The ideal purpose of this story is to invite the reader to take a journey and relive what these three “remarkable children” endured. This story signifies struggle, hardships, and many diversities that were overcome by three strong individuals. It expresses love, determination, strength and most importantly forgiveness. This amazing story will leave you motivated, inspired, and it will captivate the minds of the readers.
As a child, Ann had many gifts and talents that helped camouflage her pain. Her dream was to become a singer, artists, and writer someday, and she’s fulfilling all of these things and more. The continuance of abuse stripped them of their self-esteem and joy throughout all of the devastation that was placed upon them.
As you continue to read this compelling story you will understand why the physical and mental abuse caused Ann to almost give up, but instead she turned to God, and he fought all of her battles.
Siblings live in their own special place, a place of joy and bickering, devotion and rivalry, a place whose only currency is Truth. No euphemisms, no equivocations, no beating around the bush. Celebrating this unique relationship is YOU STINK! I LOVE YOU, a warm and wise book for brothers and sisters of all ages, and their often bewildered parents.
Stuart Hample, who’s proven his gift for getting kids to open up in Children’s Letters to God and other books, eavesdrops on siblings to discover the universal condition of being a brother or a sister. A compilation of short letters from kids ages 7-13, illustrated throughout with the author’s irrepressible drawings, YOU STINK! I LOVE YOU presents brothers and sisters telling it just the way it is.
Here are honest appraisals: My sister Jenny thinks she’s God. Boy is she wrong!-Alison.
Hard-won caveats: Sometimes if I’m alone I kneel down and say: “God, I would love to have a sister I could share lots of things and lots of secrets with.” Unfortunately, I have a brother.-Ellie.
Proud tributes: I have a sister named Gisell. I guess she’s okay but I’m not sure because she can’t talk yet.-Luis.
Pithy observations: Jonathan A. is a psycho.-Moira A.
And the pure paradox that makes the sibling relationship different from any other: My sister does everything with me, so sometimes I get sick of her and we fight a lot. But since we do everything together, it wouldn’t be the same without her.-Millie.
What sibling doesn’t know exactly what she means?
Charlotte Jerace’s Kentucky Rain is a warmhearted and witty novel about a genteel Southern woman, who is scheduled to embark on a road trip from Prince Edward Island, Canada, all the way to Louisville, Kentucky, where she will present an old and irreplaceable journal to the city’s historical society. But her worsening Alzheimer’s disease and the rising family conflict put in jeopardy everything at stake.
In this gathering of engaging, fun stories about the connection between sisters, beloved humor writer Becky Freeman Johnson reveals why a sister is the gift that keeps on giving. Women fortunate enough to be born friends are able to:
Readers will discover nourishing ways to celebrate friendship, life’s mysteries, and the women who know us best in this selection from Becky’s HeartLite Stories collection.
WonderDads Do-it-Yourself Classes are the perfect way for Dads to bond with their child over learning a specific subject. Each WonderDads Do-it-Yourself Class features four lessons and a variety of additional creative activities for Dads to do with their child, in a book format. The four lessons included in this class are: Why is Mommy’s Belly so Big?; The Day Our Baby is Born; Taking Care of Our New Baby; Playing With Our New Baby. While Dads can go over the entire book in one sitting with their child, WonderDads recommends doing one lesson each week for 30 minutes, for a total of four weeks, and even setting up a specific time (like Sundays at 4:00) to do the class each week. Classes are one of the best (and most fun) ways for Dads to bond with their child. Unfortunately, many structured parent-child classes are held at a time of the day that make it impossible for most Dads to attend. For this reason, WonderDads has created Do-it-Yourself Classes in a book format that enables Dads to do a class with their child at any time they choose, in their own home or any other location. Each lesson is only a couple of pages and explains in detail how to cover the topic with your child, complete with activities and word recognition. Dads are encouraged to add their own flair and ideas, as well as take cues from their children on how to keep their interest. WonderDads classes have been created and recommended by teachers, pediatricians, Moms and Dads, and are an incredibly easy and fun way for Dads to bond with their child over a specific subject.
The Multiples Manual is a “need-to-know” resource written with the expectant mother of multiples in mind. It includes 1,002 tips that are guaranteed to simplify life, save time, and even save money.
When the authors of the childcare classic How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk wrote the sanity-saving Siblings Without Rivalry, grateful parents everywhere rushed to buy the book that offered solutions to constant squabbling. As the book skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists all over the country, the authors were deluged with letters of praise and requests for personal advice on a subject that was central to all parents of two or more children.
Now, after ten years of communicating with parents through letters, TV and radio talk shows, and in their workshops, the authors have added fresh thoughts and information for special situations. “Home alone” children are given particular attention, and the authors also show how to help very young children interact in positive ways. Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to peace and tranquility with humor, compassion and understanding, and the illustrated, action-oriented, easy-to-understand stories will make life easier for both siblings and their parents.
Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creative literature. Yet in the social, psychological and political sciences, there is no theoretical paradigm through which we might understand them. In the Western world our thought is completely dominated by a vertical model, by patterns of descent or ascent: mother or father to child, or child to parent. Yet our ideals are ?liberty, equality and fraternity’ or the ?sisterhood’ of feminism; our ethnic wars are the violence of ?fratricide’.
When we grow up, siblings feature prominently in sex, violence and the construction of gender differences but they are absent from our theories. This book examines the reasons for this omission and begins the search for a new paradigm based on siblings and lateral relationships.
This book will be essential reading for those studying sociology, psychoanalysis and gender studies. It will also appeal to a wide general readership.
This is a treasury of inspirational quotes for sisters.
