't get to spend one moment with them. Guilt begins to fill you as you wonder what it was that they were trying to tell you that morning or what is actually going on at school.

Being a parent is the hardest job in the world – there’s no denying that! Not only do you have to keep a child healthy and happy, you are in charge of disciplining them, turning them into a good human being for the sake of society. And there’s where everything starts to go downhill. No matter how fiercely you love your child and no matter how devoted they are to you, children doesn’t want to listen! They don’t want to listen to you when you want them to do something, and definitely not when you don’t want them to do something. The result – utter chaos! 

Who doesn’t want to be happy in life? We all do. However, surprisingly, being happy isn’t an easy task these days. We all live a complicated life, full of stress and difficulties; sometimes, you might think that life isn’t supposed to be happy at all. When there are so many problems all around us, how can a person be truly happy? 

Negative thoughts have an easy time reaching people in this busy day and age. Whether you lose your job, or experience a change in your marital status, experiencing negative thoughts is common. Fear, worry, and stress are laden with negative emotions that drag you down.

A directionally-challenged woman with a dreaded fear of pain and the tendency to faint at the slightest physical malady goes on a soul search and winds up with an unconventional medical degree, an overweight chicken as a house guest, and a new road map for life. Spending years in a profession she’s wholly unsuited for gave her a unique perspective on human suffering. It also put her in the position of being able to entertain and inform listeners (and audiences) who are looking for a way to end their own suffering. 

As your baby develops in your body, you and your husband look forward to the days when you can hold your bundle of joy. You smile as you think about your future, but you never imagine that problems can occur in your relationship after your baby is born. As a new parent, you can easily become overwhelmed. You have a new world of responsibilities, new worries and new stresses, and no matter how strong your relationship is, you may find that you struggle in your new role.

There comes a time in every marriage where we question whether or not we know what we are doing. It can be difficult to learn how to spend so much time with someone who is so different from us, but when we refuse to make any compromises or changes, the real problems begin. In this book, you will learn everything that you need to know about being a better wife and helping to improve your marriage. There are so many ways that we can begin to show our love and support of the person we married, but we sometimes lose sight of them during the daily grind.

Reduce stress, increase your inner peace, and your well-being with this essential yoga guide! Yoga is a form of relaxation that syncs the body, mind, and spirit. With a series of stretching and breathing techniques, practitioners are able to reconnect to themselves and the environment. Not only does yoga help you increase flexibility, lose weight, and look better, it also gives you a holistic approach to physical fitness and well-being. Yoga for Beginners is narrated with the beginner in mind and makes it easy for you to start your own yoga practice.