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Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you probably still struggle with anger, sadness, resentment, or shame. As a child, your emotional needs were not met, your feelings were dismissed, and you likely took on adult...
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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Book Preview: #1 Louise Robinette was first attracted to David when he was seventeen and she was ten. They had secret hand-holding during fiery Pentecostal services at the Church of God in Princeton, West Virginia. She would later say she would marry him and have twelve children.
#2 King Turpin Jr. had a religious experience in Kentucky that led him to become a preacher, and he moved...
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Get the Summary of John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman's The Love Prescription in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Love Prescription" by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman explores the challenges and solutions to maintaining connection in relationships, particularly under the strain of modern life and extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book delves into the concept of "bids for...
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Get the Summary of T.A. Williams' A Little Piece of Paradise in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder — but for her friend back home,...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1978, I was asked to teach a thirteen-week course on marriage at my church. The topic was: what must a couple do to stay happily married. The book that resulted from this course, His Needs, Her Needs, was a bestseller and continues to be one of the most popular books on marriage today.
#2 The beginning of the end of the traditional nuclear family in America was in 1960, when I was 19 years old. I had been trying to become a marriage...
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Book Preview: #1 When we become parents, we bring with us issues from our past that influence the way we parent our children. These issues can easily get triggered in the parent-child relationship, and our responses toward our children can be strong emotional reactions, impulsive behaviors, or distortions in our perceptions.
#2 I had similar experiences as a parent, and found that...
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Get the Summary of Natalie Franke's Built to Belong in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen—our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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#1 The author's mother got a new job, and the author and his brother were left with a babysitter. The sitter shooed away a chicken that was chasing the author, and he spent the rest of the day inside the house trying to avoid contact with the bird again.
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#1 My mother, who was a dance student back in the 1960s, left the small town of Iron Mountain, Michigan, for the dream life of affluence and prestige she believed awaited her in sunny Los Angeles. But she was met by a strange man named my father, who loved her but was completely unrecognizable.
#2 Billie was married to a man named Walt, who was a respected leader in...
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Get the Summary of Linda K. Murphy's Declarative Language Handbook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Linda K. Murphy's "Declarative Language Handbook" is a comprehensive guide for educators, caregivers, and parents on the use of declarative language to support children with social learning difficulties. Murphy, inspired by her experiences as a Relationship Development Intervention® (RDI) Consultant and her work...
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Book Preview: #1 Your children are their own handbook. They are constantly giving you clues about who they are and the personalized parenting they need from you. By innate, inner self, I mean your child's natural quality of moving, thinking, feeling, and relating to the world.
#2 To grandparents, educators, and others who want to become a Child Whisperer: This book will give you the...
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#1 The author's client, Grayson, was Vegan and had missed lunch and breakfast because of a work emergency. He was getting that empty-stomach sick feeling, so he went to a restaurant and got a fish sandwich. His wife was going to freak out about it.
#2 It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking of your wife as some crazy lunatic who is freaking out over a fish sandwich. But that...
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#1 The word that distinguishes spirited children from other children is more. They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, and uncomfortable with change than other children. It's difficult to describe what it's like to be the parent of a spirited child, but it's worth it.
#2 Your intuition has been fighting the stares and the indictments brought...
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#1 When dealing with estranged families, I typically spend two to five sessions with each parent and child. I ask about their own childhood history, so I can learn about experiences they may be repeating or that continue to influence them.
#2 When it comes to making amends, parents must understand that the way they've been doing things isn't getting them what they want....
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#1 I had a friend who was pregnant, and when she got her baby, she screamed at her husband because he wouldn't empty the Diaper Genie. Tom is a sweet, caring spouse and father who spends hours with our daughter, Sylvie, patiently playing an eighth round of Go Fish.
#2 I had assumed that my very evolved husband and I, who were both freelance writers who worked from home,...
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#1 The myth of Achilles is a prime example of how parents try to protect their children from the dangers of life. The child could not be kept from his fate, but the gods themselves tried to keep him from it.
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Book Preview: #1 The works of Russian authors Dostoevsky and Chekhov meant a lot to me when I was younger. I later realized that these authors' writings were flawlessly executed examples of the disassociative mechanism.
#2 The author describes how he was able to overcome his fears of his father by writing him a letter. But he needed an enlightened witness to help him do so.
#3 I...