Step Parenting

The Quick-Step Handbook to Improved Listening Skills and How You Honor Others in Listening. Not a complicated textbook - this simple handbook explains the 20 key protocols necessary for active, purposeful listening. There is tremendous power in listening, and being a better listener can elevate your status among those around you, mitigate many a drama, and instill a sense of esteem in those to whom you listen.

The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents. Connection Parenting is based on the “Meeting the Needs of Children” 7-week proactive parenting series that Pam Leo has taught for nearly 24 years. The premise is that meeting children’s biological need for emotional connection creates the healthy, strong parent-child bond children need to thrive and that bond is also the key to effective parenting.

In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born - three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. In Blend, Tifrere draws on the insights they gained from their journey as well as advice from family therapists, parenting experts, and other blending families, to provide an invaluable resource for blended families.

Success in any endeavour can be achieved in just six essential steps. With these six steps, anyone can consciously elevate their life beyond their wildest expectations. Alon Ulman knows how unexpected life can be. In a plane above the Mediterranean Sea, Alon suddenly found he couldn’t breathe. After landing he was rushed to hospital where his survival from a spontaneous collapsed lung was deemed a medical miracle. A few years later Alon would complete the famously gruelling Ironman.

Finally break free from insecurity and fear, and gain the confidence to be who you really are in any relationship. Do you overanalyze every text or missed call from your partner, wondering if it means they're losing interest? Do you find yourself wanting to please your family at all costs, even if it means neglecting your own needs and boundaries? If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Millions struggle with an anxious attachment style that leaves them feeling needy, insecure, and exhausted in their relationships.

Das Leben in einer Patchworkfamilie bringt viele Herausforderungen mit sich: neue Rollen, unterschiedliche Erwartungen und manchmal auch Konflikte, die das Zusammenleben belasten können. Wenn du nach Orientierung suchst, wie du in dieser besonderen Familienkonstellation Liebe, Klarheit und echten Zusammenhalt schaffen kannst, dann ist „Patchworkfamilie leben“ dein wertvoller Ratgeber.

In Loving a Highly Sensitive Person by Jonathan Baurer, you will have the emotional, psychological, and physical tools to better understand and celebrate the HSP you love.

Psychologist Clodagh Campbell knows how it feels to be lost, anxious and overwhelmed – because she’s been there too. If you often feel disconnected, exhausted or trapped in a cycle of self-doubt, you’re not alone. In this transformative ten-step guide, Campbell offers you the tools to have honest, healing conversations with yourself and begin addressing the past experiences that hold you back.

How do we build strong families in a world that threatens to tear the very fabric of the family apart? This guide provides parents with a 3-step program to improve family communication and give children a sense of consistency and security. These simple steps are: a family legal system, a family economy, and family traditions. The plan allows parents significant opportunities to praise and reward their children, while promoting open communication. Linda and Richard Eyre, authors of the No. 1 national best seller Teaching Your Children Values, have 9 children of their own.

How do we hear from God and discern his will when it’s time to make big decisions? Terry Looper shares a four-step process for doing just that - a process he has learned and refined over 30 years as a Christian entrepreneur and founder of a multibillion-dollar company.

By listening to this book, you’ll discover how to deal with your fears, overcome negative thoughts, relieve stress, and stop your overthinking for good. What you should expect throughout the journey of practicing the techniques and strategies in this book is to be aware of where your mental chatter comes from, and how to address it.

This book “Liberation Psychology” provides you with 7 quick steps to self-rejuvenation that will help to give you the mental resilience to attain that aptitude that would revolutionize and revitalize your life and help you find meaning even in those things that are seemingly heavier and a burden too hard to bear.

Heal Your Trauma, Heal Your Marriage is a road map for women to conquer the rippling effects of complex trauma on themselves and their marriage. For over 30 years, Dr. Cheri McDonald has helped her clients achieve the life of their dreams and a "happily ever after" marriage.

By working methodically through the 6 steps that are outlined in each of the book's 6 chapters, you will have the perfect combination to unlock your greatness, and firmly establish your lasting imprint on the world. You’ll be using the power of your mind to achieve a level of self-confidence and success that you previously thought were out of reach. The core idea that Zig will present to achieve this is one that Zig learned from the classic researcher Maxwell Maltz—and that’s the idea of self-image.

When boy genius Garrett Gee started working for the federal government at age 15, he figured fame and fortune were only a stone's throw away. Despite impressive credentials and enormous potential in the world of computer hacking, Gee found himself years later as just another salaried employee. He soon realized that though he was a hacker at work, he was a slacker when it came to leading his own life. But as soon as he applied his meticulous hacker mindset to his personal life, everything changed—and success rolled in quickly.

Fighting for Your Marriage is based on the widely acclaimed PREP approach (Prevention and Relationship Education Program). Research has found that couples who use these strategies can handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up. Based on more than forty years of evidence, this book shows couples how to talk more and fight less, protect their friendship, and keep the fun alive.

You’ve wanted to learn: How to meditate; how to clear away the clutter in your mind; how to improve your relationships; how to buy, cook, or even grow your own food; how to avoid processed foods; recipes, ingredients, and presentation ideas; how to throw a dinner party; how to slow down and be in the moment; start something new; build on what you love to do; break out of the hourglass and zoom forward.

People can be open books needing little attention to understand their traits. Close observation of what they do, what they say, and how they listen to others reveals a pretty good picture of their attitude and personality. It has proven to be valid and accurate in most cases. It is best that you can do this as a friend, family member, colleague, or boss in the office.

If you are searching for a book to help you through being a stepmother, you're in the right place. As a mother for two amazing stepchildren, I wrote this book to help stepmothers that may be in the same situation I was faced with when I first met my husband, who had two kids of his own. By the time you've finished listening to this guide, you'll have the tools you need to navigate life as a stepmom and face any difficulties with clarity and confidence. Always bear in mind that you are not alone, and that there's no such thing as the perfect parent or stepparent.

Identify and manage stress with this practical, seven-step programme by best-selling author and GP Dr Harry Barry. In the world we live in, stress comes from a multiple number of sources, including pressures at work, relationship difficulties and illness. Most people can usually take what life throws at them, but when stress builds up, it can overwhelm an individual and lead to potentially serious health problems. Toxic Stress is an indispensable tool for coping with the stresses of modern life.