Sentences with phrase «books about family life»

Young, Faye GERALD THE THIRD LLLI 1977 Delightful children's book about family life and adjusting to a new, breastfed baby, seen through the eyes of a six - year - old.

Not exact matches

The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

We are following Jesus as best as we know how, and one day, we come across a truth, or read an idea in a book, or discover something amazing about Scripture, or learn a key to defeating a certain sin in our life, or uncover a way to become more joyful, or find some tips for having a better marriage and family life, or whatever.

She decided to write a book about her family's life, encouraged by her mother to finally tell the truth of what had happened to the Banabans.

I told him she lives in a magical farmhouse in the Hudson Valley with her family and still writes terrific stories for kids (like this one and this one), and that she has a new beautiful book of poetry coming out about which I'm so excited.

Susan Pease Gadoua, my The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels co-author, and I also will be at the conference, talking about the stresses of life after baby — which is even harder for those who have struggled just to create a family — as well as how to renegotiate your marital contract to a Parenting Marriage, one of the marital models in our book.

Her 2009 book, «The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life» offers some provocative theories about the first months of family About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life» offers some provocative theories about the first months of family lLife» offers some provocative theories about the first months of family about the first months of family lifelife.

About the Book: Most parents spend more time helping their kids succeed at academics or athletics than infusing shared spiritual experiences into the rhythm of everyday family life.

Living in a different country to where my family was, no friends around who had kids, completely shell shocked from not only having a new baby but one who did not fit into the typical mainstream books about how a baby «should» sleep and breastfeed.

Most of all, I love seeing our books brought to life in our Oxford and Concord, MA Studios — what we think of as «hubs» in our global community, where we have events like storytelling, arts and crafts activities, African drumming, puppet shows, yoga and even a family café serving healthy and organically produced food... all part of the Barefoot lifestyle and all about connecting families and nurturing creativity, imagination and diversity.

And so, Stellaluna lived with the chickens that were to follow, and she was therefore named Stellaluna after the children's book about a fruit bat who is taken in by a family of birds, and comes to believe herself one (before eventually finding her way back to her family and all the other bats).

There was one thing, however, that bugged me about the book's final chapter — the voice of the children, who may or may not be as enthusiastic about living with the person whom they may see as the reason their family fell apart, is conspicuously absent.

With charming, exuberant illustrations and a diverse representation of families, «ABC, Adoption & Me: A Multicultural Picture Book» will help families talk about this central part of their lives and open important dialog between child and parent.

In our book, Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, my co-author Christine and I go into detail about chores for both younger and older kids — why they're so important (and why it's never too late to begin), which jobs to delegate, and how to get started.

We talk about decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection or expectations — expanding upon what we wrote about in our book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less (Routledge, 2013).

Other families choose to keep these books for when their living children ask about their sibling or about death in general.

I encourage you to check out other books on their website that fit your family, give advice when situations that arise, prepare fo life changes, and more www.papersalt.com Their site allows you to «browse» through the books, learn more about the company, and of course purchase their products.

This book is really about understanding your kids and making your family life better.

Carrie is a homeschooling mom of 6 (soon to be 7) who writes about frugality, minimalism, good books, feeding a family and productivity at: http://www.NaturalMomsTalkRadio.com. Be sure to check out her free podcast episodes for informative experts on natural family living.

If you have kids older than that, though, this book will give you a nice framework for thinking about all the areas of family life so you can assess what you can control and streamline things so you can process the chaos as it happens and spend more time enjoying life and less time feeling like it's dragging you around.

According to Christine Koh, one of the authors of the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, «It's about identifying your unique values and paring down and prioritizing so you can find what works for your family.&Family Life More By Doing Less, «It's about identifying your unique values and paring down and prioritizing so you can find what works for your family.&family.»

It's a book about figuring out the parenting choices that'll make you and your family the happiest, and to clearing your life of all the stuff that's been foisted on you as a must - do for modern parenting.

If you don't have any living family or close friends that have had a baby, you can still find out about the birth experience from pregnancy books and birthing classes.

Where Neanderthals are concerned, Binford pops up again in his familiar «Rent - a-sceptic» role; but it is regrettable that the book gives further exposure to his bizarre notions, based on the flimsiest of evidence, about males and females living largely separate lives, with no semblance of a close family, as well as his erroneous claim that a lack of fish - bones shows that Neanderthals were inferior to «fully modern man» at exploiting this resource.

