"Warmly satisfying....Hughes has a way of zeroing in on the foibles of childhood with remarkable accuracy; this doesn't miss its mark."--Booklist.

    In spite of difficulties, however, the happy father and son manage to put up their tent, catch fish for dinner, and sleep beneath the stars.

    They share their secrets and dreams, and help each other be strong when beloved Mother must leave to nurse Father, who is wounded in the Civil War. The passing years bring more adventures and romance—the first wedding, a broken heart, a trip to Europe—and the girls are young women. This book shows vividly the joys of growing up in a loving family.Cover illustration by Al Leiner.-from the back cover

    After all, they make sure that their child has the things they need. They attend their child's school events. They buy their child the things they want. So why is it then that most children doubt that they are genuinely and unconditionally loved?In this best-selling book, Dr. D. Ross Campbell reveals the emotional needs of a child and provides parents with the skill and techniques that can begin to help make your child feel truly loved and accepted. You'll learn to really love your child through every situation of child rearing from physical touch to discipline and from affirmation to spiritual nurture.

    . . that are remarkably fresh and helpful.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe classic groundbreaking book on family therapy by acclaimed experts Augustus Y. Napier, Ph.D., and Carl Whitaker, M.D.This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family’s therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families—stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity—and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

    He was a grocer's son, strong and proud, but fate had masked his strength and pride with a form that set him forever apart from other men. Compelling need drew them together, A bewitching fantasy encircled and sustained them. Then the Great Depression swept across Australia to impoverish the rich, humble the proud, and turn the poor into a stunned army of desperate vagrants and homeless vagabonds. Expelled from their enchated realm, brutally seperated, they each clutched a secret, a promise a dream of finding each other in a harsh world where only a perfect love like theirs could survive, overcome and triumph.

    Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

    Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oruselves, ring truer than ever. From the very instant of birth, says Joseph Chilton Pearce, the human child has only one concern: to learn all that there is to learn about the world. This planet is the child's playground, and nothing should interfere with a child's play. Raised this way, the Magical Child is a a happy genius, capable of anything, equipped to fulfill his amazing potential.Expanding on the ideas of internationally acclaimed child psychologist Jean Piaget, Pearce traces the growth of the mind-brain from brith to adulthood. He connects the alarming rise in autism, hyperkinetic behavior, childhood schizophrenia, and adolescent suicide to the all too common errors we make in raising and educating our children. Then he shows how we can restore the astonishing wealth of creative intelligence that is the brithright of every human being. Pearce challenged all our notions about child rearing, and in the process challenges us to re-examine ourselves. Pearce's message is simple: it is never too late to play, for we are all Magical Children.

    In the early days of Texas history, ten-year-old Johann comes from Germany with his family to settle in this vast land and soon grows to love his new home.

    A family Sunday, a holiday in Rome, a maternity hospital...territory as familiar and as unsafe as an earthquake zone.Author of The Pumpkin Eater and The Handyman, Penelope Mortimer writes with brilliant precision and quivering tension of the tides of passion and despair that lurk at the bottom of everyday life.

    The thirteen daughters of the Duchess and Duke bring home a friendly dragon that delivers a number of surprises.

    Katz Professor of History, York UniversityThis is a sensitive and compassionate portrayal of childhood, marriage, and adult life among the hard-working not-quite poor. It is an important contribution to our understanding of ourselves.--Robert S. Weiss, author of Marital Separation

    For a short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application, but it soon became impossible to bring about a "threefold social order, "and he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as valid today as they were then. This volume is a presentation of Steiner's central ideas on the three-fold nature of the social organism.

    He wants to grow up to be brave and clever like his dad. But it’s not until his sister, Whoopsie, is born that Pongo discovers growing up isn’t just about chest-thumping.

    Bernie decides to run away because nobody pays any attention to him, but when he stops to say good-bye to his friends, he discovers that they all love and need him.

    In this book, Thomas Howard shows you how.Splendor in the Ordinary takes you on a tour through your own home. In each room, Howard shows you the surprising ways you can meet God there. Howard sees chances to love and serve God in the most seemingly dull and ordinary of places and actions.Your daily life as well as your devotional life will be forever transformed by this unusual look at how lovingly God awaits you even in the smallest things.

    Treating the family as a focal point of multiple social practices and discourses, Donzelot examines the role of philanthropy, social work, compulsory mass education, and psychiatry in the control of family life and describes the transformation of mothers into agents of the state. Donzelot also provides a critique of Marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist conceptions of the family and shows how the policies of the state and the professions molded working-class and middle-class families in quite different ways."An essential corrective both to the old overly optimistic interpretation and to the new pessimistic and apocalyptic vision of the recent history of the family and society in the West."--Lawrence Stone, New Republic

    author charles blockson, a noted genealogist and african american historian, traced his own family roots back through the 18th century. along his journey, he discovered obstacles and advantages that make searching for black family history a rewarding experience.

    Approximately 8.5 x 11 sized book. Fifteenth Impression, 1981. Hennerwood Publications Limited. Total 96 pages. Jennie Reekie. First published in 1977 by Sundial Publishing. Jennie Reekie. Contents include: introduction, cakes, luxury cakes & Gateaux, scones & tea breads, pastries, biscuits & cookies, index. Lots of fabulous colored photos of finished dishes. There are basic cake and sponge recipes, and much more. Ideas for children's parties, coffee mornings or simple weekend get togethers abound, and there are tips on time saving for busy housewives and mothers. Helpful hints are included too. For its age, this book is in super condition. The spine is tight, pages clean and not tears or damage. Some of the older recipes are some of the best ones! If you collect cookbooks, this is certainly one to collect.