Welcome to our Christmas Gift Guide 2021: Books For Parents offers books for many different aspects of our lives. Including just sitting and relaxing after a hectic day of being a mom or dad. Because yes, dad deserve me time as well as a mom.
High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids Published by Candice W. Jones, MD, FAAP
When confronting the challenge of disciplining their children, moms and dads often default to the ways their own parents disciplined them, sometimes with harmful results. In High Five Discipline, mom and practicing pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones shows parents a better way.
Dr. Jones coaches parents to understand their child’s developmental stages and their own motivations to create a family discipline plan that manages misbehavior and encourages good behavior. Her advice is packed with developmentally appropriate strategies to tame tantrums, stop sibling squabbles, and reward better behavior to create a calmer, more harmonious home.
Self-Care for Grief: 100 Practices for Healing During Times of Loss by Nneka M. Okona
When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during hard times is the perfect time to look inwards for support and practice self-care. Tuning in to your personal needs and taking the time to create a thoughtful self-care practice can make all the difference in moving forward in a healthy way.
In Self-Care for Grief, you’ll find 100 self-care activities that are specifically designed to help you protect your mental health, even while grieving.
You’ll find useful activities like:
-Cooking to honor your loss
-Practicing saying “No”
-Naming your emotions
-And many more
No matter what the circumstances are, Self-Care for Grief has the activities you need to de-stress, stay calm, and even find moments of joy in the most challenging of times.
Beautiful Mind 90 Day Journal Published
Our minds create our reality, and with this book, you will be able to practice your daily gratitudes; I am affirmations and write out your to-do list every day.
This will help you start each day with the right mindset and create a plan that allows you to feel happier and determined, all while getting things done.
Don’t Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII Published by Harriet Marsden
Survive alongside Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the rest of King Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives with this witty book of essential life advice, history, and trivia—the perfect handbook for fans of the hit musical Six.
Get the inside scoop from some of the toughest women in English history, as ex-wives, mothers, and daughters of King Henry VIII dish out all their survival secrets in this humorous guide to life. With a bit of sarcasm and friendly charm, each of these legendary ladies explains how their 16th-Century hard-earned lessons (from living with unstable men to stifling Tudor traditions) apply to 21st-Century dating, marriage, and feminism.
Written from the perspectives of each of the different women around Henry VIII, you’ll get the facts from the Queen Mother and the less-remembered but no less important Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and more.
With must-know historical trivia alongside wise life advice, Don’t Lose Your Head is the perfect survival guide for fans obsessed with Broadway’s latest historical pop musical Six, as well as anyone fascinated by British Royalty and Culture.
The Book of Patience: 250 Ways to a More Patient You Published by Courtney E. Ackerman
Discover why patience really is a virtue with these 250 quotes and exercises designed to help you lead a happier, more successful life.
Patience is both a virtue and a skill that you can learn and apply in your daily life to be calmer and more stress-free. Wouldn’t it be nice to calmly zen out when stuck in traffic delays instead of losing your cool? In The Book of Patience, you will discover practical exercises, habits, thoughts, and moments of pause to allow you to cultivate and improve your patience. These 250 quotes and activities will help you deescalate feelings of irritability and become less reactive in moments of stress and duress.
Being patient means facing challenges and adversity with calm and ease and The Book of Patience is here to make this skill easier than ever!
Unanswered Questions Published by Ray McGinnis
What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored is a book by Ray McGinnis. In it, he commends the efforts of the Sept. 11 families to seek a transparent, accountable investigation into how the attacks in 2001 happened and how to make the Nation Safe.
He details how the Family Steering Committee tried to keep the inquiry on track. McGinnis also explores some of the questions the 9/11 Commission ignored.
The book will be available as of September 11, 2021, in Hardcover for $29.95 USD, Paperback for $22.95 USD, and eBook for $6.99 USD. Please order copies of Unanswered Questions through your local book store, who can order it through book distributor IngramSpark. Unanswered Questions will be available for pre-release orders on Barnes and Noble, and Amazon, late in August 2021. The official book release for Unanswered Questions is September 11, 2021.
Color By Design Published by Jessie Lee Perez
It’s easy for relationships with friends, colleagues, and loved ones to go wrong. Despite your best efforts, you don’t always get how they think, or why they do the things they do. Sometimes you have to admit that you don’t even understand yourself. But it doesn’t have to be that hard. In Color By Design, Jessie Lee Perez explains how everyone fits into one of four different temperament categories—each with an associated color—and provides a simple code to decipher each color’s thought processes.
Through engaging stories and practical examples, Jessie teaches you how to:-Determine which “color” somebody is-Discover who you are-Comprehend the perspectives of others who aren’t like you-Learn more effective ways of interacting People aren’t as confusing as you think. Color By Design will enable you to see them through a sharper lens, leading to success in your personal and professional life
Self-Love Games & Activities: 125 Word Searches, Mazes, & Games to Boost Your Happiness, Resilience, & Well-Being (Puzzle Therapy)s Isadora Baum
Discover the power of positivity with these fun and entertaining games and activities designed to help boost your self-love.
Bored? Lonely? Looking for a good time? That’s the perfect time to work on you! Every page of Self-Love Games & Activities has an activity you can do with little or no preparation to stimulate your brain, have some fun, or just pass the time. Simply open to a page and you’ll be instantly occupied with your favorite puzzles, games, and activities like word searches, writing prompts, crosswords, coloring pages, and so much more—all designed to help you learn about yourself and boost your self-love. You’ll not only have fun; you’ll feel great about yourself. Downtime has never been as positively productive as it is with Self-Love Games & Activities.
Have Hope Published by Maggie Oman Shannon
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Find Hope Even in the Darkest Times with This Collection of Poems, Prayers, and Inspirational Quotes
“Have Hope is an essential companion to turn despair into hope, and put belief into action toward creating a better future.” —Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women
#1 New Release in Spiritual Meditations
A life-affirming collection of 365 poems, prayers, and meditations that can support you through any trial and that you can carry with you wherever you go.
Inspirational words to help you navigate life’s challenges. Reverend Maggie Oman Shannon, M.A., spiritual leader of Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco, is the author of nine previous books that explore cross-cultural forms of prayer and spiritual practice. Now, for those of us dealing with events such as the global pandemic and with personal battles of life comes her latest book, Have Hope.
Daily affirmations for every need. Have Hope offers you daily affirmations and a hope-filled moment from history for each day. Now more than ever, we need inspirational words that can help create moments of peace. Through the everyday stress of your life, Have Hope is the perfect collection of prayers, meditations, and inspirational quotes that you can turn.
In Have Hope, Reverend Maggie Oman Shannon provides:
- A collection of 365 daily affirmations for every occasion
- Wisdom from every era and every major faith tradition
- Ways to find hope through daily inspirational words and insightful meditations
If you enjoyed books like Prayers for Calm, I Really Needed This Today, or This Just Speaks to Me, then you’ll love Have Hope. Also, you will want to read and own Maggie Oman Shannon’s Prayers for Healing.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
