Family Relationship Problems

Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children - fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be.

Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier. It's safer. It's better...for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father, who's a doctor.

One of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a control strategy. You try to get the other person to change. Sometimes this approach works, especially if your request and the other person are both reasonable. But many times it just leads to frustration.

This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known.

As if her parents' divorce and sister's departure for college weren't bad enough, 14-year-old Ricky Bloom has just been diagnosed with a life-changing chronic illness. Her days consist of cursing everyone out, skipping school - which has become a nightmare - daydreaming about her crush, Julio, and trying to keep her parents from realizing just how bad things are. But she can't keep her ruse up forever.

A special needs teacher who lived in 24 different places during her childhood, debut novelist Sarah Dooley taps her expertise and channels her experiences for this powerful tale. Livvie Owen is autistic. She doesn’t feel things the same way her parents and sister do, and she’s confused why her family has to keep moving from one home to another. There is only one place where Livvie ever felt truly happy. She wants to return there now, but there’s a problem. Livvie burned that house to the ground.

Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna’s circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn’t about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Lil’s worst fears are realized.

You've made a commitment to see your marriage healed, so now what? Whether your relationship is recovering from an affair, pornography addiction, or just years of coasting, Cindy Beall shares from her redeemed-marriage journey to help you heal deeply by restoring faith in a future, build wisely from the foundation up, invest generously in your marriage and in other people, and much more.

In The Well-Behaved Child, beloved psychologist John Rosemond shares his seven essential tools for raising a child who pays attention and obeys. Once you learn how to use his proven, user-friendly techniques, you'll have everything you need to deal effectively with a wide range of discipline problems in children ages three to thirteen, what John terms "The Decade of Discipline". This clear, step-by-step program includes:

Ce îi determină pe oameni să calce strâmb, uneori chiar și atunci când au o căsnicie fericită? De ce doare atât de mult trădarea? Ce înseamnă, de fapt, infidelitatea? Ce așteptări avem în clipa în care ne căsătorim? Dar atunci când trădăm încrederea celui de lângă noi? Există oare căsnicii ferite pe vecie de teribilul spectru al adulterului? Poate o relație extraconjugală să salveze o căsnicie? Iată doar câteva dintre întrebările la care terapeutul Esther Perel oferă răspunsuri neașteptate și, de multe ori, în contradicție cu ceea ce majoritatea oamenilor consideră ca fiind moral.

What would you do if the sun became your enemy? That’s exactly what happens to Viola Li after she returns from a trip abroad and develops a sudden and extreme case of photosensitivity — an inexplicable allergy to sunlight. Thanks to her crisis-manager parents, she doesn’t just have to wear layers of clothes and a hat the size of a spaceship. She has to stay away from all hint of light. Say goodbye to windows and running outdoors. Even her phone becomes a threat when its screen burns her.

Literally colliding with the hottest guy in the world and agreeing to be his date to his sister’s wedding? Done…for some reason. Finding out he’s actually an aristocrat and will one day inherit an ancient Scottish dukedom and castle? Yep, that’s a surprise. Sharing a bed with him at said castle because his family thinks I’m his girlfriend? Okay, I’m sure I’ll survive. Even if he does make my heart pitter-patter and my lady bits—uh, never mind.

Pride and Joy is both informative and highly practical, and a balanced answer to the extreme methods that too often dominate parenting debates. Few parenting books address the central issues of concern to today's parents while also offering parents as much day-to-day advice.

Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley have been best friends since they were six; she's the fist-fighting instigator to his peacemaker, the artist whose vision balances his scientific bent. Now, as their junior year of high school comes to a close, Althea has begun to want something more than just best-friendship. Oliver, for his part, simply wants life to go back to normal, but when he wakes up one morning with no memory of the past three weeks, he can't deny any longer that something is seriously wrong with him. And then Althea makes the worst bad decision ever, and her relationship with Oliver is shattered.

Stell dir vor, du triffst den Mann deiner Träume - und dann findest du heraus, dass er der Freund deiner Zwillingsschwester ist... Genau das ist es, was der 17-jährigen Merit passiert: Beim Shoppen in der Stadt lernt sie den überaus attraktiven Sagan kennen und verliebt sich so heftig in ihn, dass sie ihren üblichen Schutzpanzer fallen und sich schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung von ihm küssen lässt. Leider stellt sich gleich darauf raus, dass Sagan kein anderer ist als der neue Freund ihrer Zwillingsschwester Honor.

Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship that becomes a lifeline during dark times.

Even though the cancer should be far behind him, Jeffrey still worries that it will return. He’s got normal teen stuff to deal with, too - friends, parents, girls, school. Normally, he’d ask his older brother, Steven, for advice. But Steven, always the trusty, responsible one, is finally rebelling and has taken off to Africa to join a drumming circle and “find himself”. Jeffrey feels abandoned. Meanwhile, his best friend, Tad, is hatching some kind of secretive, crazy plan involving eighth-grade graduation.....

Für den schüchternen Philip ist der Schulalltag zu einem Spießrutenlauf geworden: Klassenkameradin Dorita mobbt und drangsaliert ihn, wo sie nur kann. Philip hat scheinbar keine Chance, sich gegen die ständigen Hänseleien zu wehren und beginnt deshalb die Schule zu schwänzen. Doch dann erhält er unerwartete Unterstützung von Aster, einem jungen Flüchtlingsmädchen, das gerade neu in die Klasse gekommen ist. Sie hat den Mut, gegen Dorita aufzustehen - doch kann Aster Philip helfen, seine Probleme dauerhaft zu bewältigen?

Moa föds med ett litet hål i hjärtat. Som liten opereras hon och under många år fungerar allt som det ska. Tills det plötsligt inte gör det längre. Hjärtat börjar slå hårt, Moa blir trött och andfådd av att gå och till slut tvingas hon läggas in på sjukhus. När hon äntligen får komma tillbaka till skolan har allting förändrats. Hennes bästa vän Amelia har hittat någon annan att hänga med, Siri, och Moa känner sig vilsen och ensam. När Moa får reda på att Amelia ska se deras största idol Samuel live, tillsammans med Siri, blir Moa fruktansvärt avundsjuk.