Parenting

Words of advice from a grandfather to his granddaughter.

Kayla Jones was a beautiful, young, 17-year-old, girl who was well known for her strong willed personality and her gorgeous red hair. Approaching her senior year of high school, she had the world in the palm of her hands. She highly anticipated turning 18 on Christmas Eve of 2010. Achieving complete independence for herself was her ultimate goal in life. However, on July 3, 2010, Kayla’s world turned completely upside down when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). After a horrific 81 day battle with cancer, she passed away on September 22, 2010. She left behind a heartbroken mother and two younger sisters who admired and looked up to her as their hero. Kayla’s m ...

Don’t give up. Elijah never did. This NICU baby came out at 29 weeks and 900 grams. Then he had the nerve to drop more weight. How scary is that? But Elijah demonstrated to his family and friends that he is strong, he is determined, and that we had nothing to worry about. If there was ever a story of courage, Elijah’s story is it. This is also a story for nurses, doctors, and hospitals – there are families connected to those wires, not just readings. Eljiah’s story is told at first through the dad’s blog that he began on wordpress – NICU Dad. Then facebook posts of both parents are intermixed in between. Through social media, you see Elijah grow and you see Elijah overachieve. Th ...

Coaches have coaches, but then there’s some time when your coach is not available; this is why we created this book for all parents, upper management, and sports coaches to keep themselves accountable when making decisions to impact their teams. People often focus on their IQ that they forget about the EQ, which is essential to work with your team to inspire encouragement and motivation. Whether this is a son or daughter, employee, or athlete, you’re always looking for guidance and direction.

Marriage requires quite a bit of work as two people become one, but a blended family adds many more participants to the situation. In this book, you will read real life stories from seven blended families about struggles, victories, and the task of bringing two separate households into one home. There will be seven prayers for each day that speak to specific issues that blended families face or have faced in day to day life.

This child devotion book will be your journey to a better way to look at life. A man becomes a father once he bears children from a woman. Your mind can only store as much as you can remember. Parents, you are the first teachers of your child's life. The subjects I will be covering are: Honoring Your Parents, Making Good Choices, Peer Pressure, Self Help, Study the Word, A Home Called Heaven, Starting Your Child Allowance, Family Time, All Things Are Possible, Having Good Grades, and Parent Safe Guarding Media for Their Children.

Bernard highlights the series in A Man’s Plight 3 where he learns that he’s becoming a father. While he’s excited about having his first child, his manager at work isn’t too happy about him taking paternity leave for weeks at a time. While maternity leave is discussed at great length, paternity leave isn’t. The pressures of men to stay in the workplace after their significant other has a child is a growing concern. Statistically the majority of big corporations don’t offer paternity leave. Bernard deals with the emotional toll of work, having a child, taking time off and the impact it has on him with his career. This is the reality of so many men in today’s world. What happens with Berna ...

Everything can seem livelier and merry if you perceive it through the eyes of your inner child. One mere look at your inner child can change how you live your life; it can change how you struggle with trauma and all the abuse you have borne. Suffering is no more a hurdle if you reparent your inner child and heal yourself by healing the wounds that have scarred you from within. Listen to your inner child and nurture it, for it has been imprisoned and enslaved by the terror of delirium. Look at your inner child through the eyes of someone who knows what being hurt feels like, and that is where the journey of your healing begins. And once you acknowledge the child within you, y ...

Brenda is a young, pregnant woman who is in her most exciting time of her life. Brenda and her husband are having a baby girl and the journey through pregnancy is shared from finding out to having birth. Brenda pens her ups, downs, struggles of pregnancy all while preparing for motherhood mentally, physically, and emotionally. It isn’t until after she has her daughter that she experiences what so many women in this world go through….postpartum depression. While this can happen before and during pregnancy, it’s a topic that isn’t discussed enough in today’s world and Brenda shares her experience and how she got through it. The start to a series of social issues women face, postpartum depr ...