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Regardless of how much you love your mother and father, no one can get under your skin quite like they do. They can simultaneously be your best friends and your greatest adversaries. They may go out of their way to look after and worry about you and drive you crazy in the process. Whether you’re a CEO or schoolteacher, single or married with children, you remain your parents’ child; but being a loving daughter or son does not mean you have to allow yourself to be treated (or to act) like a child. In this enduring, but potentially most troublesome relationship of your life, as your parents’ child, you are still subject to their demands, criticisms, and manipulations. Nobody's Baby Now empowers you to take charge of creating a more successful, more caring bond with your parents. It’s an eye-opening, accessible guide that not only addresses fundamental difficulties in the adult child-parent relationship, but also offers realistic strategies and reasons for reinventing your relationship with your parents. Susan Newman, author of Parenting an Only Child and a social psychologist specializing in family dynamics, tells universally familiar stories based on two years of interviews with 150 adult children. The result: invaluable insights into your own family and inspiration that will help you eliminate problems from guilt trips and holiday conflicts, to money issues and long-standing grudges--no matter how difficult your parents are. Newman takes on the different but common causes of strife, and tells you how to: · establish boundaries · deal with parents’ controlling behaviors · accept parents’ new partners · deal with sibling problems · address time pressures · handle in-laws and in-law jealousies · prevent interference in how you raise your children · make independent career decisions · cope with money issues Each chapter delves into these and other disagreements and friction that can arise, providing a series of tips, sample conversations, and checklists leading you to the best approach for improving your relationship with your parents. Even if you are convinced that your parents will never change, you may be astonished to see that by changing your own behavior pattern or attitude toward them you can have a noticeable impact on how they treat you. Nobody's Baby Now gives you the tools to keep disagreements and tension to a minimum, turn intolerable situations around, and guide the transformation of your relationship with your parents into a mature, supportive, and loving connection. Featured in TIME magazine
"Surely I'm not the only one with this problem?!" What do women do with their questions? The ones they need answered, but don't know who to turn to for answers. The questions they don't want to admit they have. They find someone wise, trustworthy, and approachable--someone like Marilyn Meberg, popular Women of Faith speaker, best-selling author, and professional counselor. Compiled from hundreds of questions submitted to Women of Faith, Since You Asked is scripturally sound, warmly encouraging, and straight-to-the-point, tackling the toughest subjects facing women today. Part teacher, part counselor, part faithful friend, Marilyn Meberg leans into the pain of a woman and helps her see beyond it. An excellent resource for any woman who has ever had a question, whether she admits it or not.
In eight sessions, students will investigate the popular misconceptions about sex. After personal reflection, participating in group discussion and viewing the DVD, students will be ready to establish healthy dating relationships and clearly defined boundaries for physical intimacy, while understanding and valuing marriage.
As Ellen Bercheid points out in her foreword to this volume, relationship science is a complex and ever expanding field. Much credit goes to editors Clyde Hendrick and Susan S. Hendrick for their scholarly dedication to the advancement of this multidisciplinary arena. This sourcebook demonstrates, yet again, their expertise and leadership as they succeed in combining many great contributions to the field by some of the most respected specialists around. Read this book for a panoramic view of close relationship research with highlights from current literature, original research, practical applications, and projections for future research.
Puberty is a time of huge change in the physical body, in emotional experience and in social relationships. Having an understanding of these developments and learning how to deal with them is essential, and for people with Asperger's syndrome it can be a challenge to get to grips with the social and emotional aspects of puberty, sex and relationships.This book is ideal for those who need clear, detailed explanations and direct answers to the many questions raised by puberty and sexual maturity. Sarah Attwood describes developments in both the male and female body, and explains how to maintain hygiene and personal care, and to promote general good health. She examines emotional changes, including moods and sexual feelings, and provides comprehensive information on sex, sexual health and reproduction. She looks at the nature of friendship, how it changes from childhood to adulthood and its importance as a basis for sexual encounter. She also offers coping strategies for different social experiences, from bullying to dating, and includes essential tips on the politics of mature behaviour, such as knowing the difference between public and personal topics of conversation." Making Sense of Sex" is a thorough guide written in unambiguous language with helpful diagrams, explanations and practical advice for young people approaching puberty and beyond.
Often it's not what you say, but how you say it, that counts. Deborah Tannen, the internationally-acclaimed expert on communication and author of the bestselling YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, will help you recognize your own conversational style and how it meshes or clashes with the styles of others. Entertaining and informative, everyone who speaks will want to read this gem.
This refreshingly direct discussion of the often confusing world of love, sex, and relationships offers not just another set of rules but the principles God has established for all relationships. With clarity and a sharp wit, Dean Sherman helps readers build their life relationships upon God's logical, loving, and freeing precepts.
These bestselling doctors walk you through their ten proven stages to recovery from codependency that results from external circustances. Humans are susceptible to codependency because of our sinful tendency to use defense mechanisms to fool ourselves. In codependent relationships, deceitful games are played, and important Christian principles are often taken out of context and abused. God wants us to have healthy relationships with a balance between being dependent and independent. The doctors describe how the most effective means of overcoming codependent relationships is to establish or deepen a relationship with Christ Himself. They describe the causes of codependency, pointing out the factors that perpetuate it, and lead readers through their ten stages of recovery.
Interacting with people brings problems with people. The closer the contact, the greater the potential for conflict. In How to Solve Your People Problems, Dr. Alan Godwin shares biblical, practical principles to help readers avoid conflict when possible and handle difficult encounters constructively. The key to healthy, growing relationships is successfully handling differences. Dr. Godwin gives readers the tools and the framework to: benefit from every relationship handle conflict with grace, reason, and flexibility change problem situations into positive encounters reduce conflict situations successfully deal with unreasonable people This valuable resource will help readers successfully live and work with others, know how to implement conflict resolution, negotiate problem areas, and create positive connections even when people disagree.
Over the past two decades, numerous field and experimental studies on the ecology and evolution of animal and plant interactions have been reported by botanists, zoologists, and ecologists. This textbook offers a comprehensive summary of this extensive and widely scattered literature, and in so doing presents the subject as a coherent, accessible discipline. The authors describe familiar areas, such as herbivory and pollination, and discuss new information on subjects such as seed dispersal, the genetics of coevolution, structural and chemical plant defenses, and the implications of human use of animal and plant communities. As they explore these issues, the authors raise provocative questions of fundamental importance: How can an earth teeming with plant-eating animals be so green? Do plants really need animals that pollinate their flowers and disperse their seeds? What happens to tropical plant communities when fruit-eating toucans and monkeys are killed by encroaching humans? By drawing together information on many diverse aspects of the subject--and presenting a challenging and insightful look into the complexities of plant and animal inter-relationships--this unique book represents a vital contribution to the ecological literature.
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