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Difficult: Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Change Difficult: Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Change
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​​Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment.
 
Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, Difficult addresses a family situation which too many keep secret. The book allows readers to see that they are not alone.  It includes resources for getting help: finding social support, staying safe, engaging in self-care, and helping the adult child.



Daddy's Girl Daddy's Girl
by Mike Schnabel

How does a young mother overcome an 8 percent chance of living to raise her newborn son? She becomes a warrior and provides hope for others. Daddy's Girl is the story of a father, his daughter, and the deadly battle she won.
 
In each person’s life, there are events that forever change their course. Twenty-seven-year-old Stephanie experienced two of these events in fourteen days; the birth of her only child and the discovery that she has an 8 percent chance of living. She is haunted by the thought that this baby will only know her through pictures until she makes that thought her motivation to survive.



The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother
by Judith Ruskay Rabinor

Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel psychologist Dr. Judy Rabinor’s quest to understand her ambivalence toward her mother.
 



Eat That Frog! for Students: 22 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Excel in School Eat That Frog! for Students: 22 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Excel in School
by Brian Tracy and Christina Stein

Adapted from Brian Tracy's international time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog!, this book will give today's stressed-out and overwhelmed students the tools for lifelong success.

Like adults, students of all ages struggle with how to manage their time. Encountering the necessity of time management for the first time, high schoolers juggle classes, extracurricular activities (all but mandatory for college admissions), jobs, internships, family responsibilities, and more. College brings even more freedom and less structure, making time management even more critical.



What Could Go Wrong? My Mostly Comedic Journey through Marriage, Parenting and Depression What Could Go Wrong? My Mostly Comedic Journey through Marriage, Parenting and Depression
by Brett Grayson

There comes a time when couples decide to create and raise tiny helpless human beings, hoping they one day become non-tiny and less helpless. This is one family's journey through ten months of pregnancy (isn't it supposed to be nine months?), the first years of parental cluelessness, the terrible twos, threenagers, and the few years that follow when they begin to learn about a world that's even crazier than they are.



Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems
by Naomi Schaefer Riley

Thanks to a variety of factors—from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations bent on making education digital, to a culture that promotes everyone as the star of their own reality shows—technology is irrevocably a part of childhood, and parents are struggling to keep up. What should be allowed? What should be denied?



Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
by Ross W. Greene Ph.D.

In Raising Human Beings, the internationally renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.



Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story
by Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy

Victoria and Ali narrate their very different journeys of coming to terms with the lack of control that neither mother nor daughter have over NMO, and their efforts to take their fight to a global level. Bringing their story to light with raw emotion, humor, warmth, and refreshing candor, Saving Each Other is the extraordinary journey of a mother and daughter who demonstrate how the power of love can transcend our greatest fears, while at the same time battling to find a cure for the incurable.



Princess Recovery: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Daughter Who Can Create Her Own Happily Ever After Princess Recovery: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Daughter Who Can Create Her Own Happily Ever After
by Jennifer Hartstein, PsyD

Raising independent, confident girls is not easy- society is obsessed with glamorous celebrities who become role models. Princess Syndrome sucks girls into a world where their intelligence is something to be hidden not celebrated. Dr. Jennifer Hartstein offers a unique, comprehensive program that teaches parents how to counteract society’s pressure without forcing girls into a bubble.



The Mothers of Reinvention: Reclaim Your Identity, Unleash Your Potential, Love Your Life The Mothers of Reinvention: Reclaim Your Identity, Unleash Your Potential, Love Your Life
by Jennifer Pate and Barbara Machen

Through the journey of their own reinventions, the Mom Secret was discovered: The more satisfied you are with yourself, the better you can deal with the chaos that surrounds you, the better role model you will be, and the better off your entire family will be! This is not a luxury. This is a necessity. Jen and Barb share their steps to help you realize your full potential as a woman while still maintaining your joy as a mom and/or wife.



It's Not About Nutrition: Unexpected Lessons in Teaching Your Child Healthy Eating for Life It's Not About Nutrition: Unexpected Lessons in Teaching Your Child Healthy Eating for Life
by Dina Rose

As a mother and a foodie, Dina began researching and interviewing parents on how they teach their children what to eat. She combines her expertise on socialization and her knowledge of nutrition to help parents make better nutritional choices for their kids.



Baby Medbasics: Lifesaving Action Steps At Your Fingertips Baby Medbasics: Lifesaving Action Steps At Your Fingertips
by Luke Hermann, M.D. & Tara Hermann R.N., B.S.N.

In an emergency, every second counts: with its clear language, simple pictures, quick-to-find tabs, lay-flat spiral design, and portable size, Baby MEDBASICS® is a necessary resource for parents and caregivers.