She decided to write a book about her family's life, encouraged by her mother to finally tell the truth of what had happened to the Banabans.

In the book «The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest ``, you can read about how love in relationships, love in families, being loved, feeling love and giving love is one of the biggest keys to happiness and longevity.

The Book Of Life La Muerte Halloween Makeup Tutorial & Costume 2014, was inspired by the animated comedy movie which is about a young man called Manolo who is torn between fulfill his own wishes and his families.

LOVE ME IF YOU CAN what can i say about me im a complicated human speciman most ppl as a matter a fact nobody gets me and they sure as hell tell me they do nt get me.i love music, books, i love peace and i love life and no matter how hard it get i always look up take a breathein and let it out and say im alive its life be happy no regrets.i love my family, ilove who i am and i look forward to who i'll become everyday i enjoy growin and livin my life how i want to.i love ppl a

I blog about adoption, adopting from China, special needs, clubfoot, limb differences, developmental delays, homeschooling, large families, large family life, sewing, crafting, book reviews, curriculum reviews, parenting, and more.

The line isn't exactly «Call me Ishmael» or «Happy families are all alike», but this first line of what was published in 1937 as a children's book began what has proved to be a literary phenomenon, an alternative religion, an endless invitation to exegesis and a major industry that has led to an immensely successful trilogy of books and films about life in Middle - earth.

Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Frank Perry Actors: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest Plot: Based on the book about Joan Crawford, written by her adopted daughter Christine, the perfect Hollywood life presented by the family is just a facade.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Directed by Jon Favreau («Chef,» «Iron Man,» «Elf»), based on Rudyard Kipling's timeless stories and inspired by Disney's classic animated film, «The Jungle Book» is an all - new live - action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man - cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.

That's only for actresses) THR talks to the director of Book of Life - though disappointed by the lack of an Oscar nomination, he cherishes stories from fans about how it effected their families Towleroad arts teacher in Texas does «Uptown Funk» with students.

Producer Neal Moritz and director Rob Letterman spoke about GOOSEBUMPS, a live action family friendly adventure that brings R.L. Stein's book to life.

A little circular book to make illustrating all the things a child may love about the world they live in: the flowers their family their friends their home the sun etc..

A recent book on the topic edited by Matt Hern entitled Deschooling Our Lives (1997) provides practical examples «about people, individuals, families, and communities taking control of the direction and shape of their lives... and homelearning as a fundamentally cooperative social project&raLives (1997) provides practical examples «about people, individuals, families, and communities taking control of the direction and shape of their lives... and homelearning as a fundamentally cooperative social project&ralives... and homelearning as a fundamentally cooperative social project».

In our work in Book Club Plus, we find that framing questions about what is revealed through the literature helps students see and explore the stories of their own lives, their families, and different cultures.

This book also sprang from a blog (No Impact Man) and is about the year that Beavan and his family gave up everything in their lives with a negative environmental impact.

Like Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, it's a book that makes you think about the things that matter in life: love, family, and making the most of the time you have.

So many funny, touching and often mind - boggling things happened during our own true life cross-cultural romance and the meeting of families, that I ended up writing a memoir about it: my first book, Blame It on Paris.

In soaring language that's accompanied by boisterous art, the book invites readers into a sacred space and reminds them that life is filled with beauty as well as questions — about faith, family, and culture.

The plot races as fast as the track runners in it, and — without ever feeling like a book about «issues» — it deftly tackles topics like isolation, diverse family makeup, living with illness, losing a parent, transcending socioeconomic and racial barriers, and — perhaps best of all — what it's like for a tween to love their little sister more than all the cupcakes in the world.

Also, the «private» tribute book surged as ordinary people began writing and publishing about family histories, life events, vacations and wildlife, among other things.

I turned my blog posts about the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes for my husband and our daughter into a short book, Coming to Terms with Type 1 Diabetes, which shares my family's journey from Laura's diagnosis at the age of 3 through the challenge of learning to live with the disease and to move on with a positive attitude.

His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children's novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2about Paris and food to children's novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011).

Then in the third person, Gaute Heivoll - or, at least, the Gaute Heivoll who appears in the book - details the families affected by the fires 35 years before, tells us about the fire department, and, especially, lets us enter into the life of the fire chief, Ingemann, his wife, Alma, and their only child, a son named Dag.